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President Obama went off on his own rant Wednesday at a trilateral press conference in which he disputed the idea that Donald Trump is a populist and that the presumptive GOP nominee instead promotes "nativism" or "xenophobia." After reporters asked a series of questions of Mr. Obama, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr. Obama decided he had something else to say in Ottawa -- he addressed the common theme of populism raised during the event. "I'm not prepared to concede the notion that some of the rhetoric that's been popping up is populist," Mr....

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged voters to look at their personal habits in order to stop climate change, calling it one of the world’s biggest problems that the next president would have to face. “On an individual level, you know there are a lot of things that if more people did it, you would see results,” she said. Clinton shared her thoughts on global warming during a town hall with YouTube creators in Los Angeles, California.

The wake-up call that Gays and Lesbians received with the murder of forty nine innocent peaceful members of their community on June 12th in Orlando is having a clear effect on their political opinions. They are slowly moving toward support of Donald Trump. A 2012 Gallup survey found that just 13% of the Gay and Lesbian community self-identify as Republican so Trump or any Republican would have a tough time growing a base of this group; but yet it is happening. As he has with so many other groups who have been historically unfriendly to Republicans, Trump has found a...

It seems to be a regular feature of the U.S presidential election cycle: Candidates from both parties solemnly pledge to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, only to sidestep the issue upon taking office. Shouldn't the selection of a capital city rest solely with the people of the country who reside there? Donald Trump believes it should. As president, he would recognize the right of the Israeli people to choose their capital city (a choice, incidentally, that has remained unchanged throughout 3,500 years of uninterrupted Jewish presence in Israel). That choice is Jerusalem. Ever since King David established Jerusalem as the...

The TV ad will be powered by a survivor of Benghazi, Mark Geist, USA Today reports. "A lot of people say they're not going to vote this November because their candidate didn't win; Well, I know some people who won’t be voting this year either," says Geist, a Marine Corps veteran and security contractor. "Hillary as President? No thanks. I served in Benghazi. My friends didn't make it. They did their part. Do yours." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIl20jItjHY

Donald Trump took a decades-long Republican consensus in favor of free trade and discarded it like the garbage that formed the backdrop of his economic address Tuesday.

Monday’s Supreme Court ruling tossing Texas abortion restrictions puts a massive spotlight on the new debate pressing evangelicals: Which is a worse sin, racism or abortion? For decades, abortion has been the mother of all deciding issues for evangelicals, who make up about a quarter of the U.S. population and are strongly opposed. But in the 2016 race, with Donald Trump’s unusually incendiary comments about race, culture and religion, this second issue is becoming increasingly sacred. This question of how to deal with Hillary Clinton’s robust support for abortion rights along with Trump’s challenging of the place of minorities is...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The Supreme Court's gone. Even at eight members in a case like this, you can count on Justice Kennedy to join 'em, the four libs. So you essentially have a 5-3 leftist court now. But it's not a court. It is a partisan echo chamber of the Democrat Party or leftist agenda. We have a Democrat nominee, Hillary, who's wiped away -- just erased -- all objections to corruption as a disqualifying factor for Democrats. Democrats are making it clear they don't care how corrupt their leaders are. In fact, the more corrupt their leaders are --...

I seldom watch network or cable TV so I rarely see political commercials. I was over at a relatives house yesterday and they had the TV on. I was shocked by the ads for Senator Rob Portman -R vs. Ted Strickland - D (in Ohio). The ads seemed to be each candidate trying to out-Trump the other one. Portman's ad talked about the Chinese devaluing their currency, dumping steel on the U.S. and how Portman would fight them. Strickland's ad talked about how he was against unfair trade deals that hurt the middle class and export jobs. These candidates might...

Mark Blyth, professor of Political Economy at Brown University, talks with ‎AthensLive about the #Brexit vote and the ramifications on the ‎UK and across ‎Europe. He also considers the current situation in ‎Greece and the long run effects of what he calls "Trumpism". "The Hamptons (where the rich globalists live) is not a defensible position. It's a low-lying beach. Eventually people will come for you"

Hillary Clinton jumped 5 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup with Donald Trump over the weekend, even though voters think Trump would do more to grow the economy if he is elected president, according to a new Morning Consult poll. Well over two-fifths of registered voters (44 percent) said they would choose the presumptive Democratic nominee if the presidential election were held now, while 39 percent said they would choose Trump. Almost one-fifth of respondents (18 percent) don’t know or have no opinion. It’s a 3-point gain for Clinton, who had lost ground in our previous poll following the mass...

