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COLORADO SPRINGS — It was here, in a hotel ballroom in this heavily Christian conservative military city, that Colorado's Republican activists continued chipping away at the...
You can make the argument that by nominating an oldish, moderate, well-respected judge to the Supreme Court that Barack Obama has outsmarted the Republicans,...
The question now isn't whether Republicans should finally take a stand against Donald Trump, but how.
Obviously Mitt wasn't the answer.
And little Marco wasn't the...
Colorado’s GOP may have cancelled the presidential straw poll, but that didn’t stop some Jefferson County Republicans in Lakewood from trying to weigh in...
Competing explanations
Three competing rallies hit the streets of Cologne as women, neo-Nazis and anti-fascists send out different messages on the New Year's Eve assaults...
Shared views
If you don't count the blustering rhetoric and the xenophobia, the Republican take on foreign policy isn't much different from Hillary Clinton's. Via...
Avoiding doomsday
U.S. strategy against ISIS: Knowing that the Islamic State wants a ground war with the United States in order to fulfill a prophecy...
White House hopeful Marco Rubio of Florida snagged an endorsement from his colleague Cory Gardner of Colorado today— the candidate's first from a sitting...
The highlight of Wednesday night’s debate for Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina? The finish, she told the audience, somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
But...