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W. James Antle III

by | Apr 24, 2012

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…

by | Apr 24, 2012

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…

by | Apr 23, 2012

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…

by | Apr 23, 2012

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…

by | Apr 23, 2012

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…

by | Apr 23, 2012

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…

by | Apr 21, 2012

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…

by | Apr 20, 2012

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…

by | Apr 20, 2012

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…

by | Apr 20, 2012

TAS contributor Dan Flynn has proposed an interesting tribue to the late Levon Helm. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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