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In an interview with Glenn Beck Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz went so far as to say he believes fellow 2016 candidate Donald Trump's operatives are using the "tactics of union thugs" on the campaign trail. Cruz's bold comments against his chief GOP rival came after Beck...

This morning on CNN, Rudy Giuliani explained what Ted Cruz meant by New York Values: Giuliani needs to explain this to Trump because he’s now saying Cruz hates the people of New York. It̵…

Financial disclosures from democratic socialist Bernie Sanders are raising questions about the man who has built his campaign on criticizing inequality. 

Donald Trump said Tuesday night that the political system is "stacked against me," and accused the Republican Party of conspiring to stop him from clinching the party's nomination.

Greek Week 2016 events to have renewed focus on unity, service and philanthropy, according to a letter sent to Greek organizations.

If you took all the lies out of political rhetoric, how much would be left? Apparently even less than usual this year. The latest, and perhaps biggest, lie — thus far — is that Donald Trump was cheated out of delegates in Colorado because the voters did not select the delegates. #ad#Two very different questions have gotten confused with each other. One question is whether this is the best way to choose delegates. Most of us would say, “No,” but most of us don’t live in Colorado, and each state is allowed great leeway in how it chooses to pick its delegates. The more fundamental question is whether this was some trick cooked up to deprive Donald Trump of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination. That is of course how Donald Trump and his followers automatically depict anything that doesn’t work out to his advantage. But the Colorado rules were written and known to all before anybody cast a single vote in the primary elections, anywhere in the country. RELATED: Donald Trump Laid a Colorado Goose Egg because He Was Disorganized and Amateurish If the people who ran the Trump campaign were not aware of what the rules in Colorado were, and Ted Cruz’s people were, that is what happens when you hire people who are not up to the challenges of their job. The fact that one of those people has been fired and replaced has gotten much less media attention than Trump’s loudly repeated charges that he was robbed. With so many primary-election rules that vary from one state to another, some of these rules are bound to work out to one candidate’s advantage and another candidate’s disadvantage. EDITORIAL: Read the Rules, Mr. Trump When Trump, for example, wins less than a majority of a state’s votes and yet gets 100 percent of its delegates, you don’t hear other candidates yelling or whining that they have been robbed. But the cold fact is that Trump’s percentage of the delegates is still higher than his percentage of the people who actually voted for him. Apparently it all depends on whose ox is gored — and who yells the loudest, with the most irresponsible charges. It also depends on how conscientious the media are and how gullible the voters are. #share#Other political-campaign lies have been repeated so often, over so many years, that they have become part of a tradition that is almost never questioned. Demands for “equal pay” for women, for example, proceed without even a definition of what that means. Some years ago, I was shocked when my research turned up the fact that young male physicians earned substantially more than young female physicians. But, when my research also turned up the fact that young male physicians work hundreds of hours more per year than young female physicians, it was not shocking any more. RELATED: Trump Has No One to Blame but Himself for a Weak Ground Game Other researchers, many of them female, have found the same pattern in other fields where there are income differences between the sexes. Women work fewer hours annually than men, and do not work full-time and continuously over the years as often as men do. Among college graduates, women receive more than three-quarters of the degrees in education, while men receive more than three-quarters of the degrees in engineering. When engineers are paid more than teachers — partly because engineers work year-round, while teachers work nine months — do not be surprised by sex differences in earnings among college graduates. None of this is news for people who have checked out the facts. Researchers — including female researchers — have repeatedly turned up such facts for decades. But the politicians, and much of the media, prefer a moral melodrama, starring themselves on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. That wins votes, helps TV ratings, and lets lots of people feel good about themselves. But this also requires a gullible public. #related#A very similar game can be played with racial statistics. What if I said that basketball officials call fouls on black players out of all proportion to the share of blacks in the general population? You might well say, “Wait a minute! The proportion of black players is far higher in the NBA than in the population.” Yet that simple difference between the proportion of blacks in the general population and blacks involved in whatever activity is being measured statistically is repeatedly ignored, both by politicians and the media. The success of campaign lies depends ultimately on how willing the public is to be stampeded without bothering to stop and think. — Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His website is tsowell.com. © 2016 Creators Syndicate Inc.

What the hell? Glenn Beck endorsed Senator Ted Cruz before the Iowa Caucuses and has been campaigning for the former ...

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24.03.16 Douglas Murray discusses on the Spectator's podcast the standard European response to terrorism. His article written at the same time is well worth ...

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Convention Manager, Paul Manafort, joined Sean Hannity tonight to discuss the current state of the race. Manafort says April will...

