W. James Antle III
Recapping last night’s results, there were no major Tea Party victories in the big races. Jesse Kelly lost in the Arizona special election. Bill Poliquin, arguably closest to a conservative favorite, lost in Maine. George Allen is no moderate Republican,…
Does Barack Obama have a black voter problem? A new survey by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shows Obama losing black support in North Carolina. The poll found Mitt Romney winning 20 percent of North Carolina’s black vote to…
Remember when David Brooks championed a conservatism of Doing Big Things, whether it was it was waging big wars or building big monuments? Well, our monuments aren’t big enough. Which apparently means some stuff: You end up with movements like…
So who would the Ron Paul supporters angry at Rand Paul for his Mitt Romney endorsement rather vote for? For the more conservative among them, a candidate is Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode. Goode may be the only politician to…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has been appropriately critical of President Barack Obama and has talked up Sen. Marco Rubio as a possible national candidate. But he seems to think Mitt Romney is too conservative. On immigration: The focus has…
Independent former Gov. Angus King has gotten all the national attention in the race to replace Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), but the Democratic and Republican primaries are tomorrow. I caught up with state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin, a conservative running in…
It’s Friday and the King Dude is on the air. Normally, Mike Church uses his early morning Sirius program as a platform to bash the faux conservatives he calls “Decepticons.” But this time he is criticizing Rand Paul, the Tea…
Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was injured and cited for felony hit and run in connection with two Los Angeles-area traffic accidents this weekend. The Obama administration said that Bryson suffered a seizure and was without a security detail because…
The House Oversight Committee has scheduled a vote next week on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to Operation Fast and Furious. According to CBS News, it’s only…
Yesterday I noted some Democrats were nervous about the Gabby Giffords House seat in Arizona. The latest survey by Public Policy Polling — a Democratic firm — suggests this nervousness is unjustified. PPP shows Democrat Ron Barber beating Republican Jesse…
