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Rafael Ted Cruz, Jr. had a big problem last night with New York values. His problem was, New York values a chance to actually vote for the candidates. So the Empire State didn’t cancel its primary, or pick the delegates in smoke-filled back rooms, the way Ted Cruz prefers to have the fights fixed for him by his Republican-in-name-only (RINO) handlers. Another problem for Cruz: he’s the favorite son… of Calgary, Alberta. Donald Trump is the favorite son of Queens, New York. They weren’t counting Donald Trump’s votes last night in New York, they were weighing them. And for the...

Elizabeth Warren as a comic-book hero? Meet Wonder Squaw! It’s hard to imagine, but somebody is coming out with a 24-page comic book about her rise from “modest means to the Massachusetts Senate.” Funny, I thought she was in the U.S. Senate, and as for her “modest means” – yeah, right, and did she ever tell you about those high cheekbones of hers? But let’s play along. “Look, over by Wall Street – I mean Wall Trail. It’s a Native American! It’s an Okie! It’s… Wonder Squaw! Yes, it’s Elizabeth Warren, strange visitor from another planet (Oklahoma) who came to...

There are only two factions left now in the Republican party. Trump and anti-Trump. Gov. John Kasich is still breathing, but let’s face it, his only role is to keep Trump from getting to the magic 1,237 number of delegates on the first ballot in Cleveland in July. The GOP establishment — the GOPe — officially went out of business last night. Beware the Ides of March indeed. In Miami, yesterday was Goodbye Rubio Tuesday. Little Marco blamed most of the chaos in the Republican party on “the political establishment” — you know, the same fat cats who gave his...

Howie Carr list ping

Which radio show has the best Seminar callers. Howie Carr in Boston who's a big Trump guy has been firing back at these callers lately. Im guessing all of Levin's callers are ex-Trump seminar callers.

The Republican establishment is in a dither — who are all these tradesmen and petit bourgeoisie who are planning to vote for this Donald Trump fellow? Do such people really exist? And if they do, how many of the great unwashed are actually going to vote for this person with the 
outer-borough accent? We’re going to get answers to all these questions shortly, aren’t we? Not that anybody really has any idea what’s going to happen in Iowa tomorrow night. The only thing we know for sure about Iowa is who the media are going to declare as the winner,...

New York values — Ted Cruz seems to think he has a pretty good idea of what exactly they are. So does Donald Trump, although his definition is exactly the opposite of Cruz’s, and The Donald has the advantage of having lived in N.Y., N.Y. his entire life. Which brings us to “Massachusetts values.” There’s less debate over those, I dare say. There are certain things — actually, many things — that all can agree indisputably represent “Massachusetts values.” A sign that says “EBT Accepted Here.” Moving a fire hydrant from out in front of your mansion. Potholes. Third bathrooms....

I finally went down to the Wellesley police station yesterday morning to fill out the necessary paperwork and pay $100 to get myself a gun permit. After getting my firearms safety certificate, I’d been dragging my feet for months. But I finally wised up after this latest Islamist terrorist massacre, in San Bernardino. As appalling as the slaughter was, what was even more shocking was the reaction of the cops and the media. What could the terrorists’ 
motive possibly be? How many times did you hear that absurd question asked? Were you yelling at the TV set too? And how...

So this contretemps all started when Trump said Muslims in Jersey City celebrated the genocidal 9/11 attack by their co-religionists. Not true, the grandees and dandies sniffed, until it turned out that multiple newspaper stories and radio reports backed up Trump. So the powers that be had to knuckle the original reporter to issue a correction to his own story — 14 years later. Trump then made sport of the reporter’s disability — and I’m certainly not going to defend that. But see how far afield we’ve gotten from the original tempest in a teapot. Forget 9/11, Trump is mean...

This just in to the newsroom — Deval Patrick is no longer governor of the commonwealth. We are reminded of these glad tidings by a simple press release that was issued Thanksgiving Eve. It announced that next Tuesday evening, the new governor will be lighting a “Christmas tree” at the State House. No muss, no fuss, no controversy. It’s Christmas, so a Christmas tree is going up on Beacon Hill. Merry Christmas! Granted, it’s a small step on a long road, but after eight years of the PC malaise that marked Deval Patrick’s disastrous tenure, at least a bit of...

