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• Palin: Brokered Convention Won't Hurt GOP
  Sarah Palin said the Republican presidential contest remains competitive and urged conservative activists to mobilize to deny President Barack Obama a second term. Competition elevates our game, Palin said. We ve got to keep the competition going. Let s make sure this...
• Santorum: I'll Be in 2-man Race with Romney
  Rick Santorum says he expects to do well in the next GOP presidential contests and will be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney. Santorum is coming off victories last week in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, and says he can have good showings Feb. 28 in Michigan and...
• Analysis: Romney Backed Earmarks as Governor
  Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.Under his leadership, Massachusetts sought tens of millions of dollars in...
• Day after Maine Win, Romney Looks to Money Race
  His losing streak broken and the GOP presidential race entering a lull, Mitt Romney now turns his attention to extending the huge cash advantage he enjoys over his rivals.The former Massachusetts governor narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state officials announced...
• Obama Budget: More Tax Increases, $1.3 Trillion Deficit
  President Barack Obama is pressing for investments in infrastructure while relying on familiar tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to claim progress on the federal deficit in his upcoming budget.Obama's 2013 budget, to be released Monday, is the official start to...
• Romney Wins Maine Republican Caucuses
  Republican front-runner Mitt Romney bounced back from midweek losses in three states to win the Maine presidential caucuses, the state's Republican Party announced on Saturday.With 95 percent of the vote counted, results of the non-binding straw poll showed the former...
• Rep. King: Despite Obama Flip-Flop Catholics Still Compelled
  President Barack Obama s abandonment of a rule that would require religious institutions such as Catholic colleges and hospitals to provide birth control coverage changes little, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, tells Newsmax.TV. King, in an exclusive interview at the Conservative...
• LaPierre: Obama Out to Erase Second Amendment
  Should President Barack Obama secure a second term as president it will break the back of the Second Amendment and excise the right to bear arms from the Constitution, the NRA s Wayne LaPierre tells Newsmax.TV. The executive vice president of the NRA, in an exclusive...
• Romney Looks to End Losing Streak in Maine
  Maine's presidential caucuses come at a critical time for Mitt Romney, the one-time Republican front-runner.Shaken by a string of failures, Romney is hoping to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat Saturday on the path to his party's nomination.The former Massachusetts governor...
• North: Obama’s Incompetence on Mideast Quashes Freedom
  By Henry J. Reske and Kathleen Walter The Obama administration s diplomatic incompetence in the Middle East have contributed to the denial of basic human freedoms there, and Iran threatens world peace, retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North tells Newsmax.TV. North, a former...
• West: Obama Caved to Pressure on Contraception
  U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., tells Newsmax.TV that President Barack Obama only backed down from his administration s controversial contraception mandate once it became a political hot potato. I think the president backed down because it became an election issue, West...
• Catholic League’s Donohue: ‘Obama Must Think We’re Stupid’
  Catholic League chief Bill Donohue blasted President Barack Obama's revised stance on HHS mandates for contraceptives and the morning-after abortion pill on Friday, calling it the most serious infringement by the federal government on the rights of Catholics and others in...
• US Bishops: Obama Reversal Good First Step
  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called President Barack Obama's shift on birth control policy for health insurers a first step in the right direction but said it was still concerned about the issue and would reserve judgment.
• Bombings, Carnage Continues Across Syria
  At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighbourhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar al-Assad's troops. The Aleppo bombings were the worst violence to hit the...
• Romney: China's Rise Threatens US Freedom
  U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney slammed China's autocratic model of capitalism in a speech to technology executives on Friday, keeping up attacks on the economic powerhouse days before a visit from a Chinese official expected to be the country's next...
• Rush: Obama's Birth-Control Rule Retreat Is Inadequate
  President Barack Obama retreating from requiring Catholic institutions to provide healthcare policies that include birth control does not mean the administration is caving on its intent to trample on the Constitution, Rush Limbaugh said today on his radio show. There isn t...
• Santorum at CPAC: Don't Settle for Romney
  Presidential candidate Rick Santorum implored conservatives Friday not to settle for Mitt Romney's more moderate record, and to instead insist on nominating an unapologetic conservative that the party's excited about. Speaking to a packed crowd at the annual Conservative...
• Ga. Rep Price: Obama Compromise on Mandate Just 'Rhetorical'
  The Obama White House has little interest in reaching a real compromise on the controversial rule mandating religious organizations provide birth control coverage to employees because it believes it has the to power to trample on religious freedom, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga.,...
• Paul Ryan: GOP Must Not 'Play It Safe' in Taking on Obama
  Republicans cannot just attack President Barack Obama and his policies, they have to put forward bold new ideas of their own, if they are to win the next election, House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview. Too many in the...
• Romney: Santorum Gained Shot to Be a 'Leading' Contender
  Presidential candidate Mitt Romney says the Rick Santorum sweep of three presidential contests earlier this week has allowed the former Pennsylvania senator to become one of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. Romney also told Fox News Sean...
• Santorum: Obama Trying to Allow Iran to Have Nuke
  Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is accusing President Barack Obama of actively seeking ways to allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon.In a speech Thursday in Oklahoma City, Santorum drew connections between the administration's opposition...
• Perry to Newsmax: Newt Best Conservative to Beat Obama
  Texas Governor and former presidential candidate Rick Perry tells Newsmax that Newt Gingrich is the most capable Republican still in the race and the right conservative to go to Washington and make it as inconsequential as he can.
• Huckabee to Rival Limbaugh on Radio
  Mike Huckabee apparently does not believe in doing anything halfway. The former Arkansas governor is going to take on Rush Limbaugh the dean of conservative talk radio beginning in April. Huckabee will be running a radio show weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. for Cumulus...
• Cain to Newsmax: Super Tuesday May Be 'Defining Moment' of GOP Race
  Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain tells Newsmax that the Super Tuesday elections on March 6 will be a defining moment that could determine the outcome of a still very predictable battle for the GOP presidential nomination. Cain also says Republicans...
• LIGNET: Three Signs Putin is No Longer Russia’s Reagan
  

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