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Newt Gingrich Looking More Like 2012 Presidential Candidate
By Tom Diemer
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, relishing the prospect of a Republican revival similar to the one he led in 1994, is looking more like a presidential candidate himself as the days dwindle down in the midterm campaign. Gingrich is "transitioning" his private businesses so that they are not ...
GOP 'Mean Girls,' Obama Reaching Out to Women and Ginni Thomas to Anita Hill
By Melinda HennebergerThis week on Politics Daily's online Sunday show, Woman UP, Patricia Murphy, Jill Lawrence, Bonnie Erbe and I discuss Maureen Dowd's GOP "Mean Girls," and their talk about "manning up," President Obama's outreach to women voters, and Ginni Thomas reaching out to her husband's accuser, Anita ...
Hill v. Thomas: Still Angry After All These Years
By Andrew Cohen
"You called who?" It's difficult to imagine the contours of the marital interaction that surely took place recently between Clarence Thomas, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his longtime wife, Virginia Thomas, a Tea Party activist and conservative advocate. We will ...
Ginni Thomas Rains on Her Own Coming-Out Party
By Eleanor Clift
For those in the know, the political activism of Virginia "Ginni" Thomas is no surprise, and Democrats have periodically raised questions about various conflicts of interest stemming from her lobbying efforts on behalf of various Republican causes. Their complaints have gone nowhere, in large part ...
Will the Supreme Court Rescue John Ashcroft Again?
By Andrew Cohen
The United States Supreme Court Monday signaled its intent to again rescue former Attorney General John Ashcroft from a civil trial over whether he abused his leading role in the enforcement of Bush-era detention policies toward terror suspects. For the second time in three terms, the justices have ...
Clarence Thomas' Wife Asks Anita Hill for Apology
By Christopher WeberWhen Brandeis University professor Anita Hill got a phone message earlier this week from a woman purporting to be the wife of Clarence Thomas, she assumed it was a prank and reported it to campus police. But ABC News said Tuesday the message was legitimate. It was indeed Virginia Thomas, calling ...
Corporate Cash, 'Opposition Research' and More: Untold Stories of Campaign 2010
By Walter Shapiro
As we all have learned from watching candidates in both parties mouth patriotic pieties, America is the greatest country in the history of the universe -- and carbon-based life forms in other galaxies all dream of adopting our Way of Life. You know what is perhaps our crowning national ...
How Christine O'Donnell Should Have Answered the Supreme Court Question
By Matt LewisAll things considered, Delaware GOP senate candidate Christine O'Donnell did well during Wednesday night's debate with Democrat Chris Coons. (My colleague Jill Lawrence has a detailed report.) The stakes were high (why was CNN nationally broadcasting a debate for a race that isn't terribly close, ...
Supreme Court Won't Take Case of Pair Barred From Bush Speech for Bumper Sticker
By Tom Diemer
Their only offense was a printed slogan displayed outside the event, but the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of two people who were barred from a speech by President George W. Bush in 2005 because they showed up in a car with a bumper sticker reading, "No More Blood for Oil." The court ...
C-SPAN's Supreme Court Broadcasts: Do You Have the Right to Burn the Flag?
By Andrew Cohen
This is the second in a series of 10 special Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The C-SPAN broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity ...
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French Comedy 'Potiche' Mixes Laughs With Social Message
By Eleanor Clift
For women, and men too, weary of nuance and ...
Can the Girl Scouts Help Balance Georgia's Budget?
By Joanne Bamberger
If Georgia lawmakers get their way, ...
Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.
By Donna Trussell
My friend Julie Levine had everything I ...
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