After Railing Against Loretta Lynch, Ted Cruz Misses The Vote On Her...
Two months ago, Texas Senator Ted Cruz wrote a piece for Politico in which he said that Loretta Lynch, then the President’s nominee for Attorney General, had displayed a level of support for...
View ArticleTed Cruz And Steve King Are Attacking The Rule Of Law In Defense Of...
Iowa Congressman Steve King isn’t giving up in the fight against marriage equality, instead he’s introducing a bill in Congress that would strip Federal Courts of jurisdiction in cases dealing with...
View ArticleRepublican Presidential Race A Dead Heat
The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, with a new Quinnipiac national poll showing five candidates tied for first place and several other candidates on their heels in a race that...
View ArticleRepublican Candidates Are Dodging The Issue On The Confederate Flag
On Saturday, Mitt Romney sent out a message on Twitter calling for the Confederate flag flying on the grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol to be removed, a message which President Obama himself...
View ArticleTed Cruz with a Gun to His Head
So, this picture is going around: And this one: In both, Ted Cruz is giving a speech about gun rights in front of an illustration of a gun. Naturally, outrage is ensuing. POLITICO (“AP photo shows a...
View ArticleJeb Bush Up, Rand Paul And Ted Cruz Down In Latest GOP Poll
Jeb Bush seems to have gotten a fairly decent reception in the polls from his Presidential campaign launch, while Donald Trump’s circus may have less life in it than expected, according to a new NBC...
View ArticleRepublican Candidates Respond To Obergefell About As Expected
The Republican candidates for President have begin to chime on the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, and while some of the responses are about what you’d expect, others are a bit more...
View ArticleTexas Attorney General Tells Clerks They Can Ignore The Constitution If They...
Ken Paxton, who was elected Attorney General of Texas last November in the same election that saw his predecessor Greg Abbott elected Governor, is telling Clerks and Judges in the Lone Star State that...
View ArticleBush, Rubio, And Perry Condemn Trump, While Ted Cruz Salutes Him
Mitt Romney isn’t running for President, but that isn’t stopping him from commenting about the people who are, especially one guy named Donald Trump: Mitt Romney said Saturday that Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleThe Money Race
The first filing deadline for the announced Presidential candidates is this Wednesday, but some candidates have already released their figures and The New York Times has this chart: Several candidates...
View ArticleTaking A Look At The Second Quarter Money Race
Taking into account money raised by both the campaigns and supporting SuperPACs, Jeb Bush seems to have clear won the money race for the second quarter of 2015 according these figures which I obtained...
View ArticleRepublican Candidates Rally Around Lawbreaker Kim Davis, Trample All Over The...
The first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Rowan County, Kentucky today in the wake of yesterday’s decision by Judge David Bunning to hold County Clerk Kim Davis in contempt and...
View ArticleRepublican Candidates Abandon Reagan’s Optimism In Favor Of Doom And Gloom
To listen to the way some Republicans tell it, America is a pretty awful place these days. “A hell hole,” as Donald J. Trump has put it. Our leaders are “babies” who are “so stupid” they can only...
View ArticleRepublicans Clash In Second Debate That Seemed To Last Forever
The fifteen Republican candidates for President faced off last night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in the second debate of the election cycle, and the most notable difference from the...
View ArticleTrump And Carson Continue To Lead GOP Field, Rubio Rises
D A new poll from CBS News shows that Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to lead the race for the Republican nomination, but there are some signs that other candidates may be starting to make a move...
View ArticleTrump & Carson Remain At The Top, Christie & Kasich In Danger Of Missing Main...
A new poll from Fox News Channel shows that Ben Carson has reached a point where he is essentially statistically tied with Donald Trump in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, but the...
View ArticleTrump Still Leads The GOP Field, Anti-Trump Wave Still Not Manifesting Itself
With one week out until the next Republican debate, two new polls show that Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to be the overwhelming outright leaders of the field, while the anti-Trump wave that...
View ArticleCNBC Announces Participants For October 28th Debate
When CNBC first announced its criteria for the third Republican debate coming up on October 28th, there was some anticipation that it would result in a smaller contingent of candidates on the debate...
View ArticleOn Marco Rubio And The Issue Of Missed Senate Votes
One of Florida’s largest newspapers is calling on Florida Senator Marco Rubio to resign his Senate seat due to the fact that his Presidential campaign is allegedly impacting his ability to represent...
View ArticleTrump And Carson Lead, Bush Sinking, Christie In Debate Trouble In Latest GOP...
Two new national polls show show that the wild fluctuations in the Republican field that James Joyner wrote about earlier this week are continuing, but they also show that the make up of next...
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