Posts Tagged ‘Shake’

Berlusconi sentence won’t shake Italy government: center-right minister

ROME (Reuters) – Italy's governing coalition will not fall because of a decision by an appeals court to uphold a four-year jail term against Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud, a minister close to the center-right leader said on Thursday. Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi, a member of Berlusconi's party, said the hybrid center-right/center-left coalition would stand [...]

Strategists Unsure How Weiner Will Shake Up Race

Anthony Weiner “has not declared his candidacy, hired a staff or even held a news conference. But already, New York City’s mayoral contenders are strategizing about what they have to do to prevent the former Queens congressman from making it to City Hall,” the New York Times reports. Tweet This Post

Annals of Shark Jumping: Will Politics Kill the Harlem Shake?

Con los terroristas! One problem with cool things is that, eventually, they catch on too widely, everyone starts copying them, and suddenly they’re not so cool anymore. The Harlem Shake is one of those things; it’s a super-inclusive, funtastic, deep-bass-driven party time — but at… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Annals of Shark Jumping: Will Politics Kill the Harlem Shake?

Con los terroristas! One problem with cool things is that, eventually, they catch on too widely, everyone starts copying them, and suddenly they’re not so cool anymore. The Harlem Shake is one of those things; it’s a super-inclusive, funtastic, deep-bass-driven party time — but at… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Ashley Judd Weighs Senate Bid as McConnell Does Harlem Shake

Actress Ashley Judd is “seriously considering” running for Senate, according to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear. Beshear, a Democrat, spoke with Judd on the phone last week about her potential Senate bid which would pit her again Republican rival and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. “I… Tweet This Post

Republican Party Needs a Shake Up

Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson writes that Republican primary voters, party activists and party leaders “have a choice to make, ruthlessly clarified by recent events. They can take the path of Democrats in 1988, doubling down on a faltering ideology. Or they can follow the model of Democrats in 1992 and their own party in [...]

Obama Sticks with Familiar Faces in Staff Shake Up

“As he heads into a second term with sweeping ambition in an era of gridlock, President Obama is assembling a new White House team that looks much like the old one, choosing familiarity over freshness even at the risk of insularity,” the New York Times reports. Tweet This Post

Are women leaders less corrupt? No, but they shake things up

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (TrustLaw) – It is almost a cliché that getting more women into power is a good way to tackle corruption. Women, the argument goes, are less likely to take bribes or put personal gain before public good. But is it true? While many bristle at the suggestion that women are the “fairer [...]

Will Obama Shake Up His Cabinet?

ABC News: “There is an unwritten tradition in Washington that cabinet secretaries all submit pro forma letters of resignation at the end of a first term for a re-elected president, but apparently it doesn’t really work that way. The last two-term president was George W. Bush and according to an official in the West Wing [...]