January 14, 2012 Alan Keyes The elitist faction mouthpieces of GOP hackdom are already spinning the results of the votes in Iowa and New Hampshire in an effort to stampede voters in the GOP stock pens onto the Inevitability R.R.'s non-stop express train

Close your eyes and mentally pan the stage during the 2008 Republican presidential primary debates. All the GOP heavyweights stood in the middle. Rudy Giuliani was going to bring his no-nonsense brand of New York politics to the field. John McCain was an

Repeat a big Democrat talking point often enough, and it becomes the truth. There is a certain liberal narrative that has recently filtered down to many independents and even some conservatives: the idea that the current crop of Republican candidates is

It was anything but a normal school day when former ambassador Alan Keyes made a campaign stop at Manchester Memorial High School ahead of the 2000 presidential primary. Students joined faculty and staff in the library to listen to the social conservativ

US President Barack Obama backed Alassane Ouattara on Friday as the new president of Ivory Coast, congratulating him on his election “victory” and warns his Christian rival Laurent Gbagbo to give up power. Muslim candidate, Alassane Ouattara, whose troop

Dan McCarthy takes exception to my description of the 2012 Republican field as the worst in a generation: It’s not true: they’re a sorry bunch, but they aren’t any sorrier than other Republican slates of recent years. The 2012 field has included the thri

Even on past occasions when the result of the Iowa caucuses appeared to be an aberration—and whether eight votes divides relevance from irrelevance this year remains to be seen—it has set the tenor of the subsequent campaign. Four years ago, both Democra

Adam Graham Rick Santorum finished eight votes behind Mitt Romney in Iowa, a virtual tie. If this were a general election or even a primary where votes were binding, there would be a recount, but as the vote is not binding, there will not be a hand recou

In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will “stick his thumb in the eye” of GOP opposition and name Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican leaders in Congress suggested that cour

The next sounds you hear will be Iowa Republicans rendering their judgment for 2012. The road to the magic number of 1,145 — delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination — begins today, Tuesday. The caucuses, all 1,774 of them, start at 7 pm Central t

University of Iowa professor Stephen Bloom has gotten a lot of well-deserved criticism for an error-ridden piece in The Atlantic that’s sets new records for academic elitism, distain, and distate for just about everything about his adopted state. Much as

December 30, 2011 Alan Keyes A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place ...

RAY SUAREZ: Jan. 3 loomed ever larger on the Republican presidential calendar today, the date of the Iowa caucuses. Six of the seven hopefuls campaigned in the state, some hoping for a final surge to victory, others hoping just to survive. The home stret

The liberal writer Gene Lyons echoes the conventional wisdom when he says, “What’s alarming about the GOP contest isn’t the indecisiveness or poor reasoning processes of Iowa voters. It’s the dismal quality of the choices they’re offered. Is this the bes

The Ninth Circuit ruled last week in Drake v. Obama that a group of plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge President Obama's qualifications to be President under Article II, Section 1, on the ground that he is not a "natural born Citizen." The ruling a

In allowing just two of the seven Republican presidential candidates on its primary ballot, Virginia has scrambled the GOP race for the White House before voting even begins in Iowa and New Hampshire. Only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas

WASHINGTON -- With the Iowa caucuses just seven days away, attention now turns to polls of Iowa's likely caucus-goers, the most important measure of the current state of the Republican presidential race. For now, Iowa polls show a close contest led by Ro

The Republican Party of Virginia is on the verge of the appearance of a significant scandal. Allegations, fueled by a post by Richard Winger at Ballot Access News, are swirling, suggesting that the Virginia GOP changed the rules for the validation of sig

December 26, 2011 Alan Keyes In scripture, when His chosen people take to worshipping other gods, the Lord God Almighty refers to their apostasy as "whoring" and "adultery." The Lord Jesus Christ also describes people of his time as "an evil and adulter