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What to Look for in Iowa and Beyond

Michael Barone has a thoughtful piece on the Iowa caucus in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal. He writes in “As Iowa Goes, So Goes Iowa” that the Iowa caucus often doesn’t decide who wins the primary, let alone the general election.

The Cheat Sheet, September 20

Obama likes Golf, round ball aka Basketball, and hanging out with the guys having a beer summit. Is there what one might call a jock mentality in the White House? Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White

Monday Roundup

– Lee Stranahan covers the liberal response to GibsonGate: Yes, one blogger wrote about it. One. And it’s a good post. Hits on the right points. Read it… The author says… I don’t know exactly what else Gibson could have

Do Profitable Senators Need Taxpayer Subsidies?

So. With yesterday’s farcical Senate theater, the brain-trust begs a very basic question: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who presided over the hearing [said] ‘Businesses should make a profit. That’s what drives our economy. But do these profitable

George Will: Glad To See Beck Go

This morning on Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated, “America’s Morning News,” George Will told co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes that he is happy to see Glenn Beck leave the Fox News Network. Will said that Beck’s “drift into more

George Will Glad to See Beck Go

This morning on Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated, “America’s Morning News,” George Will told co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes that he is happy to see Glenn Beck leave the Fox News Network. Will said that Beck’s “drift into more

The Ongoing Tragedy of the American Conservative

I greeted Ronald Reagan’s counter-revolutionary ascent to the White House while I was still a Liberal. An embarrassing confession, I know. However, Reagan himself had, at one time, been a Liberal himself. On June 5th, 2004, this editorial by Ronald

I Like Mike (Pence)

There’s been a lot of chatter about Mike Pence and a potential Presidential bid by him. From National Review to the Washington Examiner, to George Will to others at the Washington Post, even to Erick Erickson’s post on RedState, people

America's Foundational Creed: Anti-authority

George Will in today’s Washington Post: By the time Huntington’s book appeared, American had had four of what he called “periods of creedal passion” – the Revolutionary era (1770s), the Jacksonian era (the 1830s), the Progressive era (1900-20) and the

A Congress that Reasserts its Power

George Will in today’s Washington Post: Unlike most of the 111 that preceded it, the 112th Congress must begin the process of restoring the national regime and civic culture the Founders bequeathed. This will require reviving the rule of law,

Time to Junk TSA Administrator Pistole

The public reaction to the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) overreach and lack of even minimal sensitivity should stand as a lesson to those who believe the government always knows best and think Americans are a malleable bunch who will ultimately

America the Docile: T.S. of A Takes Control

George Will in today’s Washington Post: The theory – perhaps by now it seems like a quaint anachronism – on which the nation was founded is, or was: Government is instituted to protect preexisting natural rights essential to the pursuit

GOV2.0: Defining the Mandate

A good looking, fun loving guy sits down and writes a few blog posts about how to ensure the Republican Party wins both houses in a 2010 landslide, and beat Obama’s ass in 2012… he figures his job is done.

George Will Skewers Bill Maher

Anyone watching today’s installment of ABC’s morning news program This Week had to feel some measure of pity for out-spoken left wing elite Bill Maher making his first appearance on the show as a round table guest. The condescending comic

Dr. Ambinder Will See You Now, You Screaming Nutjobs

Marc Ambinder poses this question in his April 23 article in The Atlantic : “Have Conservatives Gone Mad? ” Ambinder lays blithe and, according to no less a source than himself, undeniable claim to the liberal journalism’s monopoly on political

The Health Care Controversy and Our European Future

It’s time for your weekly dose of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your home for conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition,

Fiscal Death by Welfare

Ironically enough, the medicine applied by our state as the antidote for our ills has proven to be poison. The welfare state is killing our nation. Today entitlement spending makes up nearly half of our budget. Long term, we know

Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call

On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries“: On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to