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The force of market competition has been concentrated on workers and small businesses, while elite professionals and financiers have managed to engineer protectionist rackets.
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The Donald is pitching another Trumpertantrum, crying this time about unfair coverage at CNN or something: Maybe Trump shouldn’t do their town hall. That’d be fine with me. People are g…
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Christopher Dickey and
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Gov. Nathan Deal said he would veto a measure to protect religious groups that refuse to provide “social, educational or charitable services that violate” their beliefs.
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After every single attack carried out by radical Islamic terrorists, President Obama, his administration, and Democrats in general turn around and lecture Americans on being critical of Islam. Every. Single. …
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MILWAUKEE ? Wisconsin’s presidential primary is on April 5th, and thus, the presidential candidates have turned their attention to Wisconsin. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will h…
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ROTHSCHILD, Wis. (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is challenging Donald Trump to debate him one-on-one in Wisconsin.
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Liberals do a poor job of defending their beliefs with facts, logic or debate, but they have become unparalleled masters at keeping their opponents side of the argument from being presented at all.
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Conservatives and other Obama critics are entitled to a big "I told you so," after Obama's stunning admission that he doesn't believe there's that much difference between communism and capitalism.
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As the world mourned the dead and wounded in Brussels and President Obama was doing "the wave" at a baseball game with commie dictator Raul Castro in Havana, ISIS was asking its followers on social media to choose which country's colors they would like next displayed on the Eiffel Tower.
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Members of National Union of Teachers union also call on promotion of policies to allow more migrants and refugees into Britain
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Newt Gingrich was surprisingly critical of Donald Trump, who he seems to have become a yuge supporter of, and his idiotic retweet of an insulting picture of Heidi Cruz, calling it “utterly st…
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Donald Trump has made his first threat to sue over the procedures for selecting delegates to the Republican convention. It surely won’t be his last.
#ad#The Wall Street Journal reported that Ted Cruz may come out of Louisiana with as many as ten more delegates than Trump, even though the mogul narrowly beat Cruz in the popular vote there. In a tweet, Trump pronounced it “unfair,” and worthy of litigation.
The Louisiana delegate picture isn’t evidence of anything untoward. Trump and Cruz both won 18 delegates on election night. Marco Rubio, since dropped out, won five, and another five are uncommitted. The Cruz campaign has done the nitty-gritty work to see that those delegates are likely Cruz supporters.
The only scandal here is that the Cruz campaign, built on grass-roots organizing muscle, knows the process and is working hard for every advantage. Trump’s plaint is a little like showing up at a cricket match and crying foul because the opposing team knows the rules and all you know is that you swing a bat.
The Louisiana flap is a window into the intricate, state-by-state process of picking delegates to a convention in Cleveland where the allegiance of every last delegate might matter. If there is an open convention, Trump will argue that the voters should rule, not delegates no one has heard of, selected at obscure precinct, county, district, and state meetings. He will, in short, declare the entire exercise of a contested convention illegitimate.
Is it? We are used to the voters’ directly deciding, and should Trump perform strongly enough to win a majority of delegates, 1,237, they, in effect, will. But if he falls short, the delegates enter the picture.
The requirement for a majority of delegates is meant to ensure that the nominee is the consensus choice of the party.
The requirement for a majority of delegates (Trump once decried this rule as arbitrary) is meant to ensure that the nominee is, as much as possible, the consensus choice of the party. Ordinarily, this isn’t an issue — the early leader in a nomination fight vanquishes the opposition and steadily consolidates the support of the party.
In 2012, Mitt Romney didn’t lose a contest after March 24. His closest competitor, Rick Santorum, dropped out shortly after losing Wisconsin on April 3, and after that, Romney was racking up victories with 60 percent of the vote or more.
For Trump — who spent last week threatening and mocking Ted Cruz’s wife — this unifying march down the homestretch is hard to imagine. If Trump has only won a plurality of delegates, it won’t be a sign of strength, but of weakness. A badly divided party would be nominating a candidate who couldn’t reach a majority and, so far, has shown no general-election appeal. In this circumstance, delegates would be justified in looking to someone else better suited to win an election and protect the party’s interests.
It’s not unheard of for top vote-getters in America to fall short of the top prize. Otherwise, there would have been a Gore administration. Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but still fell short of George W. Bush, who won the Electoral College.
If you count Michigan, where Barack Obama’s name didn’t appear on the ballot, Hillary Clinton very narrowly won the most votes in the 2008 primaries. That was good enough for an appointment as secretary of state — under President Obama, who understood the delegate-allocation rules much better.
Trump has thrived so far without an extensive, traditional political operation. But politics isn’t only about TV interviews and big rallies. There is a reason that the system also rewards candidates who can motivate and muster people to do the grass-roots activism involved in winning small victories at local meetings. This is literally getting people involved in the process, and it could take on an outsized significance in deciding the immediate future of the Republican Party.
Trump would be well-served to complain less about the rules, and learn more.
— Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: [email protected]. © 2016 King Features Syndicate
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The caucus is long over, but candidates are eyeing a party convention where 34 delegates are up for grabs.
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"I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public." Ever since Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream media, more and more people are expressing their concern that what we see in the media is nothing short of brainwashing. Leading German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte went on public television stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, also adding that noncompliance with these orders would result in him losing his job.
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"We are extremely pleased to have U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz address the 2016 Colorado GOP convention," said Colorado GOP Chairman Steve House in a news release.
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According to the United Nations, the most evil country in the world today is Israel.
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Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday sent the Legislature a proposal to boost the state's minimum wage, defending the idea of $15 hourly pay as one that furthers economic equality and one that he hopes other states will follow.
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He's asking officials to remove his name ahead of the June 7 GOP primary.
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Alleged Tough Guy Donald Trump, who famously said, "I do whine because I want to win and I'm not happy about not winning and I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win," should be nicknamed Whinin’ Donald.
Don’t believe me? Here are seven times the crybaby whined that he was being treated unfairly, from the earliest pout until the most recent squeal:
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Ted Cruz for a third time would not say that he would support Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee, the latest sign that his pledge to do so may be softening.
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Source: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1ynJOXmYVBvxR