Past Articles by S.V. DÁTE
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Rand Paul Elaborates: Armed Drones Not OK For 'Normal Crime' Kentucky's junior senator, who gained a good deal of attention from a 13-hour anti-drone filibuster, is again making news related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. But now, the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate is clarifying his statement that "I don't care" if a drone is used to kill a liquor store robber. |
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Rand Paul Elaborates: Armed Drones Not OK For 'Normal Crime' Kentucky's junior senator, who gained a good deal of attention from a 13-hour anti-drone filibuster, is again making news related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. But now, the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate is clarifying his statement that "I don't care" if a drone is used to kill a liquor store robber. |
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Rand Paul Elaborates: Armed Drones Not OK For 'Normal Crime' Kentucky's junior senator, who gained a good deal of attention from a 13-hour anti-drone filibuster, is again making news related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. But now, the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate is clarifying his statement that "I don't care" if a drone is used to kill a liquor store robber. |
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Historically Speaking, No Surprise In Senate Gun Control Vote If it seems perplexing why an idea that has broad support nationally could fail to pass the U.S. Senate, here's an important reminder: The Senate is not a democratic institution. In fact, it was structured to give sparsely populated states the ability to stop the majority's will. And that's what happened on background checks. |
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Historically Speaking, No Surprise In Senate Gun Control Vote If it seems perplexing why an idea that has broad support nationally could fail to pass the U.S. Senate, here's an important reminder: The Senate is not a democratic institution. In fact, it was structured to give sparsely populated states the ability to stop the majority's will. And that's what happened on background checks. |
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Focus On Sanford's Whereabouts, Again, Won't Help Gender Gap Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is hoping to put a marital scandal behind him with a return to Congress in a May 7 special election. But just two days later, Sanford must defend himself from an accusation that he was at his ex-wife's house without her permission. |
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Focus On Sanford's Whereabouts, Again, Won't Help Gender Gap Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is hoping to put a marital scandal behind him with a return to Congress in a May 7 special election. But just two days later, Sanford must defend himself from an accusation that he was at his ex-wife's house without her permission. |
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Daughter Of Former Fla. Sen. Bob Graham Running For Congress The daughter of the Democratic political legend says she will run for Congress next year, taking on incumbent Republican Steve Southerland in a district that includes Tallahassee and part of Florida's panhandle |
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Daughter Of Former Fla. Sen. Bob Graham Running For Congress The daughter of the Democratic political legend says she will run for Congress next year, taking on incumbent Republican Steve Southerland in a district that includes Tallahassee and part of Florida's panhandle |
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Jeb Bush Opts Out Of CPAC Straw Poll Jeb Bush got headlines last week when he opened the door to a presidential run, after years of insisting he was not interested. So it's of some note that when attendees at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference vote in the group's straw poll for 2016, they will not find his name on the ballot. |
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Jeb Bush Opts Out Of CPAC Straw Poll Jeb Bush got headlines last week when he opened the door to a presidential run, after years of insisting he was not interested. So it's of some note that when attendees at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference vote in the group's straw poll for 2016, they will not find his name on the ballot. |
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Ryan's Budget Plan Leaves Obamacare Taxes Alone Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan would repeal the Affordable Care Act. But the 2012 vice presidential nominee's dislike of the health care law doesn't appear to extend to the $800 billion in new taxes it raises over the next decade. |
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Ryan's Budget Plan Leaves Obamacare Taxes Alone Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan would repeal the Affordable Care Act. But the 2012 vice presidential nominee's dislike of the health care law doesn't appear to extend to the $800 billion in new taxes it raises over the next decade. |
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In Jeb Bush's Immigration Mishmash, One Thing's Clear: 2016 Race Is On The former Florida governor spent Tuesday clarifying statements about immigration in his new book, and some made as recently as Monday. Bush's back-and-forth on what to do about 11 million or so undocumented immigrants already in the country has become the story of a nascent 2016 presidential campaign. |
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In Jeb Bush's Immigration Mishmash, One Thing's Clear: 2016 Race Is On The former Florida governor spent Tuesday clarifying statements about immigration in his new book, and some made as recently as Monday. Bush's back-and-forth on what to do about 11 million or so undocumented immigrants already in the country has become the story of a nascent 2016 presidential campaign. |
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Christie's Post-Sandy Remarks About House GOP Behind Non-Invite To CPAC If New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was hoping for a return invite to the big CPAC convention this year, he probably should have thought of that before he bad-mouthed House Speaker John Boehner a couple of months back. |
