Articles by John Pierce

Top 10 States With the Worst Business Tax Climates for Fiscal Year 2007

Ranked by the Tax Foundation Every year the Tax Foundation publishes its “State Business Tax Climate ...

A Star is Born

I see that John Mark Karr has gotten back into the act. The act, of course, is being a personage on n...

Top 10 Reasons Ted Strickland Shouldn’t Be Ohio’s Governor

Ted Strickland is an unaccomplished, lackluster Washington politician with a disturbing record of sup...

Top 10 Most Vulnerable Democratic Incumbents Up in ’06

Ranked by HUMAN EVENTS Political Editor John Gizzi. 10. Rep. John Barrow (Ga.)Former GOP Rep. Max Bur...

Rangel Responds to Novak

To the Editor: In all of my 42 years as a legislator, both at the state and federal levels of governm...

The Foley Follies

The political news from Washington has become an absolute epicurean delight. If I dine more sumptuous...

Top 10 Most Vulnerable Republican Incumbents Up in ’06

You might be surprised who made our list...

Capital Briefs: Oct. 9-13

Do Fence Us In: Perhaps the most important piece of legislation passed by the Republican Congress thi...

U.S. Must Move to Full Missile Defense

How Reagan conservatism should be applied today...

Celebrating Columbus Day

New York – Here I am in our nation’s apple, or Big Apple as the phrase has it. Its air has recently b...

Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress

Information compiled from the Washington Post, “Congressional Sex Scandals in History,” and other sou...

Who Will Win Rhode Island’s GOP Primary?

Incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.-R.I.) will face challenger Steve Laffey on Tuesday, Sept. 12, in th...

Is This Congress a ‘Do-Nothing’ Congress?

In their quest to take control of Congress, Democrats have portrayed the Republican-led House and Sen...

Should the U.S. Pull Out of the United Nations?

This week the United Nations invited Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to spea...

Are Democrats More Committed to Fighting Wal-Mart or al Qaeda?

Who do you think the Democrats are more committed to fighting? Wal-Mart: 97.34%Al Qaeda: 1.65% Not s...

Who Will Control the Senate in 2007?

Looking ahead to the November elections, which party do you think will have control of the U.S. Senat...

Should NYT Reporters Go to Jail?

Should New York Times reporters go to jail for disclosing the secret U.S. program aimed at tracking a...

Will Mel Gibson’s Career Recover After Anti-Semitic Remarks?

Will Mel Gibson’s acting career recover after his use of anti-Semitic remarks during a DUI arrest las...

Who’s to Blame for High Gas Prices?

Who do you blame more for the high cost of gasoline? Republicans: 7.17%Democrats: 88.83% Not sure: 4...

Is U.S. Pursuing North American Union?

Is the U.S. pursuing a North American Union with Canada and Mexico? Yes: 73.04%No: 15.85% Not sure: ...

Presidential Poll Results for September: Newt Wins Again

If the 2008 presidential election were held today, which Republican would you support? Newt Gingrich:...

Capital Briefs: Oct. 2-6

The Unwagged Dog: During the temper tantrum he threw on “Fox News Sunday” September 24, former Presid...

Top 10 Contributors to Hillary Clinton’s 2006 Senate Race

Compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics This list of the top donors to Hillary Clinton’s 2006 ...

Politics Claims Another Victim

It appears that another of the Clintons’ 1990s goals has come a cropper, to wit, ending the “Politics...