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Watch: ‘SNL’ Mocks Ben Carson

During this weekend’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” on NBC, comedian actor Jay Pharoah played the younger version of GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson  in a skit called, “The Adventures of Young Ben Carson.” The skit mocked Carson by

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Ben Carson, China and Syria: The DC Media Lied To You — Again

During Tuesday’s absolutely superb Republican presidential debate, front-runner Ben Carson was asked about the unraveling situation in Syria and said the following, “We also must recognize that it’s a very complex place. You know, the Chinese are there, as well

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Carson: Trump Needs Help Understanding the Word ‘Pathological’

Friday at a press conference in Greenville, SC, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson took questions about his rival Donald Trump’s attacks. Carson said, “I’m hopeful that maybe his advisers will help him to understand the word pathological and recognize

Mika Brzezinski: Carson’s Foreign Policy ‘Frightening and Detrimental’

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski described Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s foreign policy as “frightening and detrimental.” After playing clips of Carson saying China is also in Syria, Brzezinski said, “It’s completely confusing, it’s vexing and really frighting

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Hillary Clinton Revives Her ‘Marine Story’ For Veterans Day

When a leading Republican presidential candidate was targeted last week by a sloppy hit piece that claimed he was lying about an effort to recruit him out of high school to West Point, commentators with long memories recalled that Hillary Clinton used to tell a story about trying to join the Marines when she was in college.

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Carly Fiorina’s Three-Page Tax Plan

Carly Fiorina recommended five steps to reduce the size of government and “really get this economy going again”: zero-based budgeting, instead of giving government agencies automatic spending increases every year; passing the Raines Act to shift power away from unaccountable bureaucrats to Congress; holding a top-to-bottom review of all regulations so we can roll many of them back; holding government officials accountable for their performance; and reforming the tax code.

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California Conservatives React to GOP Debate

There seems to be universal consensus that between the reduced number of participants, and the quality of the debate questions and follow-up from the panelists, the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate was the strongest by way of policy substance thus far.

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Carson: I Wouldn’t Raise Minimum Wage

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated that he opposed raising the minimum wage during Tuesday’s primetime GOP presidential debate on the Fox Business Network. Carson was asked, “You have suggested one minimum wage does not fit all, and that

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Ben Carson: The News Media Will Never Move On

Campbell Brown, editor-in-chief of The Seventy Four, interviewed Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson who said while the public has moved on he is not convinced the media will ever move on from scrutinizing his past. Brown asked, “Do you

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Dr. Ben Carson Signals Openness To Obamatrade’s Pacific Rim Trade Deal

This is the first time Carson himself has weighed in on Obamatrade, and the move comes after his spokesman Doug Watts previously told the Wall Street Journal he was open to it. Watts told the WSJ the day after President Barack Obama’s White House released the 5,544-page, 100-pound, several-feet-high-when-printed-out trade deal that Carson “believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.”

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Carson: ‘I Would Much Rather Lose an Election Than to Lie’

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson defended himself in the wake media scrutiny of his past, including what some alleged to have been discrepancies about his past. Carson insisted to host Bill O’Reilly that

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Grassley: Carson Should Get Some Leeway

Monday on Newmax.TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)  said Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson should get some leeway on the media scrutiny of his past. Grassley said, “And Carson’s specific case, I would say that when you

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