International businessman, entrepreneur, builder and reality TV star Donald J. Trump once again displayed his uncanny and unprecedented ability to both dominate the national dialogue and roil the political waters with his most recent proposal to temporarily halt Muslim immigration. Not surprisingly the mainstream media and the political establishment demonstrated their willingness to do anything necessary to smear Trump, distort his proposals and derail his candidacy.
The Washington Post published an editorial Tuesday afternoon demanding that the GOP renounce the current frontrunner for the nomination Donald Trump, saying his campaign is based on “hatred, bigotry and rage.”
Former New York Gov. George Pataki will not be on the GOP state primary ballot in Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas and Alabama, while former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore isn’t on the GOP state primary ballot in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana.
On Sunday, the Huffington Post ran an Op-Ed attacking presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for claiming that Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election mostly on his conservative principles.
CNN suspended a political reporter for two weeks after she tweeted an attack on House Republicans while reporting on their vote to put a pause on Obama’s Syrian refugee importation policy.
As the 2016 GOP primary season began, the famed Koch brothers were gearing up to spread a lot of their considerable cash around the race. But as the campaign rolls on, those big dollar donors seem to be pulling back and
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is hosting Saturday Night Live, and some Latino groups attempted to cause a ruckus in front of the NBC Studios before the event. However, the Associated Press reports only dozens attended the protest.
Planned Parenthood has praised House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) for her appointment of Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough), a staunchly pro-abortion congresswoman, to a newly formed House select committee investigating claims into Planned Parenthood wrongdoing.
Tuesday on NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly offered his reactions to the moderators of last week’s CNBC debate, which have been criticized as being unfair to those candidates for Republicans. According to O’Reilly, those moderators
The largest single religious group in the Democratic Party is now the religiously unaffiliated, or “nones,” a new report by the Pew Research Center reveals.
On the November 3 Breitbart News Daily show on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 6AM to 9AM EST, host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will host and interview a number of guests.
The Iowa Republican Party has denied media credentials to Comedy Central’s news satire show The Daily Show but not because the show skewers the GOP.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton get all the headlines. Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders get all the buzz. But Ted Cruz is running the best campaign of the any of the 19 people seeking the presidency.
Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was left apologizing and finding another seat on an Amtrak train out of Washington this weekend when he upset other passengers by talking too loudly on his cell phone in the designated quite car.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton, denying reality once again, claimed that the Veterans Affairs scandals plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs have been blown out of proportion by Republicans who want the department to fail.
Apparently, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doesn’t live up to her own expectations when it comes to bipartisan leadership.
There is finally some daylight between the crowded field of Republican candidates vying to be the next U.S. Representative in Florida’s 18th congressional district.
Hillary Clinton has backed away from one of her biggest applause lines of the Democratic debate, in which she declared Republicans–without differentiating between politicians and voters–her “enemy.”
The editorial page of The Wall Street Journal has a big problem with talk radio.
Once again, the media’s leading flacks for illegal aliens and the non-Republican wing of the Republican party are pointing the finger at Rush Limbaugh et al for the ongoing turmoil in the GOP.
Billionaire Donald Trump is still sitting high atop his perch as the frontrunner in the 2016 Republican presidential primary race, but Sen. Marco Rubio is gaining significant momentum and is right on his heels.
In a surprise visit to a Latino Victory Project fundraiser, Vice President Joe Biden denounced Republican candidates running for president for their views on illegal immigration.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, complained that the GOP has become too conservative, adding that the only reason he remains a Republican is to annoy the party.
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has left the Democratic Party and joined the GOP, saying that the Democratic party abandoned her.
A senior Republican official is urging Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell to resign from his job as the Republican leader of the Senate.
Let’s begin with the late Andrew Breitbart’s often repeated quote: Politics is downstream from culture. Meaning, culture influences politics, not the reverse – and until conservatives figure out a way to take the culture back from the left, we cannot win.
California’s Republican Party voted Sunday to change its stance on immigration with the adoption of an amendment authored by California GOP Central Valley Regional Vice Chairman Marcelino Valdez. The Tea Party caucus ultimately backed the amendment.
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry noted on her Saturday show the diversity of the 2016 GOP primary candidates, with one female, two latinos and an African-American all in the running. Harris-Perry admitted that the diversity of the GOP candidates “does actually look better
At least two Republican presidential candidates will stand with Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. During Wednesday’s CNN’s Republican presidential debate, candidates were asked about the proposed changes to the $10 bill and the woman with whom they would prefer to replace the country’s first treasury secretary.
A majority of Republican registered voters want either Donald Trump or Ben Carson to be their party’s 2016 presidential nominee, according to two new national polls from the Washington Post-ABC News and the New York Times-CBS News.
GOP leaders in the Senate are feebly complaining and whining about the Democrats’ solid support for President Barack Obama’s nuke-and-cash deal give-away to Iran. GOP leaders will fight hard for goals sought by business groups–such as free-trade deals–but will only pretend to fight for conservatives’ ideological and social priorities, such as pro-American immigration reform, say these critics.
Nationally-renowned author and Conservative talk show host Mark Levin spoke Wednesday afternoon at the Stop Iran rally at Capitol Hill. Levin urged Republicans to stand up against the agreement, recommending that GOP leadership take the scaffolding set-up for the ongoing repairs of the Capitol Building and “use it on their damn spines.”
A new poll shows that the combined polling support for the populist and establishment candidates in the GOP primary adds up to 50 percent of the electorate. That is sufficient to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016–if the GOP’s two wings can somehow rally all their supporters on election day.
Very much like her long-time friend and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who is losing support from the far left element of the Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is also receiving significant pushback from this same faction of her political party.
“Politics is war, but in America, one side is doing all the shooting — the liberals. Shell-shocked conservatives blame their failures on the media or unscrupulous opponents, but they refuse to name the real culprit: themselves. ” If you have never read David Horowitz’s book The Art of Political War.
(CNN)When the next president is sworn in on January 20, 2017, three of the Supreme Court’s justices will be in their eighties.
A well-intentioned article by Noah Rothman in Commentary Magazine offers that Donald Trump’s supporters are the right wing’s version of Obama’s vacuous “Hope and Change” acolytes. Says Rothman: “Trump is the right’s Obama, insofar as his policy preferences are ill-defined, pliable, and reflective of whatever the audience immediately before him wants them to be.” Such comparisons short-change Trump’s supporters.
If anyone still has doubts whether billionaire candidate Donald Trump is here to stay in the presidential arena, not many of them are Republicans.
With Jon Stewart retired and Stephen Colbert off the air for the summer, the Democrat establishment has picked up the slack in their tried-and-true technique of victory through mockery. Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) included a teenager using the name “Deez Nuts” in a recent presidental poll and showed him polling at 9 percent.
Did we just see Erick Erickson’s Red State draw a red line in the sand in front of Rush Limbaugh? And if so, is it another aspect of the booming dynamic known as “the Trump effect?”