When Andrea Ott-Dahl agreed to serve as a surrogate mom to a Silicone Valley couple, she and her longtime partner, Keston Ott-Dahl, had no idea it would turn into one of the most difficult – but ultimately rewarding – experiences of their lives. Two months into Andrea's pregnancy in 2012, prenatal

We reported earlier on how el Trumpo took money from the government that was meant to go to small businesses affected by the 9/11 terror attacks, but this new ad from the “Never Trump” …

Alan Dershowitz told Megyn Kelly that he had gotten a lot of criticism from his friends on the left after he had said originally that Ted Cruz was one of his smartest students. In fact Kelly had ju…

Male executives at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation earn 38 percent more than women executives, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the foundation’s latest IRS tax

Missouri's secretary of state Jason Kander officially declared Tuesday that Donald Trump won a narrow victory over Ted Cruz and will win the state's 12 at-large delegates.

On Saturday Ted Cruz supporters took all 13 of the delegates up for grabs at the Colorado GOP Convention to ...

I was super excited to find out about a bunch of liberal state attorneys general aping the Obama administrations use of government power to persecute their political enemies.

Judge ruled Tuesday that Ted Cruz meets the constitutional requirement of being a natural-born citizen.

A Trump spokesperson clarified that the candidate had meant to name Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.

“Breaking: @GovSandoval tells me he is no longer sure he'll support Trump as nominee "considering some of the things he has said lately." 1/2”

He “can't even fathom” appearing on a ticket with Trump.

But the White House and others who promote the myth are manipulating statistics in a way to convince women that they are the victims of systematic societal discrimination, and, therefore, stand to benefit from further government action.

Two weeks ago I wrote about the horrifying surge in Chicago gun violence — with murders up 84 percent over the same period last year. At the same time, police reported fewer gun seizures and far fewer stop-and-frisks. All this is consistent with the so-called “Ferguson effect,” where changes in police tactics in response to community pressure arguably lead to short-term crime spikes.  Yesterday, Rob Arthur in FiveThirtyEight added additional data to the analysis. It turns out that not only did gun violence increase after the release of the notorious Laquan McDonald video, but the number of arrests plunged as well. Here’s Arthur: The severe spike in gun violence Chicago is experiencing can be dated to the release of the video in the Laquan McDonald case, a FiveThirtyEight analysis of crime data shows. The same analysis shows that the city has seen a significant drop in arrests made for homicides and nonfatal shootings, as well as other crimes, since the video’s release on Nov. 24. This suggests a decline in law enforcement activity that may be contributing to the rise in gun crime. He continues: The spike in gun violence in Chicago since the end of November, though, is too sharp to be explained by seasonal fluctuations or chance. There have been 175 homicides and approximately 675 nonfatal shooting incidents1 from Dec. 1 through March 31, according to our analysis of city data.2 The 69 percent drop in the nonfatal shooting arrest rate and the 48 percent drop in the homicide arrest rate since the video’s release are also too large to be explained by seasonal variation or chance. Even though crime statistics can see a good amount of variation from year to year and from month to month, this spike in gun violence is statistically significant, and the falling arrest numbers suggest real changes in the process of policing in Chicago since the video’s release. Some police critics wonder if officers are engaged in an intentional slowdown, maliciously inflicting harm on the communities they patrol. Arthur is skeptical: In Chicago, there is little concrete evidence of an organized police slowdown. But in both public statements and private conversations, former and current Chicago police officers, crime analysts and journalists have described a climate of low morale and hesitation among officers that has led to fewer arrests. The president of the police union told NPR last month that “no one wants to be on that next video,” and Guglielmi echoed that language: “No police officer wants to be the next viral video,” he said. (The Fraternal Order of Police did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article.) Jamie Kalven, a journalist whose reporting brought attention to the McDonald case and who knows several Chicago police officers, is skeptical that there is any mass protest among police, even if some individual officers may be deliberately slowing down. Instead, Kalven thinks Chicago police are bewildered by a more hostile public. He pointed to a slogan that has become increasingly popular among police, shared on police blogs and even sold on T-shirts: “Stay Fetal,” a reference to comments from the mayor, who said officers had gone “fetal” to avoid trouble. There is “a genuine lack of clarity about the job description, the parameters of the job, and who will have their back in ambiguous situations,” Kalven said. It is worth repeating over and over again that we cannot take for granted our nation’s long decline in crime rate, and we cannot reject the police tactics that contributed to this decline without experiencing real risk. Police shouldn’t be immune from scrutiny and critique, but the assault from Black Lives Matter and its allies is often both unthinking and malicious. Chicago is joining the ranks of cities — like Milwaukee, Saint Louis, and Baltimore — where the number of black lives lost to increased crime far outstrips the number saved through the kind of timid, “fetal” policing the radicals demand.

The Ted Cruz campaign has just put out a new video explaining Cruz’s simple flat tax plan and, as you might have guessed, it’s very simple to understand! Watch: This country would be ex…

Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed piece from a Georgia legislator regarding the governor's recent veto of a religious freedom bill.