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Paging Mr. Fezziwig. One might get the notion that Charles Dickens' good-hearted fictional employer was back in business after the announcement this week by a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, that it intends to sell Freedom Group Inc.,...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defended his decision to join the Fix the Debt campaign, a national bipartisan lobbying group, even as an online petition calling for him to quit the group surpassed 8,000 signatures. On Tuesday, Villaraigosa...

More than 5,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa resign from a steering committee of the Fix the Debt campaign, a national bipartisan group lobbying for Congress and the White House to address the...

In another thread, commenter Barry3 points to Democrats, Republicans Diverge on Capitalism, Federal Gov't; results from a new Gallup Poll in which voters were asked for their gut responses to a set of economics-related terms: Democrats have a more...

The Republican Party has been doing a lot of hand-wringing and finger-pointing since the presidential election. Half the conservative columnists and bloggers say the GOP lost because it overemphasized social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. The...

If President Barack Obama goes on to lose to Mitt Romney next month, analysts will agree that Wednesday night's debate in Denver was the turning point, the moment when Obama began to lose his lead in the polls with a rambling, indifferent performance on...

Once there was an aspiring young political strategist who disrupted a Chicago campaign event for a rival party candidate by inviting homeless to it with promises of free food, drink and more. Republicans this election season have been attacking "Chicago-...

Most candidates — Republican, Democrat or Independent — inevitably say things during their campaigns that are wrong, stupid or deceptive. President Barack Obama, I'm sure, wishes that he could take back his boast during his 2008 run that he...

Now that the candidates have left the hustings (whatever those are) behind, it can be said: This was the cleanest presidential campaign in recent memory, perhaps in American history. Before you get exercised about Mitt Romney's sketchy tax math or...

The Republicans have ended their convention, and they think they have hit a home run. The convention was short on details, but long on promises, and everyone who spoke made it clear that President Obama did nothing for three and a-half years. Ann Romney...

It seemed that everyone at the party was a millionaire.     In one corner was NBA basketball star Grant Hill. In another was Linda McMahon, who spent $50 million of her own money in 2010 in a race for the U.S. Senate. Nearby was David Einhorn, who made...

A new TV commercial from the re-election campaign of President Barak Obama, launching in Florida and other swing states, accuses Republican nominee Mitt Romney of talking tough about China while having a record of sending jobs there. “The Cheaters,&...