At Triton Regional High School in Rowley, it’s 1984 — the novel, not the year. The sniveling PC school 
administration is backing off now, but the 32-page questionnaire they were asking their middle and high school students to fill out last week is chilling. It’s downright totalitarian, and it’s put out by the Harvard School of Education, but I repeat myself. The kids from the high and middle schools (the questionnaire included a box for 10-year-olds to check) were asked by the apparatchiks from the People’s Republic of Cambridge to rat out their parents for insufficient 
Political Correctness. George Orwell’s...

It's been more than a week now since Barack Obama announced that reports of his plan to end U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan have been greatly exaggerated. By himself. Related Articles VictimÂ’s mom wonÂ’t watch Benghazi hearing Adriana Cohen: Obama, Kerry weak hostage negotiators Harvard football team on point And now it turns out that the war in Iraq, which I could have sworn heÂ’d sworn was already over, isnÂ’t. In fact, a U.S. soldier was just killed there during a hostage-rescue operation against ISIS terrorists. Cindy Sheehan could not be reached for comment. Traffic on I-93 continues...

Howie thread

Which Hillary Clinton is going to show up for the first Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night in Las Vegas? Mark Twain once said that if you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait five minutes. Same thing with Hillary’s position on the issues — just wait five minutes, or maybe five focus groups. She — and the viewing public — caught a break this week when CNN cut the length of the debate from three hours to two. On some issues, Hillary may now have time to espouse only three or four contradictory positions. Remember, Hillary is a...

It’s not that Donald Trump is that good, it’s that most of the GOP hacks he’s running against are that bad. The more these illegal-alien-coddling Republicans-in-name-only attack Trump, the stronger he becomes. Every knock a boost. It’s the Hotel California all over again: “They stab it with their steely knives. But they just can’t kill the beast.” Consider the collection of frauds Trump has decimated over the past few weeks: Karl Rove and the rest of the GOP consultant class; The Wall Street Journal and Fox News; the Chamber of Commerce, the Bush family, the Sununus, squirrelly Silicon Valley billionaires,...

Finally, at long last, someone has gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch — Boston 2024. There is a God. The lesson here is from Abraham Lincoln: You can’t fool all of the people all of the time — even in Massachusetts. It’s a great victory for the people, but it could easily have gone the other way. What if Marsha Coakley had been elected governor? The state would already be on the hook for $5 billion in cost overruns. Like most flim-flams, the Boston Olympics collapsed abruptly. Perplexing,...

Every time another foreign terrorist murders Americans in cold blood, I think of Ted Kennedy. It’s still unclear how this latest Middle East monster infiltrated the United States. But you can bet it involved his family taking advantage of one of Ted Kennedy’s “landmark” laws — the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, perhaps, or the Refugee Act of 1980. Or maybe his father utilized one of the “terrorist visas” enshrined by the Immigration Act of 1990. That catastrophe, by the way, was signed into law by Juan Ellis Bush’s father, Bush 41. Teddy’s fingerprints are all over each of these...

Wisconsin Governor and likely GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker joined the Howie Carr radio show on Friday to praise GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and knock a recent Washington Times story. A columnist for the Boston Herald and talk radio host, Carr took to Twitter posting quotes during his interview with Walker. His first tweet read, “@ScottWalker tells me WashTimes story is inaccurate. He will not be skipping Iowa. IAPolitics “We play to win.””

Jeb Bush sucks. Why beat around the ... bush? It’s reality. Juan Ellis Bush is stumbling around the country, and the more Republicans he meets, the further he drops in the polls. In Oklahoma over the weekend, he finished sixth — sixth! — in a straw poll. In Iowa, he’s been running seventh. Even in New Hampshire, he’s slip-sliding away, tied for third in the most recent Bloomberg poll. “I am a Bush and I am proud of it,” he blurted out last week in Portsmouth. “I mean, what am I supposed to say?” How about, “I quit.” Or, “I’m...

Howie Carr thread