Tomorrow, at around 10:30am EDT, the Democrat-left-media complex will launch the most aggressive and sustained attack on the institution of the Supreme Court in the history of our Republic. When the Court throws out at least some portion of ObamaCare
The “death” of the tea party has been greatly exaggerated. Five-term Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) was defeated last night by Jim Bridenstine, a conservative with strong support from local tea party activists. It was the first time in 18 years
PPP, a democrat-leaning polling firm, is out today with a new poll of Ohio, a critical battleground this Fall. The top-line number getting the most attention is Obama’s erosion of support over the past month. A month ago, Obama led
One of my all-time favorite Onion headlines was “Gay Rights Parade Sets Back Gay Rights.” Most Americans simply don’t care whether Bob finds Joe attractive or Julia wants to date Cindy. Whether its genetic or a choice is of almost
To get a sense of John Boehner’s dilemma throughout the Fast & Furious investigation, one needs to look back to the days of the Clinton impeachment. Boehner had a front-row seat as then-Speaker Newt Gingrich aggressively led his caucus to
Initial jobless claims were just reported. After last week’s jump in claims, economists had expected 383k to file first-time claims for unemployment benefits. The actual number was slightly higher; 387k filed claims. Last weeks report of 386K filing claims (which
When they first rammed ObamaCare through Congress, Democrats predicted that Americans would come to love the new law over time. Nancy Pelosi explained that Congress simply needed to pass the law so we could find out what’s in it. David
Last year, Nancy Pelosi told ABC News that the Democrats had a “very good chance” to win back the House in this Fall’s election. I didn’t really pay much attention to it at the time (it was right in the
One of my first jobs in politics–decades ago–was to analyze the “undervote” in uncontested primaries. An undervote happens when a voter fails to register a vote in a particular primary contest when there is only one candidate on the ballot.
Speaker John Boehner has long been a champion of school choice. The policy allows children to escape failing schools by letting them take a portion of the money government spends on their education and direct it to a school of
To get a sense of the state of on-line political world today, consider this: RightOnline, the annual gathering of conservative and libertarian bloggers and activists met this weekend in Las Vegas, the biggest city in the swingiest of swing states,
Don’t believe what a campaign says. Believe what a campaign does. Specifically, its schedule and how it allocates its candidate’s time. The most precious resource in any political campaign is that, the candidate’s time. It is fixed, finite. There are
Despite the gloomy economic news, the Left has been very confident about Obama’s reelection chances. To many on the outer edges of the blog and twitter-spheres, the campaign was merely a formality. Obama, they argued, had a “blue wall” of
Each day seems to bring a new round of bad polling news for Obama. Especially considering that most of these polls are still using a registered, not likely, voter screen. Polls of registered voters generally give Democrat candidates a boost
Read “obvious” as more of a sigh. This is not your grandparents’ Democrat party. That party had a proud tradition of opposing the consolidation of power, in both the boardroom and government offices. Today, though, the party is too eager
Obama’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week just got a little worse. This morning, the Obama campaign announced that it and the DNC had raised a whopping $60 million in May, outpacing their disappointing numbers in April. Hours later, though,
Last night, while Scott Walker was expanding his 2010 margin of victory, voters in California signaled what may be the death knell for public sector unions and their platinum benefits packages. Voters in San Diego and San Jose overwhelmingly approved
Last night, New Jersey Democrats voted in that state’s primary, featuring one of the highest-profile member-on-member primaries in the country. Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman were forced to run against each other as a result of the state’s redistricting.
Scott Walker’s win tonight was a resounding victory for political courage and government reform. After more than a year of vitriolic attacks and tens of millions of dollars from union member paychecks, Walker and his GOP allies survived everything unions
Developing… In the video below a GOP election observer, i.e. poll watcher, explains how she was ejected from a precinct in Madison, WI this afternoon. The local precinct official wanted the observer to move far away from the table where
As the recall of Governor Scott Walker slips out of their grasp, unions and Democrats are crowing about their chances to flip one of the four state Senate seats also on the ballot today and seize control of the Wisconsin
In 1975, Congress created the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to provide a vehicle for state legislatures to jointly lobby Congress. Ideally, it could serve as a bulwark against further federal encroachment on state government. Like any organization that
Despite a recent poll showing independents souring on Warren over her claims of Native American ancestry, Massachusetts Democrats yesterday rallied around their beleaguered candidate, turning back a potential primary opponent, and setting up a November match-up with Sen. Scott Brown.
