The Gang of Eight that's working on passing an immigration reform law seems more like a gang of seven people who are managing one guy: Marco Rubio. The Florida senator and budding Republican star appears to be both critical to passing the bill and always within inches of blowing it up.
Scarlett Johansson's new ad executive boyfriend is a "real life Don Draper" (with sleeve tattoos), The New York Times editorial board reportedly considered endorsing John McCain over Barack Obama in 2008, and human growth hormone is the fancy new in Hollywood.
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Rick Santorum might not win New Hampshire, but with the help of Newt Gingrich, maybe he can watch Mitt Romney lose.
Mitt Romney hosted a rally in New Hampshire to debut the newest get on his list of endorsements:John McCain
The last Republican nominee is set to weigh in on the next one as John McCain will reportedly back Mitt Romney during an appearance in New Hampshire today.
Mitt Romney said voters ought to kick President Obama out of the White House because he's got too much experience in Washington now -- but way way back in the ancient history of four years ago, Romney was warning Americans of the dangers of not electing a lifelong politician.
The Players: Joe Klein, a Time columnist currently wondering why Republicans don't seem to like Mitt Romney; John McCain, a former presidential candidate who once was a Republican who didn't love Romney
The day after Russia's national elections, in which Vladimir Putin's ruling party was accused of fraud, pro- and anti-Putin took to protesting this evening at Triumphal Square in Moscow -- and, of course, on Twitter.
Morning Joe was spiked with a few curses from Ann Coulter this morning, though it isn't exactly clear who she called a "douche bag" live on MSNBC this morning.
With the Super Committee officially dead, lobbyists, politicians and Pentagon officials are racing to repeal the $600 billion in defense cuts scheduled to begin in 2013.
Jon Huntsman's daughters are trying really, really hard to get famous before their dad's single-digits-in-the-polls campaign comes to an end.
Congress has had low approval ratings for so long that Sen. John McCain has been able to recycle the same at least 27 times in the last five years.
Republicans on Capitol Hill have made up ground in social media after Barack Obama famously put social platforms to use to wrangle in votes in 2008.
Eight years into a grueling, dispiriting conflict that has torn a nation asunder, with countrymen attacking countrymen as traitors, the end seems almost incomprehensible.
"I will freely admit .. it is in response to the president saying we don’t have a proposal," says John McCain
Nicolle Wallace says she was inspired by Palin to write about a mentally ill vice-president
His advice to the new government: stop people from shooting guns in the air
After falling in the polls, she's showing a little schadenfreude at Perry's problems
Jon Huntsman's daughters are following in the footsteps of Meghan McCain
All options being looked at as deadline looms
House GOP unveils two proposals: one authorizes the mission, one sharply scales it back
Latino groups respond with indignation to unsubstantiated claim
Obama's approval ratings are back to 2008 levels, except among young folks
Motorcycle rally members irked at Palin and press for crashing their party
Even if they're not true, observes cartoonist Steve Benson.
Another leaked tidbit arriving from HBO's 'Game Change'
She is not a Stepford wife, thank you very much
The McCains take on Beck after he mocks daughter Meghan's weight
McCain says he's "seen enough dead people," but Feinstein says she "likely will"
As predicted, Obama's original birth certificate has settled nothing for die-hards
Most of the major players have been cast...except for a Barack Obama
Plus: The Apprentice's ratings get stronger; who'll investigate his investigators?
Weighing in: Charlie Sheen, Robert DeNiro, Mike Bloomberg and John McCain
He landed in Benghazi today "to get an on the ground assessment of the situation"
The authors asked her questions. How rude
John McCain said Barack Obama's speech "comforted" the Libyan leader
There's a lot of switching around when it comes to positions on Libya
The presidential candidate's only consistent line: He doesn't like what Obama's doing
Huckabee is following McCain's path toward being the one Republican liberals like
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