Mike Huckabee

Huckabee reflects, picks his targets

HUCKABEE REFLECTS, PICKS HIS TARGETS.... After relative silence for the past several months, former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is releasing his new book, "Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement...

The Note: Obama, McCain Ponder Partnership

The One Meets The Maverick -- Who will play a bigger role in filling out President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet -- Less than two weeks after Election Day, former rivals Barack Obama and John McCain meet face-to-face in Chicago...

Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08

The following article was published earlier this year on the website of the History News Network.A Historian Reflects on the Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08By Daniel HermanMarch, 2008Mr. Herman is an Associate Professor in...

Elsewhere: An Official Recession, A Council Vote on Rebate?

In a quarterly survey of economists, "participants were 'unanimous' in describing the U.S. economy as being either in a recession or on the brink of one. Most said the recession had begun in April and would last 14 months." It...

US President-elect Barack Obama crafts a home in History

US President George W. Bush (L), First Lady Laura Bush (2nd L) and president-elect Barack Obama (R) and his wife Michelle (2nd R) make their way into the Diplomatic Reception Room on November 10, 2008 of the White House in...

Schwarzenegger Republicanism Won't Save the GOP

This is pretty much the shape of the pending battle across the trenches of the American right. The coming Obama administration is still two months from the inauguration, so Republicans are getting an early start on strategies...

In D.C., Lobbyist Firms Battle for Talent

Striking in a Hot Market for Lobbyists Monday, November 17, 2008; Page D02 Morris L. Reid may have sold near the top of the D.C. powerbrokers market when he made a deal earlier this month with Republican lobbying powerhouse...

Never too early to start the 2012 race

Barack Obama hadn’t even clinched the 2008 election when a prominent Republican pollster took soundings on his party’s 2012 prospects. Neil Newhouse’s survey produced a surprising result. Vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin,...

Barack, Sarah and ‘otherness’

By John Brummett The Morning News The political thinkers sense an emerging realignment that makes Democrats the party of now and tomorrow and Republicans the party of yesterday. This time, Republicans were left with only remote...

Huckabee stumps for Fair Tax, Chambliss

Georgia supporters of the fair tax turned out en masse Sunday to cheer the idea of a national sales tax, which has become a thorny issue in the state’s high-profile Dec. 2 U.S. Senate runoff. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,...