Betsy Woodruff
Betsy Woodruff is a current National Review Institute William F. Buckley Journalism Fellow.
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Well, there it is: As the Washington Times reported a few minutes before the official announcement, Rand Paul has won the 2014 CPAC straw poll. It’s not a huge surprise — since 2010, Mitt Romney is the only winner whose last name ... -
Carson: 'I Will Continue to Defy the PC Police'
Ben Carson’s CPAC speech today was catnip for his fans. The retired neurosurgeon and Fox News contributor fired up the standing-room-only crowd with a fiery discourse on the dangers of political correctness and the importance of restoring conservative prominence ... -
Ben Carson 2016 Supporters Clamor At CPAC
When Ben Carson speaks at CPAC on Saturday, hundreds of “Run, Ben, Run” banners could theoretically be unfurled. That’s because The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee super PAC has a solid presence. They had pictures of the ... -
Priebus: March for Life a Wake-Up Call for GOP
RNC chair Reince Priebus sat down with a group of conservative journalists and bloggers this afternoon at CPAC, and he had some interesting things to say about the RNC’s experience with March for Life. The march coincided with the ... -
At CPAC, Ted Cruz Is the Most Popular Guy in the Room
Ted Cruz is running late. In a quickly crowding hallway in the middle of the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., a yellow-shirted CPAC volunteer is trying to keep control of a metastasizing line of conference ... -
Warren Buffett Gives Millions to Pay for Abortions
Millions of dollars from the fortune of legendary investor Warren Buffett are going to pay for abortions, according to documents from Buffett’s charitable organization and abortion-providing groups. Buffet, whose preternatural investing success has made him the fourth richest person ... -
Senate Republicans Mum on Arizona Religious-Freedom Bill
With the exception of Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.), Senate Republicans who spoke with NRO today were hesitant to comment on Arizona’s controversial bill that critics say legalizes discrimination against gay people. Jeff Flake and John McCain, the state’... -
Brownback 2016? Norquist Bets On Kansas Gov
Sam Brownback might not be a household name yet, but Grover Norquist says that’s going to change in 2015. The Kansas governor, who ran a short presidential bid in 2008 and served in the Senate for a decade and a half, ... -
Gohmert: Chamber 'Cut Off Their Nose to Spite Their Face'
Louie Gohmert, the Texas tea-party congressman once dubbed the Third Hottest Conservative Supermen in the Political World, is starting a super PAC to defend House conservatives against attacks from “mainstream Republican PACs,” according to Patrick Howley of the Daily Caller. ... -
Cruz-Autographed Copy of Green Eggs and Ham Sells for $1,000
Beaumont, Tx. — Ted Cruz seems like a good person to know. He brought in nearly $3,000 for a county party last night just by signing a few books. The senator spoke at the Bexar County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner ... -
Miley Cyrus Has Mock Sex with Man in Bill Clinton Mask
Here’s something that’s maybe a little more surprising than it should be: On the first night of her Bangerz tour, Miley Cyrus simulated performing oral sex on a back-up dancer wearing a rumpled suit and Bill Clinton mask. ... -
Priebus on a Tale of Two Parties
It’s an interesting time to be Reince Priebus. The RNC chairman has the tricky task of beefing up the GOP’s data and ground games in time for the 2014 midterms while keeping an eye on Hillary Clinton, 2016, and the ... -
Romney: Russia Is Spending Too Much on Sochi
On Meet the Press, Mitt Romney tore into the Russian government for spending $50 billion to host the Sochi games, discussing his USA Today op-ed on the issue. “Olympic sport can be demonstrated at $2 or $3 billion dollars,” he said, “and all ... -
Outsports.com Co-Founder on Michael Sam: Media Has Brought Struggle To The Story
In a departure from Beltway politics, This Week aired a segment today on University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, an NFL prospect who recently came out. The move inspired much discussion in the last week about whether or not ... -
7 Members of Congress With Surprisingly Low Heritage Action Scores
During the government shutdown, Heritage Action infuriated House Republican leaders for counting votes to fund the Affordable Care Act against members of Congress. Much of Heritage Action’s clout among Congressional Republicans stems from its scorecard based on legislators’ votes. ... -
After Debt-Ceiling Vote, NRSC Event Gives McConnell Hero’s Welcome
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell will inevitably take a beating from his primary opponent for his vote yesterday for cloture on the debt-ceiling hike. But among many of his Capitol Hill colleagues and peers, he’s seen as a hero. ... -
Behind Closed Doors, a Messy Fight over the Debt-Ceiling Hike
Today’s vote in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling presented Republicans with a serious political conundrum. GOP sources tell NRO that in the party’s Steering Committee lunch this afternoon, there was a discussion about whether to give ... -
Dems: What's This New IRS Rule?
