By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News Follow @mpoindc CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Presidential elections start in Iowa. On Friday, Sen. Rand Paul put his stake in the ground for a possible run in 2016 by mocking the Obama administration and de… more »

Daniel Halper The Weekly Standard On December 15, the day after the day after the shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, State Department officials notified the press that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had fallen ill. "While suffering… more »

RSC Washington, Feb 16 - Tomorrow, February 17, 2012, will be exactly 3 years since President Obama signed his infamous stimulus package into law. It was a plan designed to create jobs by growing t… more »

By Frank Bass and Sharon L. Lynch President Barack Obama’s budget today will outline his ideas for how the government may spend more than $3 trillion in the next fiscal year, starting Oct. 1. There’s no similar document accounting… more »

CNNMoney Certain 2012 candidates are worth hundreds of millions, others far less. Mitt Romney Total net worth: up to $264 million Jon Huntsman Total net worth: $16 to $72 million Newt Gingrich Total net worth: $7 to $31 mill… more »