Ted Cruz Strategy
Ted Cruz has a ready answer for the many Republicans who see him as a rigid ideologue likely to be demolished should he make it to the general election: Such an ideologue is the party’s only hope of w...
Bloomberg Presidential Run?
In October last year, The Atlantic magazine detailed the 25 media boomlets over the past decade that have speculated Michael Bloomberg would run for president. Today the New York Times launched yet an...
Things to Watch in the Democratic Town Hall Debate
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Time is running out. With just a week left until the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley will make their closing arguments Monday in a town hall h...
Trump and the Meaning of Anti-Establishment
Since When Do I Have to Support Trump Just Because He’s the Front-Runner? Dear Reader (including those of you in D.C. who may try to burn this “news”letter in a desperate attempt to stay alive during...
El Chapo and Fast and Furious
Obama-administration scandals never resolve. They just vanish — usually, under a new scandal. So it was with one of this president’s earliest embarrassments, “Operation Fast and Furious,” designed to...
Clinton Emails So Secret Lawmakers Can’t Read Them
Some of Hillary Clinton’s emails on her private server contained information so secret that senior lawmakers who oversee the State Department cannot read them without fulfilling additional security re...
Republicans and Certain Kinds of Democrats
I live in Donald Trump country. Maury County, Tenn. — like much of the South — was dominated by the Democratic party until just a few short years ago. Tennessee’s legislature didn’t flip red until 200...
Conservative Panel Says Trump Is Not a Conservative
National Review Urges 'Say No' to Trump Donald Trump is "a menace to conservatism" who should not be elected president of the United States, 22 conservative leaders argue in the new issue of National...
Donald Trump is a Cultural Phenomenon
Will Donald Trump Follow Barack Obama’s Path to the White House? Cruz and Rubio are running as mere politicians; Trump’s running as a phenomenon. Do you remember 2008 and the early years of Barack Ob...
Presidential Politics
Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senato...
Fighting for the Unborn
It has been more than four decades since the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that unborn were of no account. Precious life created in the image of God was treated as but an inconvenience to be remo...
Planned Parenthood files Federal Lawsuit
Planned Parenthood filed a federal court lawsuit Thursday alleging extensive criminal misconduct by the anti-abortion activists who produced undercover videos targeting the handling of fetal tissue at...