the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today s move i
economy. now is the time for action. so i want to send a clear message for congress. do not slow down the recovery that we re on. don t muck it up. keep it moving in the right direction. steven moore is an editorial writer with the wall street journal. steven, the president s message don t muck it up. your message is to the voters and you re saying the worst thing they could do for the economy is four more years of president obama. why do you see president obama as a particular threat to this recovery? well, first of all, i agree with you the economy is picking up. we re just getting week after week signs of a stronger economy. manufacturing has picked up. we got some good unemployment insurance claims this week which suggests we might get another bump down in the unemployment rate so i agree with you. we re seeing some really nice signs of recovery right now. what i question whether it s durable, whether it s sustainable. and i keep looking at what could happen on janu
i understand that the battles that we as conservatives must fight, because i have been on the front lines. he says he was a severely conservative republican governor of massachusetts, and he also said he knows conservativism, because he s lived it, vowed to repeal president obama s health care act, and that s his position today. agree or disagree, it s to use his own world, severely conservative, but keeping him honest, it doesn t describe his time at the governor of massachusetts and it doesn t jibe with how he himself was describing himself when he was running for the job. this is mitt romney in 2002 when he was running for governor. people realize i m not a partisan republican, but moderate and my views are progressive. not a partisan, moderate, but progressive views. here he is in a campaign debate volunteering the moderate and liberal position on abortion rights. and the chairman stuck a little point in there that is with my views on protecting a woman s right to
it s x factor this year because there s a game changer now in the santorum momentum that s happening reet now and cpac is a very dynamic place. if a person has a speech that takes over the place, it could change everything. i was at the straw poll, the florida straw poll about three months ago when herman cain won. and that surprised everybody. and that started his momentum going forward until the herman cain implosion occurred. and i think that right now rick santorum has a unique opportunity to gain unprecedented momentum because mitt romney has chosen not to connect with the conservative grass roots. the tea party right, so mitt romney is going to give a speech but he s also met with conservatives because of all those things that you say. he s kind of getting in to get a one-on-one message here sort of private meetings. and then, number two, rick soon santorum has to deliver a message that leverages off the momentum. how does he do that? well, this crowd yesterday wh
outfront tonight, big, big, and bigger money in politics. upwards of $11 million will be spent on this year s election, according to the federal election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 18 - 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. make it harder and you say you can t give money here and then it goes there, and more money gets spent ev