Tom Donelson

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This is a piece of random thoughts where conventional wisdom is turned upside down and corrected. Here is a thought, how many times does the left tells us how much of a failure those Bush tax cuts were? Of course, the job...
Who is Mitt Romney? I will admit I am not yet sold on the Romney quest for the White House, but there are aspects to be admired. When Bill O’Reilly pressed on Romney on why he didn’t talk about giving away his father's...
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When I was learning to drive, I asked my dad to teach me to drive a stick, and he asked me why. As he explained, “You are putting automotive back thirty years, you don’t realize how glad I was to be able to put the key into...
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For many years after he left office, Reagan’s Presidency was viewed as a failure, but since his foreign policy led to the end of the Cold War and his economic philosophy led to three decades of growth, it was hard for...
History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave.This quote described Ronald Reagan. He was both wise and brave as he showed on the day of his assassination attempt. Joking while death stared him in the eye,...
Recently I wrote a column on keeping Ron Paul in an anti-Obama coalition and what could be seen was the lack of the faith in the ruling class, in the case of Paul’s supporters, the Republican establishment. When asked the...
An economist friend of mine made the point that being called a vulture capitalist is not an insult, but a compliment. He began his lecture, “What does a vulture do? They eat and clean the carcasses, thus reducing the...
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The following are my thoughts on what happened in Iowa. The first lesson to learn is that negative campaigning works and money matters. Newt Gingrich had no recourse to respond to the barrage of negative campaigning done by...
Henry Hazlet in his classic book, Economics in One Easy Lesson, noted that the key to understanding economics is not just to look at who benefits today from an anticipated economic policy but to look at the long run...
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The world lost one of its great leaders when Czech Republic leader Vaclav Havel died, but after his death, a few on the left could not contain themselves. One leftist, Neil Clark, claimed, “Havel did not help make his...
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2012 is one of those crucial elections, and every vote counts. So the question remains, who should be the Vice President nominee for the Republican Presidential candidate? If you would have asked me about Marco Rubio three...
The conservative movement lost one of its leading resources, Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart.com was a voice that led the way for others to follow, providing an important antidote for the mainstream media as he covered stories...
So why is everyone so surprised that Media Matters declared war on conservative politicians and Fox news? Or that Media Matters is cooperating with the White House? This is a story similar to dog bites man.
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If there was any doubt about the importance of this election, Obama's war on the Catholic Church and the imposition of his secular view upon the Church should erase those doubts. Obama forcing the Church's various...
Eric Dondero, a former aide to Ron Paul, made observations on Paul's foreign policy and his argument will be part of our discussion in answering the question on how to describe Ron Paul’s policy.
Journalist Don Surber relayed yet another climategate email from the East Anglia gang, demonstrating not just the weakness of the man-made climate change science but also reinforces what those who believe in Natural causing...
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I noted in a recent piece that the Democrats' campaign against voter ID was not about protecting minority rights but to make it easier for them to cheat and to produce an issue to increase turnout among Hispanic and African-...
Steven Hayward of AEI noted that climategate was the single event that changed the debate since the weakness of man-made climate change science was exposed and studies like CERN showed the significance of natural causes....
Why would the Obama Administration or the Justice Department be up in arms over the insistence that a voter have an ID to prove that they are who they say they are? The answer is simple and two fold.
For Republicans, the time has come to realize that the ultimate goal is to win the White House and form an anti-Obama coalition around the idea of increased economic freedom.

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