NRO spoke with a number of Senate Democrats before their caucus lunch today and, with a few exceptions, most were uninterested in opining on the proposed IRS rule changes to limit political activity of 501(c)(4) groups, which have angered many ... -
Lee Pitches Higher-Ed Reform
Senator Mike Lee is expanding his brand. The outspoken conservative Utahn, who made myriad headlines during the government shut down for his opposition to Obamacare, has been pushing for a legislative agenda touching on a host of issues that aren’... -
GOP Rep: Duct Tape Candidates' Mouths
At Heritage Action event today, Republican representative Phil Roe suggested the party can’t go too far to keep its candidates from making career-ending gaffes. “I suggest when we nominate people,” the Tennessee congressman said, “we give ’em a roll ... -
Bevin Facebook Post: 'Enjoying Time with the John Birch Society in Union, Ky.'
A post on Kentucky Senate candidate Matt Bevin’s Facebook page last September shows the candidate sitting in a sunny room with a group of people, with the caption reading: “Enjoying time with the John Birch Society in Union, Ky.” ... -
Heading Right in Nevada
Ron Paul is not the president. He was never going to be the president. He was never even going to be the Republican party’s 2008 nominee for president. This is not disputed. But it’s also true that his perennial ... -
#RichKids of Beverly Hills
We should not be surprised by #RichKids of Beverly Hills. It was completely inevitable. If anything, we should be surprised that it didn’t happen a long time ago. The existence of this reality show tells us everything we need ... -
Abortion Funds Go National
Think of them as the crisis-pregnancy centers of the pro-choice movement. In 2013, new state laws tightening regulations on abortion clinics had an unexpected consequence: They spurred the growth of “abortion funds,” nonprofits dedicated to helping pregnant women pay for abortions. ... -
Duck Dynasty Star 'Excited to Meet Ruth's Chris'
Willie “Boss Hog” Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame probably disappointed a few political reporters tonight. He was as even-keeled as last year’s star guest, Ted Nugent, was bombastic. NRO caught up with the reality star as he and the ... -
Bitcoin at the Beast
I’ve got a piece over at the Daily Beast today on the arrest of Bitcoin pioneer Charlie Shrem. It’s the kind of crime story that feels more Blade Runner than anything else — online drug rings, multi-millionaire celebrity investors, ... -
Democratic Fundraising E-mails Worry of Republican Victories
If e-mails from the Democrats’ campaign committees are to be taken seriously, Republicans are in pretty fantastic shape for 2014. E-mail blasts sent by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee over the last few weeks — ingenuous ... -
Thoughtless Thought Catalog
There are upwards of 600 million websites on the Internet, and none are as aptly named as Thought Catalog. The site, which shows up in Internet news every few months or so for running something singularly inane — I’ll get to ... -
Dems Will Head to the St. Regis for Issues Conference
In less than two months, Democrats will head to the St. Regis, a hotel that might be even swankier than it sounds, for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s New York Issues Conference. Though a request for more information on ... -
No Labels, No Content
No Labels: A Shared Vision for a Stronger America is an odd little e-book. Clocking in at just over 100 pages, it’s the kind of thing you can read on a slow afternoon. But I struggle to figure out who ... -
Bipartisan Prison Reform
For the past ten years, a small group of influential conservative leaders has been getting together occasionally after one of Grover Norquist’s famous off-the-record Wednesday Meetings to plot the Right’s strategy on a tricky, politically fraught issue. Not ... -
Giuliani: 'I Can See This Working Out to Chris's Favor'
On Meet the Press, Rudy Giuliani told David Gregory that the bridge scandal could end up burnishing New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s 2016 prospects. “The fact is, things go wrong, things will go wrong if he or Hillary Clinton become ... -
House Intel Chairman: Snowden 'In the Loving Arms of an FSB Agent'
Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, doubled down on his theory that Edward Snowden was in cahoots with a hostile foreign government when he leaked the NSA files. Appearing on Face the Nation, he told host Bob ... -
Lena Dunham’s Body-Image Problem
Imagine me clearing my throat. Okay, here goes: If there’s one thing in the world we’re not remotely in danger of talking about too little, it’s Lena Dunham’s body. We have these big national discussions about ... -
Cruz: Rep. Sessions's Primary Challenger Is 'Utterly Fearless'
It’s not an endorsement, but still: Senator Ted Cruz said Representative Pete Sessions’s primary challenger, Katrina Pierson, is “an utterly fearless principled conservative.” That’s per Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News, who adds that the senator ... -
Marijuana Group Rips into Cuomo’s Medical-Marijuana Plan
A prominent group in favor of marijuana legalization has torn into the medical-marijuana proposal that Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to lay out today in his state-of-the-state Address. Marijuana Policy Project director of state policies Karen O’Keefe ripped his ... -
Comstock to Run for Wolf's Seat in Va.
