The Republican establishment is in a panic about the rise of Donald Trump and how he has dominated the debate and set the agenda for the early stages of the Republican presidential nomination.
The three message carriers; Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have different messages, but they have one thing in common – voting for them is a clear rejection of the status quo in their parties, and in the conduct of the federal government.
Yesterday, former Senator Rick Santorum announced he was joining the increasingly crowded field vying for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But the history and the contrast between the two is not a favorable one for Senator Santorum, who probably missed his moment after the 2012 defeat of Mitt Romney.
Republicans haven't laid a glove on Hillary Clinton yet, because, to paraphrase James Carville, Mrs. Clinton's longtime chief apologist, "It's not about Hillary's scandals: It's her ideas stupid!"
The news that Indiana Governor Mike Pence has caved-in to the radical homosexual lobby and is readying amendments to Indiana's just-passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and that Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has demanded changes to a similar bill that just passed both houses of that state's legislature, has provoked a predictable storm of outrage on the right.
Christians are the world's most persecuted faith according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, but you don't have to look across the ocean to find the latest and, given America's foundation of religious freedom, one of the most egregious examples of the economic persecution of Christians – it is happening in Indiana USA right now.
Monday's official announcement that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas is running for president changes everything in the 2016 presidential campaign.
