Bruce Bartlett has worked for two Republican presidents 鈥� Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.He鈥檚 now a historian.He鈥檚 published an extensive report on the state of conservative media titled, 鈥淗ow Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics.鈥滻t鈥檚 jaw-dropping.Bartlett ...
So, Rick Santorum is running for president, again. Does he expect to win?Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, is an experienced campaigner, and he wouldn鈥檛 be doing this with any other thought in mind. I suspect he鈥檚 thinking he鈥檒l raise his right hand to God and pledge to uphold the ...
Ben Carson, Really?I鈥檇 never heard of something called the 鈥淪outhern Republican Leadership Conference鈥� until last week.So I was decidedly less than impressed when 958 of the Conference鈥檚 1,400 attendees chose Dr. Ben Carson as their straw vote favorite.Ben Carson鈥檚 25 percent exceeded ...
One day in 1993, dozens of House members crowded into the Capitol Hill office of David Bonior, a liberal Democrat from Michigan who was then serving as party whip.The lawmakers, including congressman Ron Klink of Westmoreland County, had gathered to plot the defeat of NAFTA 鈥� the North ...
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, the yet-to-announce, front-running, Republican presidential candidate, has clearly stated, 鈥淚鈥檓 my own man.鈥漈ranslation: He wants everybody to know that he shouldn鈥檛 be compared to his older brother, who was once less popular than diarrhea.But Jeb has to overcome ...
David McCullough has written a new book, this one about the Wright brothers, the pioneers of flight who took to the skies over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903.All of this is to the good. McCullough is an accomplished writer-historian whose subjects have included young Teddy ...