Barbara Comstock will announce a congressional bid early next week, a source close to her campaign tells National Review Online. She’ll enter the race for retiring Republican representative Frank Wolf’s seat in Northern Virginia. It’s expected to ... -
Christmas Gifts for People Who Pay More Attention to Politics than Might Be Good for Them
So maybe it’s a little late. But it’s always the perfect time to start thinking about what to buy the would-be Karl Rove/Davd Axelrod/Todd Palin in your life. Here’s some inspiration. You’re welcome in ... -
Cancel All Reality-TV Shows
If you’d kept a curious but unattentive eye on social (and national) media for the past few days, you’d think some grievous, enormous, inconceivable terror had descended on our country. You’d think Americans had finally, for the ... -
Healthcare Association: Enroll America Stat 'Highly Inflated'
Enroll America, an organization pushing for Americans to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act, is — per a health-care source — using a “highly inflated” statistic to encourage enrollment. The website for Get Covered, a nonprofit campaign of ... -
Hungry for a Cause
Earlier this week I fasted for a day, and it was just the worst. Before I launch into this, though, one thing really quick: I have no opinion I care to share on comprehensive immigration reform. If you are interested ... -
RNC Trolls Vulnerable Dems with 'Lie of the Year' Award
A handful of Democratic Hill offices received unpleasant awards this morning. In a victory lap of sorts, staffers from the RNC made the rounds in House and Senate office buildings to deliver Lie of the Year trophies to the offices ... -
Republican Senators Weigh In on Ryan-Murray
Despite receiving a large majority in the House, the Ryan-Murray budget deal continues to receive poor marks from Republican senators, including from some senators known for their desire to strike bipartisan fiscal deals in the past. Senator Bob Corker of ... -
Tea-Party Trouble for Stockman
So Steve Stockman is running for Senate. It’s all over Twitter, it might be all over Facebook depending on what kind of friends you have, and it’s the talk of this town (if you know what I mean). ... -
Senators to Release Bipartisan Proposal for New Iran Sanctions
A bipartisan group of senators working to craft a proposal threatening new sanctions on Iran is poised to release the details of their plan either tonight or tomorrow morning, per a Senate aide familiar with the negotiations. The aide says ... -
Former Secretary of State: Reagan Regretted Apartheid Veto
Former secretary of state James Baker told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation this morning that Reagan probably regretted his veto of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act. “Certainly he regretted it,” Baker said. “On the other hand, once that happened and ... -
Angelou: 'It Amazes Me That There Are People Who Actually Go to South Africa for Vacation'
On Face the Nation this morning, poet Maya Angelou marveled at the transformational role Nelson Mandela played in South Africa. “It amazes me that today, there are people who actually go to South Africa for vacation,” she said, laughing. “That ... -
Cannabinoids on Steroids
The organizers of this summer’s Hempfest in Seattle had to ban something that you might not expect to be a common item at a marijuana-themed festival: blowtorches. And despite that effort, people still showed up with them. Blowtorches are ... -
Making Noise in the House
In another life, Ted Yoho castrated lions. Now that he’s in Congress, he doesn’t do that as much anymore. But before the Floridian beat an incumbent twelve-term Republican, won the general election, and made headlines in Washington for ... -
Wendy Davis Praises Abortion Charity Telethon That Auctioned 'Vag Napkin'
An online telethon last night where comedian Sarah Silverman auctioned off a “vag napkin,” or used sanitary napkin, drew praise from Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis. She tweeted this in support of the event: Thank you for standing for women’...
