Michele Bachmann's leading in Iowa and Sarah Palin thinks she can be president. Are the Republicans in trouble?

07/19/11 FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: For a second straight day, a new poll of likely voters in the Iowa caucuses has Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann as the front-runner of the current field of GOP candidates. Michele Bachmann She's big with Tea Party voters, running on smaller government, no new taxes, but she's come under criticism most [...]

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Small wins: the quiet legislative successes

07/19/11 Moving behind all the hoopla of the 2011-2012 N.C. General Assembly thus far have been some quiet, mostly nonpartisan background bills that have now become state law. They have dealt with tax exemption for land conservation, flexible school schedules for inclement weather, brain concussion awareness in school athletics, and other issues directly affecting or pertinent to Western North Carolina ...

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APNewsBreak: Assembly passed 154 bills in 3 days

07/17/11 LUCAS L. JOHNSON II Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. Pressed by GOP leaders to end the legislative session earlier than usual, the General Assembly passed 154 bills in the final three days of the session, 30 percent of the year's entire package of enacted legislation. According to an Associated Press analysis of public records, lawmakers moved out 133 of them in the final two days. That number ...

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