March 17, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — Donald J. Trump has received the endorsements of conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Something doesn't make sense here.... (more)

March 17, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama tried to tap a moderate to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but he ended up picking a fight with powerful Second Amendment groups that say Judge Merrick Garland has shown antipathy toward gun rights.... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Gun Owners of America said Wednesday that it would oppose the nomination of U.S. Appeals Court Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court because he "is not only anti-gun, he supports the ability of a president to illegally use executive power to advance liberal causes."... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Republican presidential candidate U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday said the U.S. Senate should not vote on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.... (more)

March 17, 2016

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — I think very highly of Merrick Garland, whom President Obama has nominated to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late, legendary Justice Antonin Scalia. Merrick was a voice of reason and sound judgment as a top official in the Clinton Justice Department during the Nineties when I was prosecuting terrorists.... (more)

March 17, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Democratic strategists have been salivating at the opportunity to fight the fall election with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, and with a new ad out today, we can begin to see why.... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Fresh off three more primary victories, Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to blow off the next Republican presidential debate and warned of "riots" if power-brokers deny him the nomination at the convention even if he's leading in the delegate count.... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump predicted "riots" if Republican power-brokers deny him the presidential nomination in Cleveland even if he's leading in the delegate count.... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — The really important results in the March 8th and March 15th Republican presidential primaries were in Michigan and in Illinois. These two hardened blue states show how John Kasich and Ted Cruz split the anti-Trump vote and allowed Donald Trump to walk away with a plurality that gives him most of the delegates.... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay believes Ohio Gov. John Kasich will make a deal with Ted Cruz to bow out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination so that the Texas senator has a better chance of winning.... (more)

March 17, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former House Speaker John A. Boehner said current Speaker Paul D. Ryan should be the Republican nominee for president if the party fails to chose a candidate on the first ballot at its national convention this summer in Cleveland.... (more)

March 17, 2016

NEWSMAX — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she is backing Ted Cruz's run for the Republican presidential nomination -- though not formally endorsing the Texas senator -- now that Marco Rubio has quit the race.... (more)

March 16, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Donald Trump dominated Florida's GOP primary Tuesday, knocking Sen. Marco Rubio out of the race -- but Gov. John Kasich claimed victory in Ohio, splitting the two top prizes on the board and making a contested convention ever more likely.... (more)

March 16, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — It was a moment of truth in the Republican race for the White House: Front-runner Donald Trump won North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri and Florida, a crown jewel of Tuesday's primaries, but rival John Kasich captured Ohio, a pivotal winner-take-all state in the GOP kingpin's march to the nomination. Earlier in the day, Trump won 9 delegates in the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific Ocean.... (more)

March 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Donald Trump coasted to victory in Florida Tuesday, delivering a fatal blow to Marco Rubio, who promptly dropped out of the presidential race.... (more)

March 16, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Marco Rubio earned his place in Washington as an outsider, but for voters in this year's Republican presidential primary, he ended up becoming too closely associated with the capital city.... (more)

March 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Marco Rubio ending his White House bid after Donald Trump crushed him in his home state of Florida, scrambles the delegate math for the candidates still running.... (more)

March 16, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Donald Trump's team barred a credentialed reporter from an event in Florida Tuesday evening, raising questions about whether it was in retaliation for an unflattering article about the Republican candidate's campaign manager.... (more)

March 16, 2016

NEWSMAX — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ripped the mainstream media during his election night speech on Tuesday, saying they are giving Donald Trump free airtime in hopes he will be the GOP nominee.... (more)

March 16, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — The United Nations must punish Iran for testing ballistic missiles it could use to target Israel with nuclear warheads, contends Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the U.N.... (more)

March 16, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — It is seldom that the fate of a nation can be traced to what happened on one particular day. But that may be what happens in the United States of America on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.... (more)

March 15, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- Weeks of bad press for himself and a sense of urgency among his opponents may finally be taking a toll on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who heads into Tuesday primaries looking at possibly his worst night of the campaign since he lost Iowa's caucuses... (more)

March 15, 2016

NEWSMAX — Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields, who claims Donald Trump's campaign manager assaulted her, and longtime editor-at-large Ben Shapiro said early Monday they were leaving the conservative organization after it published a story doubting her claims... (more)

March 15, 2016

BREITBART — With Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential hopes diminishing as his personal demons catch up with him--from his relationship with billionaire Norman Braman to his role in pushing Obama's amnesty--the donor class seems to be turning its eyes to John Kasich's last stand in Ohio... (more)

March 15, 2016

POLITICAL INSIDER — As "moderate" Ohio Governor John Kasich continues to remain in the Republican race, his PAC "New Day for America" just received a major donation that's raising eyebrows among conservatives. Soros fund managers Scott Bessent and Stanley Druckenmiller donated $488,375 to the Governor's so-called "soft money" fund, according to records provided by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC)... (more)