Road To The White House - 2012
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- Category: Beltway Insider
- Published on Sunday, 08 January 2012 12:15
- Written by Janet Walker
With the Iowa Caucuses over and all focus on New Hampshire, the first primary of this pivotal Presidential race, the party’s two front runners, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, moved their machines into full gear and into the Granite State.










Newt Gingrich, former GOP Presidential hopeful and Speaker of the House, made it official this week with the announcement he has suspended his bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination.
Mitt Romney, the presumptive presidential candidate, spent the week readying the voters of America for his primetime acceptance speech as he stumped across the Midwest.
Hard-hit New Yorkers, known for their resilience, bowed to the killer storm as Sandy battered the World Financial Center with an unprecedented power usually reserved for the canyons most infamous financial brokers.
It is not particularly easy to write about a hurricane when I just left a zone devastated by earthquakes, that being Christchurch New Zealand.
In the first press conference since President Obama won re-election, against Republican Presidential challenger Mitt Romney, he faced a firing squad of reporters over the handling of the Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans.
President Obama returned to Washington earlier this week, cutting his holiday break short, to meet with lawmakers in a last ditch effort to avert the ever looming Fiscal Cliff that would end the Bush Era Tax cuts.
Moore, Oklahoma was decimated when an F4 Tornado with wind speeds of over 200mph cut a two mile wide swath through the city's South side, killing at least 24, injuring hundreds and demolishing everything in its path.
Nine children died in Monday’s massive Moore Tornado, which ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb, killing 24, injuring hundreds and leaving a trail of destruction through the center of the heartland.




Typhoon Haiyan, packing winds up to 315k/195mph began its death march at 9:45pm Thursday slamming into the Philippine nation cutting a swath of indescribable devastation and leaving widespread destruction and ruin in its wake.
The People’s Republic of China has recently announced the extension of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, establishing an extended militarized area further into what was recognized as international waters.


Colorado cannabis dealers are expecting brisk sales, generating upwards of $67M in tax revenue, as the Rocky Mountain state is the first to completely legalize, without prescription, the sale, distribution and use of marijuana. 



Republicans are licking their wounds as hell week continues to burn through their strongholds after twin scandals erupt and a bland rebuttal to an unexciting State of the Union address fails to ignite the conservative fires.
Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania Groundhog who, since 1887, has become the annual predictor for winter’s end, popped his head out of his hole-in-the-ground home and promptly saw his shadow, the indicator of another six more weeks of winter, snow, cold, ice and slush, sad news for those of us who are ready for winter’s end.
Marwan, a four year old displaced refugee, has become the face of the Syrian conflict as he was found by United Nation workers wandering alone, separated from his family, in the Jordanian desert.

