Mike Teets entry into the race to replace Agriculture Commissioner Gus Douglass did not surprise anyone.  But his abrupt departure four days before the deadline to withdraw caught his supporters and Republican leaders by surprise. A greater surprise [maybe] came last...

Spending a few days in Washington…where politics never stops…Cherry Blossoms return annually…and after 25 years here…it’s like coming home.  The Republican presidential contest is CENTER STAGE…Romney is working the hill…the Supreme Court gets ready for Obamacare on...

Speaking With the Speaker By Peggy Noonan John Boehner talks about the need for Republican unity and why the House is in ill repute.  Read the full column here. A not-so-favorite son of Pennsylvania By Timothy McNulty (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Not a single major...

University of Tennessee students made a video about “The Debt Generation”.  The message should be shared with young people across the country.  Watch and do your part in sounding the alarm.  Click here to view.  A 14 year old girl disappeared in New York City for 3...

Republicans [State] gathered this weekend…it was easy to detect a new feel about 2012…and it was not all based on Obama’s attack on WV…but there was a buzz in the morning air about Stuart’s “explosive” Mardi Gras Casino news conference earlier in the week…more to come...

A lot of political junkies follow PhillipsBillBoard.  One of them is Jim Lees (former WV Democrat candidate for Governor).  He has offered a window for political junkies into what to watch in the upcoming presidential election.  Computers & Politics By Jim Lees...

(Editor’s Note:  In the interest of full disclosure I am involved with Gov. Romney’s WV efforts.) A North Carolina friend emailed me a recent column by Ann Coulter regarding Governor Mitt Romney.  A personal comment in their email was on target.  They wrote, “Praying...

Is there a similarity in today’s search for a Republican Presidential candidate and that of sixty years ago? The contest of 1952 saw conservatives generally supporting Senator Robert Taft of Ohio – son of former President William Howard Taft while moderates were...

Is Newt Gingrich the new Nixon…both with razor sharp minds…neither governed as they ran…both with more than two lives...Nixon had big ideas…Newt wants a colony on the moon…both were great disappointments…both left office in disgrace. Endorsements matter…at least for...

A cloud hanging over the 2012 congressional elections has been removed for now.  Earlier today the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District Court redistricting decision.  Blocking the January 3rd decision means the redistricting map that moved Mason County from the...