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Daniel TilsonMarch 10, 2014

There were some fascinating takeaways from the just-completed 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Rand Paul won the presidential straw poll for the second year in a row, up six points from last year to win going away with 31 percent. His win is no surprise, since the CPAC crowd is thick with younger libertarian-leaning […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 23, 2014

Ready for a Hillary Clinton-Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign slugfest? Looks to be about a 60-40 bet these days. For quite a while now Jeb has played it close to the vest if not downright coy about his presidential prospects and plans. But recent events are conspiring to flush him out of the weeds of […]

Daniel TilsonJanuary 8, 2014

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of The United States, must be spinning in his grave and cursing up a storm this week. You see, to mark the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s landmark ‘War On Poverty’, congressional conservatives like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are taking turns trying to discredit it. First came […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 5, 2014

As the political winds are turning to presidential politics in 2016, now is the time for Republicans to start thinking about their ticket. I know it’s early, but the top of the Democratic ticket has already been pretty much decided by the mainstream media. It’s Hillary and whoever she wants as her veep. For the […]

Martin DyckmanOctober 6, 2013

It’s almost possible to feel sorry for John Boehner. The once-powerful Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a man of proven substance, finds himself cast as a helpless figurehead in a drama with potentially tragic consequences for himself and his country. If he’s to be rehabilitated, if the country is to be saved, it’s […]

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Daniel Tilson: Takeaways from CPAC 2014

Daniel Tilson: Here comes Clinton vs. Bush, circa 2016

Daniel Tilson: The GOP’s impoverished anti-poverty platform

Barney Bishop: Jeb Bush is best presidential candidate for GOP in 2016

Martin Dyckman: Try coalition politics; it may tame the ‘suicide caucus’