W. James Antle III

What a difference a few days make. Last week Mitt Romney press secretary Andrea Saul appeared to speak well of the Obamacare-like Massachusetts health care law. Defending her boss against a pro-Obama super PAC’s scurrilous charges of complicity in the…

1. Obviously, there was no bigger news than Mitt Romney tapping Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Romney has added to his generally policy-phobic campaign one of the brightest, most articulate defenders of a comprehensive fiscal policy in the…

I’m an admirer of Paul Ryan’s but even if the rumors are true I stick by my original assesments. I think wonkish conservatives are overstating Ryan’s appeal to rank-and-file center-right voters. I think the vice presidency is a poor use…

Here are some excerpts from Paul Ryan’s speech at the Norfolk, Virginia announcement as prepared for delivery. On his own experience: For the last 14 years, I have proudly represented Wisconsin in Congress.  There, I have focused on solving the problems…

I’ve given all my reasons for skepticism about this morning’s vice presidential pick. Now that Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan, let’s focus for a moment on the positives. Ryan brings relative youth, exuberance, and intellectual heft to the Republican…

Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Paul Ryan will also run for reelection to his House seat: Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wisc.), tapped Saturday to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, will also stay on the Wisconsin ballot as…

Whenever anyone talks about cutting government spending — or even, as is more often the case, slightly slowing its rate of growth — they face the wildest accusations. Think Newt Gingrich and the orphanages, the millions of children who were…

Is Barack Obama pulling away from Mitt Romney? Two polls that came out yesterday suggest the answer could be yes. According to CNN, Obama has improved from a narrow 49 percent to 46 percent lead in July to a more…

The considerations that should go into Mitt Romney’s choice of running mate depend on whether you see his current problems as a temporary blip in the polls or a systemic problem that requires a game-changing pick. John McCain needed to…

Normally, I’d be dubious of advice to conservatives coming from Ezra Klein, but I think he’s right about the Paul Ryan for veep boomlet: As vice president, he would be a soldier in the Romney White House — which most…