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Christie's Post-Sandy Remarks About House GOP Behind Non-Invite To CPAC If New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was hoping for a return invite to the big CPAC convention this year, he probably should have thought of that before he bad-mouthed House Speaker John Boehner a couple of months back. |
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Conservative Group Gets Jump On 'Primarying' Republicans In 2014 While many Republicans are actively looking for ways to expand the party by reaching out to a wider audience, the conservative Club for Growth is looking for ways to rid the party of those it believes have strayed too far. And it has a new website to target what it calls "Republicans In Name Only." |
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Why The Budget May Be Easier To Criticize Than To Cut The idea of slashing federal spending for most Americans is a lot like losing weight or eating more vegetables — sounds great as an abstract aspiration, but not so easy when it gets down to the details. |
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Why The Budget May Be Easier To Criticize Than To Cut The idea of slashing federal spending for most Americans is a lot like losing weight or eating more vegetables — sounds great as an abstract aspiration, but not so easy when it gets down to the details. |
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Conservative Group Gets Jump On 'Primarying' Republicans In 2014 While many Republicans are actively looking for ways to expand the party by reaching out to a wider audience, the conservative Club for Growth is looking for ways to rid the party of those it believes have strayed too far. And it has a new website to target what it calls "Republicans In Name Only." |
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GOP Sending Mixed Signals On Sequester The House speaker wants senators to act. The top Senate Republican says it's time to work on a compromise. And the Republican National Committee says the cuts would be "negligible compared to Obama's disastrous fiscal record." |
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GOP Sending Mixed Signals On Sequester The House speaker wants senators to act. The top Senate Republican says it's time to work on a compromise. And the Republican National Committee says the cuts would be "negligible compared to Obama's disastrous fiscal record." |
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Bloomberg's Anti-NRA Message — And Money — Could Sway House Race In Chicago One of the most important events in the national gun violence debate takes place Tuesday far from Newtown, Conn., and Washington, D.C. And if the candidate backed by Michael Bloomberg wins, look for congressional candidates nationwide to start eyeing the New York City mayor and his superPAC |
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Bloomberg's Anti-NRA Message — And Money — Could Sway House Race In Chicago One of the most important events in the national gun violence debate takes place Tuesday far from Newtown, Conn., and Washington, D.C. And if the candidate backed by Michael Bloomberg wins, look for congressional candidates nationwide to start eyeing the New York City mayor and his superPAC |
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Romney To Return To Political Scene For CPAC Speech The speech at next month's Conservative Political Action Conference will be the first extended public remarks from the former Republican presidential nominee since losing the November election. It was at this event last year that Romney famously declared he had been a "severely conservative" governor. |
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Romney To Return To Political Scene For CPAC Speech The speech at next month's Conservative Political Action Conference will be the first extended public remarks from the former Republican presidential nominee since losing the November election. It was at this event last year that Romney famously declared he had been a "severely conservative" governor. |
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Rubio On The Move, At Least Once The House Sells Remember Sen. Marco Rubio's paean to his Florida neighborhood in giving the Republican response to the State of the Union address? It seems Rubio is still living in West Miami because he's been unable to find someone to buy his house in the three months it's been on the market. |
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Rubio On The Move, At Least Once The House Sells Remember Sen. Marco Rubio's paean to his Florida neighborhood in giving the Republican response to the State of the Union address? It seems Rubio is still living in West Miami because he's been unable to find someone to buy his house in the three months it's been on the market. |
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Report: Emails Show Sen. Menendez Focused On Port Security Contract Emails between Sen. Robert Menendez's office and the Department of Homeland Security suggest that the New Jersey Democrat urged action that would help a company holding a port security contract in the Dominican Republic, The New York Times reported Monday. |
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Report: Emails Show Sen. Menendez Focused On Port Security Contract Emails between Sen. Robert Menendez's office and the Department of Homeland Security suggest that the New Jersey Democrat urged action that would help a company holding a port security contract in the Dominican Republic, The New York Times reported Monday. |
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NRA's 'Anti-Gun' List Includes Some Not-So-Obvious Names The NRA's public list of corporations and individuals it says have "lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations" has some groups you'd expect, like the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. But at more than 500 names deep, it includes others that may come as a surprise. |
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NRA's 'Anti-Gun' List Includes Some Not-So-Obvious Names The NRA's public list of corporations and individuals it says have "lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations" has some groups you'd expect, like the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. But at more than 500 names deep, it includes others that may come as a surprise. |
