
W. James Antle III
By the way, the entitlements numbers I cited earlier have a lot to do with why I take a dim view of describing George W. Bush as a “fantastic president.” Here are the projections for Medicare Part D, the prescription…
When Mitt Romney said in a Republican debate that illegal immigrants could be encouraged to self-deport, the smart people all laughed at him. But the latest Pew Hispanic Center report suggests that this may, in part, be happening. Consider: In…
Perhaps it’s a mistake to measure the Tea Party’s success only in terms of primaries won or forced. A better indicator might be the movement’s impact on the GOP: have Tea Partiers finally gotten Republicans to debate how, rather than…
Displaying the tone-deafness that doomed his presidential campaign, Jon Huntsman compared the current state of the Republican Party to Communist China. Complaining about the Republican National Committee’s decision to un-invite him from a fundraiser after he called for third party…
With Mitt Romney moving toward the Republican presidential nomination, the veepstakes are now in full bloom. Chris Christie is being scrutinized for his judicial picks. Others are being tested in the polls. It will therefore be interesting to see if…
The liberal Center for American Progress claims that Obamacare will save both seniors and taxpayers money. The group’s Think Progress site touts a new report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) showing that taxpayers will save $200…
Sen. Orrin Hatch came up just short in his bid to win renomination outright at the Utah Republican state convention. Instead he will face conservative state Sen. Dan Liljenquist in a June primary. Hatch got a sliver more than 59…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is trying to craft a more GOP-friendly version of the DREAM Act. The original Democratic iteration, which has stalled in Congress, was billed as an attempt to prevent the deportation of people whose parents brought them…
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is still trying to get Rush Limbaugh booted from the airwaves. This Daily Caller report highlights the group’s disdain for political speech with which it disagrees: “He is going to be whining and calling…
TAS contributor Dan Flynn has proposed an interesting tribue to the late Levon Helm. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.