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Lindsey Graham Exits 2016 Presidential Race

Via POLITICO: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is suspending his presidential run, he told supporters on a conference call Monday. His announcement came on the same day as the deadline hit for him to remove his name from the South Carolina primary ballot, a date that had been closely watched amid speculation that the low-polling Graham would want to avoid a potentially poor performance in his own state’s contest. Graham has been Mr. Quotable on the campaign trail, but he never seemed to gain any traction in the polls. He’s been hovering below 1 percent throughout the cycle as voters

Obama Administration Reveals GOP Leaders’ Betrayal on Common Core in Ed Bill

Anti-Common Core activists tried for months to warn Congress that the new federal education bill (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) was a disaster that would cement, not overturn, the odious progressive-education philosophies of the Obama Administration. Except for 64 House members (click here to see how your member voted) and 12 senators (click here to see how your senators voted) who were brave enough to buck Republican leadership, their warnings were dismissed. Now comes confirmation that the activists were dead on — and that Republican leadership, including Sen. Lamar Alexander, Rep. John Kline, and House Speaker Paul Ryan,

New Poll: Cruz Pulls Ahead of Rubio in Florida

The latest Florida poll, taken after Tuesday’s debate, shows Donald Trump ahead by 10 points, but Ted Cruz has surged past Marco Rubio to take second with 20 percent (a new high for a non-Trump candidate). A month ago, Florida looked like this: Trump, 36 percent; Rubio, 18 percent; Cruz, 10 percent. Today it is Trump at 30 percent, Cruz at 20 percent, and Rubio at 15 percent, two points ahead of Jeb Bush, whose debate performance apparently bumped him up to 13 percent. Trump’s support holds. But Cruz is surging. Maggie Gallagher is a senior fellow at the American

Another Common Core Scam Fails to Fool Parents in West Virginia

Governors and other state executive officials have taken much-deserved flak for failing to support parents in their fight against the Common Core national standards. Too many of these officials, showing their disdain for parents who, after all, aren’t “experts,” have engaged in outright fraud — claiming to replace Common Core with state standards when in fact, they’ve just moved a few commas around and “rebranded” the national standards to make them sound home-grown. The same game played out this week in West Virginia. On Thursday, the West Virginia Board of Education voted to replace the Common Core standards with . .

Trump Leads New Polls in N.H. and Nationally

The latest Boston Herald poll of New Hampshire voters (taken partially before and partially after the debate) shows Donald Trump holding steady at 26 percent, up 14 points over the field.  What happens next will be fascinating: there is basically a four-way tie for second at this point between Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie all bunching between 10 and 12 percent, within the margin of error. The very first post-debate national poll just released by PPP (a Democratic pollster) shows Trump holding steady up 16 points at 34 percent. Cruz has pulled 5 points ahead of Rubio to hold

Chris Christie’s Lack of Courage on Religious Liberty

Chris Christie appeared to get a boomlet from the Nevada debate this week. Why? For a hawkish foreign policy posture about Russians violating his proposed no-fly zone in Syria. Here’s some love from WaPo‘s Chris Cillizza, for example, on why Christie was a winner on Tuesday: Chris Christie: The New Jersey governor had one goal in this debate: distinguish himself from the likes of Cruz and Rubio as someone who has never spent any time in Washington. He did so — repeatedly and successfully. He effectively injected himself into an extended back and forth between Cruz and Rubio on the NSA to

Will Trump Protect Christians at Home?

Donald Trump (photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

Three out of the top four GOP candidates just committed to passing the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) in their first 100 days in the White House. Carson, Cruz, Rubio, Trump: Which one would you guess refused to make that commitment? Donald J. Trump. The pledge request to prioritize FADA was made by Heritage Action, FRC Action, and the American Principles Project (APP, where I work). FADA would protect gay-marriage dissidents from punishment by the federal government or its regulatory arms, including the IRS: “The Federal Government shall not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on

How Common Core Killed Conventional GOP Candidates

I wanted to piggy back on what Paul wrote last week about an article written by Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard. Barnes said that governors making the best presidential candidates is conventional unwisdom. I agree. The crop of candidates who are governors or were previously governors have demonstrated time and time and time again that they will put pragmatism above principles. One such instance is with the Common Core State Standards. Barnes notes that this is a serious problem for the remaining governors in 2016: A serious problem for Republican governors has been all but ignored by the media

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