The Great American Awakening: Two Years That Changed America, Washington and Me By Jim DeMint (B&H Books, 240 pages, $14.99) We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;…

Following the Tax Day tea party rallies this past April, people began wondering if the Tea Party movement had peaked: the number of rallies was down, and the crowd sizes were in many places a fraction of what they’d been…

One of the amazing aspects of the Tea Party movement is how much it is driven by women, and not just any women: many of the local organizers are typically stay-at-home moms with younger children. Ana Puig and Anastasia Przybylski…

By any standard, unions are a behemoth in American politics. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that between 1990 and 2010, the 24 largest unions gave more than $500 million in campaign contributions, 95 percent of it to Democrats. Most…

One of the fundamental rights in our constitutional republic is the right to vote. But just as importantly, our free society is built on the idea of voter integrity: one person, one vote. When the validity of a vote, or…

It never ceases to amaze me that, in a nation whose cornerstone is the free market, the political process doesn’t respond to market forces. But that might be changing. One of the beautiful things about free enterprise is that it…

The media seem intent on anointing a national leader of the Tea Party, no doubt for convenience’s sake. But despite what people might see on TV or read in various media outlets, the Tea Party movement is not about national…

We of course know that the November 2, 2010, elections were historical on many different levels. The Republican gains of 63 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate dwarf the Republican Revolution of 1994 and double the historical…