Clemency for Huckabee
Candidates have strong incentives to keep criminals behind bars. But when such standards trickle down to nonviolent criminals, prison populations and government debt soar, and lives are ruined.
Candidates have strong incentives to keep criminals behind bars. But when such standards trickle down to nonviolent criminals, prison populations and government debt soar, and lives are ruined.
Politics Daily | Matt Lewis | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
While names like Palin, Romney and Huckabee get most of the attention when it comes to 2012 presidential speculation, a dark horse may be rising out o...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
Some Republicans are concerned about how to expand their party's base -- but former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee isn't one of them. The S.E. Calga...
Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Joe Scarborough could be a great Republican presidential candidate in 2012, according to Republican strategist and media adviser Mark McKinnon. McKin...
McClatchy | Adam Lynn | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home
TACOMA, Wash. -- Maurice Clemmons threatened to kill more than just cops in the days before he massacred four police officers at a coffee shop. Scho...
Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
The Arkansas coordinator for Mike Huckabee's political action committee resigned Tuesday in part because the former governor granted clemency to a man...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Huckabee is disgusted by some in the pundit business -- many on the right -- who are attacking his clemency decision. One wonders if he should also be disgusted by his own pundit remarks following Ted Kennedy's death.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predec...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home
SEATTLE — Authorities believe the man sought in the slaying of four police officers is still alive and has been aided by a network of friends an...
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
A man with an extensive criminal past -- whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee-- was b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean urged progressives on Sunday to have patience with President Barack Obama, predicting that the White House would pass com...
Politics Daily | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
If Palin can maintain, say, 35-percent support in a multi-candidate presidential field, then she is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination. The ...
AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — The U.S. has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on the issue of settlements, hindering peace negotiations, former Arkansas gove...
AP | JEN THOMAS | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — The U.S. has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on the issue of settlements, hindering peace negotiations, former Arkansas gove...
Jim David | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Palin insults our intelligence by making nonsensical speeches and dredging up hoary political clichés thinking we won't notice and then gets mad when we notice.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
The dispute over a highly controversial East Jerusalem Israeli settlement project came to a head Tuesday when direct, public statements from France, R...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
Karl Rove who successfully guided President Bush to the White House twice, was remarkably cold on Sarah Palin's decision to resign as governor of Alas...
The Hill | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) penned a poem for his website in which the potential 2012 presidential candidate calls on House Speaker Nancy P...
Fox News | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
A new group was recently formed that is calling itself a group of experts for the purpose of making the Republican Party attractive to voters again. T...
New York Times | Alan Feuer | Posted 05.31.2009 | Media
Without doubt, the green room is the homiest part of "Huckabee": a comfortable space resembling an airport lounge, with its odd array of visitors and ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
While campaigning for Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee jokingly made reference to voter s...
AP | Chris Blank | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee likened abortion to slavery in a Monday speech dur...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, former Arkansas Gov. and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee went immediately a...
Ellis Weiner | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics
Mike Huckabee, universally lauded as "America's Relatively Sane Religious Nut," claimed last week that California's Proposition 8 "did not ban gay marriage."
CBS Local News | Mike Parker | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
CBS local news reports: A former governor and a former candidate for governor, each with political opinions that couldn't set them further apart were...
David Vines | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics