May 12, 2016

WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sat down with an ex-president the other day. The purpose was to plot the defeat of the Republicans in 2016... (more)

May 12, 2016

ERICK ERICKSON — It should be increasingly clear to Republican delegates that their rendezvous in Cleveland is going to be a ritual mass suicide. In addition to losing the presidency, they will lose the Senate, endanger the House, and see catastrophe all the way down the ballot. But they can choose not to commit suicide. The Republican delegates have the power to reject the purported nominee.... (more)

May 12, 2016

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — Donald Trump may now be the presumed Republican candidate, but the party convention is not scheduled to close until July 21, and there will not be a nominee until then. Two and a half months is an eternity in this 24/7 media environment. There have been 22 contested party conventions since 1876, one lasting 103 ballots. The fat lady has not sung.... (more)

May 12, 2016

WASHINGTON POST — Through much of the primary process, Donald Trump promised, like every other major-party presidential candidate in the past four decades or so, to release his tax returns. Then he said he was being "audited" for some years so he could not release returns. Now he says he will not do so before the November election, setting up a bizarre situation in which he and voters will likely know about his running mate's tax history but not Trump's.... (more)

May 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's refusal to release his tax returns before November's general election is a "ticking time bomb" that threatens to destroy not only Trump's chances of being elected president, but could bring down other Republicans on the ticket, John Fund writes at National Review.... (more)

May 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — Former U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday criticized Donald Trump for declining to release his tax returns, saying the only explanation was that the documents contained a "bombshell" about the real estate mogul.... (more)

May 12, 2016

SUSAN FERRECHIO — House Republicans say Speaker Paul Ryan's Thursday morning visit with Donald Trump is not enough, and they want their own meeting with the de facto GOP nominee to help assuage their fears about his lack of commitment to party principles.... (more)

May 12, 2016

THE BLAZE — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz may be down, but don't count him out of the Republican presidential nomination contest just yet. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is sending three advisors to the Texas convention in Dallas this weekend who will make the pitch for party unity. However, they will also be running against a Cruz operation that is still working to build a coalition of delegates the Texas senator could call on to knock Trump.... (more)

May 12, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Washington Post has built a sizable army of reporters to dig into every facet of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's life, urged on by new owner Jeff Bezos to reveal everything about the potential nominees.... (more)

May 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — Vice President Joe Biden says he "would have been the best president" had he launched a successful campaign for the White House, but asserts he has no regrets about staying out of the race.... (more)

May 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — During a press conference, Vice President Joe Biden gave a joking response to a question about Donald Trump being the presumptive Republican nominee for president.... (more)

May 12, 2016

THE HILL — Nearly half of Republican voters disapprove of Paul Ryan's performance as House speaker, according to a new poll released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling. Only 40 percent of GOP voters are happy with Ryan's stint as speaker so far, while 44 percent disapprove. Those numbers worsen among all voters, with just 30 percent approval and 48 percent disapproval.... (more)

May 12, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — The Obama administration seems to be in a race with academia to see who can do the most pandering to the LGBTQ "community." While President Obama thinks women who dress as men are entitled to Civil Rights Act protections, the University of Maryland recently hosted a "Queer Beyond Repair" conference that included a keynote speech on the future of the sexual device known as the dildo.... (more)

May 12, 2016

BILL FEDERER — Columbus proposed a sea route to reach India and China after Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople on May 29, 1453, cutting off the land routes.... (more)

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — While Donald Trump has virtually sewn up the Republican nomination, backers of Ted Cruz and other conservatives are bracing for a fight over the platform at the GOP convention in July.... (more)

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Bret Stephens, a conservative writer and deputy editorial page editor at the Wall Street Journal, is telling his fellow conservatives to consider sacrificing the next presidential election for the sake of "political hygiene."... (more)

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the media's role in presidential elections needs to be studied in the wake of the 2016 contest that saw Donald Trump defeat Cruz and other candidates with the help of billions of dollars in free airtime.... (more)

May 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday predicted that attempts by Democrats to use Donald Trump's words against him will fail because Trump is essentially an Internet troll, and nothing ever said online ever hurts trolls.... (more)

May 11, 2016

NEWSMAX — A GOP senator is demanding answers from Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg about how the site handles its trending topics section after allegations of an anti-conservative bias were revealed.... (more)

May 11, 2016

GARTH KANT — First, conservatives revolted against former House Speaker John Boehner and forced him out of Congress. Now, conservatives in Boehner's home district are poised to replace him with one of their own. Voters in Ohio's eighth district, bordering both Cincinnati and Dayton, had their pick of 15 Republicans in a special election primary, including a pair of state senators.... (more)

May 11, 2016

CHERYL CHUMLEY — Cliven Bundy, the embattled cattle rancher from Nevada -- whose property was surrounded and stormed by armed Bureau of Land Management agents over the course of several days in 2014 -- has filed a complaint in federal court against President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and others, alleging his constitutional rights were infringed.... (more)

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — A House panel said Tuesday that a top administration health official misled Congress last year by seeming to suggest that the government had already recaptured hundreds of millions of dollars from struggling state exchanges under Obamacare.... (more)

May 11, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited -- and then disinvited -- to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech. Mr. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and, perhaps most relevantly, author of a very insightful book titled "Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed."... (more)

May 10, 2016

No true friend of liberty can support either Clinton or Trump

ALAN KEYES — When, after consulting with his good buddy Bill Clinton, Donald Trump decided to enter the GOP primary process, some people had a hard time taking it seriously... (more)

May 9, 2016

CLIFF KINCAID — A magazine called the Economist has an "intelligence unit" that has named a Donald J. Trump presidency as one of the top 10 greatest risks to global stability. Communist China and jihadi terrorism also made the list, but somehow the Obama administration and the Russian government were left off. Though flawed, the effort by the media to identify security risks is a good one. It is the big issue of our time.... (more)