Question for those who say Ted Cruz can’t win: What has your strategy accomplished?

There were too many people who used the term to attribute it to just one, and I'm sure you heard it said at least once. The 2010 red wave election was a "restraining order" on Obama and the Democrats. After they used their massive majorities in 2009 and 2010 to run wild with federal spending and the passage of ObamaCare, the American people went to the polls to give Republicans power on Capitol Hill to stop them in their tracks.

Ted Cruz now owns the conservative base - so the GOP had better get on board

Earlier today, the boss ran down four reasons that, despite the naysayers, Cruz's all-night fight mattered. I agree with all of them. However, there's one more reason - perhaps more politically tangible - that he didn't mention. Cruz’s non-filibuster was as much about the future of the GOP as it was about the affordable care act. Simply put, Cruz now owns his party's base lock, stock, and barrel.

Four concrete reasons Ted Cruz’s fight matters very much

At its most basic, Ted Cruz’s stand on the Senate floor against ObamaCare is a declaration that we have a right to fight.

High German Electricity Rates Coming to the USA?

Environmentalists have told us that we must reduce the escalating levels of CO2 or we risk a complete meltdown of our entire global ice cap and massive planetary destruction. Not only is the ice cap 60 percent larger this year but we have been in a cooling period for the past 16 years.

Sends Obama running to Clintons and sends BarackObama.com to the Language of Crude

Senator Ted Cruz could be the first person on the planet to frighten the wits out of the ‘all-advantages-stacked-on-my-side’ President Barack Obama.

Give the Dems the rope with which to hang themselves

I applaud Senator Cruz for his courageous and principled stand on attempting to defund the So-called “Affordable Care Act,” or ObamaCare, the name by which most people know this monstrosity. I feel the same way about the House of Representatives for its conduct toward a similar end. But I think that Republicans, both in the Senate and the House, have clearly demonstrated their opposition to Obama’s train wreck and maybe it’s time to back off the efforts to stop the law and let it take effect.

Let The Arms Trade Treaty Gather Dust

BELLEVUE, WA – Secretary of State John Kerry may have signed the controversial United Nations Arms Trade Treaty today, but tomorrow it begins gathering dust in the U.S. Senate, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms predicted.

Art news: Say it with jewellery

Earlier this year former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton received $500,000 of diamond and ruby jewellery from King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia. She also received $58,000 of jewellery from Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz from Brunei.

The Cruz Crusade

Back in May, in a commentary titled “Ted Cruz for President”, I took note of the reasons why he would be eligible to run for President in 2016, citing the opinions of legal scholars and others. The odds have just gone up that he will not only make a run for the office, but can win. He will have to do it, at this point, by overcoming the opposition of the elites in the Republican Party who have managed to lose the last two elections for that office.

At UN Rowhani Gives Obama Cover to Delay, Delay, Delay on Iran’s Nukes

This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on FOX News. President Obama’s standing on the world stage took another nosedive Wednesday at the UN General Assembly. According to White House officials, the president of the world’s leading democracy was prepared to shake hands with the president of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism – and the terrorist turned the democrat down.

Endangered Christians

Across the Muslim world Christians are becoming an endangered species.

More Than Wine

New Zealand is known for its award-winning New World wines and breathtaking wine regions. A visit there is (or should be) on every wine lover’s bucket list. But what if wine’s not your thing? While it may seem shocking to those of us who worship the grape, there are people out there who don’t salivate when they see a cork.

Survey reveals improving salary and employment picture for chemists

With the U.S. economy slowly trudging back from recession and uncertainties remaining about government sequestration, the employment and salary snapshot for chemists and chemical engineers in 2013 shows that salaries and the job market are improving. Results of the American Chemical Society’s annual survey of its members are the topic of the cover story in Chemical & Engineering News, ACS’ weekly newsmagazine.

Using a form of ‘ice that burns’ to make potable water from oil and gas production

In the midst of an intensifying global water crisis, scientists are reporting development of a more economical way to use one form of the “ice that burns” to turn very salty wastewater from fracking and other oil and gas production methods into water for drinking and irrigation. The study on the method, which removes more than 90 percent of the salt, appears in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Making a common cosmetic and sunblock ingredient safer

Using a particular type of titanium dioxide — a common ingredient in cosmetics, food products, toothpaste and sunscreen — could reduce the potential health risks associated with the widely used compound. The report on the substance, produced by the millions of tons every year for the global market, appears in the ACS journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

Flame retardant ban reduces exposures in pregnant women

Phasing out the use of potentially harmful flame retardants in furniture foam, electronics and plastics has lowered pregnant women’s exposure to the substances, which are associated with health problems in both pregnant women and their newborns. The new study, which was published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology, was the first to examine the phase-out’s effectiveness.

Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations

Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first time, individual viruses. Their study on the light-weight device, which converts the phone into a powerful mini-microscope, appears in the journal ACS Nano.

Britain’s Energy Chaos

A promise by Britain’s opposition leader Ed Miliband to freeze gas and electricity bills provoked warnings last night of blackouts, job losses and a threat by one leading energy company to leave Britain. --Francis Elliott, The Times, 25 September 2013

Standing Against Obamacare

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) stood on the Senate floor yesterday to speak against Obamacare. He kept speaking all night and well into the morning.

Prayer Vigil to be Held in Front of White House Calling for the Release of Pastor Saeed Abedini

WASHINGTON, -- Pastor Saeed, an American citizen, is serving an 8 year prison sentence in a brutal Iranian prison for his Christian faith.