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How do you think Republicans would have done in the 2014 elections if they had told the truth about what they intended to do when they took over the Senate?

Its time to give current university system the Old Yeller treatment, except normal Americans will giggle when this rabid mongrel gets put down.

Under a feeble sun trying to clear a morning rain, Heidi Cruz hopped out of her rental car — coincidentally a Chevrolet Cruze — and headed for the Virginia elections office. To round out the sharp edges of her husband’s image as a hard-nosed, no-compromise, scowling tea party conservative that many mainstream Republicans — notably former boss George W. Bush — find downright unlikable. Despite her own hard-charging career as an investment banker, Ted Cruz’s petite, 43-year-old wife has become one of the most visible spouses in the race. Rounding out the picture of a happy family often is the job of a supportive political spouse extending the reach of the candidate. [...] the Cruz charm offensive is more nuanced, given her husband’s role as a party rebel. Heidi Cruz — a Bush administration veteran, Harvard MBA, with a graduate degree from the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium — is more modern career woman than traditional housewife. With her blond hair brushed straight back, Cruz was all business in a prim white cardigan over form-fitting black slacks and 2-inch heels. “Heidi is a perfect example a woman can do what she has been gifted to do by the Lord,” said Callie Chaplain, a Virginia campaign volunteer who brought her four home-schooled children — one of them carrying a toy hand grenade — to see the candidate’s wife. The Christian sense of calling has been central to Cruz since her childhood in Africa with her missionary parents, Seventh-Day Adventists who bequeathed to her the vegetarian diet of their faith. “She feels called to do what she’s doing in support of her husband,” said Georgia GOP activist Kay Godwin, who has done several campaign events with Heidi Cruz. In the intimate setting of the Confederate general’s parlor, Cruz talked up the ideological underpinnings of the campaign and the strength of a conservative grass-roots army that could make victory possible. How they dated only six months before they decided to marry; how he struggled to ask her father for her hand in marriage; how he always has been surrounded by strong women, from his Cuban Aunt Sonia, to his mathematician mother, to his career-driven wife. The picture also goes contrary to his critics’ view of him as a self-centered politician of overweening ambition and ego. The presentation in the Stewart-Lee House was met with collective “awwws” and laughter — precisely the desired effect for a meticulously planned campaign where Heidi Cruz is an increasingly important asset. Heidi Cruz parlayed her campaign experience into a prestigious job as an assistant to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, right-hand man to Bush family consigliere James Baker. [...] when then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offered Ted Cruz the post of state solicitor general, he decided to take it, putting the newlyweds in a long-distance, Washington-to-Austin relationship. Haley, one of her lifelong mentors, described Heidi Cruz as ambitious, but singularly clear-eyed, grounded, and practical. The officer, finding that she wasn’t drunk or on medication, decided she nevertheless was a “danger to herself” and gave her a lift from the highway. “I wouldn’t describe it as stress so much as it was just a transitional period for me where I had to figure out how God would use me in this next chapter,” she said.

The first family's total personal travel expenses during the president's eight-year tenure could climb to nearly $90 million, according to a report from a conservative watchdog organization.

The upside-down moral world of the Left’s latest drone-war exposé.

Comedian Adam Carolla exposes Hollywood's hypocrisy, mainly in the area of taxes and money. When it comes to paying your "fair" share, apparently we should d...

Israel boycott supporters on Student Council question whether student applicant could be fair even though Jewish.

Ann Coulter folded after losing support from conservative students planning to host her at UC Berkeley.

African Slave trade: who started it, and who stopped it Historians estimate that between 10 and 18 million Africans were enslaved by Arab slave traders and t...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Washington-based firm Fusion GPS cannot block the House Intelligence Committee from subpoenaing the firm's financial records, according to court documents.

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), Representative Mia Love (R-UT), and Charlie Kirk, with Turning Point USA, discuss what conservative politicians can appeal to members of the millennial generation at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

This could be huge

Activists approached the Washington, D.C.-area residence of the star host.

The media have developed a predictable and equally annoying habit every presidential election cycle. We hear the Republicans are going to be crushed by pandering too much to conservatives. The Democrats are firmly moderate and need a push from the left so they don’t forget their “compassion.” So it was with Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter 35 years ago. So will it be in 2016, no matter who is nominated

The senator was outraged. Congress had challenged the foreign policy of the president, ignoring that he is “the sole person to whom our Constitution gives the responsibility for conducting foreign relations.” It was “an unconstitutional encroachment on the presidential prerogatives and power,” he fumed. The words may sound like...

President Barack Obama blew a gasket over actions and criticism by Congressional Republicans regarding his negotiations with Iran about that country’s nuclear program, telling them, “It needs to stop!” Obama made the remarks at a closing press conference at the?

In Indiana, the left sets out to define religious freedom out of existence. They end up defining all freedom out of existence.

The orgiastic glee with which protesters tore down, then beat up, a century-old monument to a generic Confederate soldier in Durham, N.C., this week was alarming. The mob seemed to have lost control of itself. Who wears out his foot kicking a lump of metal? The urge to destroy could get out of hand very quickly, especially given the mixed signals sent by authorities: Durham police stood by and did nothing. Only the following day, after an outcry, did the sheriff announce he intended to seek charges. Where does this end? Some wise conservative thinkers are calling to put the disputes over Civil War relics behind us ...

New York gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon admitted Wednesday that she doesn’t know how she plans to pay for her campaign promise of universal health care, which could cost the state upwards of $140 billion.

The 2016 presidential longshot wants to love American democracy to death.

I just got through saying that Hillary's 'listening tour' was nothing but Kabuki theater. And now we find it's more astroturf than the stuff football players get tackled on: DAILY MAIL - Hillary Cl...

The House Intelligence chair said his panel had been “vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign.”

Albuquerque Police are calling one man a hero after he opened fire in the middle of a busy intersection Sunday evening, breaking up and preventing a possible double homicide.

Disturbing, yes. Surprising...?