I have long had problems with Mike Huckabee. I did not like him as a nominee last time as he was squirlish, squishy and in general acted a lot like a snake oil salesman.
Well today 4 Washington...
edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
I have long had problems with Mike Huckabee. I did not like him as a nominee last time as he was squirlish, squishy and in general acted a lot like a snake oil salesman.
Well today 4 Washington...
By Steve Hynd
It's rare for me to agree with Kathleen Parker. Even her criticism of Sarah Palin as "out of her league" didn't go far enough - Parker should have said "out of her mind". But when it comes to the GOP's new "purity test", she isn't entirely wrong.' [...]
Gallup poll on New York terror trialThe big news today is that John Minnis, the state's police training director and a former GOP state senator (and spouse of former GOP House Speaker Karen Minnis), has resigned his post - amidst a criminal investigation.
The big question: what's he being investigated for?
Presumably, it's big. The investigation is [...]
(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by [...]
Over at the Cook Political Report, they've done their baseline report on the U.S. Senate race in 2010. Key excerpts:
Oregon is very difficult terrain for Republicans. Democrats hold an 11-point advantage in voter registration, 43 percent to 32 percent, while another 26 percent are unaffiliated. Republicans lost a Senate' [...]
Tim Fernholz at TAPPED, on conservatives' complaint that everything they don't like is "socialism:" 
A small morsel of Friday political amusement, as I continue to recover from an accident involving rain, embedded rail lines on Portland's Central Eastside, and a motor scooter: check out the lead to the latest missive received via email from our friends at the Oregon GOP, as expressed by ORP [...]
Like a lot of people, my gut tells me that Sarah Palin or perhaps Mike Huckabee will be the Howard Dean of 2012. Of course, that would suggest that the Republican nominee in 2012 will be the right’s answer to John Kerry, which is a [...]
Former Trailblazer Chris Dudley is thinking about running for Oregon Governor on the GOP side. He's got himself a website on training wheels that includes some nice photos, but nothing so far that gives us a real sense of the guy and what he's about.
I'm not so in to' [...]
What do the GOP triumphs in New Jersey and Virginia mean for Obama, mainstream Democrats and their agenda?
Ignore the palaver of the punditry; there’s no “megatrend” here. But the important micro question is: in the Democratic cloakroom, what will be the gut assessment of Obama’s power to punish or reward [...]
Don't get me wrong. I am certainly NOT saying "give no money to Republicans." What I am saying is "give directly to the conservative Republican candidates you support," and "stop giving money to organizations that will use your donations to support radical [...]
By John Ballard
Hamid Dabashi is the author of "Iran: A People Interrupted." He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His Web site is [www.hamiddabashi.com].
I heard a news reporter this afternoon refer to Iran's street demonstrations as "the biggest civil'" [...]
As of Tuesday night results...Liberal moonbat "republican" Dede Scozzafava has left the building.
This is of monumental importance. The GOP "leadership" can now do one of two things moving into the 2010 and 2012 election cycles:
1) Embrace real conservatism, which overwhelmingly defeats liberalism, or,
2) Continue to lose elections and allow the left to transform [...]
Karl Rove highlights this week from his Wall Street Journal 