Halos Can Turn To Horns, Corporate Donors Find
Energizer makes batteries. But in recent days, company executives have spent a considerable amount of time responding to complaints about abortion. The reason, of course, is that Energizer got caught up in the controversy surrounding last week’s decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation to cut off its funding for Planned Parenthood. [...]
Santorum’s Support Goes Beyond Social Conservatives, Strategist Says
Rick Santorum surprised the Republican presidential field again this week, chalking up victories against front-runner Mitt Romney in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. Very few pundits would have predicted six months ago that the former Pennsylvania senator would still be a contender this late into the primary season. So what’s his secret and can he keep [...]
Nuclear Safety, Costs Loom Over OK’d Reactors
The nuclear industry is celebrating the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision to give the go-ahead for a utility company to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first license to be granted for a new reactor in the U.S. since 1978. But last year’s accident at reactors in Fukushima, Japan, still clouds the future [...]
Catholics Split Over Obama Contraceptive Order
The conflict between the Catholic Bishops and the White House over contraceptive coverage has American Catholics choosing sides. Catholics narrowly support the White House position in polls. There are potential political consequences: In presidential elections, Catholics are swing voters. They supported Al Gore in 2000, President George W. Bush in ’04 and President Obama in [...]
The GOP Elixir: Candidates Campaign On Tax Cuts
Cutting taxes is part of the DNA of the modern Republican Party. All four of the remaining GOP candidates for president have proposed steep cuts in business and personal taxes, and it sometimes seems like Republicans are competing to show the most enthusiasm for tax cuts. At a debate last month, former Sen. Rick Santorum [...]
Birthplace Of ‘Robo-Signing’ Eyes Deal Critically
From the beginning, Florida lawyer Tom Ice says he realized the mass signing of mortgages was more than just a paperwork problem. “I suspected then, and I suspect now, that we were really just touching the tip of the iceberg,” he says. The Palm Beach County lawyer uncovered and named “robo-signing.” In December of 2009, [...]
Why Estimating Delegate Counts Could Backfire
When it comes to counting GOP delegates this year, there seem to be as many different tallies as there have been primary contests. NPR launched its own delegate tracker this week. As we noted on Wednesday, it only counts delegates officially awarded by state or party rule. On Thursday, uber-primary watcher Josh Putnam warns of [...]
At CPAC, Hard Lines On Race And Immigration Could Be Awkward
A note to the Republican presidential candidates heading to Washington for the Conservative Political Action Conference: Some of the events could make you uncomfortable if you’re planning to tack to the center in your general election campaign. Three of the GOP candidates — Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — will address the largest [...]
The GOP’s ‘Meh’ Moment On Full Display At Conservative Confab
The Republican presidential candidates won’t argue their cases to thousands of conservatives gathered in Washington until Friday when Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are scheduled to speak. (Ron Paul is skipping the event.) But if Thursday’s opening day of the American Conservative Union’s annual star-studded Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC — is [...]
Gang Signs And A Sticker: Chicago Pulls Teen’s Design
It’s one of the few politician-sponsored activities that should be controversy free: a high school art contest. But an annual city-wide competition to design the stickers affixed to every windshield in Chicago has suddenly become a public relations nightmare. The sticker, designed by 15-year-old Herbie Pulgar, depicts Chicago’s famous skyline inside of a heart, with [...]
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