Republican presidential favorite Newt Gingrich has pledged his support for the controversial anti-abortion movement known as “fetal personhood,” by signing a pledge that has yet to be signed by opponent Mitt Romney.
UPDATED: Aug 12, 9:30 a.m. EST, with a correction
Of the approximately 15 Republicans who have either announced or hinted a run for president in 2012, the abortion-rights policy group NARAL Pro-Choice America has identified the 12 most prominent potential contenders as presenting a threat to women’s access to abortion More…
In December 2006, HarperCollins fired editor/publisher Judith Regan. News Corporation, the parent company that owns HarperCollins, said at the time that the firing came as a result of anti-Semitic comments Regan had made. Regan said otherwise and sued News Corp., ultimately getting an official retraction and a reported $10.75 million More…
In an upset, former health care executive Rick Scott won Florida’s Republican primary for governor tonight, beating Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, according to the Associated Press.
Unknown candidate Mike McAlister earned about 10 percent of the vote. McCollum was all but expected to win the nomination More…
Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement of Marco Rubio is one of the most obvious — and delightful — cases of political revenge in a long while.
I chided the ABC newsman for barely correcting Rudy Giuliani’s incorrect assertion that there were no terrorist attacks under George W. Bush’s presidency. Stephanopoulos comes back with this classy update:
Through his spokesman, Rudy Giuliani has clarified the remarks he made this morning on GMA regarding
I’m still in shock over former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comment that “we had no domestic attacks under Bush.” Is it possible that he meant to add “after 9/11″ and slipped up? I don’t know — forgetting to mention 9/11 is not a problem he’s had in the More…
Apropos of the Giuliani post, I see that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos added some post-facto fact-checking:
Giuliani isn’t quite correct in his assessment. The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks happened during the Bush administration, as well as the case involving shoe bomber Richard Reid.
What’s a little 9/11-neglect between friends, right?
When partisanship curdles into the malleability of the truth, you get former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on “Good Morning America”:
“What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did – one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on
Michael Powell’s write-up of Rudy Giuliani’s announcement that he’d stay out of the electoral fray in 2010 is a must-read, as is Politico’s take by Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith.
Having spent a little time with Giuliani on the presidential campaign trail — and having profiled him More…
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