We've supported Soldiers' Angels Project Valour ITproject in the past, but haven't posted on it yet this year. It's a wonderful cause, described succinctly by Soldiers' Angels:
Project Valour-IT helps provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other [...]
My view of what happened in NY-23 is quite similar to the views of Scott and John. Maximizing conservative success requires a successful marriage between true conservatives and moderate conservatives, and between pragmatic conservatives and their more ideological counterparts.
As with any good marriage, both parties must work at it, [...]
Not really. However, the Republicans did win a statewide race in Pennsylvania yesterday. Joan Orie Melvin, a Republican, defeated Jack Panella, a Democrat, to win a 10-year term on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday. The final count was 53-47 percent.
The Democrat raised nearly $2.35 million -- including a [...]
Byron York analyzes the data and concludes that as an issue, health care was a loser in yesterday's elections. Most voters didn't rate it highly as a concern, and those who did were swamped by the vastly greater number who were worried about the economy. I think we could' [...]
As readers know, I'm reluctant to infer too much from an off-off-year election in a handful of states. However, my friend Bill Otis is not. Here are his top five lessons all of which, I think, are probably valid to one degree or another:
1. The "independents" or "moderates"' [...]
What's stranger, an American political blogger who writes obsessively about English soccer or a bio-pic about an English soccer manager showing in American move theatres? The movie in question is "The Damned United." The soccer manager is the legendary Brian Clough.
Clough is played by Michael Sheen, who [...]
In light of the saga of New York's 23rd Congressional District special election, National Review Online will be posting a symposium on the supposed civil war among Republicans that John touched on last night. This is what I had to say in response to the questions framed by' [...]
In August, as a Republican sweep in Virginia and New Jersey was looking increasingly probable, I speculated in an Examiner column as to whether such a sweep might foreshadow success in 2010, as it did in 1994. The column is a bit heavy with the "on the one" [...]
