Sharron Angle's campaign is on a roll, churning out several excellent ads in a row. Her latest, entitled "Faces," may be her most effective yet by applying the "extremist" label to the candidate who most deserves it:...
In the 1959 film "The Mouse That Roared," an imaginary European nation called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the U.S. "There isn't a more profitable undertaking for any country than to declare war on the...
Gallup's generic ballot still gives Republicans a 10-percent lead in the upcoming mid-term elections, "the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for...
At least this lady gets it.
Overall, I found the tone of last night's speech to be appropriate, if a bit flat. Highlights:(1) The president should be commended for his rousing tribute to the men and women who have served in Iraq:
The Americans...
Almost 40,000 people have been denied licensing from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles after their computer system crashed - enough to fill the local baseball stadium.An additional 6,500 people per day are being...
Republicans are still splitting the ticket in the Colorado governor's race, with Democrat John Hickenlooper bringing in 36 percent of the vote in the latest Rasmussen poll. Republican candidate Dan Maes has 24 percent...
The group that produced the video, "My Faith, My Voice," was led by David Hawa, a 37-year-old Muslim who was born in Washington and raised in Virginia, and claims no political affiliation. He and his associates produced...
Murkowski's defeat represents a major loss for the GOP establishment and a major win for Sarah Palin, as our new political editor, Guy Benson, just mentioned, (welcome, Guy!). But how does this kind of political coup...
I am delighted to officially introduce myself as the new Political Editor of Townhall.com. Since graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2007, I've been a radio talk show host,...
It gets tiresome hearing the conventional wisdom say that the Democrats will likely keep control of the Senate. Far from it.
To gain control, Republicans must win 10 new seats. An analysis of the latest
Most people have no idea what "E-6" is. To avid baseball fans, E-6 is the way to record an error by a shortstop on your scorecard. But there is another E-6, in photography. This E-6 is the developer in which color...
An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there ins
When I ask my daughter how things are going at school, her voice tells me more than her words. "It's all good," she says with lukewarm enthusiasm. Obviously, it's not.
Explaining her misgivings about some friends...
For more than a hundred years liberals and conservatives have been arguing over the true meaning of justice. The left emphasizes just outcomes-seeking smaller gaps between rich and poor, and a comparably dignified...
I'm sitting at my desk trying to think of ways to insult the followers of Islam as intentionally and as maliciously as the Park51 organizers have recently insulted the citizens of this great Christian nation. It isn't...
As we celebrate Labor Day, let's remember what makes this holiday possible in the first place: American workers. For the most part that means small business.
According to federal statistics, small firms (those...
The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina recalls a horror show on two levels. There's the actual disaster, which killed hundreds of people, and then there's the media smear job on the Bush administration and fi
Predictably, the "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall last Saturday has evoked a lot of consternation.
Because the rally explicitly and studiously avoided trumpeting a political agenda, it freed up a lot...