Ewan Watt's blog

I'm hardly one to stick up for Michael Steele. 
 
Although a thoroughly pleasant individual, Steele was never the right man to reinvigorate the GOP as its National Committee Chairman and has - on countless occasions - endeavored to put his foot in his mouth, alienating the very people who send those checks to 310 First Street.
 
And now Steele's remarks at a Connecticut fundraiser pertaining to Afghanistan may well signal the end of his tumultuous Chairmanship of the GOP.
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Before the special election, I stated that Martha Coakley would emerge the victor by a mere few percentage points in Massachusetts, enough to leave the impression that no Democrat is “safe” in his or her seat for the midterms in November. Many of the Republicans I spoke with could not quite fathom the idea of Ted Kennedy’s seat turning red.Read more

Had you turned to cable news late last week to hear about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's foiled attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253, you may well be forgiven for thinking Europe is a region bustling with aspiring suicide bombers and airports with little to no security.
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I followed much of the Amanda Knox case from the United Kingdom--the home of the murdered Meredith Kircher--and would like to add my two cents to the discussion.
 
First, I have been quite astounded by those sections of the American media who seem to have run to Knox's defense with alacrity, conveying that this young girl from Seattle is taking the fall merely because of her country of origin. It has hardly been impartial--more the the usual American media circus creating judicial soap operas.Read more

It's time to restart the dialogue on the flat tax. It's a policy that has cycled in and out of the national discourse since the 1990s, when the flat tax gathered some momentum across party lines. Jerry Brown, the former Governor of California and supply-side advocate, supported the flat tax in his unsuccessful 1992 campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination.Read more