Last night, Democrat Mark Critz won the special election to fill Jack Murtha’s old seat in Pennsylvania’s 12th district. This race in a swing district (Voted Kerry in ‘04, McCain in ‘08) was hyped by Fox News and many Democratic…
Much ado about no new spending. Clipped from voices.washingtonpost.com Megan McArdle has a post up saying that health-care reform is “already at least a hundred billion dollars in the hole.” That’s really not right, though it’s certainly true that the…
Was Mitch Daniels lying about the performance of IBM’s welfare privatization then, or is he lying in his lawsuit now?
In a rambling “Guest Commentary” for the Times of Northwest Indiana, State Senator Mike Delph (R-Carmel) argues for an Arizona-like racial profiling immigration enforcement law in Indiana: Until we have an administration and a Congress willing to take control of…
Just after Dan Burton’s campaign decided to run an ad featuring Ohioan actors posing as real Hoosiers, his campaign got a little more help from out of state. The Iowa-based American Future Fund – who has made a lot of…
I honestly don’t know enough about Elena Kagan to form a real opinion about her nomination. Of the probable nominees, I don’t think he could have done better than Diane Wood. Greenwald has been a vocal critic of Elena Kagan,…
Lots of people have flagged Mark Lilla’s piece in the New York Review of Books, and with good reason. Lilla does an excellent job of looking at the big picture and long term trends, putting together pieces and a coherent…
Hoosier Congressman Mike Pence took to the floor of the House of Representatives to demand an investigation into what happened on April 20, 2010. But he’s not interested in what caused the Deep Horizon oil rig to explode – he…
Evan Bayh’s latest statewide email blast (about election reform) starts with the populist headline, “Power to the People.” But like too many things in Evan Bayh’s career, what starts out with such promise quickly becomes a vanity project. Since announcing…
Is it pride? Ideology? Pandering in pursuit of his ambition? Whatever the reason, Mitch Daniels is refusing to double-check Anthem’s request to drastically increase health insurance rates for Hoosiers. I guess all that talk about being fiscally responsible is –…
