Quotes from Election 2010: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good: Marco Rubio’s victory speech: ”We make a great mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican party…What they are is a second chance, a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be not so long ago.” Rand... Read the full story
The Most Important Person in America
The Most Important Person in America is, of course, a designation that might apply to a number of significant Americans. In this instance I am centered on the November 2 Election Day and its aftermath. I write to you with the bias of an independent conservative. I most certainly have a horse in the race... Read the full story
Five Reasons to Keep the Pressure on Pelosi, Reid and Obama
1. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie makes the tough spending decisions and is standing up to unions. Meanwhile President Obama acts like a community organizer, telling union activists in a conference call Tuesday to “pick up a packet on Saturday morning to walk the precincts.” This according... Read the full story
Bill Hudak for MA-06
In Massachusetts’ sixth district, conservative Bill Hudak is running against entrenched political barnacle, John Tierney. Hudak wants to restore American prosperity with reductions to government spending, to end the double taxation of the sinister Death Tax, and to reduce the job destroying taxes that... Read the full story
One Race to Win
In upstate New York, a close race is brewing. In the 20th Congressional District, my home district, Republican Chris Gibson is taking on incumbent Democrat Scott Murphy. Chris Gibson was raised in the district in Kinderhook, New York, and is a retired U.S. Army colonel, with seven deployments under his... Read the full story
Gary Berntsen
Running for senator in New York is Gary Berntsen. If you’ve been reading the site for a while you’ve surely heard Gary’s name in pieces I’ve written about Afghanistan. Berntsen was the CIA’s best man in Afghanistan right after 9/11. He led the team to Tora Bora to capture Osama bin Laden, and... Read the full story
Arkansas Dems Deny Card Check
The Unions Lose Big – Review & Outlook, The Wall Street Journal Union bosses lost big in Arkansas when the people of the state totally ignored their candidate in the Democratic primary. Even after a $10 million campaign to elect Bill Halter, and to punish Blanche Lincoln for voting against Card... Read the full story
Californians Get it Wrong
Two Tech Chiefs Triumph in California – Jim Carlton, Stu Woo and Cari Tuna, The Wall Street Journal Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman won the GOP primaries for senate and governor in California last night. I’m sure that not many California voters took even five minutes to read about Ms. Fiorina’s... Read the full story
Defeat Harry Reid
Defeating Dingy Harry – John Gizzi, Human Events In Nevada a three-way bout is taking place between Sharron Angle, Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian for the GOP nomination to senate. Tarkanian is definitely the choice for true conservatives, but whoever wins this race will have the support of the entire... Read the full story
Tarkanian and DeVore
Big States Dilute Tea-Party Strength – Stu Woo and Jim Carlton, The Wall Street Journal The only candidates conservatives should be voting for in the Nevada and California Senate races are Danny Tarkanian and Chuck DeVore respectively. – Dick Young Rubio Rises, Again – Robert Costa, National Review Marco... Read the full story
