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LEESBURG, Va. - Republican Presidential candidate, Senator Ted Cruz, is the first to sign the U.S. Balanced Budget Amendment pledge to the citizens of the United States of America. His pledge is that he will "preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution including Article V which, in part, empowers two-thirds of the states to draft and the people in three-quarters of the states to ratify a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." The U.S. federal government has run up a debt of over 19 trillion dollars, largely to underwrite past and present consumption using resources that should belong to...

Jeb Bush and John Kasich hired them for key campaign staff positions. John Boehner and others campaigned for them. Speaker Paul Ryan said he would vote to grant them special rights. And Nikki Haley pledged that a future Republican president “… would respect differences in modern families” while respecting religious freedom, which many see as irreconcilable objectives. Why is the GOP establishment “going gay”? There are only a few possibilities. At first glance, it seems money, prestige or protection from the loss of either must be the principal motives. It can’t possibly be the case that this many people suddenly...