Kyle Bell

Senator Olympia Snowe unexpectedly announced on Tuesday that she is retiring from the Senate. Along with her colleague Susan Collins, the two are known as the “Maine moderates” and have both consistently won re-election as Republicans in a Democratic state. She cited increased partisanship as her main reason for retiring: “I do not realistically expect [...]

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Last night “The Artist” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The Chris Matthews Show lampooned the Romney campaign by playing off of the silent film theme: Mitt Romney’s campaign could learn a thing or two from Hollywood: his campaign would be better off if he just kept his mouth shut. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var [...]

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Mitt Romney delivered one of the strangest and yet most hilarious stump speeches ever a couple weeks ago when he pandered to Michigan voters by talking about how their trees had the right height. “I was born and raised here. I love this state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like [...]

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New York Magazine‘s John Heilemann has a great piece this week on the GOP primary race thus far. He writes about the rightward drift of the Republican Party, the struggles that “front-runner” Mitt Romney has had to curry favor with the Tea Party base, and Santorum’s rise as his primary conservative challenger. In Heilemann’s own [...]

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I recently was interviewed by author and blogger Stephanie Dagg. She runs the blog Books Are Cool, a destination for her thoughts on books as well as the publishing industry. Her books include Oh Gran! and Escape the Volcano. The topics in the interview range from my inspiration for Operation Bald Eagle to favorite foods. [...]

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Mitt Romney’s win tonight doesn’t say much about what will happen in the rest of the South. North Florida went for Gingrich and is more in line with places like Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. This isn’t just a theory, either. South Carolina already voted for Gingrich over Romney in decisive fashion. The Peach State and [...]

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