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Meet Curly Haugland, former chairman of the North Dakota Republican party and current Republican national committeeman. Haugland is one of just 112 delegates who will arrive unbound to this summer’s Republican convention in Cleveland, free to cast a vote for any candidate he chooses on a first ballot because North Dakota does not hold a primary or caucus. That makes him a particularly valuable asset to the still-dueling presidential campaigns. Haugland, a Bismarck businessman and a member of the powerful RNC committee that will set the rules governing this year’s convention, says voters may be in for a rude awakening...

Seriously, I've been wondering about this for some time. Why do you call Jeb Bush "Yeb"? (No, I'm not a fan of his. I'm glad he's out of the race. My distaste for him goes back to 1999 when he threw Ward Connerly under the bus.)

Since Jeb Bush's withdrawal from the presidential race on Saturday, endorsements from prominent Republicans have been piling up for Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Just in the last day, former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Gov. Asa Hutchison of Arkansas have signed on. But there is one endorsement that remains elusive: Mr. Bush's. Leaving Nevada on Tuesday for a day of campaigning in Minnesota and Michigan, Mr. Rubio told reporters that he had spoken on Monday with Mr. Bush, the former governor, who was his mentor in Florida politics. He said the two planned...

On Wednesday, MSNBC showed a clip of Jeb Bush at a campaign event. The former Republican frontrunner appeared frustrated. "It's all decided, I mean we don't have to go vote I guess, it's all finished. I should stop campaigning maybe, huh? Let's just—it's all done! That's not how democracy works, right?"

If the Republican Party remains divided for much longer, it will start getting more difficult for a mainstream candidate to win the nomination. Yet Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and John Kasich all have incentives to stay in the race, preventing the party from getting behind one candidate. On Super Tuesday, March 1, 25 percent of the delegates to the Republican national convention will be awarded. If the mainstream field hasn't been narrowed by that point, it will become very hard to avoid serious damage to the candidate who ultimately emerges as the party's anointed favorite. The top mainstream candidate could...

Harvard professor Rudolph Tanzi, who in 2014 developed human brain cells in a gel as part of his work on Alzheimer’s, told the Guardian that he and his colleagues had also seen primitive neural activity. ... Hartung said the neural activity, which can be measured with an EEG-like device, creates a "third dimension" for studying the effects of drugs: not only can researchers examine how drugs affect the health and function of brain cells, they can also see what drugs do to neural activity. Tanzi agreed, saying that in the brain cells with Alzheimer's disease "the signalling is much different....

Donald Trump stormed back into the national spotlight by winning the New Hampshire primary Tuesday and Democrat Bernie Sanders avenged his narrow Iowa loss to Hillary Clinton. -snip- "You've all reset the race," Bush declared to his well-organized supporters. "This campaign is not dead. We're going to South Carolina." As he began to speak in Manchester, television networks switched to Trump's victory address, denying Bush his moment. Still, Bush earned new life and scored a psychological victory over Florida rival Marco Rubio, who finished fifth, his claim of momentum stunted after a poor debate performance Saturday in which he robotically...

<p>The Jeb Bush campaign says former first lady Barbara Bush is joining her son on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.</p>

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/01/bushs-final-rally-interrupted-seat-fillers-demanding-paid/79651646/

'$50 to turn up for Jeb Bush's final rally because organizers need high energy seat fillers' - desperation and claims of dirty tricks on the last campaign day in Iowa. Daily Mail Online reporter is offered $25 an hour to go to Jeb's last rally in Iowa because candidate needs people to be 'high energy'. Offer was made as Daily Mail Online visited a Rand Paul campaign event - and reporter was told: 'You don't have to listen, just applaud'. At event man shouted from the floor that he hadn't been paid - and was told by Jeb to 'get...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s endorsement by evangelical leader and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., Republican rival Jeb Bush had some strong words for the real estate mogul and his faith, calling him a “flip-flopper." "Trump views all this not from a position of his faith, he views it all as politics. I think faith goes way beyond politics,” he said to reporters following his campaign rally. When asked by reporters if Bush thinks that Trump is a Christian, he said that he doesn’t. “No, I don’t know what he is," he said. "I don’t think he has...

Back during the 1968 presidential campaign, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, who had been selected by third-party candidate George Wallace as his running mate, gave one of the most disastrous press conferences in US presidential campaign history. He extolled the virtues of nuclear weapons, dismissed the American people's "phobia" about nukes, and said that it wouldn't make much difference to him if he was "killed . . . with a rusty knife" or "killed with a nuclear weapon." Those words pretty much sum up the choice facing Republicans today. Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz: a corroded blade vs. an atom...

A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core. Kim Koerber, a former Pearson executive who now works as a sales consultant for National Geographic – another Gates Foundation-funded Common Core publisher – tells the Project Veritas undercover journalist that “conservative voters are afraid of everything,” and proceeds to say why Common Core is important in her view. She explains...

Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he doesn’t have to worry about if he will support his rival Donald Trump because "He's not going to win the nomination and I am."

As former NRA Statesman of the Year, I will fight to protect the 2nd Amendment. A clear contrast to @HillaryClinton. -- Jeb Bush (@JebBush) A spokesman for Jeb Bush's campaign told BuzzFeed News on Monday that Bush had "mistaken and conflated" his story about receiving the National Rifle Association's "statesman of the year" award. The former Florida governor has told the story on several occasions, saying he received a rifle from then-NRA president Charlton Heston and was the recipient of the group's "statesman of the year" honor in 2003. While the NRA rates the records of politicians on gun issues,...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) wants people to equate fellow presidential candidate "Jeb Bush" with "super old and obsolete," which is why his latest ad is all about Bush enjoying things no one has thought about in years. "He hasn't been [governor] for almost a decade," the video's YouTube description reads, "but Jeb Bush still loves the good ole days." Some of his "faves" include the Sony Betamax (a video recording system introduced in 1975); the AMC Pacer (a two-door car from the '70s);

It is a sad day indeed for exclamation mark proponents — Jeb Bush is apparently dropping the high-energy punctuation mark from his brand. According to Mother Jones, Bush trademarked "Jeb!" last winter under the name of BHAG LLC.

MSM CHASING THE "MISTRESS BOMB "BUT IS THERE MORE THAN ONE? Numerous national media outlets are pursuing multiple allegations of infidelity involving U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida , all in the aftermath of the "mistress bomb" report we published earlier this week. Specifically, three mainstream media outlets have independently supplied us with the names of two additional women said to be romantically linked to the GOP establishment's candidate of choice. These names are in addition to the woman we referenced earlier this week , a lobbyist whose alleged proximity to Rubio was discovered during a deep dive into the...

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has been having a bad time, whether in the polls or at the debates. To improve his public image and increase his political capital, the former Florida governor has hired the famous media coach Roger Ailes employed to whip his Fox News anchors into tip-top shape. According to the Daily Intelligencer, legendary political consultant and media coach Jon Kraushar will help Bush bolster his renewed “Jeb Can Fix It” campaign.