If Texas Governor Rick Perry jumps into the 2012 presidential race, as so many now expect, his past could come back to haunt him.
7:17 PM 07/12/2011
Texas Governor Rick Perry and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani both say that they are in the final stages of deciding whether to run for president in 2012.
5:32 PM 07/07/2011
You heard it here first.
12:15 PM 07/05/2011
John F. Kennedy once said: "Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan.” He was referring to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. But he could just as easily have been describing our failed immigration policies.
3:32 PM 06/29/2011
GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman seems to suffer from a political personality disorder. Is the former Utah governor a true-blue Republican conservative, as his sterling record on taxes, spending and abortion would suggest? Or has he morphed into a John McCain-style "centrist" -- or worse, an Obama clone?
11:30 AM 06/20/2011
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman will appear at Liberty State Park in New Jersey on Tuesday to formally announce his bid for the presidency. It's hard to imagine a venue more laden with political symbolism. Liberty State Park juts out into New York Harbor, with Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty -- emblematic beacons of hope and prosperity for the world -- looming prominently on the horizon.
3:42 PM 06/15/2011
Mitt Romney may be leading in the polls, but his status as the GOP “frontrunner” is fragile at best.
10:10 AM 06/13/2011
Ronald Reagan once famously admonished conservatives running for higher office not to attack each other in public. But with the political stakes growing in the 2012 GOP presidential race, don't expect participants in tonight's two-hour Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire to adhere to the so-called "Reagan rule." In fact, tonight’s debate could well turn into a brawl.
3:46 PM 05/29/2011
When I first heard that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was considering a second bid for the GOP nomination, my immediate reaction was: Who's next, Fred Thompson?
5:29 PM 05/26/2011
Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 2007 Arizona state law punishing businesses that hire illegal aliens has just thrown a huge monkey wrench into the nation's immigration policy debate.
5:49 PM 05/23/2011
Should the Republican Party draft Texas Gov. Rick Perry as its presidential standard-bearer in 2012?
8:04 PM 05/17/2011
Thank God, Mike Huckabee isn't going to run for president again. He's a terrific presence, a family values champion, and at times a voice for reason on issues on which conservatives too often find themselves stuck. But let's be blunt: the GOP establishment hated him and Tea Party conservatives didn't trust him. So his presence in the field, though a rallying point for Christian conservatives, especially evangelicals, was destined to prove divisive overall.
11:05 AM 05/13/2011
President Obama’s much-ballyhooed speech on immigration in El Paso, Texas earlier this week fell flat -- and it’s not hard to see why. With the country still embroiled in a recession and with Congress still fiercely debating a budget bill, which the president is still resisting, Obama’s immigration speech was seen largely for what it was -- a publicity distraction, and a decidedly partisan one.
7:48 PM 05/10/2011
President Obama, in a major speech on immigration in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas today, lambasted Republicans for refusing to join him and Democrats in a major push on comprehensive immigration reform, including a sweeping legalization program that Republicans have denounced for years as an unconscionable “amnesty.”
8:15 PM 04/19/2011
Poor Mitt Romney. He already had one big strike against him -- his Mormonism -- even before he contemplated his second run for the presidency. But thanks to the Tea Party, he's also under serious fire for his 2006 Massachusetts health care plan, which his conservative critics liken to Obamacare -- dubbing it "Romneycare" -- since both plans mandate individual health coverage and expand the reach of Medicaid.
11:23 PM 02/09/2011
It's been called the "strategic" solution to controlling illegal immigration. Rather than try to seal America's porous 2,000-mile border with Mexico, why not eliminate the "job magnet" that draws illegal aliens in the first place?
7:02 PM 12/01/2010
How do we get beyond the inflammatory and self-defeating polemics of our current immigration debate? Sadly, the new Congress is shaping up to be just as divisive and deadlocked as the last one.
5:55 PM 11/30/2010
The US Supreme Court is preparing to hear oral arguments in a landmark legal case involving Arizona and immigration enforcement. But it's not the legal case you might be thinking of.
8:32 PM 11/14/2010
Look closely at the recently-elected 112th Congress. Notice all those bright new faces of "color"? Guess what, most of those faces are Republican. The GOP fielded a large number of ethnic candidates, and, to the surprise of some, a large number won. The new Republican crop includes five Hispanic freshmen, including one woman, Jaime Herrera, who won an open seat in, of all places, Washington. And the two Hispanic Republican candidates in Texas won by defeating Democratic incumbents.
11:27 AM 11/01/2010
It's one of the most remarkable and under-reported stories of the current campaign season. The Republican Party, the presumed bastion of insensitive white males, has managed to field one of the most impressive arrays of women and minority candidates in US history. And to the chagrin of Democrats, most of these die-hard conservative candidates are expected to win on November 2. Their victory could well turn liberal "identity politics" on its head.
