Boehner and Read the Bill: A sign that Congressional Republicans are starting...
I have argued for a while that Repubicans need to pick up the mantle of transparency. It is useful tactically and strategically. On the tactical level, the guys in leadership always play "hide the ball...
View ArticleBoehner and Read the Bill: A sign that Congressional Republicans are starting...
I have argued for a while that Repubicans need to pick up the mantle of transparency. It is useful tactically and strategically. On the tactical level, the guys in leadership always play "hide the ball...
View ArticleBoehner and Read the Bill: A sign that Congressional Republicans are starting...
I have argued for a while that Repubicans need to pick up the mantle of transparency. It is useful tactically and strategically. On the tactical level, the guys in leadership always play "hide the ball...
View ArticleMedia gets Carly Fiorina wrong on national security and the economy
Over the past 72 hours, the online left has collectively ripped into Carly Fiorina for an ad that shines a spotlight on Barbara Boxer’s assertion that “One of the very important national security...
View ArticleDemocrats argue it is fine to ban book promotion
The “Young Guns” have a book. They also have a promotion tour and a video. Now, the Democrats could engage in a battle of ideas. But that’s not what they do. (are you surprised?) Instead the Democratic...
View ArticleFind the next Black Panthers video
Big Government and Election Journal have a great new resource for fighting voter fraud: a free iPhone app. From them: Brought to you by ElectionJournal.org, the website that broke the Black Panther...
View ArticleA conservative transformation in Canada
On Monday, the Conservative Party of Canada took its first majority in its history. This was a victory on several levels. First, after a disastrous 1993 election in which the Progressive Conservative...
View ArticleRhode Island and Voter ID
Today, the New York Times has an editorial attacking so-called voter ID bills. According to Democratic and New York Times (but I repeat myself) mythmaking, voter ID is a racist Republican scheme to...
View ArticleAbsentee ballots and campaign shakedowns in Miami
So, I confess, I had to look up who Luther Campbell was, aside from a guy who came in fourth in a race for county mayor in Miami-Dade County. He was a somewhat high-profile music promoter, fronting for...
View ArticleObama sells out American values and interests in Russia
I applaud House Speaker John Boehner for his letter to President Barack Obama on Russia. I also applaud him for holding fire on Obama while he was abroad at an important security summit. It much more...
View ArticleSoren on shutdown myths
I wrote a piece over at Redstate on myths related to the shutdown. The key passages: The press has been falling over itself to attack Republicans for the shutdown and claiming that they are the source...
View ArticleI had forgotten I had done C-SPAN in 2008
But yeah. I had been interviewed on C-SPAN then… I had more hair then The post I had forgotten I had done C-SPAN in 2008 appeared first on Soren Dayton.
View ArticleWorking with International Justice Mission
My wife, Amanda Butler, and I have moved to South Asia to work with International Justice Mission, on bonded labor. Please see the site that we have set up so that our friends and family can follow our...
View ArticleSaving boys and urban trafficked labour in South Asia
Over at our blog about our work in South Asia, I wrote about a recent case that our office handled and what it shows about migrant and trafficked labour in South Asia: This week, our office was engaged...
View ArticleThe importance of convictions
I wrote a piece about the importance and logic of convictions, using the opportunity provided by a conviction that our office got which we believe to be the longest in the history of India. Go check it...
View ArticleAnother piece about India’s democracy
India’s election made quite an impression on me. I wrote some initial thoughts at the time. More recently I wrote a piece for the Takshashila Institution‘s Pragati magazine on Indian national interest....
View ArticleOn net neutrality
The net neutrality debate has picked up in India based on “zero-rating” or the idea that a service could be provided where the user didn’t pay for the data. I have long wondered how organizations like...
View ArticleI joined Hill+Knowlton Strategies
POLITICO Influence reports on my new job: ALSO FIRST IN PI… Hill+Knowlton Strategies added Soren Dayton, an experienced digital communications and public affairs strategist, as a senior vice president....
View ArticleThe timing of TTIP
I wrote a piece on the current politics of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the EU-US trade deal, with a colleague of mine from Hill+Knowlton’s Belgium office. It is mostly...
View ArticleChoosing to protect democracy
My colleague Cameron Kistler and I wrote a blog post for why we joined Protect Democracy. Read on: We are writing as two people who have spent much of our careers in conservative circles. Soren has...
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