W. James Antle III
A few thoughts on yesterday’s primaries: Nothing’s the matter with Kansas: Conservatves beat moderates in 17 out of 21 Republican senate primaries. It was a big win for Gov. Sam Brownback and a possible turning point in the moderate versus…
Mitt Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul hit back against a controversial ad by a pro-Obama super PAC, but her defense has created a controversy of its own. The ad blames Romney for the death of a steelworker’s wife. Saul responds that…
Ramesh Ponnuru argues that a cable TV network should revive the old CNN debate show Crossfire. The show ran for half an hour and examined one question. There were two hosts: one liberal, one conservative, both opinion journalists rather than…
In my latest column for the American Conservative, I argue that there is some reason to hope the new Tea Party senators will be more serious about spending than the conservative congressional leaders before them: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint…
“There’s nothing in this world so sweet as love,” wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.” That seems to be the moral of the whole Chick-fil-A story. The fast food restaurant’s critics say they…
Bruce Bartlett argues that the 1993 Clinton tax increase is a problem for Republicans who claim that tax hikes hurt the economy: Republicans are adamant that taxes on the ultra-wealthy must not rise to the level they were at during…
In their ongoing debate about Romneycare, David Frum has penned a remarkably obtuse response to AmSpec alum Phil Klein. Frum points and sputters at this line by Phil: Some of us simply don’t believe that the way to fix our health care…
One objection I’ve encountered to my column arguing that the growing DeMint caucus in the Senate is a good thing: if Republicans have fewer than 60 votes (a virtual certainty) a group of particularly uncompromising conservatives could make the perfect…
If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and National Republican Senatorial Committee chief John Cornyn were keeping score at home, they probably weren’t too worried about Tuesday’s Senate runoff in Texas. Either way, the seat was likely to remain in Republican…
ONE DAY IN MAY, virtually every political reporter in America- or so it seemed-sat intently waiting for President Barack Obama to confirm his opinion on a subject where most of them assumed his mind was already made up. Obama had…
