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Government Health Care: Who's being naive?

More than a few people have accurately observed that politics invariably turns into a a protection racket.  Note: None have made the point more enjoyably than the brilliant Mary Katharine Ham in this video. In the Washington Examiner, Dr. Paul Hsieh ...

From JON HENKE, Eye On '08,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress

What Did NY-23 Mean?

[Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman campaign. However, the views here are my own. I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign.] Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general election is next year. There are two broken, ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dede Scozzafava

How Obama should react to the Nobel Peace Prize

Note: Below, I offer a suggestion that would actually help President Obama against his critics. And yet, his critics should support it because it is the right thing to do. Obama should accept [Nobel Peace Prize] on behalf of Reagan (defeating USSR), ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Ronald Reagan,  Bill Clinton

More Bill Buckley, less Bill O'Reilly

Steven Hayward's "Is Conservatism Brain-Dead" has been much-discussed in the last few days, prompting some valuable introspection within the Right. I'll excerpt some of the more important points. The conservative political movement, for all its ...

From JON HENKE, Eye On '08,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Bill Buckley,  Bill O'Reilly,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party

New Battlefield, Old Guard

Leslie Graves emailed me earlier today with an interesting point: The institutional Right is finally spending money online, but there's still a mis-alignment between the organizations and the Rightroots. [L]egacy orgs are starting to be active online... ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Michelle Malkin

The Permanent Obama Campaign

[T]he presidency is all about politics. Obama did an artful job of creating an image of someone divorced from the nitty-gritty of hardball, brass-knuckled politics. But it’s far from reality. Obama got elected, in part, because he put a team around him ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Rahm Emanuel,  Bill Clinton,  White House

Fight for the Right: It is not Grassroots VS Elites

The LA Times reported on the Right's struggle against the fevered swamp fringe.  My favorite part: "WorldNetDaily's Farah [had] asked" CPAC to hold a panel on "whether Obama was a native-born US citizen", but CPAC rejected their request and said: "It ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  15 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  CPAC, Inc.,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Edward M. Kennedy,  Robert Bork

Democrats responsible for majority of Town Hall violence

One public calendar, compiled by RedState.com, lists more than 400 congressional town hall meetings in the month of August. It's likely not an exhaustive list, but it represents an average of more than 13 live town halls conducted per day in America ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Brad Miller

Fight for the Right: WorldNetDaily Update

The RNC still has not responded to my questions about whether they will continue associating with the conspiracy peddlers at WorldNetDaily.  That's disappointing, but there is better news. If your organization will commit to not associating itself with ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Nat Hentoff,  Thomas Sowell

Republican Health Care Reform

President Obama gave a speech tonight extolling the virtues of getting his way on health care reform, and paying for it by finally tracking down the Bigfoot of federal spending: Medicare Waste.  Politicians have stalked it for decades on campaign ...

From JON HENKE, The Next Right,  10 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Megan McArdle

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