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Is Christie the Next Romney, McCain, and Dole?

Comparing a potential 2016 Chris Christie presidential run to the failed presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney (2012), John McCain (2008), and Bob Dole (1996) is quite common. He is a “moderate” and all moderate Republicans lose as they fail to excite the base. That’s the short version. But does this argument hold water? Is Christie […] Read More →

10 Quotes That Help Explain Why So Many Conservatives Don’t Trust The Republican Party

John Hawkins, If things are going badly, we’re told the GOP should compromise on what it believes in to start winning elections again. If things are going well, we’re told we must turn a blind eye to the GOP abandoning its beliefs so as not to ruin the great year we’re going to have. The […] Read More →

White House Front Group Vows to Target Alternative Media

Media Matters set to intensify attacks against Drudge, Infowars in concert with Obama advisors White House front group Media Matters has vowed to target “alternative online outlets” as part of its new “strategic plan” to exert media influence in coordination with the Obama administration. Image: Media Matters CEO David Brock (YouTube). Claiming that its war […] Read More →

Paul Ryan Surprised by Tea Party Outrage Over Budget Surrender

Federal government has accumulated debt exceeding all debt under presidents from Washington through Reagan Ohio Republican and Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has unleashed a tirade on the tea party faction in the lower chamber. On Wednesday, he said opposition to the budget sell-out cooked up between Democrats and Republicans suspending the sequester for […] Read More →

Family feud: Boehner takes on GOP critics on right

After years of bitter friction within Republican circles, House Speaker John Boehner is lashing out against hard-line conservative and tea party groups — the latest GOP establishment figure to join the increasingly public battle roiling the party. For the second day in a row — but at greater length and with more passion — the […] Read More →

The Truth About Ronald Reagan and South Africa

by Michael Reagan , The whole world mourns Nelson Mandela. Rightly. But, as usual, some politically and historically challenged liberals have seen the passing of a great man of history as a chance to take more cheap potshots at Ronald Reagan. One human rights attorney, Gay McDougall, made a fool of herself on “Good Morning […] Read More →

5 Political Losers of 2013 - Who Lost Big Politically in 2013?

Who were the 2013 political losers? There seemed to be a lot more losers than 2013 winners, that is for sure. Five big names floated to the top of the losers list, and all have a lot of work to do if they want to make an impact in 2014 or 2016. Marco Rubio US […] Read More →

The World Leader Who Didn’t Attend Churchill’s Funeral

David Stokes, Why did one of the most politically savvy leaders ever to occupy the White House—Lyndon Baines Johnson—decide not to attend the funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965? And why didn’t he send his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey? Questions remain nearly 49 years later. Nearly 100 world leaders are now making their way to […] Read More →

Conservative Firebrand Challenges Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn

Another day, another GOP primary fight. This time, it’s John Cornyn of Texas, the number two Republican in the Senate, who’s receiving a challenge from the right in 2014. Rep. Steve Stockman, a conservative firebrand, made the surprise move to enter the March 4 race Monday evening just before the state’s filing deadline. The Lone […] Read More →

Article 5 Activism Is Gaining Steam in America

On Monday, a group of nearly 100 state legislators from 32 states gathered at Mount Vernon to demand an Article 5 Convention. Such is the vigor of their cause, I predict demanding an Article 5 Convention will become a litmus test for all Republican presidential candidates in 2016. The Tea Party, libertarians, conservatives, moderate left-wingers […] Read More →

GOP blocks more Obama nominees in Senate

Senate Republicans blocked immediate approval of a mountain of mostly minor nominations by President Barack Obama late Monday in the aftermath of last month’s Democratic move weakening the minority party’s traditional ability to block most presidential appointments. The action demonstrated that the GOP was intent on exacting a price for the changes majority Democrats muscled […] Read More →

The Conservatives’ New Social Fight

Steve DiMatteo, The Republican Party is standing on the precipice of a bright future, staring at an opportunity to utilize the sudden goodwill bestowed upon it. With the disastrous unraveling that the Obamacare rollout has wrought, Republicans have been given a real chance to seize control of Congress in 2014. But there are other longer-term […] Read More →

The 5 Biggest Political Winners of 2013

Who were the big political winners of 2013? Finding the losers was much easier, as both President Obama and the US Congress as a whole saw a steep declines in favorable and job approval ratings. Ted Cruz just missed out on this list. Although he had a good year with the base and improved his […] Read More →

Boehner blasts lack of farm-bill progress, supports extension

House Speaker John Boehner, in his gloomiest assessment yet, lamented the lack of “real progress” toward a compromise $500 billion farm bill and said on Thursday the House would try to head off a potential doubling of milk prices in January. Congress is more than a year behind schedule in overhauling U.S. farm law, hobbled […] Read More →

Gov. Scott Walker’s record puts him in the running

By: Grover Norquist, One year from now Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will run for Governor for the third time. Scott Walker was first elected in November 2010 alongside new Republican majorities in the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate. The reforms he signed into law on March 11, 2022 so threatened the government labor unions that they sent […] Read More →

Gov. Scott Walker’s determination: As Wisconsin’s action governor

By: George Will, MILWAUKEE — In 2011, tens of thousands of government employees and others, enraged by Gov. Scott Walker’s determination to break the ruinously expensive and paralyzing grip that government workers’ unions had on Wisconsin, took over the capitol building in Madison. With chanting, screaming and singing supplemented by bullhorns, bagpipes and drum circles, […] Read More →

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