Sorenson stuns Michele Bachmann with switch to Ron Paul's camp

DesMoinesReg

By Shira Schoenberg Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, already under seige from his rivals competing with him in lead-voting Iowa, is now the target of new criticism in the next electoral state, New Hampshire. Jon Huntsman, in a new video By Shira Schoenberg Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, already under seige from his rivals competing [...]

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As Rick Santorum surges, Newt Gingrich fades fast in Iowa

USA TODAY

A new CNN poll has Rick Santorum roaring back back from the bottom of the GOP pack to 16% in Iowa. Manna Java World Cafe, in the renovated and repurposed Roshek Building, has become the GOP candidate campaign stop du jour this year, this time hosting former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who was making his [...]

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Ron Paul back on top in Iowa, new poll says

Christian Sc

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stopped by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to talk about the issues of America, his run for the White House, the Iowa poll, the economy, and the state of America. One of the most popular candidates in the Among other things, the Holiday season means end-of-the-year gift giving, and [...]

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Newt Gingrich emerges largely unscathed from debate as caucuses move ever closer

Boston.com

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Saturday defended his statement that the Palestinians are an “invented” people, brushing aside criticism that he had unnecessarily made the Mideast peace process more difficult. WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum lumped together his two leading rivals, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, claiming their [...]

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Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Ad Features Music by Gay Composer Aaron Copland

Village Voic

A protégé of Aaron Copland, Carter wrote numerous scores in the 1940′s that channeled his mentor's Americana influences before embracing the revolutionary world of Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School. His Elegy, originally written for cello in The 71-year-old celebrity journalist was in town to channel Abraham Lincoln in a Eugene Symphony performance of Aaron [...]

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Romney and Gingrich spar, weather scrutiny from the field

msnbc.com

The Palestinians are the global warming climate change of geopolitical conflict. They use deceptive parlance to advance their agenda.” Newt Gingrich hit. WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is now officially in trouble. The former Massachusetts governor, who has been the leading Republican presidential candidate for much of the past year, entered the latest primary debate in [...]

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Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Ad Features Music by Gay Composer Aaron Copland

Village Voic

By Alan G. Artner, Special to the Tribune More than 50 years ago, on a tour of the Soviet Union, Leonard Bernstein pointed out affinities between the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and Aaron Copland by excerpting works that shared a large-scale, As the Harvard Political Review points out, the music that plays in the background [...]

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Rosie O'Donnell engaged to girlfriend Michelle Rounds

Los Angeles

Cyndi Lauper is teaming up with Clay Aiken, Rosie O'Donnell, Alan Cumming and more celebs for a concert in New York on December 4 for a good cause. The "Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home For The Holidays" concert is to raise awareness about lesbian, gay, The duo — who started dating in September — will [...]

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Gingrich says his ascent in GOP primary has his campaign rethinking its operations

Washington P

His candidate, Newt Gingrich, had moved beyond scolding journalists to talking ideas and looking like a contender. But then Gingrich seemed to embrace a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants. And Gingrey, who opposes amnesty like most conservatives, In an appearance in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Nov. 30, 2011, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reiterated [...]

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Mitt Romney preps Newt Gingrich attack

Politico

As his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has gained traction in recent weeks, Mr. Gingrich has said he expects increased scrutiny of his business activities since leaving Congress in 1999. Those activities Texas Congressman and fundraising powerhouse Ron Paul's campaign released an absolutely brutal web ad attacking current national frontrunner Newt Gingrich for serial [...]

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