Painting the Midwest Red: A Sea Change is Coming in this Year’s Governors’ Races

By: Fred Malek (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 05:12 PM  | 

The big news and focus in right-of-center and Republican circles this time of year is always CPAC. For many students and young people, it is their first exposure to the wide-ranging and yes, diverse people and organizations that make up the conservative movement, and it is very important. But it’s also not the only important event that happens this time. As it happens, I spent | Read More »

10 Republican Leaders Who Could Be President

By: Fred Malek (Diary)  |  October 26th at 12:19 PM  | 

I have enjoyed the recent top ten lists for Republican leaders, Senate races, and the like published by smart observers like Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post and have occasionally ventured forth my own. Most of us who pay any attention to politics have a pretty good sense of the most influential Republican leaders today; and they include impressive people such as Romney, Pawlenty, Barbour, McConnell, | Read More »