Mike Gravel

There are three things one needs to know about Mike Gravel. 1) In pronouncing his last name, the accent goes on the second syllable; it rhymes with “Oh, hell.” 2) A former US senator from Alaska, he was and still is a candidate for president. (Though he started the race as a Dem, he switched [...]

Presidential hopeful Mike Gravel has cast his lot with the Libertarian Party and, like any respectable contender for the highest office in the land, he’s got a song on YouTube. Rx2008, the crew that brought you George W. Bush singing “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “The End of the World (As We Know It),” produced this [...]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney easily won Nevada’s Republican caucuses, while New York Sen. Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic caucuses in that state.

With approximately 80 percent of precincts reporting, Romney had won 53 percent of a Republican straw ballot.  Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, was in second place with [...]