Philip Klein
“Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union address, making it the most ambitious element of his vision for “winning the future.” Invoking…
Rahm Emanuel has been elected mayor of Chicago and will clear the 50 percent threshold, thus avoiding a runoff, CNN projects.
A federal judge has upheld the national health care law, making it the fifth ruling on the merits of the legal challenges to the individual mandate. The ruling by the Clinton appointee, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler of the…
Earlier today, when news broke that a liberal blogger from the site Buffalo Beast claimed to have successfully prank called Gov. Scott Walker by posing as liberal hate figure and billionaire libertarian donor David Koch, I thought that if true,…
Orin Kerr raises an interesting point: If the Obama Administration won’t defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, what are the chances that a future Republican administration would defend the constitutionality of the individual mandate? To my mind,…
Note to White House budget director Jacob Lew: when you open a newspaper op-ed by using the phrase “win the future” in a a non-ironic way, you forfeit your right to be taken seriously as a fiscal analyst. In a…
Sen. John Thune announced that he will not run for president, saying, “I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America’s future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.” I think this is a wise decision…
In another move unlikely to endear him to conservative primary voters should he decide to seek the presidency, the Indianapolis Star reports that: Gov. Mitch Daniels signaled this afternoon that Republicans should to drop the right-to-work bill that has brought…
Just in time for President’s Day, Gallup is out with a new survey finding that a plurality of Americans identify Ronald Reagan as the greatest U.S. president. While I’m happy to see the Gipper get his due, looking at the…
