When you have too many stimulants, you start to make mistakes. It weighs you down. You become a danger to yourself and others. Like your children and your grandchildren, whose futures you are spending now to mitigate the effects of… Continue Reading
I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo… Continue Reading
What we need is a new Newt Gingrich. What we don’t need is the party fragmenting into personality-driven, more-socially-conservative-than-thou factions. And we need to recognize that four the last eight years, we have been led by someone who is not… Continue Reading
Why wait for John McCain’s defeat? It’s never too early to start sucking up to those finicky Iowa caucus-goers. So reasons Louisiana Governor Bobby “The Exorcist” Jindal. Jindal is headed up to Iowa about three weeks after the general election… Continue Reading
Republicans like me have to resign ourselves to the fact that, for at least two years and maybe four, we’re going to be out of power and in the minority at the Federal level. The question is what kind of… Continue Reading
When the rhetoric gets so bad that your own candidate has to endure boos from the party faithful to rein in the excesses of political dialogue, that’s a bad thing. But once again, as the campaign moves into the closing… Continue Reading
If you’re rooting for the McCain-Palin ticket, you don’t need me to tell you that you want a game-changer to enter the game. You need some good news, and you need it not much later than two weeks before the… Continue Reading
Rudy Giuliani will not be John McCain’s running mate. If that were still in the cards, Giuliani would not have been tapped to deliver the keynote speech at the RNC. This, by the way, is also a sop to the… Continue Reading
Personally, I’d love it if he did, although I’m not crazy about Tom Ridge for other reasons, particularly including his association with the incumbent Administration and his embrace of the pro-bureaucracy Homeland Security Act. Still, I’m pro-choice and I think… Continue Reading
A sitting United States Senator, the highest-ranking Republican elected official in the state of Iowa, would seem to be a natural choice to lead the Iowa state delegation at the Republican National Convention. But Charles Grassley will not even be… Continue Reading