Bill Hurts, Not Helps, Hillary's Campaign
by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Bill Clinton's poll ratings are very high so Hillary figures he can be of great help to her on the campaign trail. So far, so good - but then they extrapolate that view and conclude that he would be a good pe rson to make her negative attacks on opponents, to answer charges against her and to take the media to task for their coverage. And that's where they are wrong.
Blocked Vatican Envoy
by Robert Novak
President Bush's nomination of Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican is being held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raising the possibility that the post may be vacant when Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States in April.
All In
by Stephen F. Hayes
Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has decided to take his campaign and virtually all of its resources to Iowa in an all-or-nothing attempt to register a strong showing in the caucuses here on January 3.
From Kennedy to Romney: 47 Years of Judicial War Against American Freedom of Religion
by Newt Gingrich
On Sunday, I appeared on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" to comment on what I am calling a bureaucratic coup d'etat, that is the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran released earlier this week. I'll give you my take on it in a minute, but first, I wanted to share with you that while I was getting ready to appear, it occurred to me that all the historical comparisons being made between presidential candidate Mitt Romney's speech last week and President John Kennedy's speech in 1960 are wrong in a fundamental way.
Laying A Mitt on the Secularists
by Bill Murchison
Right., Yes. Mitt Romney, if elected our president, "will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest." Nor should any candidate "become the spokesman for his faith." Yes, Naturally.
Sorting Out the Presidential Race
by Bobby Eberle
With only a few weeks left until the first presidential primaries and caucuses, the race for the GOP presidential nomination is still wide open. So many conservatives have yet to decide on a favorite, and this has led to the most up-for-grabs race in recent memory.
Status-Quo on Tuesday Good News for GOP
by Stuart Rothenberg
Republicans got some good news Tuesday when they won special elections in Ohio and Virginia to retain two Congressional seats that became open upon the death of sitting GOP U.S. House members.
Bigger Than Life
by Joel Achenbach
Freddie Thompson hit full height in the 10th grade, some 6 feet, 5 3/4 inches. His buddies called him "Stick." He was a nice-looking kid, played football and basketball, chased girls, horsed around in class, rarely cracked a book.
Analysis: Thompson Scores Debate Points
by David Yepsen
Fred Thompson came out on top in Wednesday's debate among the Republican presidential candidates in Iowa. Of all the candidates, he did himself the most good.
How to Create a National Controversy: Evolution vs. Creationism
by Donna Garner
For the Texas Freedom Network and the liberal press (i.e., the "Sisterhood") to create a national controversy which is meant to tear down the influence of pro-family conservatives, the first thing the Sisterhood has to find is a "victim." That person has been found -- Chris Comer, the Texas Education Agency's science curriculum director whom the Sisterhood deliberately represents as a noble and courageous evolutionist who was unjustly fired by the mean, old TEA managers.
Huckacide
by Rich Lowry
The ghost of Howard Dean haunts the pundit class. As soon as a candidate of either party spikes up in the polls, he is compared with Dean, who had a spectacular boomlet in the second half of 2003 only to deflate as soon as people began to vote in early 2004.
Who's to Blame for High Property Taxes in Texas?
by Tom Pauken
The San Antonio Express-News had a major story last weekend about who's to blame for the small savings in property taxes homeowners have received "since state leaders approved a new school-funding system 18 months ago." That school-finance plan was designed to cut school property taxes by one-third over a three year period.
