Sunday, February 21, 2016

Marlene Ricketts, whose family bought the always-losing Chicago Cubs in 2009, is bankrolling the anti-Trump effort

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The New York Times reports here : The wife of Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade and a major Republican donor, wrote a $3 mi...

In the South Carolina GOP primary the polling averaged a miss of 16.1% v 14.2% in New Hampshire

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The Real Clear Politics poll average predicted the lineup of the outcome in South Carolina, but the percentage of the vote received was of...

Trump wins South Carolina GOP primary with 32.5% of the vote, 10 points ahead of Rubio and Cruz

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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Jeb! folds like a house of cards

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Pretty pathetic way to end it. The New York Times provides not a single statement on the record from the campaign. Story here .

Larry Kudlow will NOT run in Connecticut for US Senate

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Reported here four days ago.

January 2016 was warmest January in satellite record since 1979 but warming pause extends to 18yrs & 8mos

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So says Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, here : The sharp el Niño spike is just about to abolish the long Pause in...

America's metropolitan elite expresses nothing short of naked disdain for the working class

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Clive Crook, here : I'm a British immigrant, and grew up in a northern English working-class town. Taking my regional accent to ...

Limited government: One Supreme Court justice down, two to go

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The wrong one is down, mind you, but the Founders' Court had only six members, not nine (eight) as now, according to The Weekly Standa...

As polls open in South Carolina, Real Clear Politics poll average projects Trump in first with 31%

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The massive SC House GOP poll, incidentally, has an MoE of 2.0, not 2.9: With its 4% undecided, look for Trump to win it with 28-30% at w...

Marco Rubio's treatment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is nothing short of disgraceful

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The ugly details are reported here .

Trump reiterates opposition to Obamacare and individual mandate

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Friday, February 19, 2016

The term "conservative" has become nearly meaningless in South Carolina

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Moderate Republicans tonight perceive Trump and Rubio more like themselves than the other candidates

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The division in the Tea Party between religious conservatives and libertarians is starkly evident in South Carolina

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Data from the SC House GOP poll of 3,500 likely voters shown tonight at Real Clear Politics indicates the Tea Party in South Carolina is e...

In South Carolina Trump is capturing the libertarians and independents Rand Paul once hoped to bring together

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Data from the latest SC House GOP poll of 3,500 likely voters shown at Real Clear Politics:

Rush Limbaugh tries to undermine Trump emphasizing today that Trump backtracked on the-Bush-lied charge

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But examine the transcript at length from last night's townhall when Trump addressed the Iraq war and you'll see Trump is stickin...

Rush Limbaugh doesn't get it that Trump turned the idea of a healthcare mandate on its head in last night's townhall remarks

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When Trump said last night (transcript here ) "Well I like the mandate" he didn't mean the individual mandate in Obamacare....

Ralph Peters (ahem) rips Tim Cook a new one (ahem) for being such a queen (double ahem)

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There's gotta be at least four in-you-endos in there. Sorry, I just couldn't resist. Here : "Tim Cook is acting...

Patrick J. Buchanan: Trump is rising because he's repudiating the Bush clan's anti-conservative policies

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Patrick J. Buchanan, here : “In the GOP nomination race, the chickens of a quarter century of Bush Republicanism have come home to r...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Governor Nikki Haley, not a natural born citizen who took down the Confederate flag, endorses not a natural born citizen Marco Rubio for president

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Or: anchor baby endorses anchor baby, which won't fly. From another story here : Haley’s parents moved to South Carolina in...