It was a beautiful, moving speech, stuffed with quotes from Abraham Lincoln, loaded with lessons of reconciliations past, and laden with ideas for bridging the divide. And yet it bore no resemblance whatsoever to Obama’s own presidency, which has been one of the most divisive since the Civil War.
A look at the RealClearPolitics averages allows us to pinpoint the exact moment when Carson began to fade, never to recover: Nov. 13, 2015. That was the day that Islamic State terrorists carried out bloody attacks across Paris.
Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump beat his polling average in winning the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday–by an astonishing 5%.
The New York Daily News has published an extended essay on the State of Jefferson, the ongoing effort by a set of rural Northern California counties to secede and form their own political unit under the U.S. Constitution.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has done it again, repeating himself almost word-for-word at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
The tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch has put Republican John Kasich and Socialist-turned-Democrat Bernie Sanders into the lead with the first primary votes, cast at midnight.
Former Breitbart News editor Larry O’Connor played a prominent role in Saturday night’s GOP debate, asking a videotaped question culled from suggestions by readers of the Independent Journal Review, which co-sponsored the debate.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made the case at the GOP Debate in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday evening that he is the most electable Republican candidate in the presidential primary.
An Iowa newspaper has documented the story of an activist for Dr. Ben Carson who was so devastated by a report from the Ted Cruz campaign that she could not speak for him at her local caucus meeting.
Several experienced, qualified and conservative Republican governors entered the presidential race last year. And yet we are just days away from the final culling of the herd.
A spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News Wednesday that the e-mail Cruz staff sent to their supporters in Iowa about Dr. Ben Carson’s “big announcement” had referred to his speech at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast.
For the second town hall in a row, CNN asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) about his age, but did not ask Hillary Clinton the same question.
Now is the time for Trump to stop thinking about the polls, stop complaining about the media (or, far worse, the voters), and recover the reason, beyond himself, that prompted him to run in the first place
On Tuesday, in the aftermath of Cruz’s victory in Iowa, Rush Limbaugh was more critical of Donald Trump than usual.
He only came in third place, but Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is the big winner in Iowa. That’s not a “media” meme; it’s the truth, for three basic reasons.
Until the Feb. 9 vote, the talk will focus on Cruz, Trump, and Rubio. Here is what each must to to build on–or improve upon–his Iowa finish.
“Democratic” socialist Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) could well be the next President of the United States.
The Drudge Report summarized Thursday night’s GOP debate, which frontrunner Donald Trump skipped, with the headline: “The Seven Dwarfed!”
The Washington Post’s Dan Balz writes Friday morning that Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), two of the main rivals to frontrunner Donald Trump, “failed to seize the Trumpless moment” at Thursday’s GOP debate.
National Review columnist Jim Geraghty, who has been critical of Donald Trump, writes that Trump had benefited by skipping Thursday’s GOP debate: “Trump Avoids the Immigration Flip-Flopping Bloodbath,” he concludes.
Thursday night’s Fox News debate–the last before the Iowa caucuses–had all of the same weaknesses of the first, without the theatrics around Trump to save the moderators from a weak approach focused on attacking the participants.
Fox News seemed to confirm Trump’s account, in a statement provided to CNN’s Dylan Byers.
Cruz has the organization, the data, and the must-win attitude to mount a comeback. Yet even if he does win, he has missed an opportunity to unite the party, beat the media and prepare for the general election.
President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Washington on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in which pledged to do “everything we can” to fight antisemitism.
Donald Trump is boycotting Thursday’s final pre-Iowa GOP debate. And every Republican candidate should. Fox News is treating Trump worse than any liberal media outlet would–worse, even than John Harwood and CNBC.
Just as businessman Donald Trump seemed to be closing in on a victory in Iowa, which could make him the presumptive favorite to win the Republican nomination, he gave Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a closing argument to Iowa voters.
There is a real conservative case for Donald Trump. And I say this as an observer who has been skeptical of Trump from the start.
The New Trier Township High School administration appears to be misleading local parents intentionally about the mandatory day of “racial identity” seminars held on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Civil rights veteran Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) compared Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump to segregationist George Wallace in an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.
As the race for Iowa has heated up in recent weeks, supporters of Republican frontrunners Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) have traded accusations of antisemitism.
Now that Donald Trump has created the legendary “big tent” of strategists’ dreams, a sudden panic has set in among some conservative pundits.
California Governor Jerry Brown delivered his annual “State of the State” address to the legislature on Thursday, against the backdrop of a volatile stock market that could threaten the state budget surplus he achieved, and cause future fiscal uncertainty. Brown told legislators, “…you are not going to hear me talk today about new programs. Rather, I am going to focus on how we pay for the commitments we have already made.”
At least one thousand students skipped New Trier High School’s mandatory day of “racial identity” classes on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The conservative commentariat has imploded in dismay at Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump in Iowa on Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro on Tuesday, after Shaprio accused Israel of having a double standard in prosecuting Israelis and Palestinians for terrorism, and questioned Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution.
Republican presidential frontrunner said Tuesday that he is “100%” in favor of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem–a reversal from his position in December. Trump announced his new position on the simmering controversy in an exclusive interview
California Governor Jerry Brown reiterated Tuesday that despite Hillary Clinton’s collapse in the polls, and the new revelations in her ongoing e-mail scandal, he has no intention of entering the 2016 presidential campaign.
Israel’s Minister of Defense Moshe “Bogey” Ya’alon told an international security conference in Tel Aviv Tuesday that if he had to choose, he would prefer to have the Islamic State (ISIS) next door in Syria, rather than Iran.
The new Anthony Weiner film pulls no punches–and raises new questions about the entourage the Clintons intend to bring to the White House.
As debate heats up over “New York values,” a New York entrepreneur is providing a way for men to masturbate in public as a way to reduce stress and leave more focused on their work.
