By BERNARD CONDONAP Business WriterNEW YORKRemember when President Grover Cleveland ran for a second consecutive term, Jack the Ripper spread terror in London and Kaiser Wilhelm II became German emperor? Yes, it’s been that long. On Monday, shortly after midday,
There is a simple answer to the question “When will Jews who are liberal leave the Democratic Party and join the Republican Party?” And the answer is: When they care more about the survival of the State of Israel than
The last time Minnesota cast its electoral votes for a Republican running for President was 1972. Even Ronald Reagan failed to win the state in both back-to-back landslide elections. It has elected Republicans to the occasional state-wide office, but for
In the last debate, President Obama hit Governor Romney for wanting, “…to import the foreign policies of the 1980s.” This period was a formative time for Mr. Obama, age 51, and myself, age 50. While a college student then, Obama
In an incisive column in the Washington Examiner, the dean of political analysts, Michael Barone, analyzes just why Mitt Romney is doing so well. Barone postulates that suburbanites who are more affluent are flocking to Romney. He notes that the
In the final days of the 2012 campaign, it looks like the Obama campaign has decided to peel away the veneer of “likeability” that his strategists had once considered an advantage over Mitt Romney. Under pressure from an apparent Romney
Though Mitt Romney adopted a more subdued style during the final debate in Florida, he was readily victorious over an incumbent president with a rather fragile ego who wouldn’t know clarity if it hit him over the head. How many
(AP) George McGovern dies; lost 1972 presidential bidBy KRISTI EATON and WALTER R. MEARSAssociated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D.George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way _ and that he had done so. It
Ken Burns, the documentarian who’s convinced he’s a deep thinker, has endorsed Barack Obama in an editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader, comparing Obama to FDR and Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life. Burns has been living off
Scott Baio of “Happy Days” fame recently sat down with Fox News to discuss his new sitcom “See Dad Run,” and he ended up sharing his thoughts about being Republican in Hollywood and next month’s presidential election. After being asked
A poll released today by a consortium of three Florida news outlets — the Tampa Bay Times, Bay News 9 television station, and the Miami Herald — shows Mitt Romney with a seven-point lead in Florida over President Barack Obama. According
The Huffington Post, ever eager to curry favor with anti-American pundits and racists posing as free-thinkers, has published a screed by Marc Lamont Hill, who is a black professor at Columbia University, titled “The 15 Most Overrated White People.” Keep
Since he stepped onto the national stage, what we’ve seen with all things Barack Obama is the kind of grading on a curve the corrupt media only reserves for “very special” Democrats. It’s just a fact that Obama has failed
Last night Mitt Romney became the candidate the Republican Party has waited for since Ronald Reagan. Americans who watched the first presidential debate with an open heart and mind will sleep better. While I was at the Metropolitan Museum of
Slow Joe Biden got “deadly earnest” at a rally today and in trying to tell a lie (Romney will raise middle class taxes) accidentally told two truths. 1. The middle class have been buried for the last four years. 2.
At the United Nations today, President Obama explained to the world that we would not disengage from the Middle East … unless they were mean to us. He stated that America’s efforts in the Middle East depended on the goodwill
Startup businesses represent the heart of the American economy, but a new report by the Hudson Institute shows the rate of startup jobs during the last two years has been at a record low. According to the report, Under President
It’s difficult to understand how a president with the most failure-ridden foreign and domestic policy in modern history still stands to win some 47 percent of the American vote, according to the latest polls. But the answer is simple. Since
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has made the economy the center of his campaign, hoping for a repeat of the election of 1980, where Ronald Reagan unseated Jimmy Carter in a weak economy, or 1992, where Bill Clinton did the
(AP) Thousands in SKorea attend funeral for Rev. MoonBy HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated PressGAPYEONG, South Korea Tens of thousands of mourners sobbed, sang, prayed and vowed to cherish the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s teachings Saturday as they said goodbye to their self-proclaimed
In 1980, Governor Ronald Reagan won the sole debate with incumbent President Jimmy Carter–and won the election a week later. The media won’t let that happen again. And so President Barack Obama will “win” next month’s debates–not because he is
Though there are obvious differences, there are some clear similarities in the Reagan vs. Carter race of 1980 and the Romney vs. Obama race of today–principally, that Reagan was slow to build a lead over Carter, and that the public
During his excellent lawyering case for a very guilty client, former President Bill Clinton dropped a bombshell that stunned much of the media. He said, “Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years,
As the Romney-Ryan ticket inches ahead in the polls, one of the little noticed implications just may be the avoidance, at least for a time, of World War III. World War III? How does that work? According to high-level U.S.
The Obama campaign, reeling from the unemployment numbers that simply will not go away, is trumpeting Obama’s “success” in the 2012 Democratic Party platform. The platform brags: “Since early 2010, the private sector has created 4.5 million jobs, and American
