Charles Krauthammer The Democrats are portraying the not-yet-even-constituted House Select Committee on Benghazi as nothing but a partisan exercise. They are even considering boycotting the hearings to delegitimize them. Fine. Although this would give the Obama-protective media a further reason to ignore Benghazi, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is whether the committee produces new, important facts. […] Continue reading → 
Pat Buchanan The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday’s primary for the U.S. Senate. But the story ended less happily for the Beltway elite in the Tar Heel State’s 3rd Congressional District. There, the planned purge […] Continue reading → 
All politics is local. So Republican politicians with national ambitions better pay attention to what grassroots parents are saying and doing about the federal education racket known as Common Core. In bellwether Indiana this week, anti-Common Core activists won a pair of pivotal electoral victories against GOP Gov. Mike Pence. Pence’s attempt to mollify critics […] Continue reading → 
House Republicans are set to begin a special investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, raising the stakes in a political battle with the Obama administration as the midterm election season heats up. Democrats are considering a boycott of the committee, which is expected to be approved formally when […] Continue reading → 
North Carolina voters are about to decide who they believe can best challenge Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November: a state politics insider backed by Mitt Romney or first-time candidates more aligned with the tea party and the Christian right. Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary will highlight the struggle for control in the Republican Party as […] Continue reading → 
Michael Barone, Second-term presidencies are an opportunity for bipartisan compromise. The institutional stars are in alignment to address long-range problems not amenable in other circumstances. The president is barred from running for a third term and thus does not have to worry about his next campaign. In Congress, members of the president’s party, with some […] Continue reading → 
Guy Benson Dan already summarized the latest topline polling numbers from Pew and USA Today, which highlight the GOP’s electoral edge heading into the fall. The pollster calls the results “daunting” for Democrats, as the newspaper’s write-up explains that Republicans’ current advantage represents “the strongest tilt to Republican candidates at this point in a midterm […] Continue reading → 
Republicans are sharpening their focus on the deadly 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack as midterm elections loom closer, with a likely vote this week on establishing a select House committee to investigate the Obama administration’s response. Ongoing wrangling over a panel’s subpoena of Secretary of State John Kerry will further highlight Benghazi, as could multiple hearings […] Continue reading → 
As Republicans try to win control of the Senate in the 2014 elections, they may be forced to confront runoffs in key states that could expose conservative-vs.-establishment rifts and allow relatively tiny numbers of voters to pick the nominees. In North Carolina, Republican Thom Tillis hopes to capture at least 40 percent of the vote […] Continue reading → 
Though the Oregon Senate seat was once thought a lost cause for Republicans, Dr. Monica Wehby has lit a candle of hope in the race. As a celebrated children’s brain surgeon, Dr. Wehby can’t be easily pigeonholed as dumb, the favored attack of the left against conservative women. If anything, she might be able to […] Continue reading → 
Hemmed in by solid Republican opposition, the Senate seems ready to hand a fresh defeat to President Barack Obama by blocking an election-year bill increasing the federal minimum wage. Democrats, aware that the measure faces all but certain rejection Wednesday in the chamber they control, plan to use the vote to buttress their campaign theme […] Continue reading → 
2016 Polls Show No GOP Frontrunner In less than two years, Republicans will likely know who the Republican nominee for President is. Democrats seem fine with Hillary Clinton. Minus a surprise challenger or a decision by her to not run, the primary for them is seemingly decided. But on the Republican side it’s hard to […] Continue reading → 
Vice President Joe Biden Monday launched a broadside at the slashing budget plan of House Republicans, kicking off a campaign to try to raise the profile of GOP budget cuts and income inequality as an election-year issue. Biden attacked the budget plan by Rep. Paul Ryan — his GOP counterpart on the 2012 vice presidential […] Continue reading → 
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the GOP must expand its base into a broader coalition that welcomes diversity if it wants to win national elections. Paul, a possible 2016 presidential hopeful, addressed the Maine Republican Party convention on Saturday. Speaking to the state’s GOP, which has been troubled by infighting since libertarian activists devoted to […] Continue reading → 
Daniel Doherty, Sen. Marco Rubio’s fall from grace as a conservative stalwart in the Republican Party is well-documented. His all-in push for comprehensive immigration reform went down in flames last year, killing his conservative credentials in the process (although he’s now working overtime to earn them back). And yet virtually everyone in the Beltway Media […] Continue reading → 
A leading conservative stalwart, whose career in politics dates back to the 1960s, told Human Events the conservative movement in America will not succeed until it gets new leadership—including the replacement of Speaker John A. Boehner. “We’re not going to get to the political promise land until we get new leadership,” said Richard Viguerie, the […] Continue reading →