Former governor and 2012 Republican presidential Mitt Romney returned to the national political stage on Thursday to deliver an impassioned speech against Donald Trump. Romney said that Trump has neither the “the temperament nor the judgement to be president.” The speech comes as the Republican establishment makes a renewed push […]
Speaker-designate Paul Ryan was elected to be Speaker of the House by the full House on Thursday. He won with 236 votes, all from Republicans. He won the votes of all Republicans, except for eleven. Nine Republicans supported Representative Daniel Webster (R-FL) who was actively running for Speaker and Ryan […]
Donald Trump created a firestorm Saturday when he doubted that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is a war hero. The reaction was swift against Trump and came from around the political sphere. Several of Trump’s fellow Republican candidates reacted, as did the Republican National Committee and 2012 presidential nominee, former Governor […]
In the aftermath of the Charleston shooting, much of the attention has been focused on the culture that may have caused suspect Dylann Roof to have white supremacist views. This attention has included the Confederate flag, which continues to fly in South Carolina. When the flags were ordered to half-staff, the […]
Politico is reporting that Mitt Romney has teamed up with Sheldon Adelson to influence the 2016 Republican nomination process. Romney aims to have a conservative in the mainstream, mainly Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, win the nomination and advance to the general election relatively unscathed. Romney also apparently feels that […]