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NRA's 'Anti-Gun' List Includes Some Not-So-Obvious Names The NRA's public list of corporations and individuals it says have "lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations" has some groups you'd expect, like the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. But at more than 500 names deep, it includes others that may come as a surprise. |
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Romney 2013? Tagg Weighs Massachusetts Senate Bid Mitt Romney's eldest son reportedly is considering a bid for the Massachusetts Senate seat long held by new Secretary of State John Kerry. His candidacy would bail out Republicans there who were deflated by former Sen. Scott Brown's decision not to run in the June 25 special election. |
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Romney 2013? Tagg Weighs Massachusetts Senate Bid Mitt Romney's eldest son reportedly is considering a bid for the Massachusetts Senate seat long held by new Secretary of State John Kerry. His candidacy would bail out Republicans there who were deflated by former Sen. Scott Brown's decision not to run in the June 25 special election. |
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Rubio's Role In Immigration Plan Leaves Even Limbaugh Somewhat Speechless Rush Limbaugh has been spending a lot of time calling new immigration overhaul plans little more than "amnesty" for some 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country. A lot of time, that is, except for the 15 minutes of his extremely deferential interview with one of the plan's authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. |
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Rubio's Role In Immigration Plan Leaves Even Limbaugh Somewhat Speechless Rush Limbaugh has been spending a lot of time calling new immigration overhaul plans little more than "amnesty" for some 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country. A lot of time, that is, except for the 15 minutes of his extremely deferential interview with one of the plan's authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. |
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For Business Owners, Higher Taxes Could Mean Fewer New Hires — Or More   If the tax rate rises for the top 2 percent of wage earners, business owners would generally react by hiring fewer new workers, according to a fundamental Republican argument. But the actual outcome might be a bit murkier, and — in some instances — counterintuitive. |
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For Business Owners, Higher Taxes Could Mean Fewer New Hires — Or More If the tax rate rises for the top 2 percent of wage earners, business owners would generally react by hiring fewer new workers, according to a fundamental Republican argument. But the actual outcome might be a bit murkier, and — in some instances — counterintuitive. |
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Democrats Poised To Pick Up Seats In Final House Tally Two weeks after Election Day, it appears the partisan makeup of the new House of Representatives will be 234 Republicans and 201 Democrats, although the outcome is not yet official in two states. That would be a gain of eight seats for the minority Democrats. |
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A Week Later, Pollster Says: 'I Was Drinking That Republican Kool-Aid' If voters were surprised to watch TV networks call the election for President Obama over Republican Mitt Romney minutes after polls closed in California last week, perhaps it was because of earlier statements from some pollsters confident in a Romney romp. A few are now acknowledging mistakes. |
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Crossroads GPS Redefines 'Social Welfare' Political Action It has been seen for decades as a fundamental premise of campaign finance: The public has an absolute right to know who gave and who got, so it can make an informed judgment as to what those contributors might want, and then hold elected officials accountable. But the rules have changed. |
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Romney's Testimony In 1991 Trial Gives New Glimpse Of Work At Bain Mitt Romney has touted his years running Bain Capital as a prime qualification for the presidency. Bain provided much of the money to get Staples started, but there's been a suit over how the company's stock was valuated before it successfully went public. Romney's testimony on the issue was unsealed Thursday. |
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Tax-Exempt Crossroads GPS Airs First Direct 'Vote Mitt Romney' Ad Karl Rove's tax-exempt Crossroads GPS group said it was interested only in advancing issues, not engaging in electoral politics. But now it's running a minute-long ad telling viewers to vote for Mitt Romney - with no mention of those very issues it had been saying were central to its mission. |
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In 1980s Romney Video From His Bain Days, Profits, Not Jobs, Were Focus  The newly unearthed video of Mitt Romney in 1985 explaining how Bain Capital hoped to "harvest" the firms it invested in seemed at odds with the Republican presidential nominee's suggestion on the campaign trail that creating jobs was a major aim in those days. |
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Rove's Crossroads GPS Gets Explicit In Anti-Obama Air War Crossroads GPS, an anti-Obama group co-founded by GOP political strategist Karl Rove, is shifting its ad strategy. It's going from so-called issue ads that purportedly educated voters on why the president was wrong on issues to directly urging for voters to vote against him. |
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Politics, The Pledge And A Peculiar History Every so often, the Pledge of Allegiance gets wrapped up in a political campaign, often with the conservative candidate or group suggesting the other side is anti-American or anti-God. And each time, the actual history of the pledge is either ignored entirely or glossed over. |
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End Of The 'Tell President Obama' Ads? Remember the command from TV ads through the spring and summer? "Tell President Obama to" stop spending, or increase oil production, or whatever. Those three little words are now largely gone, and for the same reason they were ever used: so groups running the ads can keep their donors secret. |
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Former Gov. Charlie Crist Will Speak At Democratic Convention Crist served as a Republican governor, but during a Senate run, he fell out of favor with conservatives. |
