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The GOP's Civil "Civil War"

I have been thoroughly amused by all this talk about a "civil war" within the Republican Party, supposedly due to divisive "conservative" factions who, going rouge, are disturbing the Newtonian equilibrium of "mainstream" party regulars. What ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Ronald Reagan,  Gerald Ford,  Richard Nixon,  U.S. Democratic Party

It Will All Come to Tears

What has it come to when you start getting anxious over a new budget document released by a federal agency like the General Accountability Office (GAO), which some readers, of a certain age, will remember as the former General Accounting Office? ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Paul Ryan,  Peggy Noonan

Senate Committee Holds Fast for Abortion

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee haven't heard the news that more Americans call themselves pro-life than pro-choice, according to the Gallup organization. Yesterday, in a 13-10 vote, every Democrat but one, Senator Kent Conrad of North ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Orrin Hatch,  Gallup,  Kent Conrad,  U.S. Republican Party

Republicans Struggle to Get Off the Mat

In Alice McDermott's touching, depressing novel, Charming Billy, a 1998 National Book Award winner, the Irish-American narrator, makes a parenthetical comment on her father's "legion of cousins" in New York, regarding whom "it had seemed to me ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Abraham Lincoln,  Gallup

Indentured Grandchildren

If you are blessed, as I am, to have grandchildren, you may not realize that they are more than just treasured children of your children, a gift beyond measure. They are also indentured servants who will be paying off your cumulative national ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  Barack Obama,  Wall Street Journal,  Peter Orszag,  Paul Ryan

Bob Novak's Angle of Repose

I only met Bob Novak once and relatively recently, at my daughter's wedding, as he was a dear friend of the groom's family. After offering him my personal appreciation for his writings over the years, the brief conversation turned to the newlyweds, ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  21 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Wallace Stegner,  David Frum,  Daniel Patrick Moynihan,  Ronald Reagan

What Would a New Era of Republican Governance Bring?

Republicans are beginning to get excited. Record levels of spending and debt, deficits overwhelming a shrinking economy, and Obamacare are creating tremendous downward pressure on the Democrats and their falling poll numbers. Some pundits are ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  18 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  Tom DeLay,  John McCain

No Good Deeds

Given the population explosion in its Washington suburbs, an area which has contributed significantly to the election of a Democratic president, governor, and two senators in recent years, Virginia is no longer a Southern state; but it isn't quite ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  12 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Creigh Deeds,  U.S. Republican Party,  Gallup,  Helen Keller,  Barack Obama

Will Obama Continue to Defy Gravity?

Since his very convincing election victory last November, and the sweep of both houses of Congress by the Democrats, President Obama has dominated the playing field, scoring at will on a number of budget and programmatic issues and accelerating ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  28 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Gallup,  Pat Buchanan

Cars, Climate, Fuel Efficiency, and the American Consumer

I make it a practice to start reading the auto section of the newspaper whenever the car I am driving clears 100,000 miles. This allows ample time for detailed research on various options out there since I routinely drive a car well past 130,000 ...

From G. TRACY MEHAN, III, American Spectator,  21 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Warren Brown,  Mercedes-Benz,  Jack Nicholson,  Ford Motor Company,  General Motors

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