John F Kennedy’s mistress details their affair in new bookThe teenage mistress of President John F Kennedy has written a memoir describing how he both abused and confided in her during an 18 month affair which ended only with his death. At the height of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, as the world teetered on the brink of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviets, Kennedy hinted to his lover that he would be prepared to blink first: “I’d rather my children were red than dead.”
Question:Romney says he is not concerned with the poor, Gingrich wants to build a moon colony for $500 Billion, Paul sent out a racist newsletter and wants to legalize prostitutes, and Santorum is unhindged.Yet Obama is silent..... Why?Answer:Obama is getting a beat-up Romney and a split GOP......just like he wanted.
GOP freshmen mum on presidential politicsThe House Republican freshman class has fallen largely silent on a most pressing issue: Who should be the GOP presidential nominee?"Some say the field has been uninspiring and wish that more candidates had jumped into the race. Others say they want voters to make up their own minds. Some just want to focus on their own reelection."
News on economy could alter calculus for Romney’s campaignPhilip Rucker / WashPostIf the recovery snowballs, the Republican front-runner’s primary pitch may be undercut."If Romney wins the nomination, his strategists argued, the fall campaign against President Obama will be shaped by what they described as an overarching sense of “prolonged misery” among voters who are just as concerned about the housing crisis as with unemployment and believe the nation is on the wrong track."
Don’t buy the GOP’s ‘Europe’Martin Klingst Portraying the continent as socialistic or outdated is both shortsighted and wrong."All 27 E.U. members believe, more or less, in mandatory health-care insurance and public education. They believe that government should offer a helping hand to struggling businesses and people during economic downturns. That is why we pay high taxes. It is also true that a number of E.U. countries have irresponsibly expanded their welfare systems and can no longer afford their bills."
The Koch Brothers Pledge $60 Million to Defeat ObamaSo the Koch people really don't like Obama. But $60 million is a lot of money, and shows the kind of funding that a few people can put into a race with the advent of Super-PACs, where most of their money will probably go due to restrictions on donations to actual campaigns.
The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about the nature of Islam. We asked six leading thinkers to weigh in.
