October 22, 2015
CLIFF KINCAID — Millionaire businessman Ben
Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream was on CNN last week talking about
his presidential candidate, career politician and Senator Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.), a "Social Democrat," not a socialist. For his part,
Cohen said, "You know, I'm a capitalist, clearly, and I support the
guy."... (more)
LA TIMES — Rep. Paul D. Ryan appeared to have locked up the votes Wednesday
to become the next speaker of the House after a key conservative
faction gave its support, even though he failed to win the kind of
sweeping unanimity he had been seeking from the fractious Republican
majority.... (more)
October 22, 2015
BREITBART — The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday evening voted against endorsing Ryan--an
endorsement Ryan considered essential to formally launching a bid for
House Speaker. "HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS DOES NOT ENDORSE PAUL RYAN. They
say a SUPER MAJORITY will support Ryan for speaker, however," Politico's
Jake Sherman tweeted.... (more)
October 22, 2015
BREITBART — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to repeal a rule put in place by the third President of the United States and Founding Father -- Thomas Jefferson -- before he'd become Speaker of the House.... (more)
October 22, 2015
BREITBART — Conservatives are coalescing
movement-wide against an effort by House Ways and Means Committee
chairman Rep. Paul Ryan to ascend to the Speakership in the wake of
outgoing Speaker Rep. John Boehner's forthcoming resignation.... (more)
October 22, 2015
BREITBART — Rep. Paul Ryan says he'll take the job as House Speaker only if particular groups -- including the important House Freedom Caucus --
concede to a list of significant demands. Ryan is demanding support
across the Republican conference and says he wants to be "that unifying
candidate."... (more)
October 22, 2015
WASHINGTON TIMES — The surge of children
and families crossing the southwest border illegally accelerated again
in September, leaving fiscal year 2015 the second-worst on record,
according to numbers released Wednesday by the Border Patrol.... (more)
October 22, 2015
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Hillary Clinton has done Trey Gowdy an enormous favor. In anticipation of her testimony on Thursday
before the Benghazi select committee he chairs, and with a lot of
Republican help, she has framed the committee as a partisan political
witch-hunt obsessed with dashing her presidential ambitions.... (more)
October 22, 2015
CHARLES HURT — 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.... (more)
October 21, 2015
CNN — Vice President Joe Biden ended months of intense speculation about his political future on Wednesday
with a sudden announcement that he wouldn't seek the presidency,
abandoning a dream he's harbored for decades and putting Hillary Clinton
in a stronger position to capture the Democratic nomination.... (more)
October 21, 2015
NATIONAL REVIEW — Many House Republicans were upbeat on Tuesday
evening when they left the private conference where Paul Ryan finally
broke the silence on his potential Speaker bid. Ryan's message was
definitive: he will run, he said, if members of each Republican caucus,
notably the conservative Freedom Caucus, rallied behind him and met his
conditions for taking the job... (more)
October 21, 2015
NATIONAL REVIEW — It looks like Paul Ryan
will do the job, but he'll do it on his own terms. He laid them out at a
Republican-conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday,
telling his colleagues he wants the bickering to end. That means,
Republicans said as they exited the meeting, he wants universal
endorsements from the various caucuses, specifically from the
conservative Freedom Caucus, the Republican Study Committee, and the
more moderate Tuesday Group.... (more)
October 21, 2015
DAILY SIGNAL — Speaking to reporters Tuesday,
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid threw his support behind Rep. Paul
Ryan for House speaker. The Nevada Democrat acknowledged policy
differences with Ryan, but said he's the one House Republican who
Democrats could work with if elected speaker. Asked if the endorsement
might hurt Ryan's chances among Republicans, Reid responded, "I just
speak the truth."... (more)
October 21, 2015
JOE KOVACS — For someone who has never held
political office, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is
pummeling political insiders at their own game, according to radio host
Rush Limbaugh.... (more)
October 21, 2015
CNN — Joe Biden hasn't yet said whether he'll run for president --
but his campaign against Hillary Clinton has already quietly begun. The
vice president and the former secretary of state are already engaged in
a cold war of sorts, both jockeying for the mantle of heir to President
Barack Obama's legacy as they trade veiled shots over political styles,
foreign policy decisions and more.... (more)
October 21, 2015
NEWSMAX — Americans have wised up to the truth about so-called global warming --
and the climate-obsessed president who's made it one of his top
priorities should wise up, Sen. James Inhofe, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Environment and Public Works, tells Newsmax TV.... (more)
October 21, 2015
YAHOO NEWS — Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday it has built a giant military base in the far northern Arctic where 150 soldiers can live autonomously for up to 18 months.... (more)
October 21, 2015
NEWSMAX — The Mormon Church staked a deeper claim to middle ground in American society on Tuesday,
advocating for compromises between protecting religious liberties and
prohibiting discrimination, and criticizing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for
refusing to license gay marriages.... (more)
October 20, 2015
NEWSMAX — America is in the midst of an
unprecedented transformation based on record levels of immigration yet
the subject "remains the forbidden conversation" in politics today, Sen.
Jeff Sessions and Rep. Dave Brat say.... (more)
October 19, 2015
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — After 10 days away from Washington, House Republicans will return to work on Tuesday no closer to finding a new speaker than when they left on Oct. 9.... (more)
October 19, 2015
NEWSMAX — Vice President Joe Biden will end
up running for the Democratic presidential nomination because the party
needs an "insurance policy" in case current front-runner Hillary
Clinton is indicted, conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer says.... (more)
October 19, 2015
CHERYL CHUMLEY — A source who reportedly
just came back from travels with Joe Biden's son, Joseph Hunter, told
WND the vice president will make an announcement about his presidential
aspirations in the next 48 hours -- and it will be in the affirmative.... (more)
October 19, 2015
NEWSMAX — Texas became the latest and
biggest U.S. state to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood, saying the
women's health group is no longer eligible for Medicaid payments.... (more)
October 19, 2015
LEO HOHMANN — As part of a mass prisoner
release of convicted drug felons ordered by a restructuring of federal
sentencing guidelines, as many as 2,000 illegal aliens are about to be
released back onto U.S. streets.... (more)
October 19, 2015
The theory 'is not so much empirical as poetic'
ALAN KEYES — This week, I read a story
about Ben Carson's response to a question about "creationism" that led
me to ponder the quisling GOP's abandonment of the elegant words and
logic with which the American Declaration of Independence establishes
the political relevance of the authority of the Creator God... (more)
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