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This Man Makes More Than You Would in 3.5K Years

Tim Karan — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:48:40 CDT

You might want to wait to read this until you're somewhere it's OK to scream: It would take the average American worker 3,489 years to make as much money as one top CEO took home in just one year. David Simon of shopping mall developer Simon Property snagged a...

Charlotte Looking Like Worse and Worse DNC Pick

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:00 CDT

The Democratic National Convention could be meeting on enemy territory come September. The state that flipped for Barack Obama last election, making him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in more than 30 years, is increasingly at odds with the White House. North Carolina just banned gay...

Obama Barely Ekes Out Wins in Arkansas, Kentucky

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:00:00 CDT

He's already clinched the Democratic nomination, but President Obama's performance in last night's primaries wasn't exactly definitive: In Arkansas, he was opposed by a Tennessee lawyer who claimed 40% of the vote to Obama's 60%; in Kentucky, Obama won almost 58% of the vote but another 42% voted "uncommitted." (Mitt...

Is America Over Cars?

Kevin Spak — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:04:32 CDT

When gas prices spiked in April, Americans reacted in a logical, yet surprising way: They drove less. It's a sign, writes Charles Lane of the Washington Post , that America's love affair with the car is on the rocks. Getting a license, for instance, isn't the "rite of passage" it used...

Notre Dame Sues Over Obama Birth Control Mandate

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:43:48 CDT

More trouble for the Obama administration's mandate requiring most employers to cover birth control: Now the University of Notre Dame is suing, the AP reports, claiming that the mandate violates religious freedom. Observers had been waiting to see what step Notre Dame would take as the US' most prominent Roman...

Obama Traps Himself With Gay-Marriage 'Contradiction'

John Johnson — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:37:05 CDT

Charles Krauthammer sees a "howling contradiction" in President Obama's new position on gay marriage. It's one thing to have "empathy" for the cause, he writes in the Washington Post , to feel badly for gay friends and acquaintances who can't legally marry. It's quite another to call it the next logical...

Gingrich: Bain Attack Won't Work, I Tried

Kevin Spak — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:22:05 CDT

Newt Gingrich has some advice for president Obama: Don't attack Mitt Romney on his Bain Capital record. Gingrich, of course, aggressively did just that, with the pro-Newt super PAC creating an entire Bain-bashing documentary . But Gingrich's failure should be a clear sign that "that dog won't hunt," Newt tells the...

GOP Rep: At Heart, Obama's 'Not an American'

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:28:19 CDT

Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado is already backpedaling furiously after being caught on tape bringing up President Obama's citizenship and questioning his patriotism. "I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that," Coffman said at a fundraiser last week, according to...

Super PAC: We'll Hammer Obama With Jeremiah Wright

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:05:56 CDT

Top Republican strategists have devised a plan to "do exactly what John McCain would not let us do" and bombard the public with incendiary Jeremiah Wright soundbites just in time for the Democratic National Convention in September. The plan was commissioned by Chicago Cubs owner Joe Ricketts, who would pump...