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I feel like an "outsider" amongst my own people - not blacks, but conservatives. Conservatism is as conservatism does, or at least it used to be that way just one year ago. President Obama missed his opportunity to strengthen America. Are we going to miss ours? Those that elected him hoped he would unite our country among racial and ethnic lines, strengthen relationships with our global allies, and fix a perceived "economic crisis," which in comparison to today's national debt and annual deficit spending seems more and more like a balanced budget. I'm convinced our generation will get one shot...

The race for president is accelerating in high gear, or, rather, the races for president -- in the Republican and Democratic parties, in the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and primaries and caucuses to come. How's it going? Let's look at these separate races. The Iowa Republican caucuses: The polls show a two-way race here between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, with little room for an outsider to crash through to victory as Mike Huckabee did in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012. Each of the poll leaders has recently lobbed a cheap-shot attack on the other, and each...

I've never formally endorsed a candidate in any presidential primary. This time the stakes are too high not to. Look around. The world is on fire and the party of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, not to mention the GOP's Obama-enabling RINO establishment, are playing with gasoline. And so, while he's been among my top picks all along, I am now proud to publicly endorse for president of the United States Sen. Ted Cruz, the man who best personifies the anti-establishment, principle over perceived pragmatism, survival over political correctness mood of the American electorate. I believe, God willing, that Sen....

Hillary Clinton lies to the country for 11 hours, and the Democratic Party rallies around her while she declares victory. None of the Americans murdered because of her incompetence were brought back to life and none of the families lied to about a YouTube video were comforted, but still she turned that into the best week ever. Republicans, on the other hand, had a golden opportunity and they blew it. After the CNBC debate and the bias it laid bare, the field was united. The party was united. There was an opportunity to change, maybe even revolutionize the debate process....

"This is not about guns. This is about evil. Here at home, and evil abroad." No GOP candidate for president has yet used those words but I hope some and perhaps all of them will before a week or more passes. I do not fault any of them as they have waited on Governor Haley to make her declaration about the flag of the Confederacy that flies on the grounds of the South Carolina state house. Governor Haley's actions and words Monday were powerful because they were not the consequence of demands made on her by her colleagues from other...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is not scheduled to appear here at CPAC until Friday, but there is already a movement underway to stage an informal protest when he hits the stage..... ....“We are going to get up in mass, and we are going to walk out on him,” the 64-year-old said. “We are not going to interrupt anyone’s speech, but we are all going to exercise our right to the bathroom at the same time.”...

Now that we have seen a dozen or so debates between the so-called “Republicans,” (I say so-called because neither Gary Johnson nor Ron Paul are Republicans, they are both fringe libertarians), it is time to re-evaluate those left standing, either out front or in the wings. Of all those out front, Perry is the only choice, unfortunately. Romney is being forced on us by the media and democrats, in the same manner Dole and McCain were. He has nothing going for him except that he is next in line in a RINO filled GOP. He has an uncanny ability to...

In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is “reassessing” whether to remain in the race

"The cream of the crop has not risen yet in this very fluid primary process so I’m not going to get out there and endorse anybody right now but certainly those ideas that I have, that so many Americans share....that are pro-growth ideas, pro private sector, blessed Constitutional restraints that our Constitution has within it....created in order to build this prosperous and healthy nation of ours....

After a week of intense campaign activity that was supposed to clarify the Republican presidential field, the clamor for new entrants has intensified, with fresh hints from Sarah Palin that she could jump in and pressure mounting on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to join the race. The activity suggests the extent to which dissatisfaction with the current field lingers—as well as the possibility that President Barack Obama's growing problems could entice others to seek the chance to unseat him. "Do I think the field is complete yet? I would have thought so, but I've...

Rudy Guiliani: Would make a great Attorney General, not a snowballs chance in hell of being president. I lived in New York under “Disastrous” David Dinkins, his mayoral predecessor. The difference in the city was like night and day. Dinkins an amoral buffoon, allowed petty criminals lowlife thugs and lawbreakers to vandalize and terrorize New Yorkers. His policies encouraged landlords to abandon their properties letting them deteriorate ,turning neighborhoods into slums and war zones. Rudy came in, went after every infraction, no matter how minor, made owners clean up their properties, and keep them in good repair. New Yorkers felt...