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Benji Backer and the Pressure to Be Precocious
Benji Backer has a lot of feelings about Jonathan Krohn. That’s because Backer, 16, of Appleton, Wis., is (as far as I can tell) the youngest person to speak at CPAC since Krohn, then 13 and now 19, spoke on a panel ... -
Ben Carson 2016 Advocates Don't Expect Announcement Today
The head of an activist group hoping for a Ben Carson 2016 presidential bid downplayed supporters’ hopes that Carson might announce his candidacy at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday. Vernon Robinson, campaign manager for the National Draft Ben Carson For ... -
Stockman: ‘We’re Going To Run Again’
Steve Stockman, the Texas congressman who launched a long-shot primary challenge against Senator John Cornyn, told NRO this morning that he plans to run for office again. His decision to enter the Senate primary precluded his bid for reelection to ... -
Conservative Tunes Come To CPAC
Chip Murray of Warwick, N.Y., sports a baseball cap with a “Stop Common Core” button pinned to it and a black T-shirt with a Joan of Arc quote, and at CPAC he is a rock star. BigDawg Music Radio (... -
Tim Scott: Trey Gowdy for the Supreme Court
Trey Gowdy is a busy guy, and an up-and-coming senator says he should be on the Supreme Court. Over the past year or so, Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican congressman, has drawn substantial national attention, winning adulation from Tea Party ... -
A Bad Week for Bitcoin? Yes and No
Well, it’s been a bad week for bitcoin. First, Mt. Gox, the world’s largest and most prominent bitcoin exchange, indicated that millions of dollars’ worth of the cryptocurrency had been stolen — and then it filed for bankruptcy today. ... -
Reps Get No Response from Leadership on Immigration Numbers
About two weeks ago, Representatives Walter Jones (R., N.C.) and Mo Brooks (R., Ala.), both skeptics of immigration reform, wrote a letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) and House leadership asking a series of questions ... -
Ted Cruz, Oil Man
Houston — “This is oil country, baby!” It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon in Beaumont, Texas, an hour and change east of Houston, near the Gulf Coast, and about 40 people are gathered in a square surrounded by the old-timey buildings ... -
Cruz Won’t Say Whether He Would Vote for McConnell
Yesterday in Beaumont, Texas, Senator Ted Cruz gave a wide-ranging speech on his American Energy Renaissance Act. And afterward, he spoke with NRO about his relationships on the Hill, his frustration with how Senate Republican Leadership handled the debt-ceiling hike, ... -
House of Cards’ Most Fiendish Plot of All
The dark forces behind House of Cards hate us. They are contemptuous, vengeful, and premeditating. They view us with scorn. They want us to suffer. But the evil doesn’t come in the form of political scandal or backstabbing. Instead ... -
Cantor in VMI National-Security Address: 'No One Has Been Brought to Justice' for Benghazi
In a major speech today at the Virginia Military Institute that wasn’t short on criticism, House majority leader Eric Cantor laid out foreign-policy goals for the Republican party and made a surgical critique of much of President Obama’s ... -
Bill Nye: Big Oil To Blame For Climate-Change Skepticism
This morning, Meet the Press hosted a discussion about climate change between Bill Nye of “Bill Nye the Science Guy” fame and Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican. During their conversation, Nye argued that Big Oil is responsible for doubt ... -
House of Cards Star: ‘Our Story Lines Are Not That Crazy’
If you stopped binge-watching Season 2 of House of Cards long enough to turn on the Sunday shows this morning, you might have caught series star Kevin Spacey making a case for the show’s often-astonishing plot twists. “We can get ... -
Nation Editor: With Cruz, Delusional Is No Longer Marginal
The morning’s panel on ABC’s This Week didn’t have much love for Senator Ted Cruz. In a discussion of the fight over last week’s debt-ceiling hike — read some of NR’s reporting on it here and ... -
122 House Republicans Co-Sponsor Bill to Set Security Standards for HealthCare.gov, Other Fed Websites
More than half the Republicans in the House have co-sponsored legislation designed to protect users of federal websites from hacking and identity theft. It’s in response to security concerns about everyone’s favorite federally run website, HealthCare.gov, and ... -
Reagan Alumnus Blasts Bevin's TARP Defense
A Politico story about Kentucky Senate candidate Matt Bevin’s past support for the 2008 Wall Street bailouts has drawn a broad variety of responses. (Bevin is challenging Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who voted for the 2008 program, called TARP.) On ... -
Manchin: Just Delay the Whole Law till 2015
