May 5, 2016

BARBWIRE — It is altogether fitting that Donald Trump became the all-but-certain presidential nominee of the Republican Party on the same day that he cited the ridiculous allegations of the National Enquirer that Ted Cruz's father, Rafael, had involvement in the assassination of JFK.... (more)

May 5, 2016

HILLARY CLINTON (FACEBOOK) — "President Trump" is a dangerous proposition. Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio agree.... (more)

May 5, 2016

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Key Republican leaders met Donald Trump's new status as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee with silence on Wednesday, and refrained from congratulatory statements or tweets about Trump's longshot victory.... (more)

May 5, 2016

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Senate Republicans were already facing a tough re-election cycle, but Donald Trump's sudden clear path to the Republican nomination now has both conservatives and liberals making doomsday predictions about how Trump's candidacy will end up handing the Senate to Democrats.... (more)

May 5, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert admitted on Wednesday that he didn't think Republicans would have trouble maintaining control of Congress until he saw ads linking his colleagues to Donald Trump. "I had no fear of losing the House until I saw this weekend the commercial against Sen. John Boozman in Arkansas," Gohmert told Fox Business' Stuart Varney.... (more)

May 5, 2016

CNN — John Kasich is dropping out of the Republican presidential race, he said Wednesday. Kasich's decision to suspend his efforts came after he improbably became the last challenger to Donald Trump, who emerged as the presumptive GOP nominee Tuesday night when Ted Cruz dropped out.... (more)

May 5, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump, now the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, said Wednesday he would consider Ohio Gov. John Kasich as a potential running mate. Kasich has repeatedly said he has no interest in being anyone's vice president, but he also said he was interested only in the Oval Office. Kasich was set to announce Wednesday that he is dropping out of the race.... (more)

May 5, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump's presidential run has reached a crossroads, and the sign in front of him says: "Show me the money." Now that he's the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mr. Trump doesn't have enough time to build the national donor network he will need, and he will be forced to keep self-funding his campaign, a veteran GOP moneyman warned Wednesday.... (more)

May 5, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Hillary Clinton's top aides to answer questions about her secret email server, including detailing who made the decision to set it up and whether it was intended to thwart open records laws.... (more)

May 5, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse lit up Twitter for the second time in 24 hours Wednesday night in a rant against presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the GOP that backs him.... (more)

May 5, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama's Justice Department on Wednesday threatened to pull federal education dollars from North Carolina if the state does not repeal a law prohibiting people from using public restrooms of the opposite sex.... (more)

May 5, 2016

ERIN MERSINO — The name Israel means he who prevails with God. Right now, there is an emergency calling for the performance of God's love and work here on earth. In no uncertain terms, prevailing in this instance means life and losing results in death.... (more)

May 5, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Associated Press is defending its coverage of a Navy SEAL who was killed this week in Iraq by claiming its news judgment compelled it to highlight the slain serviceman's familial connection to a "disgraced" financier.... (more)

May 4, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — While Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump is talking about cooperation with Russia, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that one of America's top generals, NATO Supreme commander General Philip Breedlove, is saying that the United States and its allies have to immediately address Russian military aggression.... (more)

May 4, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Donald Trump won the Indiana primary Tuesday, knocking Ted Cruz out of the Republican presidential race. Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, delaying her final victory even if the delegate math remains fundamentally unchanged.... (more)

May 4, 2016

BYRON YORK — Hours before the Cruz campaign's election-night event, the buzz was that Ted Cruz would deliver "somber" remarks. "Somber" became the word of the moment as people who were inside the Cruz structure, but not high-up enough to know what was going on, tried to figure out what would happen.... (more)

May 4, 2016

NEWSMAX — In his most scathing attack yet on Donald Trump, Ted Cruz on Tuesday angrily labeled the Republican presidential front-runner a "pathological liar" and "serial philanderer" for whom "morality does not exist."... (more)

May 4, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump is touting an unsubstantiated supermarket tabloid story accusing GOP presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz's father of associating with JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the 1963 slaying.... (more)

May 4, 2016

WORLDNETDAILY — Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday ridiculed Donald Trump's "kooky" allegation that Cruz's father was with Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in 1963 before Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy, calling the GOP front-runner a "pathological liar," an "utterly amoral bully" and a "narcissist" who essentially makes President Obama look like an amateur by comparison.... (more)

May 4, 2016

NEWSMAX — Rafael Cruz Tuesday ripped Donald Trump's attacks linking him to Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in 1963, as "ludicrous." "It's ludicrous, it's ludicrous," Cruz, 77, the father of Trump rival Ted Cruz, told ABC News. "I was never in New Orleans at that time."... (more)

May 4, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — The future of American politics is here, and it's crazy -- maybe literally. On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump suggested that Ted Cruz's father, Rafael, may have had something to do with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being -- you know, shot," said Trump during a phone interview with Fox & Friends. "I mean, what was he doing -- what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the death? Before the shooting?" The source for the story that Papa Cruz was with Oswald in 1963 is, of course, the National Enquirer.... (more)

May 4, 2016

NEWSMAX — Tonight, the Kasich for America campaign's Chief Strategist John Weaver issued the following statement: "Our party is facing a clear choice between positive solutions that can win in November and a darker path that will solve nothing and lead to Hillary Clinton in the White House, a Democrat Senate and a liberal Supreme Court. As long as it remains possible, Governor Kasich will fight for the higher path.... (more)

May 4, 2016

GREG COROMBOS — Escalating protests in Baghdad threaten the Iraqi government as Shiite Muslim factions battle for control for the country, and retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney says Iran could soon wield all the power in Iraq unless the U.S. changes course in significant ways.... (more)

May 2, 2016

EAGLE RISING, JAN. 2, 2016 — I kid you not. This is not meant as a way to bash Donald Trump, it's simply a regurgitation of the latest studies of the polls. In a recent statistical study of the polling data, Nate Cohn of the Upshot at the New York Times found one very interesting tidbit.... (more)

May 2, 2016

AMERICAN THINKER — Former speaker of the House John Boehner recently spoke ill of fellow Republican Ted Cruz in a Q&A at Stanford university. His comments likening the candidate to "Lucifer in the flesh" got all the media attention, leaving this virtually unreported:... (more)