Daily Caller - Texas Rep. Ron Paul has broken through in South Carolina, according to two polls released Friday that show a dramatic increase in support for the libertarian favorite just eight days before the state’s first-in-the-south Jan. 21 primary.

Daily Caller - President Barack Obama’s December wish list didn’t include what he hoped to get from Santa Claus. Instead, he listed big names whose endorsement he hopes to secure before Election Day in November.

Daily Caller - On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn challenged the notion that George Stephanopoulos’s strange line of debate questioning last Saturday night was inspired by a drive for ratings.

Daily Caller - The Boss is angry. And he is going to sing about it.

Daily Caller - On the heels of his daughter’s appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain appeared on its CBS rival, “The Late Show with David Letterman,” and like his daughter, offered some less-than-favorable views on the current state of the GOP.

Daily Caller - Bank of America Stadium, the Charlotte, N.C. sports area that has been proposed as the site where President Obama will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for a second term in the White House, was built entirely with nonunion labor, The Daily Caller has learned.

Daily Caller - President Barack Obama may have crossed labor unions yet again this week when he named former budget director Jack Lew to be his fourth chief of staff in just three years.

Daily Caller - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich hits rival Mitt Romney in a new ad, saying at one point, “just like John Kerry, he speaks French, too.”

Daily Caller - President Barack Obama has created a constitutional showdown by trying to announce recess appointments when the Senate is not in recess, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told The Daily Caller.

Daily Caller - In an overture to Tennessee conservatives, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam announced on Wednesday that he would prioritize reductions in the state’s death tax, but stopped short of committing to the abolition sought by a number of organizations and state representatives.

Daily Caller - She isn’t even a week old and daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z is already making history.

Daily Caller - President Barack Obama’s administration has ordered the United States Coast Guard to protect grain ships at the Port of Longview from violent “Occupy” protesters and dockworker union members, according to a local news report.

Daily Caller - WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Annual State of Business Address, President Tom Donohue outlined an agenda for 2012 and indicated that the Chamber would push for Congress to grapple with some of the serious issues facing the economy this year, rather than trying to push off real action until after the election in November.

Daily Caller - The inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) got hit with a nearly 50 percent budget cut for 2012, a move that, unless immediately remedied, will stifle the office’s ability to investigate a controversial branch of the Obama administration.

Daily Caller - The attorney general in New Hampshire is probing the state’s voting procedures in response to a video released Wednesday by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe showing how easy it is to vote in the name of someone who is dead.

Daily Caller - After last Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate, “Good Morning America” co-anchor and “This Week” moderator George Stephanopoulos took criticism for his handling of a debate question about contraception and his persistence on the issue with GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.

Daily Caller - For the fourth year in a row, the United States has fallen on the Heritage Foundation’s international Index of Economic Freedom. For 2011, the U.S. fell from 9th to 10th, just behind Ireland. (RELATED: IMF providing bailout support to heavily indebted Ireland)

Daily Caller - Tim Tebow is already the hottest property in professional sports, and now Republican presidential candidates are lining up for the blessing of the Denver Broncos quarterback.

Daily Caller - The United States hasn’t seen a constitutional convention since 1787. But with Washington, D.C.’s political class continuing to borrow and spend, the state legislatures in North Dakota and Louisiana have passed resolutions calling for another one.

Daily Caller - The texts of Barack Obama’s recent speeches seem tailor-made for softening the White House’s often hostile description of American business, but the president’s impromptu additions are highlighting his efforts to subordinate business to government.

Marc Hill, Philadelphia Daily News
JUST WHEN the Republican primaries couldn't get any more interesting, the candidates upped the ante by approaching the third rail of race.In the most recent wave of debates and stump speeches, two Republican contenders have made extremely controversial comments regarding blacks and poverty.Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told a group of supporters that he didn't want to "make black people's lives better giving them other people's money."

Daily Caller - Even a Yale Law School professor is questioning President Barack Obama’s claim of a legal justification for unilaterally installing Richard Cordray as head of the new finance-sector regulatory bureau.

Daily Caller - Video footage of undercover reporters obtaining New Hampshire primary ballots intended for people who have died may appear shocking, but it is no surprise to Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman and vocal advocate against voter ID fraud.

Daily Caller - The field of Republican presidential candidates has left icy New Hampshire, but any warm welcome they’re expecting in South Carolina is likely to feel more like a blowtorch in the face.