Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.