Michael Lewis on Goldman Sachs, Steve Kornacki on the remaking of the GOP, Charles C.W. Cooke on Black History Month, Jennifer Vanasco on pedophilia in the Boy Scouts, and Michael Tomasky on the paranoia of the NRA.
What happens when 15,000 members of the media are enlisted to 4,400 delegates to the Republican National Convention? You read lots of stories about strip clubs, naturally. It's time for the quadrennial discovery (at least since 1992) that strip clubs love publicity as much as reporters like writing about them!
The New Yorker is weighing in on Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan with a wink-wink cover this week by artist Barry Blitt.
Sher Valenzuela basically embodies everything the Republican party wants from its "We Built This" narrative: She's a small business-owning Latina running for office in Delaware, according to The New Yorker's John Cassidy. The only problem is, her company has taken some $17 million in federal loans and contracts and Reddit is all over it.
All the guys who were competing to be Mitt Romney's running mate have gotten a consolation prize, except one: Poor old Tim Pawlenty.
If Sheldon Adelson's name hasn't been on your news radar in a while, it's helpful to remember him as the guy who sunk millions of dollars into Newt Gingrich's presidential dreams. And today, as CBS's Laura Strickler notes, Romney is going to meet him.
Apparently, being a black, well-groomed version of one of America's most beloved presidents is a bad thing. And along with a lot of chickens and Reverend Jeremiah Wright--it's the skeleton of a conservative Super PAC's $10 million attack plan.
Cartoonist Tom Toles thinks Mitt Romney never left high school.
Cartoonist Tom Toles laments Lugar's loss.
Cartoonist Tom Toles interprets recent European elections.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Log Cabin Republicans.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson picks apart Republican outrage.
Sure, why not, let's go with it. Despite telling people a few days ago that he'd be suspending his campaign today, Gingrich has taken to YouTube today and asked all of us to give his dying presidential run one more shallow, desperate gasp of attention announced that he'll be suspending his campaign tomorrow.
Bummer. You won't be able "super soaker" water gun to Democratic and Republican National Convention this year, but hey, that concealed 9mm pistol in your jacket is totally fine in the states hosting the conventions, North Carolina and Florida.
"I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you," said Joe Biden in New York today.
Just how useless is a Rick Perry endorsement nowadays? Well, Perry's 39 percent approval rating in Texas is sad enough, but one poll finds that the one way Romney could do worse in the state is if he chooses Perry as a running-mate.
Cartoonist Tom Toles thinks there are a few people benefiting from rising gas prices.
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