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Throughout April we recognize National Donate Life month. It is a perfect time to register to become an organ donor and share that decision with loved ones.
On Charlie Sykes’ Daily Standard Podcast, Weekly Standard Editor-in-Chief Stephen F. Hayes and senior writer John McCormack talk about Speaker Paul Ryan’s retirement announcement, and what it means for the House GOP.
While Ryan can point to many accomplishments in his career, his party’s failure to reform entitlements will probably have the biggest impact on future generations.
The speaker’s facilitating of Trump and Trumpism represented a failure of courage and leadership that has now ended a once promising career.
Wisconsin is pretty well convinced that Ryan quit over fear of Democrats—and there is much truth there. No politician gives up power without a push. Whether the hostility toward Ryan transfers to any GOP substitute, or if it will diminish now that Ryan is gone—thereby may hang the future of Wisconsin politics.
This is no surprise. But it does, nonetheless, add to the growing narrative about the fate which will unfold this fall for the Republican Party.
The outgoing speaker’s district will be in play this November.
Ryan’s sudden retirement announcement removes the second of Wisconsin’s hulking conservative figures of the last decade from the political battlefield in a period of months after Priebus’ ignominious ouster from the White House.
He’s experienced a wave election before, but that time it helped him.
That’s the message on Supreme Court race, treasurer referendum. Was message received?
59 cities rank higher. New data may have lessons for state policymakers.
Ryan was the most important Republican in Washington from 2009 to 2016. He now seems like a throwback from a bygone era.
He was civil, well-informed, polite, and firm, the opposite of a table-pounding, demagogic extremist, and that probably just aggravated his critics on the left even more.
There appears to be nothing bad that Trump could do that would, in Ryan’s mind, outweigh the benefits of the GOP tax cuts. That is moral myopia.
The best word to describe the 2017 NAEP for Wisconsin is stagnation.
For sure, Uber represents change. But once again we’re reminded that change isn’t always for the better.
Our bold reforms are responsible for transitioning over 25,000 people off food stamps in Wisconsin – transferring people from government dependence to true independence through the dignity that’s born from work.
How would you like it if you did not have an elected representative for nearly a year?
The question we should be asking is why Republican leaders are punishing their colleagues for promoting real conservative, free-market ideas.
Here at UW, our efforts to combat sexual harassment began before the issue made headlines and I assure you they will continue. I am encouraged by the momentum we are seeing and deeply appreciate the efforts of the students, staff and faculty who are committed to helping our campus move forward on this issue.
Throughout April we recognize National Donate Life month. It is a perfect time to register to become an organ donor and share that decision with loved ones.
On Charlie Sykes’ Daily Standard Podcast, Weekly Standard Editor-in-Chief Stephen F. Hayes and senior writer John McCormack talk about Speaker Paul Ryan’s retirement announcement, and what it means for the House GOP.
While Ryan can point to many accomplishments in his career, his party’s failure to reform entitlements will probably have the biggest impact on future generations.
The speaker’s facilitating of Trump and Trumpism represented a failure of courage and leadership that has now ended a once promising career.
Wisconsin is pretty well convinced that Ryan quit over fear of Democrats—and there is much truth there. No politician gives up power without a push. Whether the hostility toward Ryan transfers to any GOP substitute, or if it will diminish now that Ryan is gone—thereby may hang the future of Wisconsin politics.
This is no surprise. But it does, nonetheless, add to the growing narrative about the fate which will unfold this fall for the Republican Party.
The outgoing speaker’s district will be in play this November.
Ryan’s sudden retirement announcement removes the second of Wisconsin’s hulking conservative figures of the last decade from the political battlefield in a period of months after Priebus’ ignominious ouster from the White House.
He’s experienced a wave election before, but that time it helped him.
That’s the message on Supreme Court race, treasurer referendum. Was message received?
59 cities rank higher. New data may have lessons for state policymakers.
Ryan was the most important Republican in Washington from 2009 to 2016. He now seems like a throwback from a bygone era.
He was civil, well-informed, polite, and firm, the opposite of a table-pounding, demagogic extremist, and that probably just aggravated his critics on the left even more.
There appears to be nothing bad that Trump could do that would, in Ryan’s mind, outweigh the benefits of the GOP tax cuts. That is moral myopia.
The best word to describe the 2017 NAEP for Wisconsin is stagnation.
For sure, Uber represents change. But once again we’re reminded that change isn’t always for the better.
Our bold reforms are responsible for transitioning over 25,000 people off food stamps in Wisconsin – transferring people from government dependence to true independence through the dignity that’s born from work.
How would you like it if you did not have an elected representative for nearly a year?
The question we should be asking is why Republican leaders are punishing their colleagues for promoting real conservative, free-market ideas.
Here at UW, our efforts to combat sexual harassment began before the issue made headlines and I assure you they will continue. I am encouraged by the momentum we are seeing and deeply appreciate the efforts of the students, staff and faculty who are committed to helping our campus move forward on this issue.
