Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won Nevada’s GOP caucuses by a wide margin, surprising no one, really. At the time the race was called, Romney had 40.5 percent of the vote with Rep. Ron “honest rape” Paul and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich battling for second place. Gingrich’s moneybags Nevada billionaire and casino [...]

Just in case there was any question, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is no friend to women. The latest evidence came during an interview on CNN where he told Piers Morgan that only in cases of “honest rape” would he consider abortion acceptable, and even then in he would just advise the woman to go to [...]

Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and to "facilitate" a political transition in the Arab country.

Over 200 people have been killed in the city of Homs, an epicenter of anti-government protests, in an attack that began late Friday night.

During the height of last summer’s debt ceiling negotiations between Republicans and the Obama administration the GOP demanded a dollar-for-dollar match between guaranteed cuts and any newly allocated borrowing authority. They didn’t get that, or at least not quite. Instead, they took nearly half spending cuts up front with the other half tied to the [...]

Today is the Nevada caucus and all indications are former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney should win the state handily. The state has the second largest Mormon population outside of Utah and in 2008 he carried 94% of their votes. But since it’s a caucus and not a primary it means Rep. Ron Paul has an [...]

  Today’s announcement of the Veterans Job Corps initiative is taking a leaf out of a book written by FDR back in the 30s.  The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) took young men and put them to work building public edifices, roads and parks.  Two members of my family were in that group – my uncle [...]

President Obama made good on a promise to do more to help unemployed veterans find jobs by calling for $6 billion in spending aimed at service members returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The Veterans Jobs Corps program would use $1 billion over five years to help as many as 20,000 veterans find work preserving [...]

The former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Fred Goodwin, was awarded a knighthood for services to banking in 2004, when Tony Blair was the British Prime Minister. Now, eight years later, he has been stripped of his knighthood by the Queen for his role in the creation of the biggest recession [...]

  The ACLU recently filed suit questioning the Obama administration’s behavior in the death of U.S. born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan and al-Awlaki’s son. The lawsuit alleges that al-Awlaki was specifically targeted by the government as an important operative in the Al Qaeda hierarchy on the Arabian Peninsula. The deaths of al-Awaki, Khan and [...]