Liberty
Urging Republicans not to nuke the filibuster
Fred Bauer writes for National Review Online about a bad idea circulating on Capitol Hill. Over the past day or so, the so-called nuclear option for the legislative filibuster has…
Chris Coons
American lawyer and politician (born 1963)
Liberty
NY congressman labeled left’s ‘most wrong’ attack dog
Jonathan Turley writes for the New York Post about a particularly loathsome political operator. In Federalist No. 51, James Madison famously wrote that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” …
Liberty
Democrats Make Plans to Hold Senate
Mabinty Quarshie and David Sivak write for the Washington Examiner about Democrats’ electoral plans for the U.S. Senate. Senate Democrats are brushing off concerns that President Joe Biden will be…
Liberty
Dissecting Electoral Count Reform
Yuval Levin writes at National Review Online about proposals to change the way electoral votes are counted. A couple of weeks ago, I noted … that time was short for…
Regulation
Left-of-center forces fight over $15 minimum wage
Seth McLaughlin writes for the Washington Times over a political battle brewing on the political left over a key government mandate. Far-left activists are furious with the “corporate Democrats” that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Cutting out carbon tax talk
Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller documents conservative opposition to a proposed carbon tax. Seventy-five conservative groups signed a public letter to Congress opposing “any carbon tax” days after reports…
Law & Public Safety
Flake blocks slate of conservative judges
Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner details Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s role in holding up confirmations of new federal judges. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., planned to confirm dozens…
Education
Burr, Tillis co-sponsor resolution honoring charter schools
North Carolina’s U.S. senators have joined a group focusing attention on the nation’s public charter schools. The news release below offers details. WASHINGTON, May 8, 2018 — United States Senators…
Liberty
More Tillis legislation…..
More on the bill introduced by Sen Thom Tillis that would let a special counsel challenge their firing in court. For starters, the Greensboro News & Record (predictably) supports Tillis,…
Law & Public Safety
A reminder that elections matter
If the federal judiciary continues to spew incomprehensible decisions based on political correctness and emotion — rather than the Constitution — for decades into the future, we’ll know why. The…
Liberty
I’d be embarrassed to be from Illinois
What is it with Illinois? Why do they put up with such rampant corruption in their politics? Are the hinterlands afraid to take on the Chicago thug political machine, or…
Liberty
Election 2010: U.S. Senate and House races
11:55 Final update. No call yet, but Republican Pat Toomey has moved past Joe Sestak to take the seat now held by serial party-switcher Arlen Specter. Good night, all. 11:44…