FF Symposium: A broad consensus on policy already exists among the American people – it’s just the two parties and their respective activist classes who are the ones most deeply divided.   more

It isn’t politically realistic for Republicans to aim for universal coverage – even a worthy minimal goal like catastrophic insurance could not get the necessary internal support because of the cost and implied coerciveness. What the GOP should do is advocate for increasing coverage and decreasing cost through increased competition and choice.  more

Tom Ridge running for the U.S. Senate is the best case scenario for Pennsylvania Republicans. 
Consider the facts: the man has never lost an election in the Keystone State.  He developed a record as a proven fiscal conservative as Governor, holding government spending to at or below the rate of inflation and cutting   more

If history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, NYU is looking like a clown college right now.
A group that calls itself Students for Radical Change has barricaded itself in the third cafeteria of the campus student center in a lame attempt to update the far-left’s “glory days” of 1968 campus occupations.  Even   more

After watching President Obama’s first prime time press conference from the White House, I want to highlight a section on education for readers of New Majority.  It will likely receive little attention given the stimulus bill and other assorted crises, but it provided a road-map for possible future center-right cooperation with the administration on education   more

The RNC committee members are meeting to decide the next party chair – and the best choice would be Michael Steele.
First, the selection of Steele would be a decisive step in the right direction toward addressing the diversity deficit the GOP faces.  Selecting Steele would not solve that gap, but it would offer undeniable   more

With Hudson Valley congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand selected to succeed Hillary Clinton as New York’s junior senator, there is a rare opportunity for Republicans to gain back a formerly safe seat they first lost in 2006.  The open question is who county-chairs will select to run in the special election scheduled in 60 days.    more

The 2008 election showed Republicans playing to an ever-shrinking base and in the process of becoming a regional party, without a single congressman in the entire region of New England – the party’s historic home.   Ten years ago, before the Bush/Cheney/Rove/DeLay-era, centrist Republican congressmen and mayors dotted the Northeast – and only two states   more