Cruz made 2016 announcement speech without a teleprompter  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made his speech announcing that he would run for the presidency without the assistance of a teleprompter, his spokesman said Monday.  —  Cruz delivered his roughly half-hour announcement speech at evangelical Liberty University in Virginia.

Israel Spied on Iran Talks  —  Ally's snooping upset White House because information was used to lobby Congress to try to sink a deal  —  Soon after the U.S. and other major powers entered negotiations last year to curtail Iran's nuclear program, senior White House officials learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks.

Wisconsin Decides Not to Enforce Voter ID Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to a Wisconsin law that requires prospective voters to provide photo identification before casting their ballots.  —  Officials in Wisconsin said they would not enforce the law …

An Interview With George Zimmerman - March 2015  —  In an interview conducted in Orlando by Howard Iken, George Zimmerman discusses his viewpoint on events now that the Justice Department has declined to file charges against him  —  Duplication without prior permission prohibited.

Dirty Energy Taxes And Clean Energy Innovation  —  I am and have long been an unabashed advocate of carbon taxes and gas taxes, but... I have a concern that not enough attention is being paid to the innovation function for clean energy.  Right now clean energy prices are marching steadily downward …

Hillary Clinton meets Barack Obama at the White House  —  No word on whether she came with a ruler to measure the curtains, but Hillary Clinton did meet privately with President Barack Obama on Monday at the White House  —  Clinton was in Washington for an event about the future …

Could Liberal Disgust With Campus Brownshirts Be Reaching Critical Mass?  —  You know campus radicalism—the kind that openly oppresses in the name of ending oppression—is going too far when even The Nation magazine takes notice.  Nation writer Michelle Goldberg reports about the case …

Argentine archaeologists find secret Nazi lair in jungle  —  Stone structures in the remote region of Misiones are thought to be the ruins of a hideout build by Nazis, in case their leaders needed to flee Germany  —  A team of Argentine archaeologists investigating a series of ruins in the jungle …

Tea Party could burn its own base on Medicare  —  How much pain will far-right conservatives cause the GOP leadership on Capitol Hill before Congress reaches a deal to fix this year's Medicare funding shortfall?  —  The Tea Party caucus has a lot more skin in this game than in earlier funding fights.

Here are the first lawsuits to challenge the FCC's net neutrality rules  —  An industry trade group and a small, Texas-based Internet provider are among the first to mount a legal challenge to the federal government's new net neutrality rules.  —  On Monday, USTelecom …

Oil Giant BP Drops Membership With ALEC  —  The oil-and-gas super company is just the latest big firm to leave the conservative group in recent months.  —  Major oil-and-gas corporation BP announced Monday it is parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, marking just the latest …

Don't You Forget About Me: The John Hughes I Knew  —  To mark the 30th anniversary of The Breakfast Club, P.J. O'Rourke remembers the wit, wisdom, and politics of his friend John Hughes.  —  Somehow—while we Senior Teens in our forties, fifties and sixties weren't paying attention …