July 15, 2016

RENEWAMERICA STAFF — Multimillionaire real estate developer Carl Paladino, co-chair of Donald Trump's New York campaign and Republican candidate for governor of New York in 2010, sent an email to Republican delegate Stefani Williams threatening her for an open letter she wrote calling for "freeing the delegates" to the Republican National Convention.... (more)

July 14, 2016

THE HILL — Republicans crafting the rules that will govern the Republican National Convention overwhelmingly rejected a proposal put forth by Never Trump Republicans to unbind delegates and move to upset presumptive nominee Donald Trump.... (more)

July 14, 2016

NATIONAL REVIEW — Barely two hours into the much-anticipated meeting of the Convention Rules Committee, a backroom deal may be in the works. According to two sources, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and top RNC officials are huddling privately with Senator Mike Lee, Virginia Committeeman Morton Blackwell, and leaders of the Never Trump movement to discuss a procedural compromise that would allow for gimmick-free votes on anti-Trump measures in exchange for their cooperation in not gumming up the works and prolonging the Rules Committee meeting unnecessarily.... (more)

July 14, 2016

CNN — The long-classified pages detailing alleged ties of the Saudi Arabian government to the 9/11 hijackers will be released by Congress as early as Friday, sources told CNN Thursday.... (more)

July 14, 2016

INDYSTAR — Gov. Mike Pence is dropping his re-election bid in Indiana to become Donald Trump's running mate. IndyStar confirmed shortly after noon Thursday that Trump is planning to announce Pence as his selection for vice president. Several national news outlets, including CNN and ABC News, later reported Trump had offered the post to Pence and he had accepted, ending a weekslong casting call during which Trump vetted a handful of high-profile Republicans.... (more)

July 14, 2016

NEWSMAX — Once word came out that Donald Trump had selected Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate, Ann Coulter became apoplectic.... (more)

July 14, 2016

CHELSEA SCHILLING — In another bloody terrorist attack in France, as many as 84 people, including children, are reportedly dead and 50 injured in Nice after a terrorist in a truck plowed through 1.24 miles of people in a crowd celebrating a national holiday Thursday evening.... (more)

July 14, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is calling on President Obama to "remove the blinders" in the fight against "radical Islamic terrorism" following an attack in Nice, France, Thursday evening that left at least 80 dead.... (more)

July 13, 2016

WESLEY PRUDEN — This might be remembered as the year when they gave an election and nobody came. The millions stayed home, the champagne went uncorked, and everybody lived in semi-misery ever after.... (more)

July 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to 13 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday, up from 10 points at the end of last week.... (more)

July 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — Veteran political reporter Andrew Malcolm says Donald Trump's "unpredictable, usually counterproductive behavior" raises the question of whether his real idea of winning the presidency is electing Hillary Clinton and "devastating" the Republican Party.... (more)

July 13, 2016

FORMER SEN. GORDON HUMPHREY — The Democratic and Republican National Conventions are not meetings of the Supreme Soviet. Delegates are not required to rubber-stamp whatever party leaders dictate. Instead, they have been delegated authority to exercise their best judgment in selecting presidential nominees.... (more)

July 13, 2016

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republicans are bracing for a contentious convention, as intraparty divisions over Donald Trump threaten to disrupt his nomination and the party's carefully laid plans to unify behind him.... (more)

July 13, 2016

THE HILL — As a Republican national delegate, I, along with the other 2,471 GOP delegates, will convene in Cleveland next week for the Republican National Convention. While most observers and the media assume that Donald Trump will be anointed the GOP nominee by the convention, that presumed outcome is increasingly in doubt, as his negatives continue to grow and his poll numbers continue to lag behind Hillary's -- some of them by double digits. He has limited campaign funds and a fly-by-night organization.... (more)

July 13, 2016

WASHINGTON TIMES — A black law professor at Vanderbilt University believes last week's cop killings at a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas should signify the end of the movement, saying it's a Marxist uprising that's become a "very destructive force in America."... (more)

July 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — DeRay McKesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, was arrested along with about 200 other people during protests over the weekend. McKesson was among about 120 people arrested in Baton Rouge, where local man Alton Sterling was recently killed by police, and about 100 others were arrested in Minnesota, where an officer killed local man Philando Castile, The Washington Post reported.... (more)

July 13, 2016

THOMAS SOWELL — There was never a more appropriately named book than "The War on Cops" by Heather Mac Donald, published a few weeks ago, on the eve of the greatest escalation of that war by the ambush murders of five policemen in Dallas.... (more)

July 13, 2016

BOB UNRUH — Activist lawyer Larry Klayman has filed a complaint in federal court accusing President Obama, Louis Farrakhan, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Black Lives Matter leaders of inciting their supporters "to engage in threats of and attacks to cause serious bodily injury or death upon police officers, Jews, and Caucasians."... (more)

July 13, 2016

CHARLES HURT — There can be no dispute that Barack Obama was forced to wade through unprecedented bigotry in his speedy ascent to the most powerful perch in the world. His predecessor, George W. Bush, called it the "soft bigotry of low expectations."... (more)

July 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz ripped Attorney General Loretta Lynch's appearance on Capitol Hill Tuesday, saying she was "being obstructionist" when questioned about Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information as secretary of state.... (more)

July 13, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Obama administration spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to prevent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from winning re-election last year.... (more)

July 12, 2016

JEROME R. CORSI — This week and next, Dinesh D'Souza is debuting his new feature film and accompanying book, both titled "Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party" – a combo that is certain to reframe Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.... (more)

July 12, 2016

CNBC — It's now or never for the #NeverTrump campaign and the Super PAC Delegates Unbound to stop Donald Trump from obtaining the official nod as the GOP presidential candidate.... (more)

July 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — Donald Trump's promises for a wall at the Mexican border and a ban on Muslims are all "like an alternative universe he created," when the "reality is that's not going to happen," former GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush says in an exclusive interview airing on MSNBC Monday night.... (more)

July 12, 2016

NEWSMAX — The Republican National Convention is just a week away, but there's still no official word on who take to the stage, according to NBC News, even though the presumptive presidential nominee has said he has a full lineup prepared.... (more)