Dems search for fountain of youth  —  Democrats lean heavily on young voters to win elections, but their leading candidates for the White House are 68-year-old Hillary Clinton and 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).  —  The two other Democrats who were often implored to enter the race …

How A Conservative Radio Host Inspired Ben Carson To Apply To Yale  —  Ben Carson told reporters a story on Friday that he has written about several times: as a high school senior, he could only afford to apply to one college, and he decided he would apply to the school that won the grand championship …

Ted Cruz Sets Sights on ‘Moderate’ Marco Rubio  —  With the two Republican presidential hopefuls on the rise, the Texas hardliner is subtly trying to undermine his rival.  —  For Ted Cruz, the single biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination may not be outsider candidates Donald Trump …

Bachmann: Jesus is ‘coming soon’  —  Former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) calls in an interview for converting as many people as possible to Christianity because Jesus is “coming soon.”  —  The 2012 Republican presidential candidate made the comments in a radio interview last week with Tony Perkins …

Fox Business Channel Star Maria Bartiromo to GOP Candidates: Grow Up  —  Despite all the Republican griping over CNBC's presidential debate, Maria Bartiromo says any question will be ‘fair game’ in Milwaukee on Tuesday.  —  When it comes to running a presidential debate …

Only Conservatives Can Save The American Campus-But Should We?  —  What does it take to generate a rabid, Maoist-style mob demanding political purges, on an Ivy League campus, in 2015?  An email defending “offensive” Halloween costumes, apparently.  —  That's what kicked off the latest nadir …

Why Republican Candidates Must Always Be Better Than Their Democratic Opponent  —  A candidate for President had a childhood mentor who had been a Nazi.  The candidate made up key details about his life and relationships.  He attended a church whose pastor routinely attacked the United States …

Two Americans, one South African killed at Jordan security training site  —  A Jordanian army officer shot dead two American military personnel and one South African and wounded six other people on Monday at a U.S.-funded security training facility near Amman, Jordan's government spokesman said.

Gary Pinkel: ‘We are united’ after black players threaten boycott over racial incidents  —  14h - COLLEGE FOOTBALL SHELDON RICHARDSON MISSOURI TIGERS + more

Inside the abandoned plans of Ted Cruz's super PACs  —  Cruz: I tried to rescue my sister from a crack house  — Keep the Promise II has not reserved any television time and has no plans to air advertisements until March or April  —  Washington (CNN)Ted Cruz enjoys millions of dollars …

Politics and the New Machine  —  “I am who I am,” Donald J. Trump said in August, on the eve of this season's first G.O.P. Presidential debate, and what he meant by that was this: “I don't have a pollster.”  The word “pollster,” when it was coined, was meant as a slur, like “huckster.”