W. James Antle III
Doubling down on his new role as Decider, Barack Obama will give a speech from Afghanistan at 7:30 this evening on the anniversary of the bin Laden strike. The president is on firm ground taking credit for signing off on…
On the dais at Boston Marriott Copley Place, Ann Romney beamed as she rattled off the names of all the politicians who had helped her husband on Super Tuesday. She didn’t forget the home crowd. “And finally, thank you Massachusetts,”…
What is Ron Paul doing? Rick Santorum has already dropped out of the Republican presidential race. Newt Gingrich is expected to do so this week, Wednesday at the latest. Mitt Romney is virtually guaranteed the nomination. But Ron Paul supporters…
Mitt Romney finally scored that knockout blow he had been looking for throughout the primaries. According ton one report, it is “highly likely” that Gingrich will endorse Romney as he suspends his campaign. So what now? Well, Romney will obviously…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) really thinks George W. Bush was a fantastic president. In his major foreign policy address to the Brookings Institution, the possible Mitt Romney running mate puts himself strongly on the side of first-term Bush, Joe Lieberman,…
By most accounts, Paul Clement bested Solicitor General Donald Verrilli in oral arguments concerning the federal health care law. It sounds like it was more of the same as Clement against crossed swords with the solicitor general in the Obama…
In September 2010, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm celebrated a brave new chapter in “America’s clean energy future.” A123 Systems had built a 291,000-square-foot electric car battery manufacturing facility in Livonia and the second-term Democrat was on hand for the grand…
Off his list of places he can win, that is. Whether Newt Gingrich knows it or not — and I suspect he finally does — it is over for his presidential campaign. He was counting on an upset victory in…
Today Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware hold their Republican primaries. Mitt Romney was poised to do well even when Rick Santorum was still actively campaigning, with Pennsylvania the only obviously competitive state. Without Santorum, Romney is well…
In case you missed this bit of yesterday’s bad news, let me recap: Social Security and Medicare are running combined long-term deficits of $63.3 trillion according to reports released by the retirement programs’ trustees. The Medicare trust fund will be…
