Brendan Miniter: South Carolina’s Mark Sanford is one of three GOP governors now being widely mentioned as potential saviors of the Republican Party between now and 2012. All are conspicuous for calling on their own party to live up to its principles. Most notably, none have advocated the GOP move to the left. Mr. Sanford is a two-term governor known for vetoing spending bills, pushing market-oriented policy reforms (such as

Interesting stuff for those who find this kinda stuff, well, interesting. From Top of the Ticket: Bet you didn’t know how much your vote cost to get. Here’s the kind of stuff real politics fans revel in: Which candidate spent the most TV advertising money per vote recI’ll see you and raise you $2, presidential candidates Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain spent much differently to gain each vote,

Because why trust impersonal market forces when you can trust in the goodness and wisdom of the change you asked for as implemented by lawmakers and carried out by bureaucrats? WSJ: President-elect Barack Obama is signaling by a combination of words and deeds that his administration will toughen regulations at federal agencies that oversee consumer products, environmental policy and workplace safety. Mr. Obama has named a number of people to

Lest we forget, Shep has a dark side: My guess? This had little to do with ideology (even though he happens to be right in this instance), and everything to do with the hundreds of emails Shep’s been getting the last two weeks complaining about his heavy, fey blush, and asking his producers if it’s possible to find a setting for a widescreen TV that won’t exacerbate the stretch of

Man, I’d love to see the PSA for this one. From the AP: A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison has won a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections. The 61-year-old man, Charlie Manning, told The Seattle Times on Monday that he settled because he wants the ordeal to be over. The department said in a statement it settled to save the

Had PJM put me on this panel. Man, would the sparks ever fly! — Which, now that I think about it, is likely why I’m not on that panel. Well, that, and I haven’t been blogging very long, and don’t have much name recognition in the conservative portion of the blogosphere. But that’ll change when established conservative pundits wake from their slumbers one morning to find that their safes have

At least, so argues J. Parisi at the Washington Times, who helpfully writes said concession speech for the “Maverick” Senator from AZ: “My Friends, Regrettably, I belatedly realize now that “me-too,” half-a-loaf Republicanism is not the recipe for presidential success I long thought it would be, because the voters and special-interest groups that favor big-government programs aren’t going to settle for half a loaf when they can have the whole

Anybody else getting a strong sense of deja vu? Mine started at about that time our New Left charismat gave his speech in Germany, and deepened while he stood amid fake pillars, evoking the mythos of a democratic ideal that has been rightfully repudiated by the better considered democratic republic because of the potential of the former to devolve into the tyranny of the majority. But then, I’ve spent the

Early this morning, after a couple cups of coffee and a belt of Old Crow, I pulled on my leather riding gear and — armed with nothing more than a saddle bag full of dried feed and some labor pamphlets I borrowed from the PLP — pushed north along a series of dusty county roads that lead to a cluster of farms in rural Colorado where free range chickens are

From RWS: Obama’s hope and change website never addressed gay rights. In fact it never mentioned the words ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’. Until after the election that is. I admit to not spending much time over there, so I can’t independently corroborate this claim. But given that the staff from the Office of the President-Elect has shown no previous wariness about simply airbrushing away bits and pieces of Obama’s policy pronouncements