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Christie Caves to LGBT Lobby, Forces N.J. Schools to Accept Gender Ideology

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie pleased LGBT political activists on Friday by signing legislation granting transgender students special privileges, such as using whichever restroom they desire, playing on whichever sports…

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N.J. Republicans Face Long Odds in Race to Replace Christie

Every four years after the president is elected, there are two major contests that highlight an otherwise barely noticed election cycle: governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey. Democrats currently…

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Who Should Trump Choose for VP? Our Writers Weigh In . . .

Of the candidates on Donald Trump’s reported VP shortlist, who would be his most advisable choice? Ralph Benko Mike Pence is just being Hoosier-in-Chief. The official state drink of Indiana…

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Trump’s Leading VP Candidates Are Not Strong on Common Core and Fed Ed

Donald Trump is set to announce his vice-presidential choice sometime this week, before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland begins on Monday. Despite occasional stumbles, such as identifying education as one…

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Who Will Be Trump’s VP? Here Are His Five Most Likely Choices

With the GOP convention less than two weeks away, the media is buzzing with news and rumors about who Donald Trump may pick to be his running mate. Dozens of…

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Christie Backs Historic School Funding Reform, Tax Cut

Yesterday in Somerset County, New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie proposed an amendment to his state’s constitution that, if enacted in a referendum next year, will apportion state aid to local…

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The Politics of Shaming

I am often asked by fellow conservatives about my experience with Governor Chris Christie as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2014. When I reply…

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Voters Want Fighters, Not Appeasers, on Common Core

Heidi Huber — founder of Parents Against the Common Core and Ohioans Against Common Core — is running for the Ohio House of Representatives. In a dramatic showdown, she is challenging incumbent Rep. Tom…

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Establishment Gov. Chris Christie Just Made a Huge Endorsement. Guess Who?

Remember when Donald Trump was having a bad news cycle? Not anymore. Trump just held a public news conference in Texas with Gov. Chris Christie at his side to announce…

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Trump Says He Invented Common Sense Conservatism

Donald Trump, in defending his record as a conservative, told Sean Hannity, “[Y]ou mentioned the word conservative. I like to say I’m a conservative with common sense or I’m a common sense…

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N.H. Says Take Your Pick: Angry Populist or Angry Socialist?

So complete has the Washington political culture of both parties bred a climate that favors insider power structure and cronyism (both corporate and political), that it’s no longer able to…

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Christie Drops Out, Trump Remains King of Mean

Having delivered the blow that knocked Marco Rubio down to fifth in New Hampshire, Chris Christie has just announced he’s leaving the race. That leaves the establishment lane down to…

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After New Hampshire: Donald Trump vs. Ted Cruz

I want to take a look at each of the candidates in the Republican presidential field following Donald Trump’s rout in the First in the Nation primary state of New…

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Cruz: Drafting Our Daughters Is “Nuts”

I was extremely disheartened — indeed disgusted — by the responses of Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie to the idea of drafting women equally with men into the…

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ABC News GOP Presidential Debate Rundown

I wanted to share some quick thoughts about each of the candidates who participated in the last Republican debate before the New Hampshire Primary. First I wasn’t a fan of…

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Rubio Won Saturday Night’s Debate . . . Electorally, Anyway

Okay, I have to admit it. Saturday night was rough for Marco Rubio. Even though he did an outstanding job appealing to social conservative voters — Rubio managed to specifically defend life and…

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How N.H. Common Core Moms Made Candidates Take Notice

New Hampshire is about to embark on a tradition like no other. We are about to go to the polls to elect a candidate in the primary election who will…

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Christie Joins Graham in Attacking Rubio for Being Too Pro-Life

As Mary noted yesterday, a new line of attack by Senator Lindsey Graham, who has endorsed Jeb Bush, is that Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are too pro-life because they oppose, in principle, abortion in the case…

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The Forgotten Story: How Common Core Changed the Race in Iowa

Now that Iowa caucus-goers have spoken, lost in the discussion of Donald Trump’s underperformance, Ted Cruz’s ground game and Marco Rubio’s surge is an acknowledgement of one issue that separated…

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Christie Attacks Rubio

New Hampshire is the last chance for Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich to break into this race, and Christie is throwing down the gauntlet hard. Interestingly, he’s ignoring…

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