As he was headed to the Democratic caucus lunch yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin had strong words about the president’s extension of the employer mandate deadline. “You’re just picking and choosing,” the West Virginia Democrat said of the administration’... -
With Iowa Trip, Cruz Courts Homeschoolers
Senator Ted Cruz’s trip to Iowa next month is part of a broader effort to reach out to the homeschool community. The senator has long had support from homeschoolers in Texas, and he’s now working to strengthen ties ... -
Cruz: Greenpeace Activists Should Support Keystone
It’s a tough sell, but you can’t fault him for trying. In a speech on energy policy at Heritage Action’s Conservative Policy Summit today, Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republican freshman from Texas, said environmentalists should be enthusiastic ... -
Roberts: NYT Residency Story Is Wrong
Kansas senator Pat Roberts hit back today at a New York Times story questioning whether the senator has a residence in his home state. “We had an interview with Jonathan Martin where we discussed the senator’s residency, and what ... -
House Republicans Eye Sex-Trafficking Legislation
If you prefer your Super Bowl without a side of sex trafficking, you’ve got company in Congress. An aide from Representative Randy Hultgren (R., Ill.) tells NRO he plans to have legislation drafted within a few weeks highlighting a ... -
Apparently Your Pets Want You to Get Obamacare
If you like having terrible songs stuck in your head for hours, then you’ll love the new Enroll America video. The ad was posted on YouTube this morning and features singing pets encouraging people to sign up for health ... -
Republican Senators Praise House Immigration Efforts
Some of the Republican Senators who supported the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration-reform bill seem pleased with House leadership’s tone on the issue. When I asked Senator Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) what he made of the House’s progress ... -
Gohmert on Obama: ‘My Heart Breaks for Him’
Representative Louie Gohmert, an outspoken Texas Republican, tells NRO President Obama’s address tonight broke his heart. “It was, uh, interesting,” he says of the speech, adding that everyone wants Americans to do better but that “the distance between the ... -
Cotton on SOTU Iran Comments: ‘Naive and Delusional’
Representative Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican challenging Senator Mark Pryor, wasn’t impressed with the president’s promise to veto an Iran sanctions bill in the Senate. His take on the president’s comments? “Naive and delusional.” “He is deluding ... -
Macklemore’s Not the Best Rap Album
Besides the obvious — the Fourth of July, the Super Bowl, whatever nonsense we’re collectively celebrating during the entire month of December, etc., etc. — nothing unites Americans like getting upset about awards shows. I don’t think I’ve ever ... -
Heritage Action Aims To Prod House Leadership with Summit
With the first event of its kind, Heritage Action will seek to prod congressional leadership through an early-February policy summit. The day-long event, called “The 2014 Conservative Policy Summit: An Agenda to Unite America,” will come a week after the House ... -
Sally Kohn, Populist Progressive
Sally Kohn will never be conservatives’ favorite Democrat. The Fox News alumna — and, according to a report from TV Newser, newly minted CNN contributor — is progressive enough to work for Roger Ailes’s network without anyone ever questioning her liberal ... -
Deep Thoughts, by Charlie Crist
Fun Quiz: From which piece of literature is the following sentence? “‘I know how hard this is for you,’ the new president of the United States said to me.” A) American Assassin, by Vince Flynn B) Debt of Honor, by ... -
Dem Congressional Candidate Either Has an Impersonator or His Campaign Lied about Devastating Anti-Obamacare Quote
Something funny seems to be going on in a Michigan congressional race. Either a Democratic candidate with national-party backing, challenging Republican incumbent Dan Benishek, has an impersonator with access to his cell phone, or his campaign is pressuring a local ... -
Feinstein: 'I Think a Lot of the Privacy People Don't Understand That We Still Occupy the Role of the Great Satan'
Dianne Feinstein decried NSA critics on Meet the Press on Sunday morning, saying the government is much less intrusive than corporations and that privacy advocates don’t understand the extent of the threat that terrorism poses to the United States. “... -
Putin: Homosexuality Is a Felony in Some Parts of America
Vladimir Putin seems a little confused about law in America. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, the Russian president defended his country’s controversial anti-gay law by arguing that homosexuality is a illegal in some ... -
Snowden at Sochi? Putin: 'Everyone Is Invited'
Can we expect to see shots of Edward Snowden, America’s most famous expat, in the bleachers during the Sochi Winter Olympics? In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, Vladimir Putin said there’s no reason ... -
