How Rahm Is Reviving the GOP
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Republicans are once again ascendant-and for this they can thank Rahm Emanuel. John Batchelor gets the scoop from gleeful conservatives on the trail of Democratic destruction left by Obama's bullying enforcer.
The Next Sarah Palin?
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire's GOP rising star, is a folksy, gun-loving mother of two who has her eyes on a Senate seat. And, you betcha, she married a dude who puts Todd to shame.
Will Abortion Delay Health Reform?
This may be a deal breaker: On Fox News Sunday, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag doesn't rule out taxpayer-funded abortions as part of a government health insurance plan.
While appointing a member of the opposition party to a key post has been a common White House tactic for decades, President Obama has been on a bipartisan spree since taking office-most recently nominating Republican Rep. John McHugh as secretary of the Army. The Daily Beast takes a closer look at how bipartisan picks have fared in Washington.
GOP R.I.P.
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Conservative radio host John Batchelor says it's obvious: His Republican Party is a corpse. And its response to the financial crisis reveals how and when it died.
Top 6 Moments From Sunday Talk
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Judd Gregg goes after Obama, Arnold backs the president after the Special Olympics gaffe, Tim Geithner finds a supporter, and you'll never guess who Eliot Spitzer has some tough words for...
Remembering William F. Buckley, a Year Later
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
From Palin and Blago to the trillion-dollar stimulus, if only we could know what he would make of all this.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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