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• Actress Ashley Judd Won't Run for US Senate Thu Mar 28
  Washington, D.C.
  Ashley Judd says she won't run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. The actress made the announcement in a Twitter message. ... more
• GOP Strategists Reveal New Research Super PAC Wed Mar 27
  Dalton Vogler
• 'Me Too' Republicans Wed Mar 27
  Thomas Sowell
  Many ideas presented as "new" are just rehashes of old ideas that have been tried before -- and have failed before. So it is no surprise that the recent "Growth and Opportunity Project" report to the Republican National Committee is a classic example of what previous generations called "Me too" Republicanism. ... more
• Missing Republicans -- Found! Wed Mar 27
  Michael Medved
  On talk radio, in internet commentary and at right wing conferences, worried analysts and activists obsess over the dire electoral consequence of "three million missing Republicans" who doomed conservative chances in 2012. ... more
• Sen. Tim Johnson Announces Plan to Retire Wed Mar 27
  Washington, D.C.
  Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota says he still feels the lingering effects of a 2006 brain hemorrhage, but he also says he's reached an stage in life in which it's time to retire and spend time with his six grandchildren. ... more
• Dr. Ben Carson: I Don’t Really Want to Run For Political Office Tue Mar 26
  Daniel Doherty
• Virginia Officially Becomes Voter I.D. State Tue Mar 26
  Katie Pavlich
• Have We Lost America? Hell No! Mon Mar 25
  Kurt Schlichter
  It’s the easiest thing in the world to be a pessimist, and the least American. We’re optimists, and as tough as things are, as many skirmishes as we’ve lost, we haven’t lost this country to the left quite yet. If you had to choose between being them or us, you’d be crazy to choose being them. We’re going to win, and America is going to rise again. ... more
• GOP’s ‘Post-Mortem’ Shows Political Party Without A Clue Sun Mar 24
  Douglas MacKinnon
  President Obama knows for a fact what many in the Republican Party — especially its "leadership" — fail to understand or acknowledge: ... more
• The Best of Comrades Sun Mar 24
  John Ransom
  Stealing is OK as long as each side gets their cut. This is the standard response that you give when anyone points out that your heroes don’t quite live up to the ideals that they supposedly embody: “Everyone does it.” ... more
• Obama Retreats After High Water Mark Sat Mar 23
  John Ransom
  No nation can undergo a permanent revolution from above. Especially a nation that essentially remains one of the most free, just and tolerant societies ever created. Eventually the 99 percent who aren’t bused-in, paid-to-protest, or paid to act as a political commissariat disguised as government employees, asks to be let alone. ... more
• Sorry, GOP, but You Will Never Out-Care the Democrats Fri Mar 22
  David Harsanyi
  Republicans now have a comprehensive "autopsy" report detailing some of the perceived and some of the real shortcomings of the 2012 presidential election. And the rather optimistically named Growth and Opportunity Project's report is jampacked with so many painfully obvious observations that one wonders why it had to be written in the first place. ... more
• RNC Growth & Opportunity Project: Dead on Arrival Fri Mar 22
  Crystal Wright
  Evidently, it takes four months and 100 pages for the RNC to figure out why the party lost the 2012 presidential election and how to fix it. Most of conservatives could tell you in three paragraphs. That 100-page Growth & Opportunity Project to me was billed by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus as a “bold, raw, real” autopsy of the state of the GOP. ... more
• Hillary Clinton's Evolution on Gay Marriage Thu Mar 21
  Paul Kengor
  Hillary Clinton supports gay marriage. This is a major shift. Yet, as someone who wrote a book on Clinton's faith, I can't say I'm surprised. ... more
• Where's Luca Brasi When You Need Him? Wed Mar 20
  Ann Coulter
  I had barely left the stage at CPAC when Republicans did the exact thing I told them not to do. Contrary to giddy liberals writing the obituary of the Republican Party, the nation has not swung left. Republicans just keep losing easy races through unforced errors. I advised them to stop doing that. ... more
• A Real Term Limit Wed Mar 20
  Thomas Sowell
  The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the "s" at the end of the word "limit." ... more
• The Whole Record: Rick Scott’s Successful Pro-Growth Policies in Florida Wed Mar 20
  Ken Blackwell
  A stunning announcement out of Florida this week. The state that was exhibit A for economic disaster two years ago is now experiencing a tremendous rebound thanks to Gov. Rick Scott’s pro-growth policies. Washington should take a page – no several pages – out of Scott’s book. ... more
• Extreme Makeover: Rebuilding the GOP Wed Mar 20
  Donald Lambro
  The Republican National Committee unveiled a 100 page blueprint Monday to rebuild the GOP, after months of focus groups and data analysis to find out why they lost last year's presidential election. Sadly, what they found wasn't any great discovery. ... more
• GOP Readies for Race for Distinction Mon Mar 18
  Shawn Mitchell
  The winter of the liberty movement’s discontent is already warming into the green shoots of spring hope. That hope is blossoming into not just candidates, but ideals. ... more
• GOP Sets Out Plan for Makeover Mon Mar 18
  Washington, D.C.
  Ahead of a report coming out on Monday, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus says that part of the reason his party lost the White House was because it failed to connect with voters. Sharyl Attkisson reports. ... more
• Liberals are Stepford Wives of Political Class Sun Mar 17
  John Ransom
  I don’t think John McCain would appreciate you calling him a woman. I know I don’t appreciate it. I think it’s much better to call him either: 1) a Hobbit; or 2) a Wacko Bird. ... more
• Memo to Reince Priebus: It’s About Principles Not Process Sat Mar 16
  Steve Deace
  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has launched a nationwide “Growth and Opportunity Project” reviewing eight key areas he believes must be examined in the wake of a disappointing 2012 campaign. ... more
• A Vulture Capitalist Cashes in on Failure Sat Mar 16
  John Ransom
  Lessons for America, sponsored by the vulture capitalist most responsible for Obamacare. ... more
• 23-Year Old at CPAC: I’m Probably Going to Run For Congress Fri Mar 15
  Daniel Doherty
• Report: McConnell to Launch First Television Ad in Kentucky … Tomorrow? Tue Mar 12
  Daniel Doherty
• Is Obama Down For the Count? Mon Mar 11
  Kurt Schlichter
  We always knew that Obama has a glass jaw, that he can’t take a punch. But it’s a little surprising that he’s started staggering around the ring so soon after November. ... more

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