A couple weeks back, an East San Diego County school board candidate asked for my prediction on the upcoming midterm elections. My guess then: GOP +55 House, GOP +8 Senate. Now, that’s going against the historic grain for one reason: In the past century or so, every time control of the House has flipped, the […]
Just a quick recitation of the facts of the Meg Whitman “housekeeper scandal.” The housekeeper committed multiple crimes in presenting false documents to Meg Whitman to verify her employment. When the housekeeper told Whitman she was in the U.S. illegally, Whitman fired her – as required by law. Whitman did not report her to immigration […]
You can pick any two when it comes to The New York Times’ Kate Zernike who’s been tasked with covering the Tea Party movement and conservatives in general – a task the Times would probably be handing to an anthropologist than one of their staff writers. In a Friday article, Zernike describes the rule of […]
Paul Ryan attempts to have an adult conversation with intellectual heavyweight Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And fails miserably.
Former Democrat U.S. Senate candidate from California Mickey Kaus notes that federal law allows candidates to draw a salary from their political campaigns and use that salary to pay their bills. But the regs explicitly allow candidates to pay themselves a salary (as long as it doesn't exceed what they made "as earned income in […]
Christine O’Donnell defeated Mike Castle yesterday in Delaware’s GOP Primary. As I said the day before, I don’t think she’s electable in that blue state. Sen. Jim DeMint might rather have 35 Marco Rubios than 65 Mike Castles – that may make him feel he’s principled, but it’s a Pyrrhic victory. In the latter case, […]
The number of Hoystory readers who will be voting in tomorrow’s primaries probably approaches zero, but it seems like it’s incumbent upon conservative bloggers to pick a side in the Christine O’Donnell/Mike Castle deathmatch. Vote for Mike Castle. Am I an enthusiastic Castle supporter? Hardly. He’s got a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 52. […]
They expire next year. President Obama has previously said: “You don't raise taxes in a recession.” But he’s also said that tax policy is a tool to make things fair. So, he’s willing to buck “every economist” who says that raising taxes in an economy as fragile as ours is today a bad idea and […]
I suspect a 2012 run for president would be a little early, but 2016 or 2020 watch out! Two years out, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is currently my preferred GOP candidate for 2012. Daniels-Christie could be unstoppable.
I generally go with incompetence – it’s better to think the best of people. But to hear New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie explain how his state lost out on $400 million in federal education funds, you wonder if there might be a little something else involved. One wonders if any beltway reporters would be interested […]