Welcome to the inaugural edition of DEFCON Hill’s Overnight — an evening update of all the day’s defense news. A dozen anti-war House members are holding a press conference Wednesday morning to call for expedited withdrawal from Afghanistan, pushing back against President Obama’s speech earlier this month where he said the war was nearing its [...]
I find political meaning in everything, including the annual ritual of the changing of the Chicago Sports fan’s season, where we exchange bitter disappointment of basketball for the bogus hope for the boys of summer. PolitiJim has changed from his Bull hat to Cubs, but perhaps this year it is prophetic for our political hopes [...]
As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker faces a recall election in a little over a month, Chief Executive magazine has some good news for the embattled limited government hero: The Badger State keeps rising in the Chief Executive Best States/Worst States list, and that’s got Wisconsin businesses cheering—as well as investing. [...] Wisconsin leapt to 20th place [...]
Politico is under fire from foreign policy experts and budget hawks on Capitol Hill for running a biased front page article that erroneously correlated Republican concerns about military cuts to a mean-spirited desire to slash the country’s social safety net. The article by Politico reporter David Rogers claims that House Republicans are “shifting billions from [...]
Americans continue to see both newspapers and Internet news sources as reliable and aren’t worried about the availability of news reporting if newspapers go out of business. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 76% of American Adults consider the reporting from their local paper as at least somewhat reliable, including 26% who say [...]
I have just spent two days at the True the Vote National Summit featuring James O’Keefe, Anita MonCrief, Christian Abrams, Pat Caddell, John Fund and many others. I wanted to rush two newsworthy items out before a much more thoughtful and comprehensive post tomorrow on the conference. The final speaker was the Executive Chairman of [...]
Most voters continue to believe in the goodness of America. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters agree that American society is generally fair and decent. One-in-four voters (26%) disagrees and says society in this country is unfair and discriminatory. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question [...]
A PPP poll for Daily Kos shows Gov. Scott Walker in a good position: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads all of his Democratic challengers in the Wisconsin recall election, per a new Public Policy Polling poll out this afternoon. Walker, the incumbent governor, has a 5-point lead against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 50 percent to [...]
Photo: loop_oh On Tuesday, Gawker announced gleefully that it had placed a mole inside Fox News Channel — an anonymous Fox employee who was feeding the news organization’s inner secrets to the website via dispatches in a weekly new column. The mole’s bitterness toward his employer knew no bounds, as he dished the dirt on [...]
Google announced a new plan this week to help news publishers make money: Readers will be presented with a short marketing survey they have to complete before reading an article. Google consumer surveys is a clever enough way for a publisher to get more revenue without putting up more ads — or a dreaded paywall — [...]
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984