February 22, 2016

MARK LEVIN — A little while back, I argued that Marco Rubio's tactics in attacking Ted Cruz's Senate record on immigration and national defense, among other things, were Alinskyite. They were and still are simply and demonstrably dishonest. Yet he persists, knowing full well that by the time the truth catches up with him, if ever, the damage will have been done.... (more)

February 22, 2016

MICHAEL HARRINGTON — I am Michael Harrington and I do numbers. I really love numbers. Therefore I always know a bit behind the scenes more than most. Oh and did I say I love politics? This breakdown shows how it is likely if there was no Democrats voting in S. Carolina that Ted Cruz would have won the Primary.... (more)

February 22, 2016

LAS VEGAS SUN — After a virtual tie for second place in South Carolina, the message from Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to his Nevada supporters Sunday was clear: Don't surrender.... (more)

February 22, 2016

RENEWAMERICA — Sunday evening in Las Vegas, Glenn Beck put together a rally of enthusiastic supporters of Ted Cruz in the lead-up to Nevada's Tuesday primary. Click here to watch a video.... (more)

February 22, 2016

JOHN FUND — In his victory speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump vowed to sweep the twelve primaries held on Super Tuesday, March 1, and implied the race would then be over: "Let's put this thing away!" He also belittled rivals who claimed that as the field shrinks, they will be able to close on Trump and deny him the nomination.... (more)

February 21, 2016

GREG COROMBOS — The father of 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says they both get "energized" by political attacks, and he believes motivated Christian voters will be the deciding factor in this campaign.... (more)

February 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — U.S. presidential candidate Marco Rubio denied a report on Sunday that a high-profile endorsement by former Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney is on the horizon.... (more)

February 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered Saturday as a man who loved God, country and family at a funeral Mass capping two days of mourning for a jurist who left a long and sometimes provocative legacy on the nation.... (more)

February 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump, the brash New York billionaire who has upended all the rules of modern campaigning, won Saturday's South Carolina primary in a decisive fashion that shrinks the prospects of his Republican presidential rivals to stop his march to the nomination.... (more)

February 21, 2016

ANDY WOODS — I had originally intended to write a series of posts explaining why Republican voters should select Ted Cruz in the upcoming primaries and reject Donald Trump. My working title for the series was going to be "Why We Must Choose Cruz and Dump Trump."... (more)

February 21, 2016

PAT BOONE — Today, I announce I'm suspending my campaign for president of the United States. I choose this day because I love my country, and this is the best way I can manifest my deep devotion to her.... (more)

February 21, 2016

NEWSMAX — On the second day of the Iraq War in 2003, Donald Trump said that the effort begun by President George W. Bush appeared to be "a tremendous success from a military standpoint."... (more)

February 21, 2016

WEEKLY STANDARD — The most unpopular part of Obamacare now has a champion in the Republican presidential field. Via the Right Scoop, Donald Trump was asked on Thursday night by CNN's Anderson Cooper, "If...there's no mandate for everybody to have insurance, what's to--why would an insurance company not have a preexisting--insure somebody with a preexisting condition?"... (more)

February 21, 2016

TOWNHALL — Statement one: Within the last week, Donald Trump has attacked President Bush for failing to prevent 9/11, accused the Bush administration of intentionally lying the nation into war, and is now flat-out endorsing the central pillar of Obamacare -- a law he claims to oppose.... (more)

February 21, 2016

THE HILL — Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Friday criticized Donald Trump for his comments in support of ObamaCare's individual mandate.... (more)

February 21, 2016

THE RIGHT SCOOP — Donald Trump was on CNN tonight and told Anderson Cooper, when asked about the Obamacare mandate, that he liked the mandate. Really, he said that.... (more)

February 21, 2016

DAILY WIRE — Thursday night, real estate mogul Donald Trump continued to expose his liberal colors as he expressed his support for the Obamacare mandate. During the CNN town hall, Trump was asked why an insurance company would want to cover people with pre-existing conditions if there were no individual mandate.... (more)

February 20, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — One topic of conversation in the Republican race for the White House has been whether President Obama has been incompetent or actually knows what he's doing. On the matter of Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Obamacare, self-declared socialist Professor Gerald Friedman seems to agree with conservatives that it can't and won't work.... (more)

February 20, 2016

FORBES, SEPT. 28, 2015 — It suffices to say that Donald Trump has been all over the place on health care reform. Last month, at the first Republican presidential debate, Trump argued that socialized medicine in Scotland "works incredibly well." At the same time, Trump has said that Obamacare has "gotta go" and that he would "repeal and replace [it] with something terrific."... (more)

February 20, 2016

MARK SHEPARD — The importance of the Republican primary cannot be overstated. I say this as someone who came very close to running against Bernie Sanders when he first ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I have personally seen and battled against his ideas and influence in four elections, winning an underdog primary, followed by two terms in the Vermont Senate, and then running against a national-GOP-backed candidate in a congressional primary.... (more)

February 20, 2016

BREITBART — In an exclusive Q&A with Breitbart News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane provides never-before-heard details about the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration fight that are likely to shake up an already tumultuous presidential race.... (more)

February 20, 2016

NRA — If Barack Obama and those like him fail in their goal of "fundamentally transforming the United States of America," it will be in large part because of United States Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Sadly, Justice Scalia passed away over the weekend.... (more)

February 20, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES — There is a reason Republican senators are so adamant in their refusal to let President Obama appoint a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia, a towering figure in conservative jurisprudence. An Obama appointment would be the most consequential ideological shift on the court since 1991, creating a liberal majority that would almost certainly reshape American law and American life.... (more)

February 19, 2016

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER — Let's understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin ("Nino") Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony -- brazenly, embarrassingly so.... (more)

February 19, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — As the nation pays its respects to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday, friends and admirers say they will remember his combination of gregarious charm and matchless intellect that conservatives revered and many liberals couldn't help but respect.... (more)