▼ Author Community Vote 37 days ago Frank James South Carolina Tea Partiers Wish Romney Would Just Go Away - — Talk with Tea Party leaders here in South Carolina and you quickly realize that the toughest job in the Mitt Romney campaign would be the assignment of doing outreach to these activists. Maybe not a mission impossible, but close. 139 days ago Frank James 'ACORN Versus Conservatives' A Battle To The Death? - — This “ACORN versus conservatives” contest of wills is beginning to look like some new version of the Cold War with either side claiming the other is evil and vowing to never give in until it prevails. — The latest salvo came Monday … 167 days ago Frank James Obama Town-Hall Gun Toters May Have An Upside - — There's been much sound and fury recently about people bringing guns to the public viewing areas set up outside President Barack Obama's town-hall meetings. — Yesterday, one fellow drew a lot of attention by bringing an AR-15 … 182 days ago Frank James President Obama's Birthday: 44 Turns 48 - — Forty eight years ago today President Barack Obama was born, despite what the Birthers insist, in Honolulu, Hawaii. — Then-Sen. Obama served birthday cake to journalists aboard his campaign play exactly a year ago. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo) 315 days ago Frank James Obama's 2nd press conference live-blog - — 8:32 pm — Stars and Stripes' reporter ask where will the administration find cuts in the defense or veterans budgets. Obama says veterans should be held harmless. Defense contracting is another matter. “There is uniform acknowledgement that the procurement system doesn't work. 328 days ago Frank James Obama calls for more earmark transparency - — (This posting has been changed from the original posting.) — President Barack Obama called for more earmark reform even as he defended the usefulness of congressionally directed federal spending. — In a brief White House speech … 346 days ago Frank James Maybe Burris should sleep with open eye - — When we heard White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs talking during his media briefing yesterday about how Sen. Roland Burris, aka, “The Real Roland,” should spend his weekend, a few of us reporters heard what we thought sounded like an ominous warning: 347 days ago Frank James White House sends Burris a warning - — In what sounded like a veiled threat, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called on Sen. Roland Burris to “take some time over the weekend” to explain once and for all exactly what happened before his appointment to the Senate and to consider “his future.” 348 days ago Frank James NYT settles with lobbyist on McCain story - — A Washington lobbyist who said the New York Times implied she had an improper relationship with Sen. John McCain will drop her defamation lawsuit against the newspaper, which today said it never intended that readers conclude the two were having an affair. 351 days ago Frank James Obama: 'I'm an optimist, not a sap' - — (Pundits interview President Obama aboard Air Force One. From left to right, E.J. Dionne, Washington Post; Bob Herbert, NY Times; Ron Brownstein, National Journal; the president, Jennifer Psaki, a White House staffer, Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Writers Group.