Pryor’s Secret
Good luck getting Mark Pryor to talk to you about abortion. And I’m not being sarcastic. Seriously, please try to get him to talk to you about it, and I wish you luck. The Arkansas senator is probably 2014’s ... -
Progressive Budget Vote Could Haunt Vulnerable Dems
Three House Democrats could lose their seats in 2014 thanks to taking a politically fraught vote that basically wrote the NRCC’s playbook. At issue is the House Progressive Caucus’s budget, a proposal that gets a vote every year, but ... -
Eric Cantor’s Challenger from the Right
Add another to the lengthy list of contests between powerful Republican incumbents and Washington far-outsiders: An economics professor from Henrico, Va., Dave Brat, will announce his entry into the race for Eric Cantor’s House seat on January 9. He has ... -
Altcoin Investment for Dummies
If you’ve got a New Year’s resolution related at all to wealth, boy oh boy do I have news for you. This is it: Deep in the bowels of the Internet are unplumbed riches, additional cities of Cibola, ... -
Keeping Virginia Purple
After a bruising election cycle, conservative activists in Virginia are licking their wounds and plotting their next moves. It’s a collective dark night of the soul, and it doesn’t show signs of lifting anytime soon. But one thing ... -
Change.org Users Love Duck Dynasty
Users of Change.org — a site famous for progresive-leaning online petitions — has gone all out for Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson. By 2 p.m. today, there were more than 120,000 total signatories on a host of petitions calling for A&E ... -
Fast Times
I didn’t eat anything this Tuesday so I could write this piece on the immigration-reform fast movement. You should read my piece, if anything, so I feel better about spending Tuesday being grumpy and miserable. -
Obenshain Concedes Virginia AG Race
It’s a rough day for Old Dominion Republicans. Early in the afternoon, reports started trickling in about what many had suspected: The November elections ended in the worst-case scenario, and Democrat Mark Herring had beaten his Republican state-senate colleague ... -
Johnson: Flight with Ryan Helped Him Decide to Support Deal
After voting in favor of cloture on the Ryan-Murray budget deal, Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) told reporters that Representative Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) spent much of a shared flight back to Wisconsin on Friday talking with him about the ... -
House Conservatives: Ryan-Murray Deal Isn’t Designed To Get Our Vote
At a monthly meeting sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, conservative congressmen vented their spleen about the Ryan-Murray budget deal. Though the distaste wasn’t universal — Representative Vicky Hartzler (R., Mo.) said she would support it — it was certainly intense. Representatives ... -
Stockman Will Primary Cornyn
At the very last minute, Representative Steve Stockman filed today to run challenge Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas in the 2014 elections. Stockman, a darling of the grassroots with a penchant for controversial Twitter statements and headline-grabbing comments, is a ... -
Kay: Making Obamacare Work May Be the Only Thing Obama Can Do
On Meet the Press this morning, BBC’s Katty Kay argued that the president might not be able to do anything in his final years in office besides implementing the Affordable Care Act. “It may be all he gets done ... -
Sharpton: 'It's Not Like They Were Born Marxists'
On Meet The Press this morning, Al Sharpton discussed Nelson Mandela’s support from Communist nations and said it’s a “betrayal of history” to suggest the United States always supported his efforts to end apartheid. “Let’s remember, the ... -
Seeing the Light
The Christmas Candle, Rick Santorum’s movie about a Christmas candle, is very nice. It’s nice in every sense of the word. There’s not a lot else to say about it. I was really, really tempted to just ... -
Atheist Group Blasts Pryor: 'Theocrats Are Dangerous'
Senator Mark Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat facing one of the toughest reelection races in 2014, isn’t just in Republicans’ crosshairs. He released an ad this week calling the Bible his “North Star” and saying it gives him “guidance to do ... -
The Death of Star Wars
It must be said: In October 2012, Star Wars fans felt a great disturbance in the Force. Disney — no need to explain why this is gobsmackingly horrible — announced that it was going to insult the collective intelligence, sensibility, and good taste ... -
Some D.C. Exchange Plans Cover Elective Abortion but Not Hearing Aids
Multiple individual plans available on the D.C. health-insurance exchange specifically cover elective abortion but not hearing aids, routine foot-care, and routine eye-care. One such plan, Healthy Blue PPO $1500, has a summary on the D.C. exchange’s website titled “...