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The eight-legged god

David Horton | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics


David Horton

The god of the gaps argument keeps reasserting itself (just like the climate change denial argument) in odd ways. With the discovery of the Big Bang, ...

As the Economy Screams: A Forum with Presidential Campaign Economic Advisers

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

No matter what the issues were yesterday, it is clear that the economy -- domestic and global -- is now the biggest political issue today and tomorrow. . .at least for a while.

What the Huck?

Cristina Page | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics


Cristina Page

Those set on overturning Roe have their eyes on a larger prize: banning contraception. And they've got the support of at least one leading presidential contender.

Huckabee Trims Costs, Press Travel

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics


ORLANDO, Fla. — Battling to stay competitive after his weekend loss in South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is taking new steps to...

Friday Talking Points [15] -- De-Bushification

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

I apologize in advance for the disjointed nature of this week's column. There are a lot of odds and ends to cover, including tomorrow's primary picks...

Jason Linkins

Huckabee: Not As Good At Job Growth As He'd Have You Believe

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics


For a guy with some patently unserious ideas about how the country should be run, Mike Huckabee sure has come a long way. His easy-going charm and sa...

Open Columnist: A Call for Input (January Edition)

David Sirota | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

This is the third installment of what I have been calling Open Columnist - a call for reader input into the nationally syndicated newspaper column I w...

Huck Misrepresents Stance On Submissive Wives

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics


Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has been roasted in the media for his apparent ignorance of front-page issues. But who would expect the ...

Vote Early and Often: California Wins in the Early Primary

Rick Jacobs | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics


Rick Jacobs

A statewide poll that shows one candidate way ahead may not accurately predict the delegate count, which is the only count that elects the nominee. And it also means this race may go on well past February 5th.

Huckabee: Amend Constitution To Be In 'God's Standards'

Raw Story | David Edwards and Muriel Kane | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics


The United States Constitution never uses the word "God" or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from "We the People." However, R...

Obama v. Clinton: Hope and Anti-Hope

Marshall Grossman | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics


Marshall Grossman

Obama offers a calculatedly vague promise of optimism and change. Hillary continues to speak a language we have had a lot of experience with -- triangulation and protracted engagement.

Stay Classy, Mike Huckabee

David Sirota | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Economic class is the taboo subject in American politics, to the point where the word "class" itself has been made into something of an epithet by pol...

Under and Over Analyzing New Hampshire

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

My New America Foundation colleague and fellow blogger Mark Schmitt and I discuss the New Hampshire primary results. The following clip runs about ei...

The Huckabee Win Is America's Loss

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics


Frank Schaeffer

Huckabee represents the half of us who are waiting for Jesus to "rapture" us and believe that the other half are second class citizens that God is just biding His time to gleefully destroy and torture for eternity. Thanks but no thanks Iowa.

Vertical Politics

Mark Kleiman | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics


Mark Kleiman

Huckabee is neither a boob nor a practitioner of the dark arts. He's a skilled orator, clearly the best the Repubicans have had to offer in a long time.

Arrests at Huckabee Headquarters

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

What a sad day it is, in America, when a presidential candidate has a tiny group of middle-aged protesters arrested, and charged, with criminally trespassing on his property.

Huckabee Wins Iowa Caucuses

CNN | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


Mike Huckabee will win the Iowa Republican caucus, CNN projects, based on early results. With 15 percent of precincts reporting, Huckabee had the su...

We Really Need a Clinton-Obama Hybrid

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

It seems clear that there is no candidate yet that the Democratic Party really wants to coalesce around. The topsy-turvy nature of this close three-way race says something important.

Huckabee: I'm for the Troops...er, I Mean, the Writers!

Michael Seitzman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


Michael Seitzman

Right after the "Christian leader" told the press that he's "for the writers," he drove right past those same unemployed writers, in the middle of a massive labor dispute, in order to pursue his own political ambitions.

Boys Behaving Badly: Romney & Huckabee's Final Bout

Beverly Davis | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

DES MOINES -- In the final hours before the Iowa caucuses, the top two Republican candidates continued their verbal slugfest by trading accusations o...

No Matter What Happens In Iowa, We're Already Winning

David Sirota | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

No matter whether your personal preference wins or loses tonight in Iowa, We The People have already won, because class awareness and class-based politics is on the rise.

Paper Mooned (Or, The Republicans: Crazy, or Nuts?)

Ellis Weiner | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics


Ellis Weiner

Take one step back from this carnival of make-believe and let's-pretend, and it becomes clear: the Republican Party has become an aggregation of people who prefer to live in a world of fantasy.

Veterans and Members of Military in Iowa Look for Change: Part 2

Dan Treul | Posted 01.02.2008 | Home


Dan Treul

By Dan Treul Al Cannistraro, Jacqueline Cotrell, Christine Escobar, Kim Farris, Mike Germain, Kerri Glover, Matthew Moll, Gale Walden, Ellen Emerson ...

Huckabee Adviser Wants to "Knock Out" Romney's Teeth

Washington Post | Sridhar Pappu | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics


"The negatives feel good," says Ed Rollins, the onetime wunderkind of the Reagan White House and now, at 64, the national campaign chairman for upstar...

Huckabee Infighting With Top Adviser Threatens Campaign "Tailspin"

NY Times | David Kirkpatrick | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics


About three weeks ago, Mike Huckabee received an unexpected e-mail message from the veteran political consultant and television commentator Ed Rollins...