Donald Trump is really going to be the nominee.  This is actually happening.  —  Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee.  —  The only way he won't is if something unthinkable happens.  He could be struck by lightning.  He could pull off his Trump mask and reveal that he's actually …

Trump accuses Cruz's father of helping JFK's assassin  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz's father was with John F. Kennedy's assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing …

There Is A Hole In Bernie Sanders' Strategy For Winning The Nomination  —  Just how democratic should the Democratic primary be?  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders' revamped plan for winning the Democratic presidential nomination suffers from an inconsistency that could complicate the case he makes to party insiders and allied groups.

Cruz's slip of the tongue will doom him in Indiana  —  There are times when a politician firmly and unmistakably puts a foot in his mouth and pays for it dearly.  —  Last week in Indiana, Sen. Ted Cruz  —  (R-Texas) won the prize for a verbal infraction that was so huge, it will be cited for years to come.

‘He thought he could help’: Concealed carry gun-wielder intervenes in domestic dispute and is shot dead  —  The concealed carry permit holder was trying to intervene in a domestic dispute, trying to disarm the fleeing shooter, trying to do the job ordinarily reserved for police.  —  Instead, he was killed.

Mesa, AZ student arrested for indecent exposure in yearbook picture  —  A student at Red Mountain High School in Mesa is facing dozens of criminal charges for indecent exposure after a prank got published in the yearbook, according to the Mesa Police Department.

White House poised to create first monument to gay rights  —  What to watch for tonight … President Obama is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood …

The GOP Gets What It Deserves  —  ‘America First’ is the inevitable outcome of the Republican descent into populism.  —  A joke in Milan Kundera's novel “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” goes like this: “In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up.

CNN Destroys Fox News in April Prime Time Ratings  —  While you weren't looking, CNN has been busy demolishing the once-invincible ratings gap between themselves and Fox News.  CNN beat Fox News decisively for their prime time lineup in April, and especially in the coveted age gap of 25-54.

I lied to myself for years about who my allies were.  No more.  —  Donald Trump is my fault as much as anyone else's.  —  It started way back in 2009-2010 when the Tea Party erupted on the scene.  At the core of the tea party was a principle that I agreed with so much that I became a conservative activist during that time period.

The Media Keeps Letting Trump Get Away With His Iraq Lie  —  One of the great stories of 2016 is how Donald Trump hacked the media: how he learned from the New York tabloids and The Apprentice; how he dictated terms to the weakened television networks; how he used Twitter and won Facebook.