Thirty years ago this week George H. W. Bush ended his grueling two-year pursuit of the presidency at a news conference in Houston. In a carefully prepared 750-word statement on May 26, 1980, Bush said that he was abandoning his campaign for the Republican presidential […]
Given the immense difficulty in unseating a sitting Speaker of the House, the June 8 primary battle between Republicans John Dennis and Dana Walsh in Nancy Pelosi’s 8th congressional district in San Francisco — a district that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama while giving Pelosi 72 percent of the vote in 2008 — wouldn’t warrant much attention were it not for the fact…
This week’s featured “oddball” is former Ohio Congressman James Traficant, who is attempting to mount a political comeback this year after spending much of the last decade in Federal prison…
Speculation that’s he’s considering a Presidential bid continues to surround former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who lost in his 2006 re-election bid…
California state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is gaining fast in the Republican primary for Governor against “front-runner” and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Paula Dockery ended her quest to occupy the Governor’s Mansion on Monday, saying she hates to give up the fight but doesn’t have the cash to run an effective statewide…
When it rains it pours. In Massachusetts, longtime community activist Grace Ross abandoned her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor last week after collecting only 5,700 of the 10,000 signatures necessary to appear on the September 14 primary ballot. Ross had hoped to capture […]
Last week Campbell Brown announced she was leaving her 8pm slot on CNN because of poor ratings. Brown acknowledged to the media that she could have claimed she was leaving to spend more time with her family or for personal reasons, but instead she admitted that ratings were the primary driver of her decision.
Declaring that “Roosevelts come and go, but Longs go on and up forever,” Gertrude Stein, the expatriate writer and poet living in Paris where she had befriended Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and other prominent figures in the arts and literary world, surprised the nation’s political pundits […]
The ranks of jobless Floridians, currently numbering more than a million, could triple by the end of next year as a result of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, says economist Farid A. Khavari, a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida.
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