Author: Graham Deese (Graham Deese)

It should be painfully obvious that Republicans have not demonstrated the leadership necessary to reclaim the White House in 2016. Republican control of Congress has been characterized by the same party infighting and partisan politics that have dominated Washington politics in recent years. The American people elected Republicans to Congress not merely because they were...

One day this past summer when I arrived at work, several of my coworkers were laughing about a news article describing a press conference of then-gubernatorial candidate for Illinois, Bruce Rauner. To demonstrate the state’s wasteful spending, Rauner brought three caged chickens to the conference and said, “We have spent over $100,000 flying chickens into...