President Obama delivers remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 33rd Annual Awards Gala in Washington September 15, 2010. (Photo by REUTERS/Jim Young) –Obama splits the baby on the Elizabeth Warren appointment, naming her a special adviser sans Senate confirmation and rankling the Harvard prof’s boosters and detractors in the process. –A new poll from The [...]
Ben Smith says the teacher’s union spent heavily to stop the reform of the Washington, DC, school system…and won. I have been covering this issue for 30 years and it never changes: the teachers unions are a force for ignorance and stagnation. I’m in favor of industrial unions: I understand who they’re organized against–the power [...]
St. Louis, Missouri I spent the morning writing my print column and the afternoon driving to St. Louis, through the cornfields of Illinois. Saw one pretty big wind farm just north of Bloomington–the first I’ve seen on this trip, which is not very encouraging. Stopped for gas just outside of Springfield and the proprietor of [...]
We are a nation of tax cheats. In 2001, the difference between what Americans and businesses owed in taxes and what they actually paid voluntarily was $345 billion. The enormous amount, known as the “tax gap” has been vexing politicians and IRS bureaucrats ever since it was quantified in 2005. Of course, one way to [...]
Here is the long lost, oft referred to, MTV appearance by Delaware’s Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate Christine O’Donnell in a documentary called “Sex In The 90s,” via MSNBC and TPM. A few weeks back, Slate’s Dave Weigel asked O’Donnell about whether or not her abstinence promoting past was an issue in her current [...]
Updated, 7:25 a.m. Tea Party activists on Tuesday punctuated a primary season with no shortage of surprises by delivering their sharpest blow yet to the Republican establishment. In the race for the party’s Senate nomination in Delaware—one of seven states (plus the nation’s capital) where voters headed to the polls in the last slate of [...]
It’s hard to try to put this one in perspective. There may never have been a losing primary candidate more favored by his state and national party than Mike Castle. The chairman of the state GOP, Tom Ross, worked as a virtual spokesman for the Castle campaign, leading the attack against Christine O’Donnell. The RNC [...]
Arlington Heights, Ill Event: Dropping Jim Pinkerton off at the train Gotta say, it’s always an adventure to spend 24-hours with Jim Pinkerton. I’ve known him for 23 years now and he has one of the least predictable, and best, minds in the political universe. When I first met him, he was a realistic libertarian: [...]
