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It is interesting that President Barack Obama, who during eight years in office has, historically, been slow to act on international challenges, has moved quickly to impose sanctions upon Russia for alleged interference with the 2016 election. He moves well before a detailed investigation into the issue can be concluded.

When the 2016 presidential campaign started in mid-2015, there was a wide but uninspiring field of candidates to choose from. Most seemed to have solid resumes and name recognition, but all seemed just like different versions of what we’d grown accustomed to and were destined to disappoint us as Republican primary voters.

From Reuters:

The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday.

A bipartisan group of senators are calling for a probe into whether Russia influenced the presidential election after claims that the country illegally tried to swing the result in favor of Donald Trump.

Republican businessman Donald Trump’s election to the presidency has sparked a cloud of assassination fantasies on Twitter.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Arizona today, but a new poll of the state released by CNN shows that Trump is leading the state comfortably.

During the monthly crime stats press conference on Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters the city “won’t tolerate any voter intimidation” in regards to Donald Trump asking his supporters in becoming poll watchers on Election Day.

The year 2016 will go down as the Revolt-of-the-Masses. Whether one was Feeling-the-Bern or Trumping-the-GOP, Americans believe that many aspects of our society have been designed so that they are on the short end of the financial leash.

It was 25 years ago that Martin Scorsese delighted audiences with his movie rendition of the Jim Thompson novel, “The Grifters.”

Traveling between campaign events Thursday, the oldest son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made an unexpected stop in Mesa, Arizona to help a stalled motorist.

“This election is both about repudiating Donald Trump’s divisive, demeaning, degrading rhetoric that should offend all of us even if we’re not the people in his crossfire,” Chelsea Clinton says.

During a campaign rally Wednesday in Lake Worth Florida, Hillary Clinton needed help climbing one step onto a platform. According to footage captured by HillBroYo and Paul Joseph Watson from Prison Planet, Clinton was given a helping hand as she climbed onto

I have been politically active for 40 years and during this time I have watched as many Republicans made campaign promise after campaign promise as candidates, then once elected they made grand excuses on why they couldn’t keep their promises. Case in point, the GOP controlled the White House, Senate, and House from January of 2003 until January of 2007. We were disappointed to find that the Republicans passed no meaningful reforms that conservatives clamored for, but instead were mired in corruption scandals. K Street lobbyists had their hooks into elected Republican Leadership and prevented them from passing meaningful change. This was never more evident then when T.A.R.P, aka “Wall Street Bailout”, passed with the support of Democrats, President George W. Bush, and some Republicans in Congress. There were many Republicans opposed to TARP and fought it, but Republican Leadership beat the opposition back. Conservatives were infuriated by this and rightly so. That was one of the catalysts for the Tea Party Movement that was founded in February of 2009.

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho says he will now vote for GOP nominee Donald Trump after rescinding his endorsement earlier this month due to the 2005 leaked tape of Trump making lewd comment.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has endorsed Donald Trump for president: … Our allies on the world stage watch nervously as America retreats from its position of strong leadership leaving strife and conflict rushing to fill the void. The past eight years

Secure America Now is out with a new video campaign titled “Welcome to the Islamic State of France.” The national security nonprofit announced a six-figure buy on the new video – the first in a series of faux tourism videos that depict the year 2020 after a Hillary Clinton presidency, a world in which they predict ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism have taken over Western countries.

I believe in the power of strong female leadership. I’m a pro-military, pro-equal pay, pro-Second Amendment, pro-immigration, and pro-business Hispanic woman voting for Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is not a strong leader. Blindly voting for Clinton because she happens to be a woman does not prove feminist bonafides. For me, it would go against everything my husband and I have stood for: love of family, strength of our local community, and defense of our country.

New polling data has revealed that a majority of both Republicans and Independents approve of Donald Trump’s threat to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal should he win the presidency.

Your vote isn’t special. There will be no university-style “safe spaces” at polling places this year.

One of the crucial constituencies in the upcoming election is the Catholic vote, which could be decisive. Swing states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio could turn on how Catholics decide to pull the lever. Recent reports have shown that a surprising percentage of church-going Catholics are leaning toward Hillary Clinton—the most pro-abortion candidate in U.S. history, a woman who has actually called for Christians to be somehow reprogrammed out of our objections to abortion, and who has backed each of the Obama administration’s attacks on religious freedom.

In making Donald Trump’s temperament the key issue in her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton has conveniently forgotten Jesus’s famous admonition: “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.”

In an earlier article, “The Democrats vs. The Deplorables: The New Class Struggle Comes to the Midwest,” this author detailed the Democrats’ systematic campaign against the interests of American energy workers, many of them unionized—a curious stance for the presumed party of working people and labor unions. In this piece, I will outline an even more curious stance: the Democrats’ systematic campaign against American border security and American sovereignty.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton explained to a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa that she was disturbed by all the negativity surrounding the election.

Frank Luntz utilizes an unusual apparatus to definitively evaluate who won a political debate: He takes a small sample of voters, hooks them up to an electronic device, turns on a TV, and carefully tabulates all the moments when they click “like” and “not like” while a politician speaks.

The Democrats, once the party of working people, are now a party dominated by environmentalists and multiculturalists. And I can prove it.

Donald Trump’s team is using a more sophisticated approach to help prepare the Republican candidate for this election’s first presidential debate Monday, Politico reports.

Although I have been a so-called ‘black’ American and a social conservative all my life – and found the two aspects of my identity to be remarkably congruent – I am always surprised when confronted with some of the vitriol that I and my fellow black conservatives face when addressing the black community. I have often wondered why it is ok for other groups to maintain a diversity of political viewpoints – whether they are Asians, Latinos, or Jewish Americans – but black Americans seem to believe that anyone who does not vote the party line is a traitor to his or her race.

From the Washington Post:

Why doesn’t Hillary Clinton have a double-digit lead over Donald Trump? The fact that she doesn’t is making a lot of Democrats wonder whether hers is a flawed candidacy.

Wearing a “Make Mexico Great Again Also” hat, America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani had high praise for the Republican nominee’s historic and “courageous trip to Mexico to go meet the President of Mexico.” Speaking from the podium in front of thousands of screaming Trump supporters in Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday night, Giuliani slammed Hillary Clinton for her stance on illegal immigration.

As Donald Trump was in Mexico meeting with Mexican President Peña Nieto in a private sit-down, eight protestors were arrested for blocking both the entrance and the revolving door to Trump Tower in Midtown.

How should we judge the sincerity of the two major-party candidates, Clinton or Trump, when they affirm their opposition to TPP? And how do we assess their attitude toward globalization, including immigration, overall?

Obamacare rates are soaring and the majority of the highly touted state exchanges established by the law have failed.

The editorial board of Louisiana news outlet The Advocate is blasting Hillary Clinton for her refusal to come visit their state as it “rebound[s] from what’s been described as the worst American natural disaster since Superstorm Sandy.”

OREM, UTAH — Washington insiders would pick America’s next President under the dream scheme of the #NeverTrump movement. Their plan is sinister: If even one state backs a third-party candidate, it could enable Congress to pick the next President instead of the voters.

Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign took a hard hit when news of the John Huang campaign finance scandal broke in October 1996. President Clinton managed to run out the clock and win the election, but, as John Fund writes in National Review, Hillary Clinton’s ability to stonewall her way past scandal in 2016 may be undermined by the ubiquity of the Internet and the power of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.

One-third of the swing voting, non-ideological, mushy middle of the American electorate believes the established media is unfairly pulling for Hillary Clinton, while one-in-ten say the media is backing Donald Trump, according to a survey of 2,000 voters by Morning Consult.