As I stated yesterday, it’s evident that the Trump phenomenon isn’t going to go away any time soon. However, it’s also equally evident that the Ben Carson phenomenon isn’t going away any time soon, either. How do I know this? A couple of points from the polling released yesterday indicates that Carson’s current base of support in the polls is very stubborn and that his | Read More »

Around 4:30 am on September 5, 1972, a group of Canadian athletes returning from an illicit night out in Munich was scaling the chain link fence around the Olympic dormitory compound. The were joined by 8 other men. Once inside the Canadians went on their way, none the wiser to the fact that their companions had been a commando squad of Palestinian terrorists. The terrorist | Read More »

Faysh khabur, Iraq. 14th August 2014 — Displaced members of the Yezidi community carrying goods and food cross the Tigris river on the Faysh Khabur bridge crossing as they make their way from Syria into Iraq. — As the evacuation of displaced members of the Yazidi community from the Sinjar Mountains continues, thousands of displaced people cross the Iraq-Syrian border at | Read More »

It’s time to stop assuming that the Trump phenomenon will collapse under its own weight. Trump has held a continuous lead in the RCP polling average since July 20th. That’s already longer than any candidate not named Mitt Romney held the lead in 2012, and Trump’s lead is growing rather than shrinking. His main competition at this point is Ben Carson, | Read More »

A new Gallup poll tracks the favorability ratings of the GOP field. Donald Trump’s net favorable rating among Republicans increased significantly over the past two weeks, putting him among the top six Republicans overall on this measure. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%‘s image also improved, while Carly Fiorina’s and Ben Carson’s images remain significantly better than they were before the Aug. 6 | Read More »

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just screams ‘Why don’t you ever listen to what I’m SAYING?’ and then lets fly with a club.”

Thanks to some truly spectacular failure theater on the part of the GOP, the President now has his Iran deal. Listening to President Obama and John Kerry, they have prevented Iran from getting a bomb instead of making it more likely. This video made by RedState’s own Ben Howe shows that, in the case of the Iran deal, the devil really is in the details: | Read More »

In what looks to be a metaphor for his campaign, Rick Perry got plenty of attention yesterday but it was only because Donald Trump was trolling him, and in the end it was a verbal gaffe by Perry that got more attention than his substantive response. Via The Hill: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday gave a puzzling response to Donald Trump’s assertion that he is | Read More »

Desperate times call for desperate measures… or just for desperation. Via The Hill: Jeb Bush is trying to get off the mat and prove his mettle to the Republican Party after a tough summer. No longer the front-runner, Bush has reset his campaign strategy and is now directly engaging Donald Trump, in part to show that he’s capable of the political knife-fight it takes to | Read More »