With minor exceptions, all of the potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 seem to have accepted the idea that defense spending, and the Bush-era interventionist foreign policy, are off the table when it comes time to talk spending cuts.
Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.
Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.
A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.
Haley Barbour is making all the moves toward a 2012 Presidential run, but his stand on immigration issues could pose a problem in the Republican primaries.
Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw poll for a second straight year. But YAF has voted him off its board over his opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Oddly, the Democratic Party seems to be responding to the 2010 midterms by moving further left.
The home mortgage interest deduction benefits Democrat-voting states most! Is the fix in?
It’s Lee-Jackson Day again in Virginia, and, once again, I find myself wondering why the South continues to honor a dishonorable legacy.
Despite anecdotal evidence debunking global warming, 2010 was another record year for warm temperatures.
A little history about the Citizens’ Councils.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who may end up running for President in 2012, has reopened wounds that finally seemed like they were closed.
The incoming House Republicans aren’t making a good first impression.
As impressive as Republican gains in this week’s elections were at the national level, they were even more so in state legislative races. Which means Republicans are in position to consolidate and expand upon their recent gains.
Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.
Is Sarah Palin running for President in 2012 ? It’s looking more and more likely that the answer might be yes.
A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.
That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.
Now that the flood of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been staunched, some are arguing that the prophesied environmental catastrophe was greatly overblown.
Conservatives aren’t as united over the “outrage” of the New Black Panther Case as you might think.
Should Obama waive restrictions on international shipping, as Bush did during Katrina? It’s more complicated than you may think.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich considers himself among the top Republican prospects for the 2012 presidential election
