Who’s Hot, Who’s Not: Fiorina Scores as Margaret Thatcher!
Who’s hot and who’s not this week in Campaign 2016? Carly Fiorina: Very hot. At the Reagan Library on Tuesday, Carly Fiorina delivered a 30 minute tour de force on foreign…
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Steve Wagner
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Steve Wagner is president of QEV Analytics, a public opinion research firm, and a senior fellow at the American Principles Project.
Hillary Abandons Income Inequality
Had you tuned in to Hillary Clinton’s hour-long speech on economics yesterday in order to learn the specifics of how she intends to achieve “strong growth, fair growth and long-term growth,”…
ACLU: Time For RFRA – and Religious Freedom – to Go Away
In a remarkably transparent statement in yesterday’s Washington Post (the left usually prefers to camouflage their true intentions), a deputy director of the ACLU announces it is time for the RFRA…
Ralph Benko and Jeb Bush’s 4 Percent Solution
Ralph Benko is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and a sometime contributor to The Pulse 2016. Always insightful, Ralph has a nice piece in Forbes this week, “Rand Paul, Jeb…
Rand Paul to Other GOP Candidates: Go Bold or Go Home
At CPAC earlier this year, Rand Paul promised to deliver “the largest tax cut in American history,” which will “cut everyone’s taxes, from the richest to the poorest,” and “balance…
The Federal Reserve Will Be on the Ballot in 2016
At last, a powerful critique of the economic harm caused by the Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rate policy (brought to light by Judy Shelton in an excellent blog for…
Elizabeth Warren’s Strange Journey
A friend who was a student of Elizabeth Warren at the University of Pennsylvania Law School assures me that back then she was a Republican. So she has some history…
Christie: “Why has the income of middle-class Americans failed to grow for 15 years?”
In a bid to maintain viability as a presidential candidate, Chris Christie yesterday authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, “My Plan to Raise Growth and Income,”and traveled to…
Will Hillary Clinton Be the Nominee?
Memorandum for: Maggie Gallagher From: Steven Wagner Subject: Your Prescience on Clinton Maggie, your wager that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic nominee is looking safer by the day. …
Will the Lee-Rubio Tax Plan Doom Rubio’s Candidacy?
The Rubio announcement of candidacy on Monday (April 13) was frustrating for its lack of policy substance, the “what and how” that would define his presidency. He seems intent on…
Rand Paul as Pro-Life Militant
Rand Paul spoke yesterday before the Susan B. Anthony List’s “Campaign for Life” Summit, advising the pro-life movement to go on the offensive. Senator Paul was very warmly received. Although…
A Swing and a Miss for Rand Paul
It was good theater, but Rand Paul’s announcement of his candidacy for president today in Louisville, Ky., failed to achieve its essential purpose, which was to expand Paul’s appeal beyond…
Jeb Bush is Not the Anti-Romney
Ross Douthat thinks the Bush campaign should “blast-email the [Andrew Ferguson] profile instead to doubtful right-wing activists, with ‘Jeb: He’s on Your Side’ in the subject line (or ‘Jeb: The…
Ted Cruz Goes Long
Two words defined Ted Cruz’ 26 minute announcement of his presidential candidacy today at Liberty University: “liberty” and “imagine.” The first because of his frequent invocation of that principle of our…
“Most Iraqis Believe the Islamic State was Created by the United States.”
“Most Iraqis believe the Islamic State was created by the United States.” This observation was made not by a conspiracy theorist, but by an Orthodox priest who along with his…
Scott Walker Takes up Cruz’s Challenge
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker came to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) loaded for…Ted Cruz. Speaking a few minutes after the Texas Senator, Governor Walker responded to Cruz’s riff about…
Ted Cruz: The Most Conservative Guy in the Room
Speaking at CPAC, Ted Cruz invoked Ronald Reagan’s admonition to paint not in pale pastels but in bold colors – and bold he was. Cruz seemingly came to CPAC with…
Carly Fiorina: Long on Bio, Short on Narrative
Carly Fiorina brought the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) audience to its feet by calling the proposed deal with Iran a threat to American security. It was the high point…
The Horrors of Dodd-Frank “Banking”
With “Audit the Fed” being described as the “direst threat” to the Fed since Dodd-Frank, it’s worth while noting the mounting number of horrid consequences to actual people who need…
Will Paul Get Serious About the Federal Reserve?
This is not another in a long line of often vitriolic attacks on Senator Rand Paul for his temerity to propose “auditing the Fed.” As is by now well-recognized, his…
