Untamed Cruz refuses to play nice with GOP campaign arm  —  GOP hopes of corralling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during the 2014 primary season are officially dead.  —  The defiant Republican's brutal criticism of Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) reelection campaign on Tuesday …

Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule  —  WASHINGTON — After a setback in the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case, President Obama is facing mounting pressure from religious groups demanding to be excluded from his long-promised executive order that would bar discrimination against gay men …

Exclusive: Clooney responds to ‘Daily Mail’ report  —  I want to speak to the irresponsibility of Monday's Daily Mail report.  I seldom respond to tabloids, unless it involves someone else and their safety or well being.  The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story …

Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On  —  The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended …

GOP Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Floated Obama Impeachment  —  WASHINGTON — Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst floated the idea of impeaching President Barack Obama in January, calling him a “dictator” and arguing he was “overstepping his bounds” by using executive authority to enact parts of his agenda without Congress' cooperation.

Why the GOP is holding its convention early  —  Republicans will hold their 2016 national convention more than a month earlier than their 2012 event for one simple reason: money.  —  Two years ago, Mitt Romney raised $1 billion but found himself out of cash that August due to campaign finance laws …

Spying Case Left Obama in Dark, U.S. Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama placed a call to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany last Thursday, he had a busy agenda: to consult with a close ally and to mobilize wavering Europeans to put more pressure on Russia to end its covert incursions in Ukraine.

A Window Opens Onto the Left-Wing Conspiracy  —  The Democracy Alliance is not a famous organization, but it deserves to be.  The Alliance consists of approximately 100 rich liberals who have taken upon themselves the task of coordinating America's many left-wing organizations to promote a single radical agenda.

Four good reasons to watch Louisiana race this season  —  Lately it seems like every time I look around, the political news I am seeing is five myths about blank, five reasons for this and five things we learned about that.  God knows why there are never four or six — five seems to be the preferred number.

The Bear meets a horse  —  The bear was on the loose on Tuesday evening — this time in Colorado.  —  President Barack Obama greeted supporters on a walk following dinner in downtown Denver, a night that resulted in shaking hands with a man in a horse mask, and shooting pool and drinking beers during …

Send the National Guard to ‘Chiraq’  —  To save the Windy City, we have to use everything at our disposal.  —  A major American city is quickly being lost to guns, gangs, drugs and hopelessness, and political and business leaders are giving lip service to the problem.

Violent MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti on Bathroom Walls of Nogales Border Patrol Processing Center  —  4.6K  —  SHARES  —  An internal Border Patrol executive summary obtained by Townhall confirms that at least 16 unaccompanied illegal minors (those under the age of 18 …