DUMPBOEHNER.COM — The House will soon be voting on Boehner's replacement, and for others in House leadership. Conservatives have a historic opportunity to take back the House of Representatives and install principled leadership – those who will honor their oath and listen to their constituents... (more)

October 22, 2015

CLIFF KINCAID — Millionaire businessman Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream was on CNN last week talking about his presidential candidate, career politician and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a "Social Democrat," not a socialist. For his part, Cohen said, "You know, I'm a capitalist, clearly, and I support the guy."... (more)

October 22, 2015

LA TIMES — Rep. Paul D. Ryan appeared to have locked up the votes Wednesday to become the next speaker of the House after a key conservative faction gave its support, even though he failed to win the kind of sweeping unanimity he had been seeking from the fractious Republican majority.... (more)

October 22, 2015

BREITBART — The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday evening voted against endorsing Ryan--an endorsement Ryan considered essential to formally launching a bid for House Speaker. "HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS DOES NOT ENDORSE PAUL RYAN. They say a SUPER MAJORITY will support Ryan for speaker, however," Politico's Jake Sherman tweeted.... (more)

October 22, 2015

BREITBART — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to repeal a rule put in place by the third President of the United States and Founding Father -- Thomas Jefferson -- before he'd become Speaker of the House.... (more)

October 22, 2015

BREITBART — Conservatives are coalescing movement-wide against an effort by House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan to ascend to the Speakership in the wake of outgoing Speaker Rep. John Boehner's forthcoming resignation.... (more)

October 22, 2015

BREITBART — Rep. Paul Ryan says he'll take the job as House Speaker only if particular groups -- including the important House Freedom Caucus -- concede to a list of significant demands. Ryan is demanding support across the Republican conference and says he wants to be "that unifying candidate."... (more)

October 22, 2015

WASHINGTON TIMES — The surge of children and families crossing the southwest border illegally accelerated again in September, leaving fiscal year 2015 the second-worst on record, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Border Patrol.... (more)

October 22, 2015

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Hillary Clinton has done Trey Gowdy an enormous favor. In anticipation of her testimony on Thursday before the Benghazi select committee he chairs, and with a lot of Republican help, she has framed the committee as a partisan political witch-hunt obsessed with dashing her presidential ambitions.... (more)

October 22, 2015

CHARLES HURT — Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate.... (more)

October 21, 2015

CNN — Vice President Joe Biden ended months of intense speculation about his political future on Wednesday with a sudden announcement that he wouldn't seek the presidency, abandoning a dream he's harbored for decades and putting Hillary Clinton in a stronger position to capture the Democratic nomination.... (more)

October 21, 2015

NATIONAL REVIEW — Many House Republicans were upbeat on Tuesday evening when they left the private conference where Paul Ryan finally broke the silence on his potential Speaker bid. Ryan's message was definitive: he will run, he said, if members of each Republican caucus, notably the conservative Freedom Caucus, rallied behind him and met his conditions for taking the job... (more)

October 21, 2015

NATIONAL REVIEW — It looks like Paul Ryan will do the job, but he'll do it on his own terms. He laid them out at a Republican-conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, telling his colleagues he wants the bickering to end. That means, Republicans said as they exited the meeting, he wants universal endorsements from the various caucuses, specifically from the conservative Freedom Caucus, the Republican Study Committee, and the more moderate Tuesday Group.... (more)

October 21, 2015

DAILY SIGNAL — Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid threw his support behind Rep. Paul Ryan for House speaker. The Nevada Democrat acknowledged policy differences with Ryan, but said he's the one House Republican who Democrats could work with if elected speaker. Asked if the endorsement might hurt Ryan's chances among Republicans, Reid responded, "I just speak the truth."... (more)

October 21, 2015

JOE KOVACS — For someone who has never held political office, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is pummeling political insiders at their own game, according to radio host Rush Limbaugh.... (more)

October 21, 2015

CNN — Joe Biden hasn't yet said whether he'll run for president -- but his campaign against Hillary Clinton has already quietly begun. The vice president and the former secretary of state are already engaged in a cold war of sorts, both jockeying for the mantle of heir to President Barack Obama's legacy as they trade veiled shots over political styles, foreign policy decisions and more.... (more)

October 21, 2015

NEWSMAX — Americans have wised up to the truth about so-called global warming -- and the climate-obsessed president who's made it one of his top priorities should wise up, Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, tells Newsmax TV.... (more)

October 21, 2015

YAHOO NEWS — Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday it has built a giant military base in the far northern Arctic where 150 soldiers can live autonomously for up to 18 months.... (more)

October 21, 2015

NEWSMAX — The Mormon Church staked a deeper claim to middle ground in American society on Tuesday, advocating for compromises between protecting religious liberties and prohibiting discrimination, and criticizing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for refusing to license gay marriages.... (more)

October 20, 2015

NEWSMAX — America is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation based on record levels of immigration yet the subject "remains the forbidden conversation" in politics today, Sen. Jeff Sessions and Rep. Dave Brat say.... (more)

October 19, 2015

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — After 10 days away from Washington, House Republicans will return to work on Tuesday no closer to finding a new speaker than when they left on Oct. 9.... (more)

October 19, 2015

NEWSMAX — Vice President Joe Biden will end up running for the Democratic presidential nomination because the party needs an "insurance policy" in case current front-runner Hillary Clinton is indicted, conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer says.... (more)

October 19, 2015

CHERYL CHUMLEY — A source who reportedly just came back from travels with Joe Biden's son, Joseph Hunter, told WND the vice president will make an announcement about his presidential aspirations in the next 48 hours -- and it will be in the affirmative.... (more)

October 19, 2015

NEWSMAX — Texas became the latest and biggest U.S. state to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, saying the women's health group is no longer eligible for Medicaid payments.... (more)

October 19, 2015

LEO HOHMANN — As part of a mass prisoner release of convicted drug felons ordered by a restructuring of federal sentencing guidelines, as many as 2,000 illegal aliens are about to be released back onto U.S. streets.... (more)

October 19, 2015

The theory 'is not so much empirical as poetic'

ALAN KEYES — This week, I read a story about Ben Carson's response to a question about "creationism" that led me to ponder the quisling GOP's abandonment of the elegant words and logic with which the American Declaration of Independence establishes the political relevance of the authority of the Creator God... (more)