Yes, “A Pledge to America,” by a coalition of Republicans, may help the GOP make a serious play for both houses of Congress in this fall’s midterm elections. Yet if you read the language of the 21-page pledge, you will see a lot of good ideas (including many hijacked from the Tea Party movement that…

Karl Rove and other Republicans who have long been in the political realm are not too pleased by the surge of Tea Party victories in the primaries. These underdog wins over favored Republican nominees for the U.S. Senate have thrown a kink into the plans of the GOP to regain control of Congress. Upset victories…

President Obama has shown the courage to speak often about his hopes of building bridges between Islam and those Americans who are intolerant of that faith. This has occurred in contrast to his relative silence on race relations in America. Yet just because he should be more vocal on race at a time when racial…

President Obama’s Oval Office speech earlier this week should have felt like a win for the administration. The official transfer of power that came hours later in Iraq should have been the “victory lap” the president desperately needs from a political standpoint. Instead, many critics of the White House saw the speech and subsequent ceremony…

It could have been an honor to attend. It would have been something to tell my grandchildren about one day. I could have said that I participated in a historic event —  Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally that will be a notable point in the story of the Tea Party movement in America. Instead, I…

President Obama’s comments about the controversial mosque proposed for lower Manhattan blindsided a wide swath of Americans. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was one. He had spent several weeks fending off repeated media questions about the mosque. At-risk Democrats on the campaign trail were also blindsided by the president’s sudden decision to speak out…

Throughout 2009 and into the early part of 2010, the Tea Party movement was beginning to prove itself as an electoral force. Election Day results last fall and throughout the primary process this year demonstrated that the party’s collective energy and activism were enough to push its preferred candidates past their establishment counterparts to win…

Those who attempt to paint the president’s appearance on The View this Thursday as a reaction to the Shirley Sherrod situation or as a political triumph miss the point. President Barack Obama did not appear on the ABC midmorning show because he was on the defense after the Sherrod-Breitbart bungle. He was going on the…

President Obama — through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs — suggested that the past week of conversation about race, notably the case of Shirley Sherrod, was a “teachable moment.” Granted, there is a lot for many folks to learn through that fiasco. However, those who could most gain from these lessons are the Tea…

Since January of last year, worries about the ballooning deficit and the Obama administration’s spending excesses have been driving the polls and the political debate. The only thing that seems likely to prevent massive conservative victories in this year’s midterm elections would be missteps by key leaders within the movement. Over the last week, we…