May is upon us and brings with it several expected presidential campaign announcements. According to a Washington Post report, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina announced their campaigns today, as expected. Carson hosted an event in Detroit, while Fiorina announced her campaign in an online video and an
Rod Dreher is right: the rage of the powerful against Indiana for daring to pass a state RFRA without the consent of the LGBT community marks a dramatic cultural and political inflection point, as I have pointed out in National Review. For the
EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock recently called Senator Ted Cruz “the tip of the iceberg” for women, citing the GOP’s so-called “radical,” “anti-choice, anti-woman” agenda. Schriock needs to look in the mirror. While she avoids the word “abortion” in even as safe
Maggie, as I write, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum, Ben Carson, and Bobby Jindal have now all voiced their support for Indiana’s religious freedom law to varying degrees. Jeb Bush told Hugh Hewitt: “I think if they actually
After the media fallout from his CNN interview in which he stated he believes homosexuality is a choice, Dr. Ben Carson says he has decided not to talk about same-sex marriage anymore. While speaking of the CNN interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show,
You have to sympathize with the man: No presidential candidate wants to fall in the buzz trap that opens up when you cross the line on gay rights, wherever the gay rights community then draws the line. (It has moved progressively and
Dr. Ben Carson entered a media firestorm yesterday when he told CNN the experience of prisoners showed that sexual orientation was a choice. (There is actually one small study that suggests sexual orientation does change in prison, by the way). I don’t
The 2015 CPAC Straw Poll results were announced on Saturday. Nobody was too surprised by the winner. Senator Rand Paul won for the third year in a row with 25.7 percent of the vote, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker surprised in second with
