BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
“Come on John.  You are coming with me.”
The raspy voice belonged to Corinne Michel, the wife of House Minority Leader Robert Michel, and probably one of the nicest people I have ever met.
Mrs. Michel, an avid smoker, had a wry sense of humor and very level head. The [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Once again, Donald Trump trumped the rest of the world and made a grand opera out of an otherwise modestly interesting situation.
You may be aware that the Republican party of Nevada is holding its precinct caucuses tomorrow to choose delegates to the GOP national convention in Tampa in August.
There is not [...]

BY RON BONJEAN
Reprinted from U.S. News
As the primary contest goes on to Nevada, one has to wonder what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s campaign must do to stop former Gov. Mitt Romney’s momentum after his overwhelming victory in Florida. If the Gingrich campaign has an effective fundraising plan, solid organizational structures in Super Tuesday [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Mitt Romney won a big victory and that win should propel him to the nomination sometime by June, given the vagaries of the proportional delegate system put in place by the Republican National Committee.
But Romney shouldn’t feel that comfortable with his position in the party or with the state of [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
No campaign for President is a straight line upward. Some campaigns are a flat line; some are a straight line down, but no Republican in a contested cycle has ever run the table.
Didn’t happen in 2012, either.
There is a theory in politics that the proper time to judge a campaign [...]

BY BILL GREENER
Did you read about the wife of the conservative Republican governor who spoke before a traditional marriage group and said that only “cowards” had prevented the state legislature from passing a law to guarantee the preservation of traditional marriage?  Surely, you saw the editorial denouncing her for interfering in such a sensitive subject.  You remember [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
In the 1981 classic movie, Absence of Malice, lead character Michael Gallagher tells reporter Meghan Carter that everything she wrote about him was accurate, but none of it was true.
I thought of that line as I watched the State of the Union speech January 24.  Everything the President said that night was accurate, [...]

BY GARY JOHNSON
Reprinted from Loose Change at TCBMag.com

The SOPA and PIPA legislation was inevitable. I’ve been doing a broken-record whine on digital privacy for years and it’s finally coming to roost inside the Beltway. Although the current legislation attempts to block piracy, coming legislation will address today’s open market on [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Long Run was one of the best albums ever produced, and I was thinking about the title song on Tuesday.
I have long believed that our federal government is far too focused on short-term thinking, and our policies are not built for the long run. And I think that most voters [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
One of the big things about the State of the Union address is talking about which Cabinet Secretary has been sent to an undisclosed location in case the Capitol Building goes up in a cloud of neutrons and there is no one left to run the government.
Last night that honor went [...]