Radio, Republican | featured news

Herman Cain is going back to talk radio, taking the reins from long-time WSB host Neal Boortz.

Herman Cain, a radio talk show host and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, announced on Saturday his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he won't seek the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to stick with a lucrative career as a television and radio personality over a race that would be both costly and caustic.

Despite Republican-led calls to strip funding from NPR, public broadcasting emerged largely unscathed in the federal budget compromise hammered out in Congress over the past week.

NPR has not been having the best public relations year. And a new video recorded by James O'Keefe (he of undercover dressed-as-a-pimp fame) will not change that pattern. A sting operation has two operatives pretending to be wealthy Muslim donors who wish to help NPR in case Republicans have their way with the whole push for defunding.

The new chairman of the Republican party walks back remarks he made about the popular conservative radio host, whose broadcasts have prompted Democrats to try to link him to the leadership of the G.O.P.

Rush Limbaugh brought a cheering crowd to its feet several times Saturday in Washington as he called on fellow conservatives to take back the country in the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Limbaugh's caustic comments have one of the House's leading conservatives defending colleagues.