Amidst a speech railing against Donald Trump Monday morning, Hillary Clinton’s infamous coughing habit made a comeback. While calling for providing all Americans access to broadband Internet, Clinton broke out into a familiar coughing fit. "We are going to connect every home to high-speed broadband so they can get into the global marketplace," she said before being overcome with coughs. "And we are going to fight climate change by making America the clean energy superpower of the 21st century," Clinton continued before coughing again. Clinton’s supporters helped drown out with the coughing with chants of “Hillary! Hillary!”

Of course, the media won't tell you this. Liberal and anti-Trump conservative websites won't tell you this either.Donald Trump wants to get control of our borders, stop illegal immigration and temporarily suspend the mass immigration of Muslims until Congress can get a hold on what to do about what's going on and who's coming from where. Donald Trump wants to get control of our borders, stop illegal immigration and temporarily suspend the mass immigration of Muslims until Congress can get a hold on what to do about what's going on and who's coming from where. Hillary wants the opposite which...

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who is on the shortlist to be Hillary Clinton's vice president, called for limiting the size of magazines on semi-automatic rifles. In an interview airing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," moderator Chuck Todd asked, "Are you in favor of an assault-weapons ban?" "I have voted for it,” Kaine said. “But I think there’s a better way to go at the problem and that is limitations on the size of magazines and ammunition clips."

Donald Trump is releasing a 35-page document that takes down Hillary Clinton's foreign policy and economic stances — a 50-point attack that pulls together news articles, documents and speeches critical of the former secretary of state. https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/ClintonFacts.pdf

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump may do something that’s never been done before – hey may name members of his cabinet ahead of the general election. When radio host Hugh Hewitt made the suggestion Thursday morning, Trump said he “liked the idea.” “I think I might be inclined to do that,” he said. In particular, Hewitt noted it could be a smart campaign move that would prove to nervous conservative voters that he is putting together a serious team to take on national security issues. The Republican nominee has already released his choices for the Supreme Court - a list...

Stripped of its excesses, Donald Trump's Wednesday speech contains all the ingredients of a campaign that can defeat Hillary Clinton this fall. Indeed, after the speech ended Clinton was suddenly defending the Clinton Foundation against the charge that it is a front for a racket for her family's enrichment. The specific charges in Trump's indictment of Clinton: She is mendacious, corrupt, incompetent and a hypocrite. "Hillary Clinton ... is a world-class liar," said Trump. She faked a story about being under fire at a Bosnia airport, the kind of claim for which TV anchors get fired. She has lied repeatedly...

The rise of Yiannopoulos can help to explain the rise of Donald Trump. Both have attracted followers that feel silenced, ignored, and invalidated by the left. Both will continue to receive sympathy and exposure if their opponents continue to aggressively and instinctually dismiss their views. And perhaps both can be defeated—or at least weakened—through respectful and empathic discourse. More broadly, the story of Yiannopoulos is useful to understand today’s political climate. There is an ever-growing number of Americans—liberals and conservatives—who feel like their voices are not being heard. Americans are increasingly identifying with their party, race, gender, or sexuality—and are...

Does your average American read the New York Times?  No, a dwindling number of leftists and intellectuals do. A more viable and influential publication is the National Enquirer. Now I never bought a copy of National Enquirer, but I've chuckled at the UFO stories and my eyes have scanned many thousands of scandal covers over 50 odd years of buying groceries. But here's the real scandal: there is more truth contained in the National Enquirer than you can find in the deceitful columns of the NYT and Washington Post!

As Donald Trump flew in to Scotland today after the UK's seismic break with the European Union, parallels have been drawn with the anti-immigration message that led to Brexit and his rise to presumptive Republican presidential candidate. Many have pointed out the similarities between Britain's decision to leave the EU and Trump's campaign - and believe it is an indication of how Americans will vote on November 8, which could see Trump in the White House. The Donald's arrival in the UK will be seen by many as a meeting of minds - two worlds colliding with shared views including...