The Republican National Committee, the GOP’s fundraising and organizational arm, is facing a “cashflow challenge” and can’t pay all of its bills on time. In a memo Tuesday, RNC Chief Administrative Officer Boyd Rutherford wrote, “We will not be able to pay off the vendors this week. We will be slow in paying as we [...]
Prince William will marry his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton. And so an industry is born. Nature abhors a vacuum, and I say it’s time we admit that America needs a royal family too. The sooner the better, since reality and talent shows on TV will keep tossing out crooners, hoofers and wannabes until we get [...]
Good morning Capitolists! With the midterm elections just 13 days away and a witch coven wondering why everyone seems to think being a witch is such a bad thing, the sun has risen on political news so preposterous even we could not have made it up. It’s either refreshing or terrifying, depending on where you [...]
A Presbyterian church in North Carolina that sponsors a Cub Scout pack has drawn unwanted attention for rejecting the parents of two children as volunteer leaders because the parents are Mormons. Officials at Christ Covenant Church, near Charlotte, earlier this month noticed on an application form that Jeremy and Jodi Stokes had put their religious [...]
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release September’s Employment Situation Summary — the latest stats on American employment (and unemployment), and the last such data before the November elections. In what has become a monthly exercise in seeing the glass half full or half empty, the White House will defend its steps to [...]
A conservative group, Citizens for the Republic, misses the mark when it evokes the Reagan era with a 60-second commercial dubbed “Mourning in America,” a gloomy recitation of economic ills set to funereal music. The original “Morning in America” ads that helped secure President Reagan’s 49-state victory in 1984 were as uplifting as a Norman [...]
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