DANA milbank: Modern Republican ideas aren't in their revered leader's DNA - Morning Sentinel
27 May 2012, 7:15 pm
When news broke that a vial of Ronald Reagan's blood was being auctioned online, the price quickly jumped to $30,000 as websites and blogs explored a tantalizing possibility: Did this mean the late president could be cloned? Before mad ...

milbank: Senators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seat - Longview Daily News
27 May 2012, 2:04 am
WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. Last week, the bank received a healthy dividend on that investment. Its chairman, Jamie Dimon, has admitted that the firm was ...

DANA milbank: Secret Service director hears no evil, sees no evil - Register-Guard
26 May 2012, 1:15 am
The Secret Circus may be looking for a new ringmaster soon. The prostitution scandal involving a dozen Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, is spreading into a broader burlesque for the agency, furthered by a Washington Post report that tolerance ...

milbank: JP Morgan's dividend - Worldnews.com
25 May 2012, 2:53 pm
Alma mater Princeton University Harvard University London School of Economics From 1969 to 1974, Mr. Volcker served as under-secretary of the Treasury for international monetary affairs. He played an important role in the decisions leading to ...

Dana milbank: JPMorgan's dividend - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
24 May 2012, 11:58 pm
JPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. On Tuesday, the bank received a healthy dividend on that investment. Its chairman, Jamie Dimon, has admitted that the firm was 'sloppy" and ...

milbank: Obama's big European headache - vcstar.com
23 May 2012, 5:40 pm
It is no small irony that President Obama's re-election bid is being undermined by his friends in Old Europe. Forty-six months ago, then-candidate Barack Obama flew to Berlin to call for a new era of friendship with Europe after it and the ...

Dana milbank | Does John Boehner want another debt limit showdown? - Courier-Journal
22 May 2012, 8:47 pm
WASHINGTON — John Boehner thinks it’s kind of funny. “It struck me as somewhat comical,” he told reporters Thursday morning, “that, you know, people are looking to me like I’m the guy carrying a sword around town, I’m going to ...

Dana milbank: Boehner draws his sword - Lincoln Journal Star
20 May 2012, 11:48 pm
WASHINGTON -- John Boehner thinks it's kind of funny. "It struck me as somewhat comical," he told reporters last week, "that, you know, people are looking to me like I'm the guy carrying a sword around town, I'm going to bludgeon someone." Well, Mr ...

milbank: Indiana, West Virginia primaries: Confrontation in pursuit of extremism - Erie Times-News
15 May 2012, 9:17 pm
Richard Mourdock stands a good chance of being elected to the Senate. Keith Judd is a federal inmate in Texas. And the similarities don't end there. Both men were beneficiaries of voter protests May 8 against the Washington status quo -- one ...

PostScript: milbank’s ‘first female president’ - Washington Post
15 May 2012, 3:04 pm
Dana milbank’s column, “Barack Obama, the first female president” struck a nerve with readers today. milbank examined President Obama’s commencement speech at New York’s Barnard College yesterday and found the kind of one-of-us ...