Archive for the 'Spyware' Category

Rick Santorum allies go negative for first time

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Rick Santorum’s friends go on the attack, Newt Gingrich wants back on the Florida ballot, Erskine Bowles passes on the North Carolina governor’s race and Michael Bloomberg gives to Planned Parenthood.

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Minor Senate bill sparks major debate on ethics

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

In a sign of just how unpopular Congress has become, rank-and-file senators hijacked this week’s debate over a narrow-tailored conflict-of-interest bill and turned it into the chamber’s most sweeping ethics debate in a generation.
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Mitt Romney wins Trump backing in Nevada; Newt Gingrich looks ahead to Super Tuesday

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

LAS VEGAS — Hotel magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney here on Thursday, a theatrical announcement that matched the setting two days before the Nevada caucuses.
Trump, a onetime possible contender for the presidency, said it was an “honor” to endorse Romney. Taking the stage at his luxury hotel on the Vegas Strip, Trump lavished praise on Romney in trademark colorful terms, much as he does on his television show “Celebrity Apprentice.”
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Do you know the muffin man? (Hint: he’s running for president)

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

At 8:30 a.m. — I know the time, because I was running to an event — on Monday, I ran into Newt Gingrich in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Jacksonville.
There he was, the man running to become the leader of the United States of America, which as he says is a country like no other ever in history. Anyway, he was also carrying a little plate with two muffins on it, and said sheepishly that he was taking them upstairs to his wife Callista.
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Dan Burton’s Greatest Hits

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Our colleague Paul Kane has been getting a lot of e-mails criticizing him for an article Tuesday about the retirement of former House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Dan Burton.
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