The Club for Growth is pressuring John McCain to turn down public funding for his presidential campaign. McCain has declined to rule out using public financing for upcoming primaries and caucuses. Club for Growth President Pat Toomey had this to say:
It was bad enough that John McCain voted against the landmark tax cuts in 2001 [...]

Mark Goodman won’t officially say goodbye to the Student Press Law Center until the end of the year, but for his friends and acquaintances, Saturday night’s gathering in Washington was our chance to celebrate Mark’s 22 years of leadership at the SPLC. Goodman, my first boss after graduating from college, has been an inspiration for [...]

Katharine Q. Seelye’s article in today’s New York Times about political coverage of the 2008 race got me thinking about how blogging has changed reporting.
The news media are more obsessed than ever with the horse-race aspects of the presidential campaign, according to a new study. Despite the campaign’s early start, the media have not been [...]

Jim Harper of WashingtonWatch.com has devised a new widget for bloggers writing about congressional legislation. Harper’s website already does an excellent job providing information on the costs or savings from proposed laws. Now he’s added an easy-to-embed widget displaying public opinion on the legislation.
Take the SCHIP bill, for instance. Harper’s website tells us that the [...]

Ten days after making a splash with a clever commercial attacking the Democrats’ plan to fund SCHIP with a tobacco tax, the mysterious nicolai1951 is back with a second video. This one is even funnier than the first.

Meanwhile, it appears Republicans haven’t given up hope that a deal on SCHIP is still possible. The question [...]

Print and online journalists take note: The Phillips Foundation is upping its top fellowship level from $50,000 to $75,000 this year and has expanded eligibility to working journalists with less than 10 years of professional experience. The foundation is now offering full-time fellowships of $75,000 and $50,000 and part-time fellowships of $25,000.
The Phillips Foundation created [...]

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Here’s some advice for Washington restaurant-goers: When critic Tom Sietsema writes a positive review in the Washington Post, it’s best to avoid the place. At least that was our [...]

Liberals in Congress are clinging to anything they can to show they’re doing something. Last week it was the meaningless milestone of 1,000 votes. But a closer look at the numbers tells a different story. In my Townhall column today, I explore some of the issues that need to be addressed: a dozen appropriations bill, [...]

Yesterday afternoon at the annual retreat for Phillips Foundation fellows, I listened to a handful of reporters whose primary beat is the Internet. As big and as broad as that may sound, Jose Antonio Vargas of the Washington Post, Amy Schatz of the Wall Street Journal and Abbi Tatton of CNN each do an excellent [...]

Jennifer Rubin wrote a good piece for Human Events yesterday about why conservatives should have an upbeat attitude these days. An aggressive new communications strategy by the Republican National Committee, combined with incompetence on the part of congressional Democrats, has given the GOP new life. A narrow loss by Republican Jim Ogonowski in Massachusetts’ liberal [...]