https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Uj8gdgRrI Firing Line (1984) : Rusher and Congressman Jim Leach discuss the Republican Party’s moderate wing with...
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Hillary for Secretary of State?
As this is being written, the newspapers and airwaves are awash with speculation that President-elect Barack Obama may name Sen. Hillary Clinton as...
The Road Ahead
This column is being written in advance of the elections on Tuesday, but there is no serious doubt among observers that the Democrats will win --...
Sizing Up Candidates
When all is said and done, every voter must decide which of two (it is usually two) candidates to vote for. For many people, it's easy: "Vote for...
The Election Outcome
The elections are now less than a month away, and rational observers are pretty well agreed that the Democrats are going to win. The big question...
The First Debate
As I write this column, I’m waiting impatiently for the first debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama. More than 50 million Americans were...
Will the Democrats Win?
The Democrats did what everyone knew they had to do: nominate Barack Obama by acclamation on the first ballot of their convention in Denver. But...
Four Months to Go
At a time when, in previous presidential years, neither party yet knew who its nominees would be, both have already known that vital information for...
Obama nails it down
So now it's all but official: The Democratic presidential nominee this year will be Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. And facing him, it has been clear...
Avoiding a Republican Rout in November
As matters stand, the Republican Party is facing an historic shellacking in November. In part, this is just the usual yin and yang of partisan...
Bob Barr Enters the Race
Former Republican congressman Robert Barr of Georgia recently announced he is running for president as a Libertarian. This is a formidable...
The McCain surge
The remarkable performance of John McCain in the past few months has rightly garnered a lot of attention. Time was, not so long ago, when he was...