John McCain

Campaign Stops: Think Small

In this installment of Health Care Watch, Stuart M. Butler and Ezekiel Emanuel talk about what President-elect Barack Obama should and shouldn’t do on health care reform. My fellow Campaign Stops contributor, Ezekiel Emanuel,...

Botswana: Lessons From the Moatlhodi Fiasco

As the Moatlhodi Recall fiasco unfolds, it is time to make some comparisons. In the just-ended American presidential elections, former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, a respected Republican, stunned the ruling party by...

Christine Todd Whitman and Robert M. Bostock: Free the GOP

Four years ago, in the week after the 2004 presidential election, we were working furiously to put the finishing touches on the book we co-authored, "It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of...

George Will: U.S. Senate GOP leader faces great challenges and opportunities

Abraham Lincoln WASHINGTON -- Which is how discerning conservatives felt while waiting to see if, in Election Day's second-most important voting, Kentuckians would grant a fifth term to Mitch McConnell, leader of the Senate...

Obama victory does not signal the end of affirmative action

Did the hot-button issues of affirmative action and racial preferences come up in this election? Voters in Nebraska and Colorado weighed in on ballot initiatives to ban racial preferences. During a Democratic debate in April,...

Election pushes buyers to quick gun purchases

Fear brought Joseph Cannon to Jim's Gun Jobbery on a recent Wednesday.But the 53-year-old retired Special Forces soldier isn't afraid for his safety. He's worried that soon after Jan. 20 - when Barack Obama takes the...

Jack Bauer Only Has 2 Hours For 'Redemption'

wbelcher@tampatrib.com Published: November 17, 2008 Forget about that James Bond guy. Jack Bauer, the toughest guy on television, is back and ready to kick butt. It's been 18 months since "24" fans got their last Bauer fix. The...

A Senate Super Majority?

While the Democratic Party scored significant gains in both the U.S. House and the Senate on Nov. 4, it certainly looked as if they would fail to gain the 60 seats in the Senate needed to lay the groundwork for a...

Boston Globe: Talk Radio Now ‘Irrelevant’?

By Warner Todd Huston Looks like a couple of fellows pushing a book were able to convince the Boston Globe to let them contribute some soothsaying about the future of talk radio. Scratch that, they are talking about today, here...

Gettelfinger, Wagoner Weigh Big 3

Criticism of government aid to the auto companies is rooted in the thought that it's not a bad economy that's at the heart of the auto crisis but rather years of bad decision making by the Big Three and unions. In an interview...