AUSTIN, Texas AP — Ted Cruz is fond of saying that when he began his run for U.S. Senate, he was at 2 percent in the polls against Texas Republican juggernaut David Dewhurst, the states lieutenant governor for nearly a decade. Actually, the 41-year-old former state solicitor general seemed an even longer shot than that. [...]

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The truth is that America is already bankrupt, the papers have just not been served yet, but if our course is not drastically altered that will happen very soon and when it does the boat will rapidly begin to sink and the people who caused it will run away and enjoy the pensions and benefits they voted themselves while the rest of [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – The House approved a potentially sweeping budget reform Friday that would force federal agencies to justify an annual increase, as opposed to getting an automatic increase under current budget law. “What we are about to do could be the most responsible financial thing this Congress has done, this House has done in the [...]

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The entire GOP establishment has unleashed on Newt Gingrich this week, and it looks like it is slowing his momentum in the polls. Almost all of the anti-Newt Gingrich material hitting the media is coming from conservative institutions: National Review, The New York Sun,  and the Washington Times. Just look at the Drudge Report from [...]

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Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing more than vulture capitalism, looting companies, and destroying [...]

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Thought experiment, folks. Let’s say that “Moderate Mitt” ends up being the Republican nominee. Whatever way you slice it, Romney is more of a liberal Republican than his colleagues running for president. Naturally, he’ll stand head and shoulders above Barack Obama as Commander-in-chief, but his record in Massachusetts as well as his past positions show [...]

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CNSNews.com – In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country. ”The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes with the vision of natural law, God-given [...]

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And… BOOM! Mark Levin has an uncanny knack for writing a book that isn’t simply a popular bestseller. Levin’s last book, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, became a major political player in the 2010 elections. Literary dynamite, if you will, tossed into the political scene with the fuse lit. Now comes the just released [...]

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On Monday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh warned that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s use of liberal talking-point language to attack Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was making him “uncomfortable.” He doubled down on that criticism Tuesday, comparing Gingrich to President Barack Obama. “That is what the people who indict capitalism say,” Limbaugh said. “It continues [...]

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He gets right to the point. Named the “Conservative of the Year” by the editors of HUMAN EVENTS, Paul Ryan tells us that the country’s only hope of remaining free and prosperous is to defeat Obama in 2012. “Under the Obama second term, we will enter into to a European austerity phase where we will [...]

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