Byron York pointed out that Santorum has been one of the few Republicans who spent the 2012 trying to emphasize the problems of the struggling middle-class. Santorum was talking about the wage-earners who had not graduated college while the Republican ticket was publicly obsessed with extolling the . . . . Continue Reading »
Byron York has written an excellent article asking a really good question. Why isn’t Santorum considered the (or at least a) frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination? Santorum’s 2012 performance is very similar to Romney’s 2008 performance in both . . . . Continue Reading »
“I don’t think [the Republicans] would make it easier for small businesses.” “A corporation, maybe, absolutely. A small business?”- Report by the College Republicans Those quotes from young voters give you an idea of part of the Republican party’s problems. . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeff Sessions deserves a lot of credit for this memo he wrote on the Senate’s (really Charles Schumer’s) immigration bill. Sessions rightly points out that the Senate bill would enormously increase low-skill immigration and that this would damage the economic prospects of low-skill US . . . . Continue Reading »
Chris Christie’s attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling “esoteric” libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face “the widows and the orphans” of 9/11 -reminded me of something, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. It . . . . Continue Reading »
You don’t have to agree with everything Josh Barro says or how he says it, but he has a point here: Namely, these strategies all accept the premise that middle-class entitlements are unsustainable and must be constrained, and that one purpose of this constraint should be to make the federal . . . . Continue Reading »
I want to like Chris Christie, but his attack on “libertarians” who oppose the NSA’s metadata collection program missed the mark. You can make a reasonable case for the value and reasonableness of the program, but dismissing any privacy concerns as “esoteric” and . . . . Continue Reading »
One way to understand libertarian populism is as an attempt to put limited government politics on the side of the average American. You can look at the speeches of Obama and see how the president constantly tries to frame his higher taxing, higher spending, higher regulating policies as . . . . Continue Reading »
Will Wilkinson is a liberaltarian with a problem. Having some libertarian tendencies, he agrees with conservatives on some issues. The problem for him is that many conservatives do icky things like pray and have positive emotional connections with the American flag. The result is that . . . . Continue Reading »
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