The Delaware Gazette

‘Anything goes’ now in campaign financing?

WASHINGTON — Is it “any­thing goes” now in America’s cam­paign finance sys­tem? John Edwards is acquit­ted of using cam­paign cash as hush money. There’s an explo­sion of high-dollar super polit­i­cal action com­mit­tees in the pres­i­den­tial race. It’s all stok­ing crit­i­cism of revi­sions and reg­u­la­tory loop­holes in a sys­tem that was intended to keep bet­ter con­trol of polit­i­cal money after Watergate.

Obama says Vietnam veterans too often ‘denigrated’

WASHINGTON — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama paid trib­ute Mon­day to the men and women who have died defend­ing Amer­ica, point­ing to Viet­nam vet­er­ans as an under-appreciated and some­times maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwel­come homecoming.

Mitt Romney’s ‘hijinks’ seen as bullying today

NEW YORK — When Mitt Rom­ney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up ’60s, cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment was the norm and bul­ly­ing had a dif­fer­ent, more accept­able name: hijinks.

US uses bin Laden letters to degrade al-Qaida

WASHINGTON — Let­ters from Osama bin Laden’s last hide­away, released by U.S. offi­cials intent on dis­cred­it­ing his ter­ror orga­ni­za­tion, por­tray a net­work weak, inept and under siege — and its leader seem­ingly near wit’s end about the pass­ing of his global jihad’s glory days.

Romney backs student loan proposal Obama supports

ASTON, Pa. — Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Mitt Rom­ney on Mon­day embraced a stu­dent loan pro­posal that Pres­i­dent Barack Obama is sell­ing on the cam­paign trail and refused to endorse Sen. Marco Rubio’s con­ser­v­a­tive immi­gra­tion plan aimed at help­ing young ille­gal immigrants.

McCain, Christie campaign for Ohio GOP candidate

COLUMBUS — For­mer Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date John McCain offered his first U.S. Sen­ate endorse­ment of this elec­tion cycle, com­ing to Ohio to throw his sup­port behind fel­low mil­i­tary vet­eran Josh Man­del in a cam­paign heav­ily sup­ported by GOP national interests.

Santorum drops out, clearing the way for Romney

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Rick San­to­rum cleared the way for Mitt Rom­ney to claim vic­tory in the long and hard-fought bat­tle for the Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion Tues­day, giv­ing up his “against all odds” cam­paign as Romney’s tena­cious con­ser­v­a­tive rival.

Justices moving to heart of health care overhaul

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WASHINGTON — As demon­stra­tions swirled out­side, Supreme Court jus­tices sig­naled on Mon­day they are ready to con­front with­out delay the keep-or-kill ques­tions at the heart of chal­lenges to Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s his­toric health care over­haul. Vir­tu­ally every Amer­i­can will be affected by the out­come, due this sum­mer in the heat of the elec­tion campaign.

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