Mitt Romney was declared on Saturday the winner of Maine’s Republican Caucuses after three losses in the past week.  Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, won victory over Representative Ron Paul ofTexas, while Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich did not actively campaign in the contest.  According to the newspapers, Mitt Romney won 39 percent of [...]

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Herman Cain, Georgia businessman and former Republican candidate for President of the United States, endorsed Newt Gingrich for the Republican nomination. Cain, who suspended his own presidential campaign last December, announced his endorsement yesterday at a Republican event in West Palm Beach, Florida. In his endorsement of the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Cain said, “I hereby officially and enthusiastically endorse Newt Gingrich for president [...]

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Queensland’s premier Anna Bligh has announced the state is to hold it’s elections on Saturday, March 24; however, in an unusual move, she did not advise the governor to issue the writs for the election. “I intend to call the 2012 State election for Saturday the 24th of March,” said Bligh, Leader of the incumbent Australian Labor Party. [...]

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This commentary was written by Spiegel journalist and author Charles Hawley, writing under the German news magazine’s column “The World From Berlin”, which includes editorial comments by various German news organizations. Mr. Hawley’s column, and the commentaries, which were posted on Spiegel Online’s edition for Monday, January 23, 2012, follow:  Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich [...]

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Today, on January 18, Constitutional Commission of the French Senate passed a decision against debating of the bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial, accepting Senators’ solicitation that oppose the aforesaid legislation. The proposal on rejection of the bill was adopted with 23 votes for, 9 against and 8 abstentions, according to the official website of the [...]

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UK foreign secretary insisted all options were on the table over Tehran’s “increasingly dangerous” development of atomic weapons. But he said Britain’s preferred route was to step up sanctions rather than use force in a bid to bring the Islamic republic to the negotiating table. “We have never ruled anything out,” William Hague said. “But we are [...]

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U.S. Senator Ben Cardin’s re-election may not be the typical cake walk Maryland Democrats have grown to expect, some Republicans believe. Cardin already faces a primary challenge from eight Democrats, including state Sen. Anthony Muse, a well-known African American pastor from Prince George’s County with close ties throughout the politically potent black churches. One of Cardin’s [...]

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Media reports recently released have suggested that the United Kingdom’s Commission on Assisted Dying, which was set up by the think-tank Demos in 2010, will support a change in British law to make it legal for someone to seek an assisted suicide, when they publish their final report on Thursday. The Commission has been led by the former [...]

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Kent Sorenson, a conservative Iowa State Senator and now former Bachmann campaign manager, endorsed Texas Congressman Ron Paul Wednesday night during a veterans’ rally. Minutes before Ron Paul, the current Republican frontrunner in Iowa, took the podium, Sorenson approached Paul’s staff and asked if he could make an endorsement on stage. Jesse Benton, Ron Paul’s [...]

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A helicopter that was on its way to retrieve a heart for transplant crashed in northern Florida, killing all three on board and leaving the transplant patient having to wait for another organ to become available. The helicopter departed from a Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville on Monday around 5:45 a.m. carrying a surgeon and a [...]

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I’ve written posts about how Jimmy Fallon andAshton Kutcher have demonstrated the breakdown of social media. At it’s core, social media is about conversations – even if you’re a social media rock star. For a long time I’ve believed that people could not maintain relationships when their follower count reached a certain number. I want to share a [...]

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The Justice Department on Friday rejected South Carolina’s law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying it makes it harder for minorities to cast ballots. It was the first voter ID law to be refused by the federal agency in nearly 20 years. The Obama administration said South Carolina’s law didn’t meet [...]

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The U.S. war in Iraq — a conflict that killed more than 4,500 American troops, cost $800 billion and divided the nation — officially ended with a ceremony held under tight security. “To be sure, the cost was high — in blood and treasure for the United States and also for the Iraqi people,” Defense [...]

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Leading up to the war in Iraq, the majority citizens believed that the US government was telling the truth and that Iraq did have WMDs and was a threat to global security. However, a large segment of the Western population resisted the war and on its eve organized massive anti war protests, the largest among [...]

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Republican presidential hopefuls took turns lambasting President Barack Obama’s policy toward Israel on Wednesday, accusing him of being timid in the face of Iran’s attempt to build nuclear weapons and allowing a dangerous distance to develop between the U.S. and its long-time ally in the Middle East. “This president, for every thug and hooligan, for [...]

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Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has carved out a clear lead in what’s become a three-candidate race in Iowa, according to The Des Moines Register’s new Iowa Poll. Texas Rep. Ron Paul has risen into second place, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has slid to third with just over a month before the [...]

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Herman Cain told aides Tuesday he is assessing whether the latest allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against him “create too much of a cloud” for his Republican presidential candidacy to go forward. Acknowledging the “firestorm” arising from an accusation of infidelity, Cain only committed to keeping his campaign schedule for the next several days, in [...]

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Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons. An ordinary morning was unfolding in the middle-class Tucson neighborhood – until an armored vehicle pulled into the family’s driveway and men wearing heavy body armor [...]

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Yea, though they walk through the valley of the shadow of death, they shall fear no evil, but evil will do well to fear them!! The party of ‘No’, is the party of ‘life at conception’ and is really the party of Death. It is my opinion that the Republicans cannot be judged by their [...]

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President Barack Obama turned the White House into a country music hall on Monday, inviting an array of country stars for a concert that gave voice “to the emotions of everyday life.” Cowboy hats and bolo ties mixed with the majestic chandeliers of the East Room for a toe-tapping series of performances by Dierks Bentley, [...]

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