Unfortunately, it turns out the GOP doesn’t really have a soul, so the “fight” is more or less moot: Big business and the Tea Party are at swords’ points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party. Conservative insurgents pose serious threats this year to establishment Republicans in at least three open-seat Senate races.

At IBD, Andrew Malcolm welcomes Gavin Newsom to the Current TV vanity stable: Since 1996, Newsom has been busy. He was for a time the only white heterosexual male on the Board of Supervisors. He was the city’s mayor and gained national fame for issuing marriage licenses to gay couples against state law. During the divorce from his first wife, Newsom had an affair with his appointments secretary who was

What Republican establishment? Mitch Daniels and John McCain are coming to Sen. Dick Lugar’s rescue, POLITICO has learned. The Indiana governor and the Arizona senator have cut ads on Lugar’s behalf that are likely to air in the closing weeks of his neck-and-neck Republican primary contest. While the details of the commercials are unclear, two GOP sources confirm that the two political heavyweights are featured in television and radio spots

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The Obama Administration has stated publicly its opposition to the nationalization of a major corporation. It isn’t one of ours. The United States on Wednesday said Argentina’s plan to nationalize leading energy company YPF was a “negative development” that could hurt the Latin American country’s economy and investment climate. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States was very concerned about Argentina’s bid to seize the company, controlled by

You know, next Tuesday. Washington Examiner: “I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term,” President Obama recently told Enrique Acevedo, an anchor at the Spanish language television network Univision. Obama was talking about comprehensive immigration reform, which would regularize the status of more than ten million people living in this nation illegally. On the same subject, four years ago, then-Senator

Aside from common sense reasons, like, eg., money will move offshore and leave the country entirely. Jim Pethokoukis: The top marginal tax rate was 91% during the 1950s. Here’s why we can’t go back: 1. The 1950s was no Golden Age. The U.S. economy grew by an average of 3.4% a year between 1948 and 2007. How did the 1950s do in comparison? If you measure the 1950s from 1950 to

Just like the Founders and Framers would have wanted! A kindergartner who threw a tantrum at her small-town Georgia school was taken away in handcuffs, her arms behind her back, in an episode that is firing up the debate over whether teachers and police around the country are overreacting all too often when dealing with disruptive students. — Wait, this needs to be “debated”?  This was a six-year-old girl not

I think what Stacy meant to say is that an undocumented worker who shares our desire for liberty borrowed the identity of a white male of patriarchal privilege who was greedily hoarding the thing (it’s not like a five-year-old is opening credit card accounts or buying liquor, and if he’s voting, he can safely do that without an ID anyway) — and now the poor oppressed dear is facing criminal

Meaning, random Republican pols will be blindsided by a cynical, activist press “concerned” with the GOP response to some Bishop’s homily in addition to private citizen and rock star Ted Nugent’s “death threats”. Without that same activist press ever once worrying themselves over, eg., Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s suggestion that Republicans “literally” want to return the nation to the days of Jim Crow. Journalism. **** update: By the way, was Nugent’s