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I do not really have a high regard for Donald Trump, but this November he gets my vote. The reasoning is: There are only two choices that ...

I am on the e-mailing list of the Human Rights Campaign, mainly I think because I endorsed the gay marriage referendum in Maryland a few ye...

Democrats have been criticizing Donald Trump for the “dark” tone of his speeches and those of his supporters at the Republican National Con...

This blog endorses the Republican ticket for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States in November. This isn't quite the ...

There are a lot of things I do not like about Donald Trump, but in one way he's making me feel more comfortable supporting him (at lea...

Now that Donald Trump is essentially guaranteed to get the Republican nomination for the Presidency, he has begun to make the preparations...

With yesterday's decision by John Kasich to end his campaign , Donald Trump has no opposition, and will be the nominee of the Republi...

…and while John Kasich continues to run — I got an e-mail from his organization today asking for funds — it doesn't really look to be ...

Carly Fiorina really puzzles me. In 2010, she ran for the United States Senate in California, and I was hoping she would win, along with g...

I am not very happy with Tuesday's results, and I'm getting more and more resigned to Donald Trump's nomination. If he does g...

Ted Cruz has stated he was “ a Christian first, American second …” A surrogate of his, Pastor Mike Gonzalez, has said , and this was nev...

There are really two different aspects to the quarrel we see between the sponsors of “bathroom bills” and so-called “transgender” individua...

…and as long as I can make it to the polls, I'll be voting for John Kasich . The polls all say that Donald Trump will win the state, b...

I've been receiving a lot of e-mails from everyone ranging from John Kasich to Paul Ryan (presumably from their staffs; I doubt that an...

There is a post I read yesterday, dated a week ago but first coming to my attention yesterday evening, by Seth Abramson on the Huffington...

In two weeks and a day, the state of Maryland will hold its primary elections. I have said that the only way I could vote for Donald Trump ...

A few years ago, in this state (Maryland) there was a referendum on permitting gay marriage. At one point I signed a petition in favor of m...

Ted Cruz has been quoted as saying: “I'm a Christian first, American second, conservative third and Republican fourth.” Is this what ...

There are some signs that people who want to thwart Donald Trump's nomination as Republican candidate are coalescing around Ted Cruz. ...

The results are in on yesterday's primaries. Marco Rubio, who was the man I expected to be the eventual nominee, did so poorly in his ...

An article on the Chicago Tribune website entitled “To stop Trump, GOP establishment must rally around Cruz.” The author, John Kass, clai...

Another candidate that I liked and respected has endorsed someone surprising. I was surprised to see Chris Christie, who was one of my two...

I'd heard before of well-known Republicans who might vote for Hillary Clinton rather than see Donald Trump in the Presidency, and oth...

I got a surprise today. One of the two candidates I considered my favorite at the start of this campaign, New Jersey Governor Chris Chris...

I had lately been thinking that even though I preferred John Kasich to Marco Rubio as a candidate, the best thing for the Republican Part...

There is a posting by Mark Salter dated yesterday, entitled “Donald Trump, the Anti-Patriot,” which I've been reading. Now Salter'...

I'm not unhappy with the results of yesterday's South Carolina primary. Yes, the winner was Donald Trump, whose nomination would b...

For a long time, I've been saying that while I preferred Chris Christie (now dropped out) or John Kasich as the candidate, I thought ...

On the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, there was a response by Sen. Mitch McConnell : The American people‎ should have a voice in the sel...

There is an interesting article, dated today, by David Harsanyi entitled “GOP Has A Duty To Reject Obama’s SCOTUS Pick.” It furnishes a g...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has passed away at the age of 79 . President Barack Obama has nearly a year remaining in his term, s...

People have been pointing out that Canada, for example, has much shorter campaigns than the United States; for example, the most recent el...

It starfted with 17 candidates for the 2016 Republican nomination. Now there are only 6: Donald Trump , Ted Cruz , Marco Rubio , Jeb Bush ,...

Chris Christie has withdrawn from the race for the 2016 Republican nomination. It's sad to see this — I thought he was really the bes...

This past Saturday, there was a debate in New Hampshire among the candidates for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. And the mos...

There is a page on CNN's site called the Election Candidate Matchmaker. You answer a series of questions, and it finds the candidate w...

More and more, it looks as though the Republican nominee will be Marco Rubio. That at least two former candidates who have dropped out, Ri...

On Fox News ' site, dated yesterday, is a post by Montel Williams entitled “John Kasich is the only GOP candidate who can unite Ameri...

The Wall Street Journal has an article dated February 3 entitled “Why Mike Bloomberg Can Win,” by Douglas E. Schoen. It makes the case th...

An argument has been made that since Ted Cruz was born in Canada (of an American mother and a Cuban father) he is not a “natural born citi...

I haven't been posting here for a few months, in part because of my own life's being complicated (including a surgery and more than...

First, Ben Carson said he does not believe a Muslim should be President. Subsequently he backtracked, saying he “can support a Muslim who ...

I haven't posted much for a while, because I was hoping that the Republican candidates' standings would coalesce about something re...

First of all, I have to confess that I did not watch the debate. I do not, these days, like to stay up late, and I decided to spend my even...

In a couple of days, the first big debate of the 2016 Presidential campaign will take place. And this time around, more controversy has bee...

It is so nice when you can argue with somebody on the basis of their principles without compromising your own beliefs. Such a discussion ...