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How Twitter Reacted to Harry Reid’s Retirement Announcement
This morning, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced that he will retire in 2016 and not seek re-election. My life’s work has been to make… Read More
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Scott Walker Lands Former Senator as National Security Expert for 2016 Race
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has added one of Washington’s leading advocates of military readiness to the ranks of advisers helping prepare him for a likely… Read More
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Reflections on the Conservative Budget From the Lawmaker Tasked With Crafting It
The Republican Study Committee’s budget didn’t pass the House, but the lawmaker in charge of crafting the proposal as head of the group’s Budget and… Read More
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See What Our Experts Are Tweeting about Vote-A-Rama
Vote-a-rama has started. This is a marathon voting session in the U.S. Senate budget process of addressing amendments that were not dealt with during the… Read More
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A Marathon Day in Congress: Vote-a-Rama, Explained in 90 Seconds
Budget season is officially in full swing, and as the U.S. Senate prepares to debate the budget resolution, it can only mean one thing: it’s… Read More
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Ted Cruz Rebuts Criticism as Hard-Liner: ‘I’ll Compromise With Martians’
In an exclusive one-on-one conversation Tuesday night with Sen. Ted Cruz in New York City, the presidential hopeful says if he becomes president of the… Read More
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Is Ted Cruz Eligible for the Presidency?
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s announcement Monday that he will run for president has Donald Trump, the ladies on “The View,” and others in the birther… Read More
True or False? Jeb Bush’s Education Reforms Boosted Florida’s Schoolchildren
It’s not every governor who can say the record shows his state’s schoolchildren did better because he applied conservative principles of choice and accountability. Jeb Bush can and… Read More
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How Ted Cruz Plans to Win the Presidency in 2016
During an interview last month at CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz holds nothing back when explaining what it will take to win the presidency in 2016…. Read More
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Don’t Get Distracted by 2016ers. We Still Have 22 Months Left of Obama’s Presidency.
It’s exciting to talk about 2016. But Congress and the White House still need to be watched—closely.
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With Appeal to Liberty, Ted Cruz Jumps Into 2016 Race for President
Ted Cruz asked conservatives to let their imaginations run wild. And then the junior senator from Texas explicitly asked them to imagine him as the nation’s… Read More
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Watch Live: Ted Cruz Announces Presidential Bid
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, launches his campaign for president at Liberty University in Virginia. Cruz is the first major candidate to officially declare his candidacy…. Read More
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The Daily Signal Adds Veteran Journalist David Brody as Contributor
Veteran news reporter David Brody is joining The Daily Signal as a contributor to cover the 2016 presidential election. Brody, who will remain chief political… Read More
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Ted Cruz Expected to Announce White House Bid Monday
Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce that he will run for president on Monday, according to the Houston Chronicle. The Texas Republican was elected to… Read More
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Ted Cruz Wants You to Be Able to File Your Taxes on a Postcard
What’s the one initiative Sen. Ted Cruz would pursue as president to help ordinary Americans? That’s the question MSNBC host Joe Scarborough posed to the Texas Republican… Read More
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No, Tom Cotton Isn’t a Traitor for Writing Iran Letter
“Traitors.” That’s a strong term, obviously. It should never be used lightly. Yet there it was, flying around like confetti in Times Square on New Year’s Eve…. Read More
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What’s Wrong with Obama’s Energy, Emissions Executive Order
President Obama signed Thursday an executive order to require executive agencies to improve energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions. One has to hope the… Read More
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Obama’s Wrong: It’s a Bad Idea to Force Ignorant Americans to Vote
President Obama suggested Wednesday that the U.S. should consider forcing all citizens to vote in elections. “In Australia, and some other countries, there’s mandatory voting,”… Read More
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How Liberal Senators Are Trying to Make a Bipartisan Abortion Measure Controversial
Amid the usual partisan infighting in Washington, there is one policy that for decades has won the approval of liberals and conservatives alike: prohibiting federal… Read More
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Conservatives to Party Leaders: Show Us a ‘Strategy’ and We Will Fight for You
In their first confrontation with Republican leadership this Congress, conservatives lost. Earlier this month, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,… Read More
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A New Strategy for Those Looking to Stop Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration
After a failed attempt to block implementation of the president’s executive action on immigration by not funding it through the Department of Homeland Security funding,… Read More
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The Hunt for the Clinton Emails
The House Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi last week produced a timeline of the efforts to uncover former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email trail…. Read More
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Why Is the Pro-Abortion Lobby Preventing an Anti-Human Trafficking Bill From Passing?
Let’s be clear, this bill is about helping victims of human trafficking.
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Rand Paul’s ‘Tech-Savvy’ Austin Adventure
Capping a weekend in Austin, Texas designed to advance his credibility with young techies, Sen. Rand Paul today opened what he describes as a “tech-oriented… Read More
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What’s Wrong With the Latest Trendy Libertarianism
Libertarian populism has lately been generating a great deal of attention on the Right. Many believe it represents a viable reform agenda for the GOP…. Read More
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The Justice Department Is Giving Away Your Money (Without Your Permission)
For the past decade, the U.S. Justice Department has engaged in the dubious practice of giving away the public’s money when it settles a case,… Read More
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Scott Walker Explains His Tax Philosophy to New Hampshire Activists, Calls It ‘Kohl’s Curve’
Concord, N.H.—Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spoke to a crowd of Republican grassroots activists at Concord High School in New Hampshire today. Walker, a likely presidential… Read More
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Cartoon: Democrats and Tom Cotton’s Letter
Arthur Milikh, assistant director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation, explained in a column earlier this week… Read More
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Hillary Clinton’s Career at Rose Law Firm a Bellwether for Modern-Day Document Destruction
Hillary Clinton broke her silence this week to address the scandal involving emails during her time at the State Department. Although it was refreshing to… Read More
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What Difference Does It Make? Americans Are Paying Attention to Latest Clinton Controversy
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton set social media on fire Tuesday afternoon as she addressed the press for the first time since it was… Read More
