February 25, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — On Saturday night, a lunatic by the name of Jason Brian Dalton went on a weekend killing spree in Michigan. The next day, contradicting the official Catholic Catechism, Pope Francis called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty.... (more)

February 25, 2016

BREITBART — Before a packed crowd of more than 7,000 evangelical Christians, Senator Sen. Ted Cruz asked his fellow Republican candidates where they were when it came to defunding Planned Parenthood and fighting against the Washington, D.C. cartel. Cruz was responding to a question about this election being about outsiders and fighting Washington.... (more)

February 25, 2016

FOX NEWS — Donald Trump's Republican rivals tried to present themselves Wednesday night as the ideal candidates to block the real estate billionaire's path to the GOP nomination and then beat Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the general election.... (more)

February 24, 2016

POLITICO — Ted Cruz has a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in Texas, according to the results of a new poll of likely Republican primary voters released Wednesday by Houston Public Media and the University of Houston Hobby Center for Public Policy.... (more)

February 24, 2016

WESTERN JOURNALISM — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz received some very welcome news Tuesday at a time when analysts have started looking askance at the Texas senator's presidential campaign. With the Texas primary one week away, Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed Cruz. "It is our duty as Texas conservatives to support a leader that we can trust to restore our values," Abbott said in a video message.... (more)

February 24, 2016

PHILIP KLEIN — Though there's still time to stop him, it's now looking increasingly likely that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. Some conservatives, such as Erick Erickson and my colleague Tim Carney have outlined reasons why they could never vote for him, so I thought it would be worth spelling out why I couldn't -- even in a general election against Hillary Clinton.... (more)

February 24, 2016

BLOOMBERG — Abortion access in the U.S. has been vanishing at the fastest annual pace on record, propelled by Republican state lawmakers' push to legislate the industry out of existence. Since 2011, at least 162 abortion providers have shut or stopped offering the procedure, while just 21 opened.... (more)

February 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — A sheriff's report offers a detailed account of the hours after Antonin Scalia's body was found in Texas, describing how the owner of the luxury resort where the Supreme Court justice died told the sheriff he had no authority in the matter. The report also includes a reference to a pillow that spawned conspiracy theories.... (more)

February 24, 2016

ASSOCIATED PRESS — With a big win in Nevada, Donald Trump claimed a third straight commanding victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. A tight race for second between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz offered little evidence that Republicans were ready to coalesce around one strong alternative to the businessman billionaire.... (more)

February 24, 2016

THE RIGHT SCOOP — Ted Cruz hit back today at Donald Trump, pointing out that he's not willing to gamble his daughter's future with Donald Trump and saying "the truth is, if Donald became president, nobody knows what the heck he would do. He doesn't know what the heck he would do."... (more)

February 24, 2016

RED STATE — When the smoke all clears, we will be reviewing the vote counts from the Nevada Caucus as if it was a legitimate election. But the buzz on Twitter from people on the ground suggests that it is anything but.... (more)

February 24, 2016

THE RIGHT SCOOP — So there's all sorts of reports rolling in on social media about shenanigans going on at the Nevada caucus tonight.... (more)

February 24, 2016

BREITBART — Sen. Marco Rubio who finished third, fifth, and second in the first three primary states, has seen a flood of endorsements since the media has crowned him the official choice of Party insiders and donors seeking a restoration of Bush Republicanism in 2016.... (more)

February 24, 2016

THE RIGHT SCOOP — For all of Trump's outrage over Cruz committing "dirty tricks," he's now committing dirty tricks of his own, telling voters in Nevada that all the other Republicans, including Cruz, had left the state, abandoned the state even, and that Nevadans shouldn't vote for any of them because of this. But Cruz hadn't left the state and was actually speaking at caucuses... (more)

February 24, 2016

JD RUCKER — They almost had me. As a conservative, I do whatever I can to keep away from the hooks of the Republican Establishment and their incessant drumbeat of rhetoric (often heard on Fox News or seen on the Wall Street Journal) that claims Marco Rubio is the best alternative to Donald Trump.... (more)

February 24, 2016

NEWSMAX — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is scheduled to be on the witness stand in a civil suit alleging fraud by his now-shuttered Trump University just as the primary season comes to an end, reports Yahoo News' Michael Isikoff.... (more)

February 24, 2016

BOB UNRUH — California State University at Los Angeles officials have abruptly canceled an event featuring conservative speaker Ben Shapiro after initially attempting to charge a sponsoring student group more than $600 due to "controversial" content in a speech titled, "When Diversity Becomes a Problem."... (more)

February 24, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge questioned the Obama administration's "good faith" in helping keep former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails secret for six years and said he may end up issuing a subpoena to force her to turn over her entire account to the government.... (more)

February 24, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House accused congressional Republicans on Tuesday of refusing to "engage" with President Obama after lawmakers blasted the president's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center, the latest in a string of rejections for the lame-duck president.... (more)

February 23, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tells Newsmax TV he is "disappointed" in evangelicals for supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign.... (more)

February 23, 2016

PAUL BREMMER — Talk-radio host Glenn Beck attracted scorn and ridicule over the weekend when he urged his Facebook followers to join him in a fast "for Ted Cruz, our country and the Nevada caucus."... (more)

February 23, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas noticeably toughened his stance on immigration Monday night, saying in an interview that the U.S. should deport all 12 million illegal immigrants now here.... (more)

February 23, 2016

NEWSMAX — CSPAN has uncovered video of then-Sen. Joe Biden in 1992 urging the Senate not to hold confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court in the final year of President George H.W. Bush's term because it could cause "deep trouble" for the institution.... (more)

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)