American politician (born 1947)
A recent edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features John Lott’s endorsement of election integrity measures. Sixteen years ago, in 2005, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform issued a report…
Tevi Troy offers interesting observations about the impact of election results on policy-driven think tanks. THREE THINGS ARE CERTAIN AFTER A presidential-election defeat: infighting, second-guessing, and efforts to create a…
Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner notes interesting financial news involving General Electric. When the Dow Jones index was born in 1896, General Electric was one of the companies included.…
Josh Kraushaar of National Journal explores whether this fall’s elections are likely to lead to a “wave” of Republican victories. When writing about politics, it’s all too frequent to use…
Finally someone has set the record straight on the “death panels” and it is not about end of life counseling. Cato’s Michael Cannon sets the record straight in this Detroit…
Despite an avalanche of scandals, corruption and ethical problems, Democrats aren’t being punished in the polls. Gee, I wonder why that is: Can this really be true after the Blagojevich-Burris-Obama…
Deroy Murdock gets a 10 for this column on the idiocy of the “stimulus” package. While Obama could admit that he screwed up on nominating Tom Daschle, he can’t, just…
Durham’s own David Gergen, once a perceptive political observer until he decided he wanted to be popular with liberals, has done it again: “One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom…
What is it with Obama?s Cabinet nominees and tax shenanigans? Yesterday, Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination for secretary of Health and Human Services after facing criticism for around $128,000 in…
Can you imagine if several Bush appointees turned out to have ethical problems that CNN, or any other mainstream media outlet, would let that record go unmentioned when the latest…
NRO features this sharp editorial on the problem (to many Democrats in Washington, very minor) that Tom Daschle evaded paying a fairly large chunk of taxes. This is delicious. A…
More than the car and driver, Joseph, I’m irked at the unreported consulting income. A close member of my family, retiring from a career teaching elementary school, had an error…