Incumbent Accountability

Politics has become a new profession. The trend creating “career politicians” has been growing for decades, and has surely contributed to the entrenchment of power in DC and its separation from the will...

“If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” Every American remembers hearing this empty promise. I bet you can even hear the inflection of the president’s voice as you...

After a few primary defeats, the media was quick to shout, “The Tea Party is dead,” but it appears the reports of its death, to paraphrase Mark Twain, have been greatly exaggerated. News outlets across...

Mary Landrieu thinks she’s pretty powerful. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, she used the word “clout” 13 times referring to her position as the Chair of the Senate Energy Committee. But...

When Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s first television ad hit the airwaves this week, it purportedly highlighted her “efforts to stand up to the administration in order to fight for Louisiana, and protect...

Thomas Sowell knows why politicians on both sides of the aisle are so upset that the Supreme Court overturned limits on campaign contributions—because such restrictions hurt political challengers and...

“You don’t want to go there, Buddy!” That’s how Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States responded when a member of Congress dared to question the “most transparent administration...

Canute the Great was a Viking leader and an 11th-century King of England. Legend has it that once he overheard his flattering royal advisors brag that their king was "so great, he could command the tides of...

I am frankly shocked by the underhanded tactics of the Arkansas State Legislators who deceptively imbedded increased term limits in a state amendment entitled “Arkansas Elected Officials Ethics,...