While the Social Justice Worriers and mighty clueless Multi-Cultural fascists at the University of Missouri have already gotten their way, it’s worth pointing out a story the mainstream media opted to not play up – a large number of Mizzou football players never supported the boycott that led to the resignation of former university president Tim Wolfe.
Heritage Action for America CEO Michael A. Needham joined host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 today to discuss the launch of the candidate review, designed to “focus on issues,” not personalities and “let people come to their own conclusions” for the 2016 Republican primary, according to Needham during today’s interview.
To gain more traction with conservative Republican voters, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to “a one-on-one debate next week in Milwaukee,” according to a Washington Post report.
A Northern Illinois blogger has published a constituent communication from the office of Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) that suggests an individual should be allowed to live his or her life in compliance with Sharia Law, particularly if a U.S. court rules as such.
A top Florida fundraiser is bolting from Jeb Bush to Marco Rubio, after what turned out to be Jeb’s disastrous attack on Rubio’s Senate attendance during the last GOP debate.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tells Politico the “Tea Party empowers us.” But what she means is that former Speaker John Boehner was so weak, his failure to craft and submit legislation a majority of Republicans could back often put Pelosi in the position of calling the shots in the House.
The Washington Post notes Jeb Bush’s comeback tour looks like “a therapy session” and, intentionally, or not, may have said a lot more about why Jeb Bush is flailing and looking as if he doesn’t even want to be president than perhaps the paper had intended.
Jeb Bush went from thundering “We’re Americans, dammit!” in a stump speech, to surrendering to France for comments he made about the country’s work ethic.
Donald Trump officially filed for the New Hampshire primary today and took full advantage of the opportunity to slam both Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
Is it a Jeb Bush oppo-drop, or solid journalism? Whatever it is, Tim Mak at the Daily Beast reports on some close Florida associates of Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio that aren’t as far back in his past as he
If the Republican grassroots base wanted a new House Speaker who would stand up to the Democrats, as opposed to caving in to them, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) thinks they’re in for a surprise.
Businessman and leading GOP presidential contender Donald Trump is going after Sen Marco Rubio on Twitter, writing Rubio “cannot be president” based upon a Breitbart report that Rubio “would keep Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation.”
The Washington Post reports – and ABC News has since confirmed – Donald Trump “will reject a joint letter to television network hosts regarding upcoming primary debates drafted Sunday at a private gathering of operatives from at least 11 presidential campaigns” and instead will negotiate directly as regards the “format and content” of the Republican Party’s primary debates.
Sen Ted Cruz blasted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from the Senate floor last night and has been expressing his displeasure with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for some time. Now it appears as though the Republican base is joining Cruz in his displeasure with McConnell, who is often seen as a weak leader by Conservatives.
As The Hill reports, “Democrats like what they hear from Ryan.” In fact, they like it so much, they think he sounds more like one of them, than a Republican, let alone a Conservative.
Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign is fed up with a “messy debate process” put together by Reince Priebus’ seemingly incompetent Republican National Committee. So several, if not all, “Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter” the debate process going forward by doing an end run around the RNC, Politico reports.
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus isn’t wasting time.
The former Mitt Romney adviser who vetted Paul Ryan for the VP slot has nothing but good things to say to the Independent Journal about potential Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
While businessman Donald Trump and former surgeon Ben Carson have been generating most of the headlines, Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign has been quietly building out what most concede is the kind of infrastructure one will need to win the GOP nomination.
One sticking point for conservatives in the latest budget deal is that it effectively robs money from an already ailing Social Security to make up for shortages in an all-but-broke and failing Disability Insurance program.
If Rep. Paul Ryan is looking for more support in his quest to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, he may–or may not–want to look further than progressive media outlet Media Matters. It appears to have his back versus Conservative radio host Mark Levin, who simply went through Ryan’s actual record on his October 23 radio show.
As he’s trying to firm up his sagging donor network, Jeb Bush’s campaign team is making it clear they view Sen Marco Rubio as his chief threat. So the Bush squad plans to start taking the battle to his fellow Floridian.
Beleaguered Republican Congressman Scott DesJarlais is being primaried by political newcomer Grant Starrett in Tennessee, and the latest line of attack involves a potentially controversial vote DesJarlais made involving food stamps.
Seven out of ten “Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters” say businessman Donald Trump is the GOP’s “strongest general election candidate,” based upon a newly released Associated Press-GfK poll. In effect, the GOP’s Washington-based political class is completely out of touch with GOP voters.
Going well beyond prudent cost cutting and a defensive posture, Team Jeb Bush will begin making such significant campaign cuts effective November 1, they can’t be seen as anything other than a big red flag that his bid for the GOP nomination is in serious trouble.
It wasn’t all that long ago that many of the same “early state” operatives and strategists had Trump pegged for an early primary exit. The news that Donald Trump is increasingly likely to win the GOP nomination is likely to force some of the establishment forces dogging him to recalibrate. Say what they will, there’s no way operatives and strategists are going to want to be frozen out from feeding at the general election trough should Trump become their party’s standard bearer next Fall.
“If [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell] doesn’t really want to do his job” when it comes to budgeting, “he should just quit and go home,” South Carolina Republican Rep. Mick Mulvaney says. “If he’s going to make it where the president gets to run the country unless the Congress disapproves something? That’s a joke. So no, I hope it doesn’t come to that.”
The Washington Post dropped something of a bomb on Joe Biden’s potential bid for the presidency tonight–although it remains unclear if it was the real thing or a placeholder.
The U.S. and others have accused Russia of propping up the Assad regime by attacking “practically every group opposed to the Syrian government except the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.” Putin claims “the Russian government had asked for the coordinates of the groups that should or should not be attacked, the United States had not responded to either request.”
Donald Trump leads the Republican field in Connecticut with 34 percent, “his highest score in any Quinnipiac University state poll so far.” And while Hillary Clinton leads on the Democrat side with 37 percent, that’s down from 53 percent back in March.
The No Labels movement, currently led by Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman and former GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman, may have found the perfect candidate in Donald Trump,
Hawaii Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, may be welcomed at tomorrow’s Democrat debate after all. CNN reports that Jeff Weaver, campaign manager for Bernie Sanders Vermont Independent presidential candidate, is offering to save Gabbard a seat.
“I can’t say whether I’m for it or against it because I’m not allowed to read it,” former Sen. Jim Webb says.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush released a “pre-announcement video” on Twitter Sunday. The video relies on his days as a Florida governor to make his case.
Republican Senator and presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham doesn’t yet seem to have the whole First Lady thing figured out in the event he wins the White House.
Today on his show, Howie Carr featured a Gravis Marketing poll in New Hampshire that has Jeb Bush up big at 21%, with Rand Paul and Scott Walker both trailing with 13% and Donald Trump right on their heels at 12%.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said youth unemployment is a “national tragedy,” and “It is beyond comprehension that we, as a nation, have not focused attention on the fact that millions of young people are unable to find work and begin their careers in a productive economy.”
You wouldn’t know that the fawning New York Magazine piece on Jeb Bush was written by someone who “agrees with exactly nothing the governor says,” if they didn’t tell you. Clearly, Jeb is the choice of liberal Democrats. Perhaps they inherently sense that Hillary Clinton would make short work of him in a general election.
Speaking to a gathering of fast food workers and voicing her support for a $15 minimum wage, Hillary Clinton said, “I want to be your champion” to the assembled group.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appeared undecided about a presidential run when he sat down with “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson this weekend.
