Alberto Gonzalez & the Democrats' Will to Power

By Philip Mella
08/28/2007

For many, such as E.J. Dionne and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzoles was a tacit admission by President Bush and Republican leaders that justice always prevails. Writing in today's Washington Post, Dionne ascends his high horse and, in his inimitable way, provides a kind of short course on ethical purity.


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Case Highlights Immigration Enforcement Problems

By Terry Mitchell
08/28/2007

The case of Elvira Arellano is symptomatic of the kinds of obstacles we face when trying to enforce immigration laws in the United States. Ms. Arellano is an illegal immigrant who was recently captured in Los Angeles and deported after having been holed up in a Methodist church in Chicago for a year. That church offered her sanctuary last August, just as she was scheduled to appear before immigration authorities for possible deportation proceedings. She had previously been convicted of using a bogus Social Security number. She has a seven-year-old son who is a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth here during her unlawful stay.


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Mitt Romney's Carter Strategy

By Terry Mitchell
08/22/2007

Mitt Romney is a former one-term governor of Massachusetts who is running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. If Romney is to capture the nomination, he must defeat several better known candidates like Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Fred Thompson. I see some parallels between Romney's current run and Jimmy Carter's successful run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976.


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It's the Momentum, Stupid

By Terry Mitchell
08/17/2007

Is it possible that one or both of the major party presidential nominations could be, for all practical purposes, decided after just two states, Iowa and New Hampshire, have voted? This may sound crazy to the casual observer of American politics, but the answer is yes. But how can that be, with Iowa and New Hampshire being such small states and accounting for only a miniscule portion of the national delegate count in either party? The catalyst is here not the size of the states or their raw numbers of delegates, of course, but the momentum those states can provide.


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Democrats - The Obvious and Transparent

By William Robert Barber
08/15/2007

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck more than likely the subject measured is a duck.


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For Mike Huckabee: New Life or a Stay of Execution?

By Terry Mitchell
08/15/2007

This past Saturday afternoon, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign seemed headed for oblivion. Strapped by money problems, he was unable to complete financially with the likes of Mitt Romney and Sam Brownback for voters at the Ames GOP Presidential Straw Poll.


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The Democrats' Fear & Loathing of Military Action

By Philip Mella
08/14/2007

That there is a distinction between 'support for our military' and the timely and bold decision to intervene militarily is axiomatic. In a lengthy essay in Der Spiegel, Gabor Steingart presents the case that Democrats aren't just in favor of the former, but also the latter, which, in modern times simply hasn't been the case (the rare exception was President Clinton's aerial war in the Balkans and his episodic propensity to lob cruise missiles into Iraq).


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Mexico Benefits Financially from Illegal Immigration

By William Robert Barber
08/13/2007

In 2003, Mexico received nearly $13.3 billion in workers remittances,
money earned abroad by Mexican citizens and sent back to their families in Mexico.


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The Ames GOP Straw Poll: A Postmortem

By Terry Mitchell
08/11/2007

Here are the official vote percentages from the Ames Republican Presidential Straw Poll:


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Is More Government Really the Answer?

By Philip Mella
08/11/2007

National Review Online editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg's piece in USA Today documents the skillful way in which modern liberals are in a makeover mode, calling themselves "progressives" or "populists"--anything but the "L" word.


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This ethanol boondoggle is getting costly

By Michael Hussey
08/08/2007

While politicians and corrupt farmers (note: Archer Daniels Midland -- kings of farm subsidies corruption) extol the virtues of ethanol, the opportunity costs (those unintended consequences Washington DC so eagerly ignores), continue to pile up, snowballing into a very dangerous situation that can only get worse from here, as the percentage of US corn slated for ethanol production continues to increase. These disgusting subsidies are the only reason the market has adjusted, and DC must stop this market interference immediately, before it is too late.


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Latest Polls Offer Mixed News for Obama

By Terry Mitchell
08/06/2007

According to the latest polls from around the country, there seems to be bad news and good news for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. First, the bad news. The last several national polls of likely Democratic voters seem to be consistent. They all show Hillary Clinton leading the pack by an average of approximately 20 percentage points. That’s up from an average of about 12 or 13 points in those same polls about a month ago.


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