Peyton Miller contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2010, writing about domestic policy, taxation, and politics. Their articles frequently covered fiscal policy debates, labor issues, and the political activities of prominent Democratic figures including Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie.
GOP hopes to recapture the House this November hinge on the success of a few underdog challengers to Democratic incumbents. One such candidate, entrepreneur Bobby Schilling from Moline, Illinois, is running to unseat second-term Democrat Phil Hare in Illinois-17. A 46-year-old father of no fewer…
In their desperation to cut losses in the 2010 midterms, Democrats are relying ever more heavily on their message that Republicans care nothing about the poor. The GOP, we are told, has opposed tax relief for working class families, subsidized health insurance for those who can’t afford it, and…
Labor union membership has declined dramatically in the past six decades, from over a third of the workforce in 1945 to just 7.2 percent of private sector employees in 2009; unions are now overwhelmingly concentrated in the public sector. But organized labor continues to wield tremendous political…
In a press conference late last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed legislation before the House to extend unemployment benefits until November 30. Asked if the extension would serve as a "disincentive for people to look for work," Pelosi dismissed the argument as a “misrepresentation of the…
In a 219-206 vote yesterday, the House passed a campaign finance measure known as the DISCLOSE Act in answer to the Supreme Court’s January Citizens United decision. The bill, according to Politico, would "require corporations, labor unions, trade associations, and advocacy groups to publicly…
New Jersey’s Chris Christie continues to do a world of good. At an event in Newark on Tuesday, the Republican governor promoted his “Cap 2.5” plan, first introduced in March, to constitutionally limit property tax increases.
The Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, likely to be filed next week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a South American interviewer last week that the Obama administration opposes the law because “the federal government should be…
Little noticed amid last Tuesday’s primary races was a Maine referendum, People’s Veto Question 1, in which voters repealed the state legislature’s tax reform package by a vote of 61 percent to 39 percent. Last year, the legislature replaced the state's progressive income tax (which imposed an 8.5…
Iran’s pro-democratic Green Movement, which emerged one year ago in protest of the current regime’s fraudulent June 12 electoral victory, received the National Endowment for Democracy’s 2010 Democracy Award in a Capitol Hill ceremony yesterday. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen discussed Iran’s…
At a Kalamazoo Central High School commencement speech yesterday, President Obama reminded graduates that there will be times they “screw up” no matter how hard they try, and when that happens, “it’s the easiest thing in the world to start looking around for someone to blame.” “We see it every day…
While delivering a commencement speech yesterday at Kalamazoo Central High School, President Obama reminded graduates that there will be times they “screw up” no matter how hard they try, and when that happens, “it’s the easiest thing in the world to start looking around for someone to blame.” “We…
Hillary Clinton raised more than a few eyebrows last week, when she aired her own views (and not necessarily those of the Obama administration, she said) on federal tax policy, saying she feels the rich “are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues…
Hillary Clinton raised more than a few eyebrows yesterday, when she aired her own views (and not necessarily those of the Obama administration, she said) on federal tax policy, saying she feels the rich “are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues…