The November elections will not be a referendum on Iraq. The growing stability there — thanks to the troop surge that Democrats fought tooth and nail — slammed that door in their faces. Identity politics (woman, minority, religion, etc.) won’t decide the election, either. Ultimately, the politics of personality will give way to the issues […]

I’m not abandoning conservatism like many are while debating the current crop of candidates. These are ones who are abandoning conservative beliefs, for reasons that scare me… You’re not thinking. You’re feeling. You’re seeing something that’s conservative when it’s not because you want it to be. You’re falling into this trap of becoming victims. You’re […]

How many of you have heard that the Democrats are just totally out-raising Republicans here in the primaries? Yeah, you have Hillary with a hundred gazillion! You have Obama with a hundred gazillion, and the Republicans are just being swamped with fundraising? I’ve heard those stories — and, of course, I know exactly why that […]

The media wants Huckabee, and the reason the media wants Huckabee is because they know they’re going to, down the road, be able to portray him as a nutcase, Bible-thumping evangelical who’s going to take his religion and God into the Oval Office — and they’ll use that to incite fear among liberals and progressives […]

Once again, unintended consequences are backfiring on environmentalist nuts and alarmist. Corn prices are through the roof, but it’s not because of food. It’s because of biofuels. “The US Congress overwhelmingly approved yesterday a bill raising fuel efficiency standards for the first time since 1975, offering massive support for biofuels in an effort to slash […]