Open Borders, Closed Debate
New York, N.Y.–If you read the New York Times on Tuesday, the only story at the platform hearings was that Republicans for Choice and the Log Cabin Republicans had trouble ...
No Dollar Left Behind
JAVITS CENTER, NEW YORK–As recently as 1996, the Republican-party platform called for the abolition of the Department of Education as an unconstitutional, heavy-handed, and ineffective entity. Eight years later, things ...
Silence On The Bench
Boston, Mass.–From the podium, Democrats don’t spend too much time talking about the U.S. Supreme Court. Sure, Al Gore threw some barbs their way, but that is to be expected: ...
City of Brotherly Hate
FENWAY PARK, BOSTONThe ball exploded off of Bill Mueller’s bat on a line drive towards me in the right-field bleachers. The Fenway Park crowd, already on its feet, immediately raised ...
Santorum Beats Conservatives
FOGELSVILLE, PA.–Pat Toomey’s campaign was a model of hard work and honesty, but he ended it with a lie. In his concession speech before a tearful crowd in the Holiday ...
An Awful Specter
Tomorrow, Pennsylvania voters will have an opportunity to save the conservative movement from what could be its largest obstacle over the next six years: a fifth term for Arlen Specter.
It ...
“We Remember Our Friends”
In July of 1996, union boss Ron Carey, whose election as head of the Teamsters would soon be thrown out by the courts as corrupt, met with Arlen Specter and ...
Some Senate Math
Conservatives are fed many bad reasons to support Sen. Arlen Specter over Rep. Pat Toomey in next Tuesday’s Pennsylvania Republican primary. Among them are that a Specter nomination helps make ...
The Northeastern Liberal
The folks at Republican National Committee’s research department work pretty hard. They have reams and reams of dirt on the Democratic candidates, including the nominee-apparent John Kerry. One particularly ghoulish ...
No Self-Awareness
Democratic boss Terry McAuliffe apparently thought GOP honcho Ed Gillespie was overreacting to an ad submission that directly and uncreatively compared our President to Adolf Hitler.
So, yesterday, in response to ...