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There’s an interesting scandal right now in New Mexico right now. You see, the New Mexico constitution tries to stop corruption, a real problem in the state as the Economist recently noted, by requiring that state legislators cannot draw a sala…
One of the things that has been missed in the debate over public employee unions in Wisconsin is the impact on city and county budgets. Governor Scott Walker’s proposal doesn’t just impact the state’s fiscal situation, but it attempts…
Earlier, we noted that Charlie Rangel has been getting huge numbers of contributions from the Virgin Islands, and we tied it to his blocking legislation that cuts payments to rum producers in the Virgin Islands.
Several weeks ago, the Washington Times…
I’ve been out of the country for about a week. So I come back, and start digging through the news. And I come to this ad by Mitt Romney. Romney is classing this election up by attacking Hillary Clinton over sex with his "internship" line. I want to be clear about something. We will lose [...]
(Cross-posted from Redstate) With Hillary Clinton the seemingly inevitable Democrat presidential nominee, conservatives are going to have to start reminding people just how bad "that woman" is. The good news? There is quite a bit of material to work with. Like this article in The Hill by Alex Bolton. He is writing about a new [...]
Yesterday, Kevin Hassett, an economist at AEI and a member of John McCain’s economics team, pointed out something that we forget. Hillary Clinton is a big ole porker: Democrats have been so busy preparing the coronation of Hillary Clinton that they have failed to train a critical eye on her record. When it comes to [...]
Andrew Sullivan makes a powerful argument against Hillary Clinton: A thief and liar is hired by Clinton. But his thievery is less important to Clinton than his loyalty. After all, his theft was an attempt to keep president Clinton’s failures with respect to al Qaeda under wraps. And so he gets a pardon. Remember: the [...]
Reps. Jeb Hensarling and Marsha Blackburn had a very brief conference call with bloggers. They noted that S-CHIP was vetoed by the President. They pointed out all the details about this being more than a children’s healthcare program. 17 states are adding adults with this. Dropping the citizenship requirement. Clearly this call (and further calls) [...]
I keep giggling whenever I read about the Norman Hsu scandal. First, Fred Thompson got it right. Didn’t the Clinton’s learn anything from the fundraising scandals of the 90s? Second, the first great fundraising scandal of the post-Abramoff ethics era is about an illegal donor. He didn’t give money for ideological reasons. He gave money [...]
Jon Fleischman has some polling data on John Doolittle re-election. They are bad: In a one-on-one match up, if the election were held today, Democrat Charlie Brown gets 51% of the vote to Congressman Doolittle’s 31%. Those surveyed were also asked if they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Doolittle. Respondents came back with [...]
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