Plus, a message for the current President.

Earlier today, Governor Rick Perry visited Blogger Row at CPAC to chat with the group just before giving his speech to the general assembly — a well-received speech that shows that Perry has not lost the affection of conservative activists after a hard-fought but unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination.  In between his visit [...]

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Tipping point?

On January 23, two days after South Carolina, it was Mitt 29, Newt 28, with Santorum dead last behind Ron Paul at 11 percent. Seventeen days later: Mitt 36, Santorum 20, Gingrich 20, with Senator Sweater Vest having gained another three points overnight. Two Not Romneys enter, one Not Romney leaves. Or maybe two Not [...]

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Right to work, not to coast

Last year we brought you up to date with the efforts of the Goldwater Institute to fight union corruption and abuse of taxpayer dollars in Arizona. In what should serve as an inspiration to activists everywhere, their voices have been heard and the state government has opened up a series of legislative actions to remedy [...]

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Conscience.

ABC says Lieberman, Manchin, Casey, and both Nelsons (Bill and Ben) have headed for the lifeboats, but I think that count’s already outdated. According to Fox News’s Chad Pergram, John Kerry also thinks the new rule “needs to be compromised, adjusted.” If all six vote with the GOP caucus to either repeal the rule or [...]

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But will he apologize to Soccer?

Roland Martin, tweeted on Sunday, walked it back Monday, chastened on Tuesday, suspended on Wednesday… That’s the short version of recent events in the life of the CNN commentator and author of Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America. The tale begins on Super Bowl Sunday, when Martin tweeted: If a dude at your Super [...]

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Coattails

With the resignation of Gabby Giffords, a special election will be held in June to fill her seat for the rest of the current term. While nothing is settled yet, one person has stepped up to throw his hat in the ring, and it’s none other than one of Giffords’ aides who was also injured [...]

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Keep an eye out

I’m not sure who originally coined the phrase describing so called glitter bombs as the most fabulous form of protest, and I don’t particularly care. I do know that I looked at them as little more than a showboating annoyance by people hoping to score some camera time. Of course, Republicans seem to be the [...]

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Of the budget and ... the contraception mandate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today suggested Democrats’ unwillingness to pass a budget will reflect poorly on them — unless Republicans allow Democrats to draw them into another projected battle to reduce the deficit like the standoff that consumed Congress last summer. Realistically, McConnell said, the discretionary spending levels that were negotiated during the debt [...]

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You've "worked that pedal on the organ" quite enough

We can’t let the entire day slip away without one seriously unpopular opinion, so let’s check in with columnist George Will. In his latest offering, he cautions that forty years of “a presumption of superiority” on the part of the Republican Party may be coming to an end if we’re not careful. This deals not [...]

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"What happens if we decide we don't want to be the greatest country in the world?"

In a characteristically compelling speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Marco Rubio framed the November 2012 election is sweeping terms: The choice voters will face this fall, he said, will be whether America will remain a great nation or whether it will recede into the background. “The most powerful thing about our nation is [...]

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"Advance and protect"

While seeing the US Chamber of Commerce getting actively involved in the battle to elect pro-business candidates to the House and Senate is nothing new, it is quite unusual to see them jumping into the race this early and this hard. The Chamber announced this week that they have produced television ads to be used [...]

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That was fast

Last month we discussed the rather alarming news that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was planning a trip to China to discuss possible natural resources deals with the economic superpower. It seemed no coincidence that the trip was announced close on the heels of Barack Obama’s decision to kick the can down the road on [...]

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Committed or convenient? Or both?

Jay Cost did a little mythbusting Monday regarding conservative support for Mitt Romney: The conventional wisdom is that conservatives are dissatisfied with Romney, whose electoral coalition is comprised mostly of moderates and even liberal voters. That might be true of conservative media elites, but the broader electorate of conservatives have been much more amenable to [...]

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The fine print

Watching the news coming out of Mississippi this week, I’m starting to feel slightly prescient. Back when the news had just broken about outgoing Governor Haley Barbour’s decision to issue a huge number of pardons, I penned a column on the subject which included my having taken a quick look at the state constitution and [...]

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"Rick went to Washington and he never came back"

Don’t think that Mitt Romney didn’t notice the Rick Santorum hat trick on Tuesday, despite his protestations that those races didn’t amount to much anyway. His team seems to have executed a ballet like pivot in only 24 hours, abandoning his attacks on Newt Gingrich and training his sights on the former Pennsylvania Senator. For [...]

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Plus, a Rust Belt Revolution?

Unions and Democrats — but I repeat myself — insist that they need to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker because of his arrogance and unreasonable approach to governing in shoving public-employee union reforms through the legislature after, er, campaigning in part on the issue.  How reasonable are unions and Democrats prepared to be if they [...]

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Plus a sneak peek at his new book and his CPAC speech.

Yesterday I had the chance to spend some time with Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the conservative stalwart who has spent the last several years trying to fight off attempts from members of both parties to impose a ruinous cap-and-trade system to control energy production and usage in the US.   He now has a book coming [...]

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Darn tooting.

Barack Obama has had a busy couple of weeks as a preacher man.  He started off by assuring us that he was channeling Jesus Christ by demanding that we render more unto Caesar.  Now the question has become … who would Jesus abort? As Kathryn Jean Lopez reports, though, it’s not exactly a new question.  [...]

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The conservative choice.

“After the returns came in, I asked Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley what he thought about Rich Beeson’s message. Sure, Santorum did well on Tuesday, but doesn’t Romney have the money and infrastructure to outdistance Santorum, and everyone else, in the long run? “‘What an inspiring message,’ Gidley said sarcastically. ‘That is really inspiring. I can’t [...]

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Intervention.

I don’t usually draft posts in advance but tonight I’m going to get cracking on the inevitable “New Syrian government dominated by Sunni fanatics” post. It may not run for another year or two, but it’ll run. Will The One try to get congressional approval for this, I wonder, or will he “wing it” like [...]

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Plus: Democrats Tim Kaine, Bob Casey break with Obama over contraception ruling.

But … what about the big climbdown? Ah well. Maybe he took a second look at what Planned Parenthood did to Komen and thought better of it. Even the man who leads the greatest army in the world needs to know when he’s outgunned. Besides, how many divisions does the Pope have? President Obama “reinforced” [...]

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Boost.

His three wins yesterday were bound to give his fundraising numbers a boost today — but Rick Santorum says a steady stream of dollars started to pour in even before his polling numbers began to rise. “We’ve had a great 24 hours,” Santorum told CBS News in an interview. “My guess is we’ve raised—I haven’t [...]

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Brilliant.

Ouch. If you ask me, this poll is not so much an indictment of South Carolinians as it is an indictment of Joe Biden — but it doesn’t reflect well on either. According to The Daily Caller, a survey released today by Winthrop University showed that 29.3 percent of adults polled in the Palmetto State [...]

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Spin.

Yeah, that’s it. Voters in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota really want Romney as their nominee, which is why many of them had no motivation to go to the polls at all and those who did venture out to make their voices heard threw their support to … Rick Santorum! Gotta love this establishment spin: “I [...]

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Deep freeze

If you already put your beachfront property up for sale in anticipation of it being underwater soon due to global warming, you may want to hold off on taking bids. Why? Some more odd bits of climate data are acting in a pesky fashion and refusing to go along with the settled science. Nearly 230 [...]

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