Kenneth Tomlinson was a conservative media figure who served as chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and editor in chief of Reader's Digest. He contributed political commentary and analysis to The Weekly Standard from 1998 to 2012, frequently covering congressional races, Republican politics, and electoral dynamics across the country.
Three-term Indiana Democrat Rep. Joe Donnelly voted for Obamacare. He voted for Obama’s waste-filled $787 billion stimulus package. He is a down-the-line supporter of card check, the measure that would allow union organizers to bypass secret ballot elections.
After a lifetime of political good fortune in Indiana, Senator Richard Lugar can’t catch a break. He is facing what Politico calls his “toughest reelection campaign in decades,” and with the May 8 GOP primary looming, he desperately needs to repair relations with party conservatives.
More good news for Republican Tom Cotton in his race for the open 4th Congressional District seat in Arkansas.
Back when he was running for president, Barack Obama cited his relationship with Senator Richard Lugar so often that Lugar came to be known in the political press as “Obama’s favorite Republican.” Photos of Lugar even appeared in campaign ads that helped Obama (narrowly) carry Indiana.
Every time I hear Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell dismiss concerns over earmarking, I think of his fellow Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers, the senior House appropriator who has loaded pork into the federal budget.
Jim DeMint vividly recalls his first meeting with Marco Rubio two years ago when the youthful speaker of the Florida House came seeking his support for the U.S. Senate. Rubio told how his Cuban refugee parents had worked hotel service jobs all their lives so he and his siblings could have a better…
A host of Washington journalist insiders (including the usually reliable Carl Cameron of Fox News) reported that polls showed Evan Bayh with a comfortable lead earlier this week when the Indiana Democrat announced he would not seek reelection this fall.
For a sense of the depth of political trouble Harry Reid faces back home—the latest poll shows more than half of Nevadans have an “unfavorable” view of him—you need only read the accounts of Democrats on the Las Vegas City Council discussing the ethics of buying off senators to support Obamacare.
Geographically New York’s 23rd is known as one of the largest congressional district east of the Mississippi, and the mountains and lakes of the North Country are renowned for their magnificence. But in terms of national politics the district was strictly a backwater—until last November’s special…
Even before she became the swing vote that forced consideration of Obamacare onto the Senate floor, two-term Arkansas senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln had a dubious distinction: "For 2010, she may be the most endangered Democratic senator in the country," says Public Policy Polling head Dean Debnam.
On Election Day, veteran conservative leader David Keene was regaling friends with the story of how the Nixon White House manipulated a split in liberal opinion to help elect James Buckley to the U.S. Senate from New York.
A couple of weeks ago, political handicapper Charlie Cook alerted his subscribers that "the situation for President Obama and congressional Democrats has slipped completely out of control." Politico asserted the Cook Political Report special "should send shivers down Democratic spines."
In early summer of 2005, I was preparing to go to Afghanistan to examine the state of U.S. international broadcasting there when a friend suggested I call on Illinois representative Mark Kirk.
Editor's note: Jack Kemp passed away May 2, 2009. R.I.P.
The year was 1961 -- an incredible time for a sixteen-year-old kid to be a magazine intern in Washington, D.C.
The column was a magazine editor's dream. Mike Barnicle told the story of the friendship of two boys, forged out of a mutual love of baseball, in the cancer section of Boston's Children's Hospital. "And on those dreamy summer nights when the Olde Towne Team was home, the two of them would sit by a…