May 7 Leave a Comment
ROME — “Power wears out those who do not have it”. This is one of Giulio Andreotti more famous aphorisms that is a part of Italian history. Mr. Andreotti has died at his home in Rome. He was 94 years old and he was an Italian politician of the centrist Christian Democracy party and he [...]
Dec. 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
Saying the “nation needs Romney,” The Boston Herald endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination today. “There is only one candidate in the Republican field with the integrity, the experience, the organizational strength and the intelligence to beat Barack Obama and that man is Mitt Romney,” the paper wrote in an [...]
Dec. 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
He’s out. With poll numbers dropping like a stone and no new money coming in, Herman Cain has suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Staffers had speculated that he would drop out today, but no official word had come until now. The announcement came in Atlanta, at the opening of Cain’s new headquarters, [...]
Nov. 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Starting to get a little annoyed…
Nov. 19, 2011 5 Comments
CAMBRIDGE — Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House (R-GA) and current Republican candidate for president, appeared at Harvard University last night to introduce a documentary he helped create, “A City upon a Hill: The Spirit of American Exceptionalism,” at John F. Kennedy School of Government. But was soon interrupted by members of Occupy Boston [...]
Nov. 10, 2011 Leave a Comment
Rick Perry, in a debate Wednesday night in Michigan, made the mistake of forgetting one of the three government agencies he announced that he would cut if he were president. But, the Texas governor brushes the blunder off as a simple memory slip, saying “All of us make mistakes. I’m a human being. And the [...]
Oct. 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
With the 2012 election season approaching fast and the majority of election news covering the GOP hopefuls, a major blow was struck to Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann’s nomination hopes as her entire New Hampshire staff resigned today. According to the Global Post, the five-person team, including right wing radio personality Jeff Chidester who had called [...]
Oct. 14, 2011 Leave a Comment
Romney sits on his lead but Cain wins the night.
Oct. 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Man up, ladies
Aug. 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Hurricane Irene, the powerful storm that ripped the American East Coast and has left 45 people dead so far, was a message from God, if you believe Republican and Tea Party presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann. Bachmann, the fundamentalist religious, often controversial, quick to words candidate, had an interesting remark quoted in the St. Petersburg Times. [...]
Aug. 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee raised $100,000 to support Elizabeth Warren’s bid for congress, to give Republican Senator Scott Brown a run for his money. PCCC is a liberal grass-roots group who got more that 53,000 people to join its online project to draft Warren, who has not yet made an official announcement that she [...]
Aug. 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann won the 2011 Iowa straw poll, a test vote for Iowa’s 2012 presidential caucuses. The straw poll tests the waters for Republicans five months before the primary season kicks off. Texas Congressman Ron Paul came in second, a strong mainstream showing for Paul, who tends to carry libertarian votes. Things were [...]
June 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Musician Tom Petty has told newly announced Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann to immediately stop using one his songs to promote his campaign. “Petty isn’t pleased,” reported NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell,. Rolling Stone confirmed that Petty’s lawyers sent the Minnesota Tea Party favorite congresswoman the cease and desist order. During the end of Bachmann’s presidential announcement [...]
June 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
Tea Party favorite and gaffe machine Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) started her presidential campaign with … surprise surprise … a gaffe. As the Washington Post reported: On “Fox News Sunday,” Michele Bachmann told Chris Wallace, “Of course a person has to be careful with statements that they make. I think that’s true.” Two days later, she [...]
May 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
President Jimmy Carter was at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Tuesday afternoon to promote his new book, “White House Diary,” a daily account of his 1977-1980 time in the Oval Office. He described the journals that went into the book as “personal diaries” that he never meant to publish, although he did [...]
