Top Republican says he and his senate colleagues may push a government shutdown to get out of the debt deal agreed upon last year with President Obama.
Mitt Romney is doing his best to dump advisor and anti-immigration hardliner Kris Kobach as part of his post-primary repositioning. But Kobach isn’t going quietly.
Slim excitement on a pretty eventless primary election night. But we’ve got a winner in Delaware and his name is Mitt Romney. For reasons that are obscure to me, Newt chose Delaware as the place to make his last stand. Or lets be honest, his most recent last stand. I guess that didn’t pan out.
All-around class act John Edwards called his mistress Rielle Hunter a “crazy slut” upon learning she was pregnant, says his former aide Andrew Young.
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For the last three years, we’ve been in the midst of a transatlantic debate about post-economic crisis fiscal policy — broadly speaking it’s been between Keynesianism and austerity, with the US starting with the first and more recently edging toward the second.
Throughout, the UK has been the leading advocate of growth through austerity. And now we have the verdict: the UK economy has officially slid back into recession.