Something ugly happened this week here in California’s liberal-dominated legislature: Governor Schwarzenegger’s health-care overhaul — negotiated with Democrats, successfully passed the state assembly — could not muster enough votes to get out of a key Senate committee. This was a breakthrough plan, at a discount price. Why, for a mere 15 billion dollars — a […]

One of the reasons why the conservative vote is split is not because the Reagan coalition has gone away. You have basically three legs of the conservative stool. There’s subsets of this, but you’ve got the economic, the fiscal; you’ve got the social; and you got the foreign policy conservatives. Among these foreign policy conservatives […]

It has been advanced in conservative quarters that the argument over manmade global warming is lost; that the majority of the country accepts that it’s happening, and therefore we conservatives should abandon the efforts to argue the premise and persuade people that they’re being lied to and that they’re being hoaxed. So we gotta accept […]

Reuters has run their annual news story about the hardship some Americans will face heating their homes this winter. In this year’s installment, a 61-year-old Massachusetts woman laments how her winter will be spent huddled around her gas oven — with her husband and 88-year-old mother — because she cannot afford heating oil. Now, only […]

When Huckabee was coming out of nowhere in Iowa, we had numerous pundits on the left, jumping on the Huckabee bandwagon. And then McCain came out of nowhere in New Hampshire, and then they jumped on the McCain bandwagon. Romney wins in Michigan, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the […]