Fear the sweater vest! So much for Governor Mitch Daniels’ “truce” on social issues. Rick Santorum refused to raise the white flag on his principles and charged ahead. Tonight he celebrates a trifecta victory in Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado, all
Santorum: Not Much of an Opening for the Former Senator Several sources are predicting a Santorum surge in Missouri and Minnesota tonight, but there’s reason for pause before we order out the “Rick 2012” bumper stickers. Caucuses depend on two
After spurning Trump debate, Romney takes his endorsement Nevada, or, as I like to call it, “Snowfall,” may be poorly named after the blizzard of ads we’ve been seeing elsewhere in Florida, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Iowa; but beneath
Over at Minding the Campus, Contributor Charles C. Johnson has a post examining the full effect that Claremont McKenna’s cheating on the SATs will have on its students, its faculty, and its graduates. Claremont McKenna College, a private liberal arts
After dropping out of the G.O.P. presidential contest, Jon Huntsman Jr. quickly endorsed Mitt Romney. The Huntsman daughters, his attack dogs, filmed, but did not release, a savage anti-Romney mock interview that ABC4 obtained. Once Huntsman dropped out, the DNC
[youtube http://youtu.be/CCN5-ovvFL0] The House Ways & Means Committee hit Barack Obama on the third anniversary on Barack Obama’s promise to Matt Lauer that if he didn’t make “progress” on the economy, well, that would be that. “If I don’t have
Claremont McKenna College, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, has earned international infamy for fraudulently misreporting its SAT scores to game the U.S. News & World Report rankings. Richard Vos, dean of admissions since 1987, resigned in disgrace
Romney at the SLC Olympics Mitt Romney, in pledging to turn around the Olympics in 2002, had promised to restore the honor and integrity of the scandal-clouded Salt Lake City. The Games captured the world’s attention and became all the
It seems a foregone conclusion that Mitt Romney will win the Republican primary in Florida. This is good news for those of us that support Mitt Romney, as it means he will have won (or effectively tied) three Republican primaries
Today, The New York Times released a chart purporting to compare what the candidates made and gave away in 2010. This is a bit like comparing apples to oranges, because the New York Times, like a lot of liberals, compares
Tom Stemberg, the co-founder and former CEO of Staples, has been on the stump for Mitt Romney, telling Fox News last week that “[Romney] was the inspirational leader and while Staples may have existed without him, I doubt it would
According to a new book, The Real Romney, “one close aide privately called Romney’s Dukakis II,” comparing it to then-Governor Michael S. Dukakis’s plan to phase in near-universal coverage in Massachusetts. To help pass RomneyCare, Romney brought in Jonathan Gruber,
A new book, The Real Romney, by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, describes a slide show put on by Romney’s campaign team: One of the campaign’s chief concerns was that Romney would be tagged, as one slide put it, as
In his campaign for the presidency, Mitt Romney often touts his job creating record as the CEO of Bain Capital, a very successful private equity firm he left for politics in 1999. His critics, meanwhile, attack that record, saying that
Last week I wrote about Damon Corp. and Mitt Romney’s ties to a company that had committed one of the largest Medicare fines in Massachusetts history ($119 million) and how Rick Tyler of Newt Gingrich’s Super Pac was seeking to
It’s always the little things that make me miss George W. Bush. Yes, his public profligacy gave us Obama, which in turn gave us the Tea Party. New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s book, The Obamas, makes me love him
Earlier this week, Congressmen Allen West and Tim Scott, former congressman J. C. Watts, congressional hopeful Star Parker, and other prominent black conservatives held the Black Conservative Forum to discuss blacks and the Republican Party. The forum, broadcast by C-Span,
Earlier today the Mitt Romney campaign released a video of the 1994 debate he had with Ted Kennedy where a younger Mitt Romney argues against a government takeover of health care. But in April 12, 2006 at a Faneuil Hall
Last night President Obama renewed his calls for a so-called “middle class tax” cut that would all but kill Social Security: [youtube py4XoLj5plo] “Right now, our most immediate priority is stopping a tax hike on 160 million working Americans while
Hollywood has learned something effective about conservative women: If you play them convincingly enough to left-wing stereotypes, people will believe that the caricature is the real deal. We saw this with Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin where so many
“[Barack Obama] didn’t get it right,” says Harry V. Jaffa, professor emeritus of Claremont McKenna College, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and author of two influential books on Lincoln. Jaffa was referring to this quotation from President Obama. [youtube
Last night, at the State of the Union address, President Obama spoke of a recovery, but the evidence for such a recovery doesn’t really exist. The national unemployment is now 8.5% (December’s), its lowest level since January 2009, but while
A new book out about Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics (Lyons 2011), makes a startling revelation: in the 1990s, candidate Mitt Romney relied upon polling by the late Richard Wirthlin, a Mormon
Charles M. Blow, over at The New York Times, loves to allege that Republicans are racist, racist, racist. James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, accused Gingrich of practicing the Southern Strategy. The NAACP piled on. In Gingrich’s
President Barack Obama is continuing in the legacy of Woodrow Wilson tonight in making a spectacle of the State of the Union: all style, no substance. If news reports are accurate, tonight we hear more of the same. Again, Obama
