Philip Klein
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has offered a bill to repeal the national health care law as an amendment to a bill concerning the Federal Aviation Administration, and urged its “immediate consideration.” It’s not yet clear when the actual vote…
At this point, it’s not a matter of if, but when. Hosni Mubarak said he would step down from power, but serve out his term as president of Egypt and “die on its soil.” That wasn’t good enough for the…
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has told a local Indiana newspaper that he is nearing a decision on a presidential bid: “I think I have got to make up my mind fairly soon,” Daniels told The Times Editorial Board Thursday during…
In other presidential news today, former Republican governor of Utah Jon Huntsman has told the Obama administration he plans to resign as ambassador to China, Bloomberg reports. Earlier this month, a Newsweek profile raised the prospect of a Huntsman bid,…
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson on Monday became the second federal judge to declare the national health care law’s individual mandate unconstitutional. The decision concerns the lawsuit based in Florida and involving 26 states, and follows a similar decision last…
Liberal commentators didn’t waste much time attacking U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling as “activist,” particularly for deciding to void the entire national health care law after declaring the mandate unconstitutional. Ezra Klein writes: The full ruling has a…
The story in Egypt is moving fast, and it’s hard to predict how everything will turn out, but right now Al Jazeera’s English-language channel has incredible live footage of the rioting and inferno in Cairo, which among other things has…
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was filled with big government jingoism, attempting to tap into the can-do American spirit to push his expansionist public policy agenda. The media seized on his declaration that this was a “Sputnik moment.”…
For all the “future” talk in last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama seemed to have drawn a lot of inspiration from the past. While the defining phrase of the speech, “Winning the Future,” was the title of…
Via the White House press office: With their votes, the American people determined that governing will now be a shared responsibility between parties. New laws will only pass with support from Democrats and Republicans. We will move forward together, or…
