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PHILADELPHIA — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Wednesday said that he does not believe Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president based on her acceptance of special-interest money, her support of free trade and her vote for the Iraq War. Sanders’s blunt assessment at a raucous rally here came at the end of a day of testy exchanges between…

WASHINGTON — Evangelical leader Michael Cromartie asserted Tuesday that it is “inexcusable” that prominent evangelical leaders like megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have thrown the “new branding” of the Christian Right “out the window” by supporting Donald Trump for president. Cromartie, the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of…

WASHINGTON — Evangelical leader Michael Cromartie asserted Tuesday that it is “inexcusable” that prominent evangelical leaders like megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have thrown the “new branding” of the Christian Right “out the window” by supporting Donald Trump for president. Cromartie, the vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of…

Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as the rich, to pay their fair share of income taxes. None of these people, as well as the uninformed in the media and our campus intellectual elites, will say precisely what is the “fair share” of taxes. That is because…

“It’s not the will to win that matters. . . . It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” — Paul “Bear” Bryant Houston — People here at Ted Cruz’s campaign headquarters are meticulously preparing to win a contested convention, if there is one. Because Donald Trump is a low-energy fellow, Cruz will be positioned to trounce him in…

Top Republicans are reportedly sticking to predictions that House Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the party’s presidential pick at the Cleveland nominating convention. According to Politico, one unnamed source with a “enviable prediction record” this election cycle gives the Wisconsin lawmaker a 54 percent chance of becoming the party’s standard bearer. The GOP source argues he came to…

Brookfield, Wis. — One week before Wisconsin’s presidential primary, Ted Cruz stood before hundreds of supporters in this Milwaukee suburb and cast the contest in sweeping terms, framing it as a “battleground” where forces opposed to Donald Trump could turn the momentum of 2016 campaign against him. “The entire country is focused on the state of Wisconsin,” Cruz said. “And…

Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies. The “Panama Papers” revealed financial arrangements of global politicians and public figures including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers…

President Obama is facing the very real possibility of a deadlock at the Supreme Court that guarantees his immigration actions won’t take effect before he leaves office. If the justices split 4-4 on the case, as observers say is possible, the president’s attempt to shield nearly 5 million people from deportation would be sent back to the lower courts for…

Why is John Kasich still in the campaign? Ted Cruz has to get 87% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination. Donald Trump will never get enough delegates to stop a brokered (read that contested) convention. Controversy everywhere. If it bleeds it leads. But the real story is how the Democratic bosses have stolen the nominating process for Hillary…

Why does Donald Trump assert that he is pro-life? It’s easy to understand that if he is running as a conservative for the GOP nomination this checked-box would be necessary to survive the primary process. He is running against two other candidates who have clear credentials on the matter, and if he were to be found to still be pro-abortion…