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House Speaker Paul Ryan held a meeting a with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus Tuesday in an attempt to persuade them to vote for his 2017 budget plan, but judging from one member's response, Ryan's efforts were not very successful. "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that I'll vote for that," caucus member Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said. At least two other caucus members described the meeting as "intense," the Huffington Post reported. Ryan reportedly met with a group of about 25 members of the conservative caucus in the speaker's office over beer, chips, soda and "all the...

Finally! It is set. Congressman and Presidential Candidate Duncan Lee Hunter will join us on Free Republic on Monday, August 13, around lunchtime, Pacific Time. He will be with his son Sam (Duncan Hunter Ambassador) in San Diego. He will log onto Free Republic as a new member. I will post the 16 questions we gave him last month AND the answers he has provided to those questions in a "live thread". Mr. Hunter will come onto FR and answer a few follow up questions and rub elbows with the "folks" for an hour or so. Please understand that he...

(New York Magazine) Since New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's incursion into national affairs began in March, speculation has steadily grown that he is planning a presidential run in 2008. The cover story of this week's New York magazine, "His American Dream" by contributing editor John Heilemann, adds fuel to the fire, showing that the Mayor and his aides are seriously looking into a presidential run as an independent. "I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way," Bloomberg says. The magazine goes on to outline the precise circumstances under which Bloomberg is likely to throw his...

Patrick J. Buchanan, Next President of the United States By Paul Streitz Sep 21, 2006, 10;55 Patrick J. Buchanan will be the next President of the United States. Mr. Buchanan is the most qualified man for the position. Mr. Buchanan is the most deserving of the position. Mr. Buchanan is the man whose views most closely align with the vast majority of the American voters. He will win an overwhelming, landslide victory in 2008. Every opinion poll, every discussion in the street and every newspaper’s letters-to-the-editors column shows that Americans want the borders secured and the illegal immigrants removed from...