BY GARY JOHNSON
Reprinted from Loose Change at TCBmag.com
I had lunch the other day with a very successful investor and entrepreneur. He came to the United States from Iran as a young teenager. The extreme dichotomy that is Iran is fascinating to say the least—a huge country of well-educated people who, when given [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
When I first started on Capitol Hill (23 years ago…man, I am getting old), I was not terribly sophisticated in the world of politics. For example, I couldn’t quite come to grips that one of the most powerful men in the House of Representatives had the same last name as a [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Club for Growth fancies itself a savvy investor in a better, more pro-business Congress.
With a Board of Directors stacked with Wall Street millionaires, the organization was founded in 1999 by now-Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore. It quickly made a name for itself by running advertisements against Republican politicians who [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com and Townhall.com
When political professionals get together to discuss things like ads, campaign tactics, and debates they know the only thing that matters in the end is: “Did it move votes?”
That’s the question I was asking myself as I watched the five-man Fox debate last night from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
The Obama Presidency is a wonder to watch.  Barack Obama is making changes, which taken together—the sum of their parts—are transforming government and politics in disturbing ways it will take years and maybe decades to reverse.
His presidency is the triangulation of three distinct characteristics of politics and government.
First, the Obama Presidency is an [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
This is the first of an occasional series of what I am calling “Obama’s America.”
While the political elite are focused on the Republican primary fight, the rest of America is focused on looking for (or keeping) a job; hoping the kids are actually learning something at school; despairing over, while [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Twenty-three years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave his exit address where he spoke eloquently about John Winthrop’s famed “Shining City Upon a Hill.” I only know this because I was listening to Tim Farley’s most excellent summation of this day in history on the POTUS station on XM/Sirius satellite radio, and [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Chicago Sun-Times Lynn Sweet picked out an interesting morsel in Jodi Cantor’s book about the Obama family:
“When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall in the early 1990s, she was “distressed” by how a small group of “white Irish Catholic” families — the Daleys, the Hynes and the [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Let’s review the concept of winning: Winning, in our culture, means coming in first. You don’t win by coming in second or fifth. You win by coming in first.
Mitt Romney kicked butt last night in New Hampshire with (as of this writing) a 15 percentage point win over Ron Paul. As of 10 [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
“At a time when Americans increasingly fear we are declining and doubt the efficacy of our form of government; at a time when the Chinese are prancing around the world bragging that their model of authoritarian state capitalism is superior to American democratic, private property based capitalism; in this dreary, confused, uninspired [...]