Cruz: Trump Agreed I Was Eligible in Sept., ‘the Constitution Hasn’t Changed...
Ted Cruz tonight said that under the “birther theories” Donald Trump is circulating about his candidacy would also disqualify Trump himself, as his mother was born in Scotland. Cruz also noted Trump...
View ArticleAudience Repeatedly Boos Trump After He Cites His Poll Numbers in Cruz Attack
After Ted Cruz said Donald Trump is only questioning his eligibility to run for president because he’s worried about Cruz’s rise in the polls, Trump replied he has nothing to worry about because he’s...
View ArticleHalftime Report
I’m feeling pretty good about my earlier conclusion that this is a Cruz-Rubio race.A few thoughts:One: Everybody was really quite charming for the first half of the debate or so. Funny, cordial, even...
View ArticleDr. Carson Cites Comments Sections in Noting Coarsening of American Culture
Asked about the propriety of Bill Clinton’s affairs factoring into Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, Dr. Ben Carson said these questions are appropriate, and then mourned the coarsening of American culture....
View Article'New York Values'
I like Ted Cruz a great deal and would rather hear my doctor telling me I have testicular cancer than hear Fox News reporting that Donald Trump has been elected president, but hating New York City and...
View ArticleTed Cruz, the Cool, Prepared Bomb Squad Technician
This debate ran hot and cold — some fiery, fascinating, revealing exchanges among the leading candidates, interrupted by long stretches of the underdogs trying to get attention, and generally failing,...
View ArticleCruz's Night
Cruz didn’t win every exchange, I thought: Both Rubio and Trump won some of their exchanges (“New York values,” the value-added tax) with him. But I thought the exchanges Cruz won (birtherism,...
View ArticleCruz: 'I Appreciate You Dumping Your Oppo Research Folder on the Debate...
Tonight’s biggest battle came when Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz tore each into each other’s respective histories on immigration. After Rubio said his position shifted in response to ISIS’s “sophisticated...
View ArticleMy Takeaways from Tonight
It was Donald Trump’s best debate, though his China tariff answer was a hot mess and Cruz had the better of him on the birther nonsense. But it was also Ted Cruz’s best debate, even though Marco...
View ArticleRubio vs. Cruz on Taxes
Rubio accused Cruz of having a value-added tax, and Cruz denied it. Value-added taxes come in several different flavors, and people can use the phrase in different ways. It can safely be said, though,...
View ArticleTrump Won
For some time now, people who believe in the theory of Donald Trump’s inevitable demise have thought that he’d either say something so outrageous that voters would finally reject him or he’d perform so...
View ArticleTed Cruz is Growing in Stature; Donald Trump is Getting More Plausible
It has basically been a Trump–Cruz race the last couple of weeks, and it felt that way for much of the debate, and it seems that way after it.I think the big event of the night was that Cruz showed he...
View ArticleBartiromo: 'Why Increase Immigration?' Rubio: 'Look, Snowden! Crop Insurance!'
Finally, someone asked about the central question of immigration policy: How many? Here’s what Maria Bartiromo asked of Rubio in Thursday night’s debate:Under current law, the U.S. is on track to issue...
View ArticleNR Tweets the GOP Debates
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View ArticleFriday Links
January 17 is Ben Franklin’s birthday – bio, quotes, videos, his 200 synonyms for drunk, the bodies found in his basement, and more1932: U.S. Army kicks U.S. veterans out of WashingtonA brief history...
View ArticleThe Limits of Likability
There are paradoxes in American politics. One of them is this: We are supposedly moved to choose the more “likable” candidate and we profess to hate negative campaigning. During last night’s debate,...
View ArticleTale of the Tape: Times Catches Trump Fibbing on China Tariff
In the row over tariffs and trade policy at last night’s debate, Donald Trump denied a New York Times report that he had proposed imposition of a 45 percent tariff on China. When confronted about it,...
View ArticleHow Obama Stole Dubuque: Local and Federal Officials Respond
On Wednesday I told the story of Obama’s outrageous takeover of housing policy in Dubuque, the most frightening example yet of how the administration’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)...
View ArticleChristie Brazens It Out
The other day I marveled at Christie’s apparent strategy of hoping nobody has Google. Last night he stuck to that plan.So let’s set the facts straight. First of all, I didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor....
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