FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Where the Leaders Are In a time of crisis, two governors show Washington the way. By PEGGY NOONAN There were two big speeches this week, and I mean big as in “Modern political history will remember this.” Together they signal something significant and promising. Oh, that’s a stuffy way to put it. […]
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January 4, 2011 Budget Hawk Eyes Deficit By DAVID LEONHARDT Indianapolis Of all the Republicans talking about the deficit these days, Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, has arguably the most credibility. Congressional Republicans have spent much of the last decade voting for tax cuts and spending increases, all the while giving speeches decrying the
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JANUARY 4, 2011 Private-sector union workers begin to notice that their job prospects are at risk from public-employee union contracts. By WILLIAM MCGURN Jeffrey Brown of PBS’s “NewsHour” recently summed up the year’s economic performance by invoking the most overworked chestnut of modern American punditry: “the disconnect . . . between Main Street and Wall
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen December 10, 2010 The Daniels Dilemma Indiana’s governor has a great record. Can he contend for the presidency? Indianapolis, Ind. — “If I could wave a magic wand, and change just one thing, it would be to guarantee that every American child could grow up in a two-parent home
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EDITORIAL: Grading the governors 2012 GOP hopefuls demonstrate fiscal restraint By THE WASHINGTON TIMES October 4, 2010 Associated Press President Obama laughs as he’s welcomed by a bipartisan duo – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (center), a Republican, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat – upon his arrival aboard Air Force One in Newark,
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OCTOBER 1, 2010 The Twister of 2010 America’s political landscape will never be the same. By PEGGY NOONAN On a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., I found a note prominently displayed in my hotel room warning of the possibility of “extreme weather” including “tornadic activity.” The clunky euphemism was no doubt meant to soften or
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 Time for Emergency Economic Reform How about a payroll tax holiday, funded by a federal spending, hiring and pay freeze? By MITCH DANIELS, Governor of Indiana Ronald Reagan enjoyed telling of the elderly Blitz victim rescued from her demolished London flat in World War II. A fireman found a bottle of brandy under
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Ride Along with Mitch Can the astonishing popularity of Indiana’s penny-pinching governor carry him to the White House in 2012? BY Andrew Ferguson June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 Indianapolis When Mitch Daniels ran for governor of Indiana in 2004, a friend and videographer got the idea of filming the candidate
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