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Facebook is latest example of U.S. economy's dynamism Published: Fri, May 25, 2012 THE saga of Facebook's initial public offering has been fascinating. Those who had the chance to invest in the company during its early days are now millionaires, leading many to wish they were among that crew in a business-world version of lottery winner envy. Truth be told, we doubt most of us would have seized... Read More
Ron Paul supporters challenge Oklahoma Republican convention results Updated: Wed, May 23, 2012 Oklahoma backers of the GOP presidential contender said their slate of delegates to the Republican National Convention should count because of procedural problems that occurred at this month's state convention. Read More
DC Notes: Sen. Tom Coburn asks political party leaders to return money for their conventions Published: Sun, May 20, 2012 Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, noted that both parties had criticized the recent scandal about the federal General Services Administration spending lavishly on a Las Vegas conference. Read More
GOPeeved: State party conclave gets down and dirty Published: Thu, May 17, 2012 Ron Paul got less than 10 percent of the vote in Oklahoma's Republican presidential primary. His supporters seemed to be the source of more than 90 percent of the rancor at Saturday's GOP state convention. Call it growing pains or minority dissatisfaction or Pauline fervor. Whatever it was, the party is starting... Read More
Obama's campaign practicing Chicago-type politics Published: Wed, May 16, 2012 Chicago-type politics are in full view as Barack Obama's campaign has prepared a list of large contributors to Mitt Romney's run for president, and the Obama bunch is busy hiring private investigators and digging into the Romney contributors' backgrounds to find “dirt” with which to smear them. I understand... Read More
Michael Gerson: Religion as a partisan trump card Published: Wed, May 16, 2012 WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney did not rise on the power of his rhetoric. At the Detroit Economic Club in February, his speech was swallowed by its stadium venue, overshadowed by a gaffe (his wife's “couple of Cadillacs”) and weighed down by leaden language. Early in the primaries, Romney's attempts to wax poetic... Read More
Ron Paul supporters plan to challenge Oklahoma Republican state convention results Published: Tue, May 15, 2012 Oklahoma's Republican Party chairman said last weekend's state convention results should stand. Backers of GOP presidential contender Ron Paul said the results of a meeting held afterward should count instead. Read More
Ron Paul: ‘We will no longer spend resources' on campaign for Republican presidential nomination Published: Mon, May 14, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Ron Paul says he is done spending money on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Paul on Monday issued a statement that insisted he would continue the fight for delegates, taking the battle to the GOP convention in Tampa. But the favorite of libertarians and tea partiers... Read More
Oklahoma Republicans elect delegates to national convention Published: Sun, May 13, 2012 Fights over rules, problems with seating delegates and a physical altercation slowed the process Saturday during the daylong Oklahoma Republican State Convention in Norman. Read More
Michael Gerson: A general shift in cultural attitudes Published: Sat, May 12, 2012 WASHINGTON — Principled or calculating or a bit of both, President Obama's choice on gay marriage is a bet on the political future — a wager on the views and values of the millennial generation making its long march through American institutions. It is a group in which Obama still has broad support, but no... Read More
Ruth Marcus: Obama on right side of history with same-sex marriage remarks Published: Sat, May 12, 2012 WASHINGTON — The White House, according to a senior official, always knew it was going to have to take the plunge on publicly supporting same-sex marriage, and planned to do it in the first term — well before the convention. The topic had been under discussion since the beginning of the year. President Obama... Read More
Sen. Richard Lugar result not likely to carry over to Oklahoma Published: Fri, May 11, 2012 RICHARD Lugar's sixth term in the U.S. Senate will be his last. Tea party forces in Indiana saw to that, helping produce a landslide victory for their candidate in the Republican primary this week. Challenger Richard Mourdock, a two-term state treasurer, won with 60 percent of the vote. Mourdock succeeded in... Read More
Romney reaffirms opposition to gay marriage Updated: Wed, May 9, 2012 The presumed Republican presidential nominee during an Oklahoma City campaign stop maintained his belief that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. Romney was joined by Gov. Mary Fallin, who gave her endorsement to the former Massachusetts governor. Read More
President Barack Obama voices his support for gay marriage Updated: Wed, May 9, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared unequivocal support for gay marriage on Wednesday, becoming the first president to endorse the politically explosive idea and injecting a polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House. Obama's announcement, after refusing to take a clear stand for... Read More
Paul Greenberg: A few words for Newt Gingrich Published: Mon, May 7, 2012 Newt Gingrich finally made it formal. He's now ended his presidential race with characteristic bombast. The real news, the big surprise, was that he made it this far. And resisted dropping out for this long. The man has a real talent — for ignoring reality. If character really is fate, then Newt should have been... Read More
Campaign 2012: That empty feeling Published: Fri, May 4, 2012 WASHINGTON — Maybe it's a hangover — metaphorical, not literal — from the partying of White House Correspondents' Association dinner weekend, but this is feeling like the most vacuous presidential campaign in memory. OK, there's a lot of competition in the vacuity derby. This is not the first presidential... Read More
Washington Examiner: Hyping the Osama bin Laden raid a disappointing turn for President Obama Published: Thu, May 3, 2012 “YOU know, we don't trot out this stuff as trophies,” President Obama said last May 4. “Americans and people around the world are glad that he (Osama bin Laden) is gone. But we don't need to spike the football.” Two days earlier, the notorious terrorist and backer of the 9/11 attacks had been killed in a... Read More
INTERACTIVE: Romney sweeps Wisconsin, Maryland, DC Updated: Tue, Apr 3, 2012 Election 2012: Romney sweeps Md., Wis., D.C. races. From AP Interactives. Read More
Cain announces he's suspending his campaign Updated: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 ATLANTA (AP) — Republican candidate Herman Cain says he's suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination to avoid news coverage that is hurtful to his family. Cain's announcement came five days after an Atlanta-area woman claimed she and Cain had an affair for more than a decade, a claim that... Read More
Obama address: Surge troops home by summer 2012 Updated: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says 10,000 troops will come home from Afghanistan by the end of this year as the U.S. mission shifts from combat to support after nearly 10 years of war. The president said a total of 33,000 troops would be withdrawn by next summer, as he announced what he called "the... Read More
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