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Today on FNC Special Report George Will said Dr. Carson acted inappropriately to “Lecture” the President about Obamacare. This is typical of an establishment pundit. Has Will not heard of Constitutional rights of free speech and petition for redress of grievances? Let’s remember some things about Obamacare. It is legislation of the purest partisan sort. There were no Republicans who agreed with it. The procedure of its’ passage was tortured. CSPAN and Republicans locked out of the committee room. Deemed by the SCOTUS to be a tax bill, it nevertheless originated in the Senate ignoring the Constitutional requirement that revenue...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was born in 1970, six years after events refuted a theory on which he is wagering his candidacy. The 1964 theory was that many millions of conservatives abstained from voting because the GOP did not nominate sufficiently deep-dyed conservatives. So if in 1964 the party would choose someone like Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory. This theory was slain by a fact — actually, 15,951,378 facts. That was the difference between the 43,129,566 votes President Lyndon Johnson received and the 27,178,188 that Goldwater got in winning...