A CBS News/New York Times poll taken from September 10th-15th (both before and after the most recent debate) shows Rick Perry with a 7-point edge (23 to 16 percent) over Mitt Romney among registered voters who intend to vote in a Republican primary or caucus. Newt Gingrich has moved into a tie with Michele Bachmann for third place, with 7 percent apiece, followed by Herman Cain and Ron Paul at 5 percent apiece. Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman are each at 1 percent.
On September 17, 1787, George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and 36 other Constitutional Convention delegates completed four months of labors at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and signed the glorious document that, upon its ratification, would become the Constitution of the United States of America. Here is the preamble for that charter of government:
According to the intro to Bar Rescue, a reality series on Spike TV, "last year, more than 5,000 failing bars nationwide closed their doors for good." As a last-ditch effort, some of these bar owners have decided to seek the advice of the show's host, Jon Taffer, one of the country's leading bar and restaurant gurus. The conditions are fairly straightforward: For one week, the proprietor gives Taffer full control of his establishment in order to turn things around. And if he accepts Taffer's advice and often blunt criticism, conditions should improve. The problem is, many of these headstrong owners don't take his advice and they really don't like his criticism. Roll camera!
Unless Congress passes a law to reduce the long-term federal deficit by more than $1.2 trillion by January 2012, the debt limit deal, agreed upon last month, will result in two major cuts to the military budget.
Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, and John Hannah have an op-ed in the Washington Post that responds to "a curious op-ed this week about the Bush administration’s response to the secret al-Kibar nuclear reactor built by Syria and North Korea," which was written by Bob Woodward. The former Bush administration officials go on to defend Vice President Cheney and call Woodward's account "a revisionist and misleading history."
With President Obama's "jobs speech" now delivered to Congress, national attention is fixed more than ever on job creation. And with the unemployment rate above 9%, and the underemployed pushing the "real" jobless rate to over 16%, the stakes could hardly be higher.
Miles Kristan, the Madison protester ticketed for disorderly conduct after he allegedly poured beer on the heads of Republican lawmakers, refused to say during an interview with NBC's Milwaukee affiliate whether he is, in fact, the person who did the deed.
"Are you the one responsible for the beer attack?" a reporter asked Kristan.
Salon, the online magazine, is looking for a passionate reporter to cover Washington politics. Sounds interesting! Based on this listing from JournalismJobs.com, however, I am urging interested parties to refrain from showing up for the interview carrying a copy of Atlas Shrugged:
Via Hot Air, Michele Bachmann was asked Thursday she would like to apologize for repeating a woman's story that the HPV vaccine caused "mental retardation" in her daughter. CBS reports:
A protester in Madison has been ticketed for pouring a beer on the head of a Republican lawmaker Tuesday night. According to a report by NBC's Milwaukee affiliate TMJ-4, "Republican assemblyman Robin Vos and two other Republicans were at the Inn on the Park Tuesday night, when they had beer poured on them by a protester." According to TMJ-4, Miles Kristan, the protester who was ticketed, has been "aggressively following [Vos] wherever he goes." An unapologetic group of protesters in Madison later sang in the streets, "We're gonna pour, we're gonna pour, gonna pour a beer on him."
President Obama likes to talk about how “millionaires and billionaires” who make over $200,000 a year need “to give back a little bit more.” But by restricting charitable deductions, his proposed jobs bill would incentivize them to give back a little bit less. In today’s Wall Street Journal, former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent takes exception:
