John Tabin

Republican Bob Turner has defeated Democrat David Weprin in New York’s 9th Congressional district, the seat vacated by Anthony Weiner. In a district composed of parts of Brooklyn and Queens, a Republican victory is a remarkable result that we haven’t…

While less striking than the historic Republican victory in New York City, the GOP victory in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District is also worth mentioning, especially given the wide margin of victory. Nate Silver does the math: One crude way to…

Rick Perry’s campaign sent out a series of press releases tonight; here are some of the subject lines: Setting the Record Straight on Social Security SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON JOB CREATION Setting the Record Straight on Gov. Perry’s Tax…

“[T]he millions of Americans who are watching right now: they don’t care about politics,” said President Obama near the beginning of his speech before Congress tonight. Nice little delusion, but people who don’t care about politics weren’t watching. And the…

Last night’s debate sketched out the ground that fight for the nomination will be fought on. Unless something unexpected shakes the race up (the entry of another candidate is the most obvious possibility), this is a race between Rick Perry…

Some good news: Thanks to the intervention of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, alumni of Stuyvesant High School who were at the Lower Manhattan school on 9/11 will be able to hold their 10th anniversary vigil at the school. As…

Last week I met a canny Canadian public relations operator named Alykhan Velshi. A veteran of Washington’s conservative think tank world and Ottawa’s Conservative government, his current project is EthicalOil.org, a campaign on behalf of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline…

Stuyvesant High School is located one block west and four blocks north of where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood. As one might imagine, 9/11 was a pretty damn significant event in the lives of the…

Financial Times: European Union efforts to impose an oil embargo on Syria suffered a setback on Tuesday when Italy broke ranks and insisted the sanctions be delayed until the end of November, when existing supply contracts will have expired. The…

As I noted last night, negotiations to finalize a European Union embargo on Syrian oil hit a snag when Italy demanded that sanctions be delayed until November 30. Today the Italians compromised, but only a little — the sanctions, which…