In Exclusive Interview, Paul Ryan Distances Self From Todd Akin  —  CARNEGIE (KDKA) — In Congressman Paul Ryan's first interview in Pennsylvania, Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick reacted strongly to Congressman Todd Akin's comment than women who are raped rarely get pregnant.

Like a Boss  —  When it comes to being a rich guy, Mitt Romney should own it  —  What do women want?  The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women's pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse.

Just Think No  —  There's something trying about an unforgiving man suddenly in need of forgiveness.  —  Yet Todd Akin is right.  He shouldn't have to get out of the United States Senate race in Missouri simply for saying what he believes.  He reflects a severe stance on abortion …

Republican Party Changes Rules To Stop The Pauls  —  Avoiding “distractions” in Tampa.  —  Image by Czarek Sokolowski / AP  —  TAMPA, Florida — The Republican National Committee's Rules Committee voted to require written certification that a presidential candidate has a plurality …

CBO warns of deep recession if Congress fails to avert ‘fiscal cliff’  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Wednesday warned the economy will enter a recession next year if the country goes over the so-called fiscal cliff.  —  In its most dire warning yet about the fiscal cliff …

Texas Judge Suggests He Will Join ‘Civil Unrest, Civil Disobedience, Civil War Maybe’ If Obama Is Reelected  —  Judge Tom Head, a county judge in Lubbock, Texas, announced on a local television station that he would personally join the resistance against a United Nations' takeover of American sovereignty …

Marco Rubio on how he learned he wasn't Romney's VP pick; kind words for Nelson, harsh ones for Akin  —  Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told a Forum Club of the Palm Beaches luncheon crowd today about the phone conversation he had with Mitt Romney the day before Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate.

Networks may miss Ann Romney speech  —  Ann Romney may not make primetime during next week's Republican National Convention.  —  The three major television networks — NBC, ABC, and CBS — are not airing primetime coverage of the RNC on Monday, the opening night of the convention and the night …

Could Hurricane Isaac derail the GOP convention?  —  It's deja vu all over again: Four years ago, Hurricane Gustav threatened Republican National Convention plans.  This year, it's Hurricane Isaac.  —  The bad weather, still a tropical storm in the Atlantic, has convention planners …

Get Lost  —  So, as you might have heard, Michael Mann of Climategate infamy is threatening to sue us.  —  Mann is upset — very, very upset — with this Mark Steyn Corner post, which had the temerity to call Mann's hockey stick “fraudulent.”  The Steyn post was mild compared with other things …

Costs Seen in Romney's Medicare Savings Plan  —  WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney's promise to restore $716 billion that he says President Obama “robbed” from Medicare has some health care experts puzzled, and not just because his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, included the same savings in his House budgets.

A Nation Adrift From the Rule of Law  —  We are losing sight of the basic principles that made us great in the 20th century.  —  No one doubts that the coming election will be the most important referendum on the size and nature of government in a generation.

CU-Boulder: Profs have no right to cancel classes over gun-carrying students  —  Chancellor notifies faculty they could face disciplinary action  —  University of Colorado Chancellor Phil DiStefano notified the Boulder campus faculty Tuesday afternoon that professors “do not have the right …

Team Romney calls out Obama for misspelling ‘Ohio’ at campaign stop  —  President Obama needed a do-over to spell “Ohio” correctly on the campus of Ohio State University this week.  —  Although Obama and several students at a campaign stop Tuesday morning at Sloopy's Diner on the campus …

Video: Obama Says He's “Pro-Choice” on Third-Trimester Abortions  —  The Washington Post reports that President Obama is running his reelection campaign as a “culture warrior,” trying to cast his opponents as extremists on such issues as abortion in the case of rape and requiring religious institutions to pay for contraception.

Dempsey ‘disappointed’ by anti-Obama campaign by ex-military members  —  The United States' top military official criticized a group of former military and intelligence operatives for its aggressive campaign against President Obama, telling Fox News that he is “disappointed” by such political activity, which he called “not useful.”

Michelle Obama ‘Guest Editor’ for Website Featuring Sex Tips—Including from Prostitutes  —  Michelle Obama is identified as a “Guest Editor” on all of the website's pages, including several titled “Love & Sex.”  Video clips of iVillage interviews with Mrs. Obama appear on some of those …