Mitt Romney's Support Of Same-Sex Adoption Lasts One Day  —  Among Mitt Romney's timid responses this week after President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality was an admission that he was “fine” with same-sex couples adopting children, saying, “that's something that people have a right to do.”

Mitt Romney uses Jimmy Carter as campaign weapon  —  FORT LUPTON, Colo. — For President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney is an obvious throwback to another era — a stiff Father Knows Best type who straps the dog to the station wagon and marries his high-school sweetheart.

Sen. Paul: I didn't think Obama's ‘views on marriage could get any gayer’  —  (CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul on Friday brushed off Barack Obama's recent reversal on same-sex marriage by saying he didn't think the president's views “could get any gayer.”  —  The remarks from the Republican senator …

Businessman Says He Lost Hundreds of Customers After Attacks by Obama Campaign  —  Businessman Frank Vandersloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, has been targeted by the Obama campaign after donating money to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.  “Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website …

Is Romney Pulling Away?  —  It is, of course, way too early to get cocky.  But Republicans have to be happy with the way current polling is going.  In this morning's tracking poll at Rasmussen Reports, Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama by a stunning 50%-42%.  Rasmussen's matchup is a rolling three …

California deficit has soared to $16 billion, Gov. Jerry Brown says  —  Gov. Jerry Brown announced on Saturday that the state's deficit has ballooned to $16 billion, a huge increase over his $9.2-billion estimate in January.  —  The bigger deficit is a significant setback for California …

Obama's ‘Julia’ ad and the new Hubby State  —  “The Life of Julia,” the Obama campaign's new interactive Web ad, follows a cartoon everywoman, Julia, through the milestones of a middle-class American life: education, work, motherhood, retirement.  One milestone is pointedly missing: marriage.

Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits Washington State  —  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Whooping cough, or pertussis, a highly infectious respiratory disease once considered doomed by science, has struck Washington State this spring with a severity that health officials say could surpass the toll of any year since …

Around world, Obama's presidency a disappointment  —  In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there's disappointment that he hasn't kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he's shunting blame …

Vulnerable Dem senators balk at Obama's gay marriage stance  —  Senate Democrats facing difficult reelections are breaking with President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage, a sign the issue is politically dangerous in battleground states.  —  Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and Claire McCaskill …

An Islamic Reformer Who Can't Be Silenced  —  In the April 5 edition of The New Republic I published an essay called “The Thought Police” on Islamist campaigns to suppress independent thinking, as described in a Hudson Institute human rights report by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea.

New French president Francois Hollande, who claims to ‘dislike the rich’, has THREE homes on French Riviera  —  France's new Socialist president owns three holiday homes in the glamorous Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today.  —  The 57-year-old who ‘dislikes the rich’ and wants …