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Donald Trump is driving disaffected blue collar voters to the polls, according to The New York Times. And if the Republican Party doesn’t embrace Trump’s values, the Times suggests, Republicans will lose from here to eternity. Nonsense. Nicholas Confessore, writing for the Times, talks at length about how Republican elites have long supported free trade at the expense of uncompetitive domestic American businesses. Confessore writes:

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The enemy within that we refuse to confront.

Petition calls for open carry rules at GOP convention in Cleveland

Just when it seemed that the Republican presidential race couldn’t get any less edifying, Donald Trump went after Heidi Cruz and the National Enquirer entered the fray. The latest flap began when an anti-Trump super PAC used a nude photo from a Melania Trump modeling shoot in an ad meant to warn Utah voters off making her first lady. The ad was tasteless (and unnecessary in a state that Ted Cruz was about to win with nearly 70 percent of the vote). Trump would have been justified in strongly objecting to it. Instead, he falsely insisted that Ted Cruz was behind the ad and, true to his bullying style, threatened to reveal damaging information about Heidi Cruz. This alone would have marked a new low — has a presidential candidate ever threatened a rival’s spouse before? — but Trump followed it up with a re-tweet of an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz juxtaposed with a flattering image of his wife. So Trump had immediately scraped an even lower low. #ad#Such is Trump’s boundless capacity to make everything he touches in this race reek of the gutter. Much of the media coverage played the controversy as if Cruz and Trump were equally responsible for it, when Cruz acted completely honorably. He had nothing to do with the super-PAC ad and denounced it. He said only complimentary things about Melania and defended Heidi, who is extremely accomplished herself (and, if we may add —  lovely). Ted Cruz deserves great credit for trying to maintain his dignity, and that of his party, in a contest that Donald Trump has made the political equivalent of a Bravo reality show. The National Enquirer piled on by publishing wild innuendo alleging multiple Cruz affairs. There is no direct evidence that Trump was responsible for the so-called report, but he is friends with the head of the supermarket tabloid, and the piece quoted Trump’s bottom-dwelling political associate Roger Stone, who imagines himself a Machiavelli of political dirty tricks. Mustering all his disingenuousness, Trump said he hoped the story wasn’t true, while noting that some past National Enquirer reports have been borne out (although most of what it publishes is self-evidently trash). Trump said this even though his own spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, is one of the women alleged to have had an affair with Cruz. For her part, Pierson denied the report, but said she spoke only for herself, not the other women alluded to — a response just as classy as anyone who has seen Pierson’s absurd defenses of her boss on TV would expect. Cruz vehemently denied the National Enquirer report with the righteous indignation of a man who can’t believe that this is what the presidential race has come to. But Republicans should get used to it. There will, at the very least, be weeks more of this. And if Trump is its nominee, the GOP will be associated with swinish politics all the way to Election Day, if not beyond.

Georga Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed religious liberty protections on Monday, leading many in media to cheer him on while exposing their own bias and ignorance.

Donald Trump is complaining about his own incompetence

Trump once again spewed lies this morning that Cruz not only knew about the GQ photo of his wife, but also sent it out. He got a little push back from the Fox and Friends hosts on this but that did…

