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Since then Bunning has found himself even more isolated. Party leaders in Washington met with a potential primary opponent, David Williams, a McConnell ally who is the whip-smart and baldly partisan president of the Kentucky senate. Last month, Bunning called Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who will lead efforts to re-elect GOP senators in 2010, a liar after Cornyn denied he was recruiting an alternative candidate to Bunning. Just for good measure, he also threatened to sue the party if they did indeed recruit a candidate to run against Bunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Senate Republicans Want to Bench Jim Bunning | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

...wild-and-crazy guy whose grandfather had co-founded Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Howard recruited smart, aggressive talent throughout the 1970s and let it loose to dig up dirt, badger Denver's cowboy-booted establishment and raise journalistic hell. Occasional newsroom gunplay and rampant staff drug use aside, those Hunter Thompson-like efforts paid off: the Rocky topped the Post's circulation in 1980. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Killed the Rocky Mountain News? | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

Harvard students’ heads are already enlarged enough thanks to magazine ranking systems, the flashing cameras of tourists, and the words of friends and family. Harvard may be a good school, and its students may be pretty smart, but, professors, please—they don’t always need to know...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: The Perils of Praise | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...that one of the key principles of the Miami Representatives' agendas - a hard-line approach to Cuba - is no longer the policy of choice in the community. And it's that kind of complexity that just might make the outreach to Venezuelans and other Latinos fleeing the left a smart form of politicking in the years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro and Chávez: The Evil Twins for Florida's GOP | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...items like the embargo before he delivers his own, like releasing jailed dissidents, surely knows he'll have to give a little on his side to crack the embargo. The Cuban Taliban was certainly not the man for a diplomatic challenge like that. So if Raúl is smart, he chose his new Foreign Minister to be more than just a figurehead - and if Obama is wise, the White House will make the effort to engage the new man at Cuba's Foreign Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Lies Behind the Cuban Purge | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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