Newt Passes on Southern Republican Leadership Conference

Behind me, a silver-haired woman in a “Newt 2012″ button-adorned, GOP elephant-styled sweater is shaking her head, forlornly thumbing out a text message to friends and family.  The former House Speaker, scheduled to speak at about 9:30 a.m. at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, has chosen to cancel his appearance and move on with his [...]

Daily Reminder: January 20, 2012

“We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves, and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.” – Thomas Jefferson, in an 1813 letter to John Wayles Eppes Two years ago today, Senate Democrats proposed [...]