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I have sometimes bemoaned the passing of the statesman in modern society. What I have often lacked, however, is a clear articulation of what separates a statesman from, say, the
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James Dobson is apparently going to endorse Mike Huckabee for President. Now that Mitt Romney is out of the race, Dobson clearly doesn't have to risk offending those
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Now that Mitt Romney has exited the presidential race, it's safe to do a post-mortem on what went wrong. Few have offered more prescient remarks than Joshua
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The story of South Carolina's Republican primary has been written. Mike Huckabee's campaign is in serious jeopardy, while McCain's road to the White House
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Huckabee's position on the government and the economy has brought some blistering criticism on him from numerous quarters, not least of whom is Larry Kudlow (you can see
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The standard line leading up to the Iowa victory was that Mitt Romney was losing support because of the evangelical rejection of his Mormon faith. In fact, most pundits preferred to ignore evidence to the contrary, labeling Mike Huckabee’s rise […]
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It’s no small irony that Huckabee started to fall behind in his “rapid response” to the litany of attacks (and miscues) that he has made in recent weeks just about the time Joe Carter left his campaign. Joe has posted […]
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One of the concerns Paul Horwitz addresses in his excellent paper on Article Six of the Constitution (discussed here) is the loss of Article Six as a standard for political
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One of the interesting aspects of this election season is intense focus on the scope of Article Six's prohibition of a "religious test" for candidates. The
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Mitt Romney's credentials as a social conservative took another blow on his recent "Meet the Press" appearance. And social conservatives are noticing. According to this news
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Today, Paul Mirengoff at Powerline raises the concern that Huckabee seems to want a free pass on the issues because of his status as an evangelical. Paul writes: Huckabee seems
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It’s pretty rare that I get wind of breaking news before other people do. However, twenty-seven Missouri politicians are about to announce their support of Mike Huckabee. While there has been a lot of questions about whether he would be […]