Live Free or Die
by Tim Lambert
The state motto of New Hampshire is Live Free or Die, and that seems appropriate for the actions by the home school community last week.
Game Changer?
by Tim Lambert
Republican Scott Brown's victory in the race for Senate yesterday in Massachusetts is historic.He ran on a platform of being the 41st vote against the current Democratic plan to reform health care, while being careful to say that we need health care, but not the proposed plan, and that the process (behind closed doors, deal making, etc.) was wrong.
Perry Says No to the Feds--Again!
Much to the consternation of Democrats and liberals, Governor Perry has once again told the federal government Texas won't take its money because it would lead to more regulations and a loss of freedom for Texans. In this case, it is money for education and the Governor says Texas is not willing to give up control of its curriculum for money from the feds - to which I say AMEN!
Brown Defeats Coakley in Mass. Senate Race
Riding a populist tide of voter anger, Republican Scott Brown on Tuesday won the Senate seat held for 47 years by Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, giving the GOP enough votes to frustrate President Obama's health care reform plan - and perhaps his entire agenda.
The Meaning of Brown
by Charles Krauthammer
On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health care reform. "If Republicans want to campaign against what we've done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have."
Clyburn: 'Magic Number on Healthcare Reform is 50, Not 60'; Measure Not Dead
by Michael O'Brien
Healthcare reform legislation is "not dead by any means," Democrats' third-ranking leader in the House emphasized Wednesday.
Jim "Wellington" DeMint: Winner
by Erick Erickson
Jim DeMint declared Obamacare to be Barack Obama's "Waterloo." It was. And like Napoleon, Obama is defeated (for now at least). Like Wellington, DeMint has been throwing the punches and scoring the points more effectively than many of his colleagues, which has them privately perturbed at the senator's growing popularity among the GOP base.
It's the Enemy, Stupid
by Andrew McCarthy
It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people's Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. "People talk about the potency of the health-care issue," Brown's top strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, told National Review's Robert Costa, "but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants." There is a powerful lesson here for Republicans, and here's hoping they learn it.
The Lessons of Massachusetts
by Newt Gingrich
The first lesson Republicans should take from Tuesday night's victory is the GOP should run candidates everywhere this year and not worry about whether the district used to vote Republican.
In Memoriam
On this day 37 years ago, seven unelected lawyers (all male) spat on centuries of Western tradition, the plain text of the Constitution, and decades of precedent and declared that there existed in the Constitution a heretofore undiscovered right for women to kill their children in utero.
No Manhattan Terror Trials?
by Brian Faughnan
According to Scott Brown's pollster Neil Newhouse, one of the big reasons for Brown's win was the concern among Massachusetts voters about Obama's terror policies. It seems numerous Democrats have begun at least to consider, that voters may be distrustful of their poster on national security. How serious is the shift? Michael Isikoff says Congress may be ready to pull the plug on Manhattan terror trials.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY): Free Speech Is Un-American
by Moe Lane
The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday striking down limits on corporate and union spending in elections is "un-American," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday.
High Court Unleashes Political Ad Spending
In a decision with profound implications for the role of money in American campaigns, the Supreme Court on Thursday gave interest groups, unions and corporations the right to pour money into issue advertising in political races - reigniting the passionate battle over the influence of cash on the electoral process.
Why the GOP Should Still Be Nervous
by Jim Vandehei and James Hohmann
Republicans are riding high in the wake of Scott Brown's win, talking up an authentic resurgence for their party and a real chance for reclaiming power. Don't bet on it.
Did Tea Party Stir Brown's Victory?
To hear some leading Democrats talk, Scott Brown's campaign was fueled by the burgeoning tea party movement.
AFL-CIO Poll Shows Union Households Boosted Brown
Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate race was lifted by strong support from union households, in a sign of trouble for President Barack Obama and Democrats who are counting on union support in the 2010 midterm elections.
Defense Set to Press Gay-Marriage Case
Plaintiffs will likely rest their case Monday in the federal trial over California's Proposition 8, setting the stage for backers of the ban on same-sex marriage to open their line of defense.
