Matt Salmon’s closet seems to be full of political skeletons these days. The problem is not just Salmon’s career as a lobbyist after he left Congress but his “friends” since he left Congress. It is a mounting problem that calls into question not only his conservative credentials but also his judgment. What’s the problem this [...]
In a previous post, we discussed the fact that companies like Bain Capital have a net positive effect on job creation. By making companies more efficient, some people lose their jobs, yes, but everyone loses their job if the company goes under. Bain takes …
In what is being described as “one of the biggest abdications of power we have seen on the part of our government in modern time,” the United States Senate is now three years into their failure to do their most basic legal responsibility: passing …
Actually, that headline gives the president too much credit. As anyone who has had a high fever can tell you, one cannot exactly guarantee the rationality of every passing thought in such a condition. Obama actually has no such excuse. He’s just making stuff up …
The data continue to come in, and Obama’s sudden, miraculous, saintlike affirmation of the timely beauty of same-sex unions does not appear to be helping him.
WH getting blowback from African-American churches over gay-marriage stance
In the previous post, we discussed the media’s naked attempt to paint Mitt Romney as an anti-gay bully, right at the moment when Obama is burnishing his lightworker cred with his entranced followers on the left. It wasn’t a particularly good attempt, though it …
One of the good things about Mitt Romney as a candidate is that he appears to be pretty well vetted and squeaky clean. After all, if that were not the case, why would the pro-Obama media (but I repeat myself) have to reach back to …
After securing the endorsement with Rick Santorum’s withdrawal today, Mitt Romney might have a new problem on his hands. Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, commonly referred to as S.B. 1070, has just endorsed Mitt Romney for President. Russell Pearce has been a lighting rod of controversy since his authorship and eventual [...]
In 2007, lobbyist, former Congressman and overall righteous dude Matt Salmon asked, “How do you evaluate the benefits of a public/private partnership?” Salmon was referring and lobbying for Waveyard Development LLC, a Mesa, Arizona public-private partnership project that planned to seed 125 acres of city-owned public parks and recreation properties and facilities to developers to [...]
Judging by the email I receive from my readers, there are a lot of Republicans who feel that Mitt Romney doesn’t pass the conservative litmus test. Some of them even threaten to sit out the presidential election if Governor Romney secures the nomination. Although I …
