Some of us this election year don’t even want to say the words “Clinton” or “Trump” — and with good reason. However, there is one word that we should keep in mind: “Turnout.” If we sit home in disgust on election day, we forfeit the right — and the duty — to elect a Congress that can keep either of...

October Obamacare Surprise: Consumers Fume, Worried Democrats Run For Cover The news broke last evening, but it didn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention. We’ve known all along that Obamacare’s rate hikes were due just before the election, and independent analysts have been tracking the law’s 2017 premium spikes for months. Now the Obama administration has...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Newly confident and buoyant in the polls, Hillary Clinton is looking past Donald Trump while widening her mission to include helping Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House. Though Trump’s campaign insisted Sunday it was premature to count him out, it’s Clinton whose path to winning the White House has only grown...

Trump’s ‘Gettysburg address’ makes closing argument as race heats up First 100 days’ agenda speech formalized his mainstay political pledges with promises of legislation and executive orders Called it a ‘Contract with the American Voter,’ modeling it after the 1994 Republican ‘Contract with America’ Trump touted ‘the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime’ and made his...

Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Debate Abortion Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed Wednesday night about partial-birth and late-term abortion. Judging by the media coverage of that exchange, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion about these subjects. I’ll try to dispel some of it. When partial-birth abortion happens: First, it’s worth keeping in mind that late-term and partial-birth...

A federal judge in Texas has largely rejected the Obama administration’s request to narrow a nationwide injunction banning enforcement of an Education Department policy requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their gender identity. In an order issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor made some changes to the ruling...

Hillary Clinton claimed the Heller decision was about toddlers. It was actually about whether a 66-year-old police officer had the right to keep a gun at home. During the final presidential debate on Wednesday night, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told another unbelievable whopper about the country’s gun laws. In her answer to a question about her views on gun...

Hillary Clinton claimed the Heller decision was about toddlers. It was actually about whether a 66-year-old police officer had the right to keep a gun at home. During the final presidential debate on Wednesday night, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told another unbelievable whopper about the country’s gun laws. In her answer to a question about her views on gun...

Note: This story has been updated with additional information The following is a news media analysis and commentary Regardless of who is your chosen – or least favorite – presidential candidate, independent minds should be concerned about the latest revelations in the news media’s unseemly relationships with government and political actors. While there are many responsible journalists working today, inside documents...

Make no mistake about it. If you are a conservative Christian and Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, she will declare war on certain aspects of your faith. Your religious liberties will be targeted, and your biblical beliefs will be branded disturbing, if not downright dangerous. Do not be deceived. She has made herself perfectly clear on this in the...