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Wiretap: GOP ponders who’s worse — Cruz or Trump

Who's worse? We're a week and a half from the Iowa caucuses and war has broken out in the Republican Party over who is the...

Keefe: On New York values

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Wiretap: Ted Cruz’s very bad day

Bad day Ted Cruz's very bad day began with the popular Iowa Republican governor, Terry Brandstad, basically endorsing everyone in the field except Cruz, saying...

Littwin: Anger’s winning the Republican debates

Four angry men are leading the Republican pack: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie.   If the Republican debates are an exercise in...

Mike Littwin and James Viser live blog the GOP debate

Mike Littwin 9:37: Who won this debate? Trump had, I think, his best debate. He's not a good debater but he's very good, for good and...

Wiretap: Republican Nikki Haley champions tolerance, irks far right

Complicated history The complicated history of Nikki Haley met up with the complicated history of Barack Obama to take on the Donald's not so complicated history. Via The...

Littwin: On why Republicans might settle for unlikable Ted Cruz

  My favorite moment of GOP Debate Night V -- and I know it doesn't reflect very well on me -- came when Ted Cruz...

Wiretap: Dramas to watch in tonight’s GOP debate

Cruz vs. Trump Storylines to watch at the GOP debate tonight: Cruz vs. Trump. Everyone else vs. Trump. Cruz vs. Rubio. Via The National Review. Who's better? Eugene Robinson...

Wiretap: How the Founding Fathers protected Muslim rights

Guarding Muslims The fascinating history of how Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers made certain to protect the religious rights of Muslims. It might be...

Littwin: Tremble Republicans: Anti-Islam Trump is still soaring

The polls are in, and now we know for sure that Donald Trump didn't go too far when calling for a moratorium on all...