Written by David French
This weekend, Ben Carson did what he does best. He clearly and plainly stated a mainstream conservative view that most Republican politicians dare not utter — in this case, that the debate over abortion is comparable to the debate over slavery. Speaking to NBC’s Chuck Todd, Carson said: “During slavery — and I know that’s one of those words you’re not supposed to say, but I’m saying it — during slavery, a lot of slave owners thought they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave, anything that they chose.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Ben Carson, Chuck Todd, Election 2016, Ian Tuttle, Meet the Press, Slavery
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | 
October 28, 2015 5:55 AM | 
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Written by Chad Groening
Tom Pauken, former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, predicts that Donald Trump will go the GOP convention with “a lot of votes,” but Pauken is unsure it will be enough to “lock up” the nomination.
“I still believe that you’re going to see an alternative to Trump,” he tells OneNewsNow.
Trump, 69, is still enjoying a comfortable lead in the crowded field of GOP candidates. RealClearPolitics shows Trump with a 12-point lead in an “RCP average” of six polls.… Continue Reading
Written by Frank Newport
Late in August New York Times columnist Frank Bruni expressed puzzlement over what he cited as Donald Trump‘s high level of support among evangelical Republicans. A piece this week in The Christian Post similarly, albeit from a different perspective, ponders why Trump is “receiving so much support from evangelicals.” CNN carried a recent report on the battle for evangelical voters between Trump and Ben Carson. A recent report in The Wall Street Journal indicatedthat Donald Trump plans on meeting with evangelical leaders later in September in his office.… Continue Reading
Tags: Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Election 2016, George Pataki, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz
Faith & Religion, Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | September 14, 2015 11:30 AM | Comments Off on Highly Religious Republicans Don’t Like Trump
Santorum, Huckabee, Cruz, Jindal make the A Team
Written by Maggie Gallagher
On June 26, a narrow majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices struck down the traditional definition of marriage, ruling all 50 states must recognize same-sex unions as marriages.
The four dissenters included the usually mild-mannered Chief Justice John Roberts, who called the majority opinion “dangerous to the rule of law”: “The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Candidate, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Commentary, Donald Trump, First Amendment Defense Act, George Pataki, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, Maggie Gallagher, Marco Rubio, marriage, Mike Huckabee, Obergefell v. Hodges, Rand Paul, religious liberty, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, same-sex marriage, Scott Walker, SCOTUS, Social Issues, Ted Cruz, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Elections, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | David E. Smith | August 21, 2015 4:00 AM | Comments Off on What GOP Candidates Said About Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
Written by Craig Milward
At a rally to defund Planned Parenthood on Capitol Hill Tuesday, GOP presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson criticized Planned Parenthood, calling it “hypocritical” that “these same people who say that it’s a meaningless clump of cells are trying to get livers and lungs and kidneys.”
“I’ve spent so many nights in the operating room, all night long, working, toiling so hard to save one of those lives, and you know one of the most wonderful aspects of life is later on you can see that same little baby as a 25- or 30-year-old who has their own little baby, and yet there was somebody at some point saying that it was just a clump of cells that didn’t mean anything,” said Carson.… Continue Reading
Written by Andrew Stiles
The 2016 presidential election will feature a matchup between a white millionaire Yale graduate from the Democratic Party (Hillary Clinton) and whichever candidate emerges from the diverse Republican field.
How diverse is this year’s crop of GOP candidates? It might be the most diverse in history, regardless of party. Let’s take a look at the current state of the 2016 race, using charts to explain everything you need to know.
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Tags: Ben Carson, Bernie Sanders, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Jim Webb, Joe Biden, Marco Rubio, Martin O’Malley, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz
Uncategorized | David E. Smith | May 5, 2015 10:30 AM | Comments Off on The 2016 Presidential Race, Explained in 4 Charts
An Ohio pro-family activist has written off Dr. Ben Carson as someone he can support for president because the retired neurosurgeon has endorsed Ohio Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman’s re-election.
Written by Chad Groening
In March 2013, U.S. Senator Rob Portman, who was once staunchly pro-family, revealed that his own son is a homosexual and announced his support for “same-sex marriage.” That brought a strong reaction from conservatives in Ohio, including Phil Burress, who is chairman of the Citizens for Community Values Action PAC and has vowed to work hard for a Portman GOP primary defeat next year.… Continue Reading
Written by Maggie Gallagher
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 first time, a vanilla religious liberty bill similar to those passed in 19 other states was deemed “antigay” per se, and powerful corporations rushed in to punish the people of Indiana economically for their moral views on liberty.… Continue Reading
Tags: Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Candidate, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Commentary, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, religious liberty, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Scott Walker, Social Issues, Ted Cruz
Religious Liberty | David E. Smith | April 18, 2015 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Religious Liberty Crisis Report Card
Written by J. Matt Barber
“My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you. What I mean is this: One of you says, ‘I follow Paul’; another, ‘I follow Apollos’; another, ‘I follow Cephas’; still another, ‘I follow Christ.’” ~1 Corinthians 1:11-12
As Jesus warned, “If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand” (Mark 3:25). Nothing has borne out this reality in recent decades like that exasperating spectacle called the Republican presidential primary.… Continue Reading
Tags: Albert Einstein, American Family Association, Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, Family Research Council, Jeb Bush, John Fund, Marco Rubio, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Tim Wildmon
Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | March 30, 2015 6:46 AM | Comments Off on A Bold Proposal for Conservative GOP Candidates
Written by Frank Newport
Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, the 44-year-old Canadian-born Texan who is now just in his third year as a U.S. senator, announced during a speech earlier this week at Liberty University in Virginia that he is running for his party’s nomination for president. He thus has the distinction of being the first major candidate from either party to announce an official candidacy. Cruz said in his announcement today, “I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America, and that is why today I am announcing that I’m running for president of the United States.”… Continue Reading
