Will Ryan Get The Palin Treatment?
As regards Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan as a running mate, I tend to agree with David’s initial reax; “Bring it onâ€. I look forward to the VP debates, which should be the highlight of the campaign for me. As Ace said on Twitter, the other day, Let’s face it,...21st Century Monopoly
As a child, I used to play the board game of Monopoly. I still vividly remember the excitement of a “Get out of Jail Free†card and the royal blue of Boardwalk and Park Place. My brothers would be angered when I’d loft off to using the pink pastel colored...
Tom Harkin Dissembles on Higher Education
Bumped up from TCR:Iowa. – Ed.Our esteemed Senator Harkin has been holding some hearings on for-profit colleges back in D.C., and now he has penned an editorial for the Des Moines Register. In full disclosure, I dislike Tom Harkin. Intensely. Then again, back...The Hispanic Vote In November
Being the fastest growing group of Americans in our evenly ideologically divided country means that Hispanic-Americans will have a disproportionately larger impact on the November elections than their percentage of the population suggests—and it has the absolute...Fighting Indignity
This week, Harry Reid came out with another appeal for Mitt Romney to release ten more years of his family’s personal tax returns. As to whether the release of that additional information is a good idea, or propitious in any kind of moral or political sense, is...Obamacare, Czars, Federal Agencies, Oh My!
Today we welcome Kassandra Kuehl to The Conservative Reader. Kassandra Kassandra Kuehl is a writer and blogger with American Citizens for Economic Freedom. – Ed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ How do you feel when you think of the word “bureaucracy?†I did an experiment and...Gaffe on Gaffe?
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post recognized very quickly that Barack Obama’s comment “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.†was a real problem. In an article in the Post called “Mitt Romney’s Misleading Attack...Reds Paint The Town Green in Rio
Last month, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference organizers themselves have given the conference the nickname of Rio+20. This is because twenty years ago, in 1992, the United Nations Conference on...Healthcare Fallout: Obama’s Growing List of Coalitions
The bedrock of winning elections at every major level of politics is building coalitions of supporters for whom you can count on to head to the polls and cast a vote for you. Especially in a country as large and non-monolithic as ours, coalition building on some...Stay in Touch
