Merrick Garland front running as next Justice of the Supreme Court

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 14th at 09:30 AM  | 

John Gizzi has the scoop on the Supreme Court pick over at Human Events. Less than a week after Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he will retire from the Supreme Court this summer, the great guessing game among the Chattering Class in the media and on the Washington cocktail circuit began. “Who will succeed Stevens?” people in the know and out of it chorused | Read More »

NY-23 Smackdown

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 30th at 09:55 AM  | 

John Gizzi gets top billing today at Human Events and is covering NY-23. “The mayor of Plattsburgh just endorsed us and ten more [Republican town] committee members came out for Doug.  And ten more congressman endorsed him today.  We’re on a roll!  The debate’s starting — gotta go.”   That was my conversation yesterday with Rob Ryan, spokesman for Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in | Read More »