Major League Baseball’s Coors Field in Denver is named after a founder of the Heritage Foundation, Joseph Coors, the former president of Coors Brewing Company who died in 2003.
Having proclaimed the importance of his principles, Jeff Flake then refused to fight for them. It was the same retreat Republican voters have seen their leaders make for decades.
David Bozell, president of For America, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday regarding the Bozell family’s response to Sen. Jeff Flake’s anti-Trump book bearing the same name as the 1960 classic that L. Brent Bozell Jr., Bozell’s grandfather, ghost-wrote for Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative.
Will the real narcissist please stand up?
Former Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney told “Face The Nation” host John Dickerson Wednesday that his conscience would not allow him to vote for his party’s presumptive nominee Donald Trump, reports Atlantic.com.
Iconic conservative leader and president of the Media Research Center blasted Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi Tuesday for their unwillingness to challenge the narratives put forth by President Barack Obama and his secretary of state during the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks, Hillary Clinton.
“I think a lot of the people who are making these comments that Trump isn’t a ‘movement conservative’ are absolutely right – but it doesn’t matter, because movement conservatism is the aberration, not the rule,” says Michael Walsh. “They don’t have quite a long enough span to have looked at this, to see that that Reagan era – which ended, by the way, with Bush I – was a very short, brief period of time in this country, that is not likely to come back in the near future, that’s for sure.”
As Donald Trump celebrated a resounding win in the New York primary, Sen. Ted Cruz held a Pennsylvania kickoff event focused on downplaying Trump’s big home state win and looking forward in the “year of the outsider” with a speech entitled “America is at a point of choosing.”
Suddenly, it’s 1964. That’s the year the Republican Establishment ignored the prairie fire started by the conservative supporters of Barry Goldwater, who systematically grabbed control of the GOP by scoring in precinct meeting state caucuses, delegate conventions and ultimately the big California Primary.
In recent months, hysterical opponents of Donald Trump have stoked fears about his candidacy by likening the billionaire to Hitler, raising questions about his mental health, attempting to tie him to the Ku Klux Klan, claiming he may pose a nuclear threat, and warning that a Trump presidency will disrupt international diplomacy and the world order.
As the returns came in from South Carolina Saturday night, showing Donald Trump winning a decisive victory, a note of nervous desperation crept into the commentary.
Donald Trump’s recent comments that Sen. Ted Cruz may not be constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States has sparked discussion on the Constitution’s Natural Born Clause.
On Monday, Weekly Standard editor-in-chief Bill Kristol tweeted out what the rest of the Republican establishment is thinking: better Hillary than Donald. Here’s the tweet:
Crowd-sourcing: Name of the new party we’ll have to start if Trump wins the GOP nomination? Suggestions welcome at editor@weeklystandard.com
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 20, 2015
While the convention speech is notable for its focus on the division between rich and poor, the Iona College is remarkable for its emphasis on a common question facing members of a prosperous society. What is the purpose of wealth, Cuomo asked, if it does not provide happiness?