Donald Trump leads by one point in latest CA poll

We cannot get Hillary Rodham Clinton in handcuffs. We can get James Meyers in handcuffs, though, no problem. Mrs. Clinton, who may very well be the next president of these United States, has been on a decades-long crime spree, from profiting on dodgy cattle futures to obstructing justice with the Rose law-firm records to her top-secret toilet-based e-mail shenanigans. Asked by Jorge Ramos whether she would continue her presidential campaign if indicted, she scoffed at the notion. #ad#And she was right to scoff. People like Hillary Rodham Clinton do not go to jail without first becoming governor of Illinois or mayor of Detroit, and Herself always has her sights set on a higher office than those. But even relatively lowly players in her world escape jail time. Lois Lerner turned the Internal Revenue Service into a branch of the Obama campaign, using the agency’s fearsome investigatory powers to harass tea-party groups and conservative organizations. She’s enjoying a fat pension right now rather than the federal hospitality she so richly deserves. Kamala Harris, who is trying to do much the same thing with the office of the attorney general in California, probably is headed to the Senate. The Texas prosecutors who harassed Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tom DeLay, and Rick Perry for wholly imaginary crimes are in no danger of facing real recriminations. RELATED: Hillary’s E-mail Recklessness Compromised Our National Security And of course Herself has the example of Bill to consider: After a years-long campaign of perjury, suborning perjury, obstruction of justice, and more, all he suffered was the revocation of his law license and a symbolic disbarment — as though he ever intended to practice law again. He has dedicated his post-presidency years to delivering highly remunerated speeches about economic inequality and building an impressive collection of fine wristwatches rather than scratching annual hash-marks into the wall of the cell in Kansas where he belongs. We have federal employees watching porn all day and using their government credit cards for casinos and hookers. (“Mastercard: When the girl will do anything except take American Express.”) Most of the time, nobody gets fired, and it is exceedingly rare that anybody goes to jail. You know who gets arrested? Schmucks. RELATED: The Democrats’ Likely Nominee Appear to Be a Felon — This Is Not Business as Usual  James Meyers is a schmuck. The first three times I saw his story, I rolled my eyes and went on my way, assuming that it was one of those Facebook fictions that make the rounds for some reason. Denounce me as an inside-the-Beltway elitist, but I changed my mind when I saw it in the Washington Post. Back in the pre-Cambrian age, when there were video-rental stores that loaned VHS tapes for a small fee, Meyers, a North Carolina man, rented a copy of Freddy Got Fingered, a very stupid movie made by Tom Greene. Bad taste is not a crime. But apparently failing to return a copy of Freddy Got Fingered is a crime, if you let it go long enough. The video-rental company, long defunct, had filed a complaint against Meyers. Under state law, failure to return rented property is a criminal misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $200. Meyers had gone about his life blissfully unaware that any such case had been brought against him, until he was pulled over dropping his daughter off at school with a defective brake light. The officer citing him for the traffic violation had the good sense not to slap the cuffs on Meyers — he’ll probably be disciplined for that — but when Meyers came to the police station to sort things out, he was handcuffed and arrested. For failing to return a copy of Freddy Got Fingered, this was. People like Hillary Rodham Clinton break the law — serious laws, including national-security law — with impunity. They can do this because their lives are dedicated to the pursuit of power, which means being constantly lawyered up. There probably has been no point in the past 30 years during which Mrs. Clinton, her family, or a near ally was not under investigation. She can spend her days fighting this stuff and dragging it out for years and years like it’s her job — because it is. RELATED: Hillary and Bill vs. the ‘Little People’ A schmuck like James Meyers, though, lives a different sort of life. The court might have mailed him a notice to appear 14 years ago when his rental-issue was a matter of immediate public concern; often enough, such notices are sent to addresses that are three or four moves in the past. It takes time and money to fight bureaucrats who have nothing to do all day but shake you down for money: Fairfield County, Conn., where I lived for less than a year many years ago, still sends me annual tax bills. The state of New York has demanded of me tax on income that was earned neither in New York nor by a party living in New York. If you have the time and the money, you get a lawyer and you sue, countersue, or otherwise protect your rights. But there are a great many people who do not have the resources to do that. An erroneous tax bill leads to a credit-ruining lien, which in turn can torpedo a home purchase or, in some cases, a better job. A parking violation you never knew anything about in a town where you spent two hours ten years ago leads to an arrest warrant or a suspended driver’s license — or both. RELATED: The Public Sector: Standing in Our Way Until We Pay Up And if you’re a shmuck like James Meyers, it leads to having to explain to your terrified daughter why Daddy is being threatened with a trip to the hoosegow over a Freddy Got Fingered hijacking. On September 30, 2011, President Barack Obama ordered the assassination of an American citizen. Thus far, the legal ramifications of his doing so are dramatically less than those of forgetting to return a copy of Freddy Got Fingered. Hillary Rodham Clinton has violated a half-dozen national-security statutes, has criminally withheld information from investigators, and much more. It is a safe bet that the consequences of her doing so will be considerably less than those of failing to pay a parking ticket issued by the duly constituted authorities of Muleshoe, Texas. Something about that isn’t right. — Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent. 

Protesters refuse to disperse unless govt declares Qadri a martyr

On Tuesday, when Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels, killing 35 innocent people and injuring 240, the European Union’s foreign policy representative, the Italian Federica Moghe…

A new study by the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) claims Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is going to cost roughly $500 billion over 10 years and would cause 21 million Americans to lose their insurance coverage.

Well, here we go. With the Supreme Court verging on the brink of a full-scale leftist takeover, and with the gay marriage caucus now utilizing the law as a baton to club wrong-thinking religious people into acceptance of homosexuality, it is up to the states to resist. Today, we found out that Georgia won’t.

If the Trump Train derails, this might be the cause.

Yesterday on Meet The Press Chuck Todd pointed out that Trump used an LBJ tactic of suggesting he hoped the National Enquirer story wasn’t true while trying to fan the flames of the smear. Bu…

Martin Daubney says there is no strategy to deal with domestic violence against men.

Columbia Journalism professor Dale Maharidge has produced a lengthy lament about the state of print and newsroom journalism, and how hard it's been on those forced out of their jobs. It's present online at The Nation, one of the far-left's flagships, and at BillMoyers.com, the web site of the former Johnson administration press secretary. The delusional Moyers believes that "We have an ideological press that's interested in the election of Republicans." The title of Maharidge's mournful missive at Moyers' site asks a question: "What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore?" The answer, Mr. Maharidge, is that when all of you had the chance, you failed to be reporters, and did so in the name of agenda-driven "journalism." You failed to give the public the basic information it had every right to expect, and in the process frequently demonstrated contempt for your audience. As a result, the public has largely tuned newspapers out, and they're not coming back.

Left/right, Progressive/Conservative, Democrat/Republican... The names change and evolve but the core difference remains constant: The Collectivists vs. The ...

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and onetime presidential candidate, has always been considered a man of ideas. After leading his party t ...

Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed the “religious liberty” bill on Monday that triggered a wave of criticism from gay rights groups and business leaders and presented him with one of the most consequential challenges he’s faced since his election to Georgia’s top office. In a press conference at the state Capitol, Deal said...

Alleged ISIS-linked kidnappers reportedly crucified Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, 56, in Yemen on Good Friday, according to the Archbishop of Vienna, who told his congregation of the killing.

Another American has been identified as killed in the attacks in Brussels, bringing the total number of US citizens confirmed as victims to four. Only Justin and Stephanie Shults have been named.

In Defense Of Donald Trump's Heidi Cruz Tweet

What must the United States do to prevent more Islamist terror attacks like recent ones in Brussels, Paris, and San Bernardino? Khurram Dara, a Muslim Americ...