Fraser Nelson
We’ve named Calvin Coolidge our Man of the Year! I hear you, I hear you… there’s something odd about recognizing a man who died eight decades ago as the most influential person of year. And 2013 does, after all, still stretch out…
The American Spectator is seeking entries for its second collegiate essay contest. The winning op-ed will appear in the print edition of our magazine, and we’ll write its author a check for a cool $1,000. ESSAY PROMPT: Binge Drinking: The Pros and…
South Carolina’s former Gov. Mark Sanford is the man to beat in the GOP primary to fill the state’s 1st Congressional District, according to internal campaign polls obtained by Island Packet: Internal polling by several campaigns indicate Sanford has captured about…
Ted Cruz shuns the lectern. An Ivy League debate champion, Cruz prefers to pace the platform without notes, which allows him to walk to the edge of the stage, look the crowd in the eye, and punctuate his points with…
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker whipped a CPAC ballroom crowd into cheers Saturday morning, to the point that he had to shout the end of his speech over the applause. Walker told the audience that real reform doesn’t happen in Washington,…
National Journal reports: Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s dormant New York City mayoral campaign paid more than $100,000 to a San Francisco-based polling firm earlier this month, suggesting the once-prominent Democrat whose career was derailed by allegations he sent salacious texts…
Obamaphones. Teleprompters. Big Gulps. Sarah Palin hit all the laugh lines in her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday afternoon, bringing the audience to its feet perhaps a half-dozen times. At points, Palin simply jumped between one-liners….
Ohio Senator Rob Portman announces his support for gay marriage in an op-ed for the Columbus Dispatch: Two years ago, my son Will, then a college freshman, told my wife, Jane, and me that he is gay. He said he’d…
Rand Paul made a pitch for a more libertarian Republican Party this afternoon in his 10-minute speech on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered,” the Kentucky senator said. “I…
Rand Paul has now held the Senate floor for something like 12 hours, having begun his filibuster of President Obama’s pick for CIA chief sometime just before noon. Any bets on how long he will last? (Intrade hasn’t yet descended…
