Articles by Libby Emmons and Thomas Stevenson

Line-Item Rescissions

The House voted 247-172 last week to approve conservative Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R.-Wis.) line-item veto b...

Clean Water Breakthrough

In a muddled 5-to-4 decision on federal regulation of private wetlands, the Supreme Court last week s...

Sound of Silence

Several guests at the “President’s Dinner,” a massive June 19 GOP fundraising event in Washington, D....

Quinnipiac Quotient

A couple of recent Quinnipiac University polls have mixed results for the Empire State’s junior senat...

Flagging Support

The proposed constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration failed yesterday in the Senate by just ...

March On, Hillary

Here’s a story about New York City’s annual gay pride parade, in which Hillary proudly marched. Not t...

Quadrophenia

During his 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) often took both sides of the same i...

Seven Defectors

The Levin withdrawal amendment was defeated 39 to 60. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) was the only Republi...

Hillary as Hamlet

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) has been compared to Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean shrew who drove h...

No Bilingual Ballots

Conservative Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa) is battling to strip the foreign-language ballot mandate from ...

Our View: Kill Reid-Kennedy Amnesty

House GOP leaders declare war on Senate bill...

Top 10 Conservative Governors

Ranked by HUMAN EVENTS Political Editor John Gizzi. 10. Mitch Daniels—Indiana While the former Bush O...

Biden’s Hole

Sen. Joe Biden (D.-Del.) says he might run for President, and his financial disclosure indicates he w...

Limousine Liberals

Democrats may oppose abolishing the death tax, but the two richest members of the U.S. Senate, accord...

Murtha Redeploys

In one of the shortest campaigns ever waged for a House leadership position, Rep. John Murtha (D.-Pa....

Change of Plans

It looks like the boos Hillary received last week at the “Take Back America” conference affected her ...

Not Page Turners

New Republic has an interesting piece in their latest issue about the decline of the Hillary Phenomen...

Toots Own Horn

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R.-Ga.) said last week he would probably seek the Republican pres...

Californians Know

On a recent trip to California, Gizzi got an earful from local conservatives outraged by President Bu...

Snow Blindness

After he won the June 6 special election to represent California’s 50th U.S. House District, Rep. Bri...

Lockheed Martin’s Senior Senator

New York magazine notes today how, according to Hillary’s recent financial disclosure forms, she and ...

And You Expect Us to Believe That, Bill?

Here’s a story about what Bill thinks about his wife’s chances to run for president. As usual, he cla...

Will Sen. Chafee Switch Parties to Avoid GOP Primary?

Do you think liberal Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee will switch parties and become a Democrat to avoi...

Does the Death of Zarqawi Represent Turning Point in Iraq?

Do you think the death of the active leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, will be a hist...