Politics

If there’s any lesson to be learned from Mitt Romney’s big win over Newt Gingrich in Tuesday night’s Florida GOP primary, it’s that negative campaigning works. That’s the same takeaway that came from their previous battle in South Carolina, though there it was Gingrich, not Romney, who benefited the most from a barrage of advertising…

As expected, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Florida Republican primary on Tuesday night, the first primary on the GOP campaign calendar held in a state that comes close to reflecting the nation’s cultural and demographic diversities. Romney, having lately discovered his inner angry man, bested his only real challenger, former House Speaker Newt…

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia visit the Corcoran Gallery of Art on Jan. 29, 2012, in Washington, D.C.

When Newt Gingrich says that housing project people don’t work, our job is to show that they do. When he says that Obama is the “food stamp” president, our job is to show that most food stamp recipients are white. When Ron Paul writes that we’re about to start rioting again, we are to make…

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is opposed to what it calls “mass incarcerations for terrifyingly long periods of time,” so its chief counsel is not very upset at what is upsetting so many people in Mississippi and nearby states: Gov. Haley Barbour’s on-his-way-out-the-door pardons and early releases to more than 200 people (pdf),…

Just a week ago, Newt Gingrich was back. Having won over Southern conservatives with surly debate performances (heavy on his “food stamp president” catchphrase, lectures on the malformed work ethic of poor children and eviscerations of the liberal news media), he handily won the South Carolina primary. But Gingrich lost steam this week in Florida…

Three white Chicago teenagers have been arrested after they beat and placed a noose around the neck of a black teenager, the Chicago Tribune reports. Their apparent motivation was his relationship with a white girl who is the cousin of one of the attackers. In the attack, which occurred on Dec. 23 in the home…

President Obama arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona yesterday and was met by one unhappy person: the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, the Arizona Republic reports. In what was described as an animated discussion, Brewer and Obama went head-to-head over her book, Scorpions for Breakfast. They were both talking over each other at various…