This, from AmSpec‘s John Tabin, is pretty bogus: Re JGP’s comment: “Even if Paul doesn’t thrill you, whether it’s legitimate to lock him out is another question.” It probably wouldn’t be legitimate for the Republican party to do so; Paul is out-polling Thompson in New Hampshire, after all. The NH GOP was right to pull […]

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Lots of blogosphere buzz over a recent Heritage study purporting to find that Democrats are the real “party of the rich”—which is sort of odd given that, except at the absolute megabillions tippy-top of the income distribution, it’s well established that income and voting Republican are positively correlated. Until you look at what they’re actually […]

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Am I alone in suspecting that one serious consideration behind the decision to keep Stephen Colbert off the South Carolina Democratic primary ballot was that he might well win it? Or, at the very least, beat many of the “serious” candidates? After all, that’s the only way adding him to the ballot would help him […]

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Dave Weigel’s coverage of the Ron Paul campaign is the best bit of journalism I’ve read coming out of the Iowa Straw Poll.

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Rove’s resigning? Did someone buy the White House an Atlantic subscription? Update: And reporting from Planet K-Lo: By leaving, Rove could be doing his last bit of service to the president: If it’s a successful last year, the myth of “Bush’s brain” may be laid to rest. I can’t even conceive the kind of deus […]

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…the surprising (and little–remarked upon) appeal of Bill Richardson seems like a better indicator than the wholly predictable failure of Mike Gravel to inspire great public enthusiasm.

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John Tabin asks: There’s no question that Mike Gravel has a libertarian streak. That Gravel is almost certainly going to do even worse than Dennis Kucinich in the Democratic primaries is a telling indicator of how infertile the ground on the left is for Brink Lindsey’s big idea, no? Err, no. It’s a telling indicator […]

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Polls show Americans are about evenly split on whether George W. Bush ought to be impeached; a solid majority favor impeaching Dick Cheney. That’s much stronger popular support than existed for the last actual impeachment of a president.

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John Hood notes that the conservative civil libertarian group American Freedom Agenda is going after GOP contenders who won’t pledge to uphold habeas corpus and judicial oversight of domestic surveillance, with Mitt Romney first in their sights. I’d love to see this pick up steam. If it doesn’t, a more sober generation of Republicans may […]

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