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Michael Brown
Posted: 2/11/2013 9:39:00 AM EST
Republican leaders have capitulated, pro-family pundits have caved, and gay activists have announced that their struggle for equality is just about over. Is it time for biblical conservatives to throw in the towel?
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David Harsanyi
Posted: 1/10/2013 9:53:00 AM EST
If Republicans do happen to force a shutdown in Washington, it's very possible they'll be embracing a political loser while doing the rest of us an immense favor.
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Steve Deace
Posted: 1/5/2013 12:01:00 AM EST
This time I should’ve been the one listening. But listening can be tough sometimes when you’re an analyst and a commentator, and people around the country – listeners, readers, media, candidates, causes, businesses, etc. – come to you to find out why things are happening and what may happen next.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 1/4/2013 9:34:00 AM EST
In the deep dark days of 1994, I was out of politics. I was actually running the Middle East for the company then known as EDS out of Dallas.
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Posted: 12/27/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
A year ago, I resolved to spend 2012 praying more and, in my prayers, asking for patience. I have prayed, I have asked, I have received, but not enough. Ask my family, and they may attest that I must not have prayed enough, as my patience often runs thin.
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Matt Towery
Posted: 12/13/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
I remember it well. It was Christmastime 1995, and much of the business establishment seemed furious with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich. As his political chair, I was hearing them out. Moreover, I was by then CEO of one of the nation's largest producers of corporate annual reports -- big-ticket items -- so I was listening intently.
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Posted: 11/8/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Nobody likes to lose. But defeats can prove advantageous if used as a learning tool. Newt Gingrich lost his first two congressional campaigns, but won his third. Twenty years after his first defeat, he changed the nation with the Contract With America.
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Larry Elder
Posted: 9/20/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
When Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention, he took credit for balancing the budget. That Clinton basked in his achievement, of course, surprises no one. Nor is it surprising the media failed to remind people of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and his role in pulling this off.
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Larry Elder
Posted: 9/20/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
When Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention, he took credit for balancing the budget. That Clinton basked in his achievement, of course, surprises no one. Nor is it surprising the media failed to remind people of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and his role in pulling this off.
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Ed Feulner
Posted: 9/15/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
On Sept. 10, 2001, I flew back to Washington from Frankfurt, Germany, with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. We discussed a host of domestic and foreign policy issues before landing at Dulles International Airport that bright, crisp fall day. Neither of us had any idea how our worlds, and the worlds of every American -- indeed, of everyone “on the planet,” as Newt often says -- would be completely upended within the next 24 hours.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 9/6/2012 10:08:00 AM EST
I am not one to whine about the Liberal bias of the national political press corps. It's there. You know it. I know it. THEY know it.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 8/23/2012 9:30:00 AM EST
The Republican National Convention starts on Monday in Tampa, Florida.
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Posted: 8/9/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Here's my first admission: I'm a geek. In school, I was the bookish girl who kept her head down during class and barely talked with other students. A bit of a nerd, geek or whatever other slang word would fit at the time. A voracious reader, I spent most lunch hours during my eighth-grade year reading in the library. It was easier to go there than it was to endure the process of trying to find someone to sit with in the cafeteria.
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Townhall.com Staff
Posted: 8/2/2012 9:00:00 AM EST
Following a Rasmussen poll showing that only 14 percent of Americans think today’s children will be better off than their parents, Newt Gingrich went to the National Conservative Student Conference (NCSC) in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to appeal to the future generation.
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Michael Barone
Posted: 7/26/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Only a few lonely media outlets responded to the Aurora Mall murders by calling for stricter gun control measures. President Barack Obama and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made eloquent statements, as did Mitt Romney, but neither the two Democrats nor the Republican called for changes in gun laws.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 7/13/2012 11:31:00 AM EST
The coverage of former FBI director Louis Freeh's report on the 14-year cover-up of the child abuse scandal associated with Penn State's football program gives us a peek into an issue I've thought about for a long time: Closed circles.
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Ryan James Girdusky
Posted: 7/11/2012 11:35:00 AM EST
After two long years of speculating, campaigning, hoping, and voting the Ron Paul presidential campaign has come to an end. At the end of this year, Ron Paul’s bid for the presidential ticket will be eclipsed by his retirement, after the completion of his four decades as a congressman.
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Peter Ferrara
Posted: 6/15/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors' houses and stealing their family jewels and life savings? You would arm yourself, and your family members of sufficient age, to defend your property. Or you would move to a safer neighborhood.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 5/23/2012 7:49:00 AM EST
There's a very useful idiom: "The wheels are coming off."
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Byron York
Posted: 5/9/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Watching Newt Gingrich's graceful and low-key withdrawal from the presidential race last week, it was hard not to think back to January in Columbia, S.C., when he drew a wall-to-wall, fired-up crowd to celebrate his blowout victory in that state's primary.
