Governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explains why Democrats would be unwise to think celebrity endorsements will make much difference for them this year. [A]ctor and former Uvalde, Texas, resident…
Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist takes both President Trump and former First Lady Michelle Obama to task for recent pronouncements that they could “never forgive” a political opponent for a…
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals virtually ignored a trial court’s opinion when throwing out North Carolina’s 2013 election law, including the provision requiring photo identification for voters. Jon…
11:52 Final update: John Kasich elected governor of Ohio. I covered him when working in Washington in the 1990s. A very sharp fellow who never let you forget that his…
Last week, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, who had to shrink a huge and hugely expensive TennCare Medicaid expansion, laid out the employers’ case for dropping employees’ health insurance on the…
Carolina Journal‘s Sara Burrows reported earlier this month on Gov. Beverly Perdue?s lack of spirited defense of North Carolina taxpayers during the ObamaCare debate: … Congress is finalizing a bill…
The Heritage foundation daily email “The Morning Bell” has this analysis of the Senate health care bill that will be voted on tomorrow. Last Saturday night Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)…
He’s no Charlie Crist of Florida, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, or Joe Manchin of West Virginia, but Mike Easley gets a C grade in the Cato Institute’s new fiscal…
? The Charlotte Observer profiles Mac McCorkle and Jack Hawke, the political consultants behind the Beverly Perdue and Pat McCrory campaigns, respectively. Debate continues about the wisdom of ending the…
If that headline makes your blood boil, you might want to avoid Michael Barone’s latest column in U.S. News. Barone argues that Republicans need new ideas for 2008, and he’s…
I buried the lede in my post yesterday so in case you missed it, Gov. Easley said the three biggest parts of the state budget are corrections, education, and Medicaid.…
The Associated Press article that John references reveals Bredeson’s Jekyll and Hyde personality on rail transit: Both Memphis and Nashville are studying light-rail commuter systems, but the governor isn’t optimistic…