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Marco Rubio's Path to Victory Dan McLaughlin has a very convincing look at how Marco Rubio waits out Ted Cruz's early wins. As we move in the calendar, we get to more moderate states, and Rubio's odds go up. Read More

The State Department Declares "Bringing Peace to Syria" as an Accomplishment If you read the news you would be excused for thinking there is actually a war going on in Syria. You'd also be forgiven for thinking that Syria, never a Garden of Eden, has collapsed into a festering, effervescing puddle of FAIL that can't even aspire to the worth term of Third World Crap Hole. But you would be wrong. While you were wasting valuable time reading and engaging reality, the US State Department was on the job and fixed the problem. Read More

Lamar Alexander and the Internet Tax Right now, there is a movement in Congress to ban Internet-only taxes, meaning you won't be asked to pay tax on e-mail or Internet access. It is a movement that makes sense, because it opens the door wide for the government to take more cut less, not to mention give the government yet another in-road to regulating Internet use. Read More Sponsored

Poll: America Does Not Trust the Obama Administration to Protect Them from Terrorism CNN has conducted a poll which shows that the Democrats might have a long, hard slog ahead of them in the Presidential elections, pretty much no matter who the Republican opponent is. At the end of the day, people want government to do a lot of different things for them, but the baseline for success for any government is protecting the citizenry from foreign invaders. Read More

Illegal Immigrants Suing the State of Oregon for Not Giving Them Drivers' Licenses This is the kind of thing that almost makes you want to vote for Donald Trump, just to respond to the sheer chutzpah of some illegal immigrants. A group of illegal immigrants have decided to sue the State of Oregon because Oregon voters have decided to pass a law forbidding illegal immigrants from getting drivers' licenses. Read More

Sponsored Hope in the Aftermath of Texas Tragedy, a Dog is Rescued from Debris (VIDEO) Just one day after Christmas, North Texas was hit with a devastating storm that produced EF3 and EF4 tornadoes, and damaged over a thousand homes. Living in Tornado Alley, we get our fair share of tornadoes, but this one was the second deadliest tornado outbreak in the DFW area's history. Read More

The Burmese Government Just Jailed One of Their Citizens for Making Fun of their Military's Uniforms in a Facebook post The title here is not at all an exaggeration or a mischaracterization. Myanmar, which at least theoretically took a major step forward as a country (in terms of things like basic human rights) this year by kicking out what was effectively a military junta. Myanmar stunned the world when the country held elections that were actually reasonably open and resulted in a peaceful transition of power to mostly civilian authority. Read More

New York Times Compares Hillary Clinton to Harriet Tubman.. or Something There are occasions when I look at the New York Times and wonder how, if it were actually owned by the Democrats in general and the Clintons in particular, would it be different from the current newspaper that apparently believes it is an objective reporter of current affairs. Today is one of those moments. Case in point: How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education. The image that is conjured up is one of John Howard Griffin masquerading as a black man in Black Like Me. Read More

Liberals' Global Warming Fetish is Anti-People There are a number of inexorable truths about the modern human condition that bear upon the left's current fetish with global warming. The first is that achieving a significant reduction in carbon emissions is flatly impossible if the world's population continues to grow. The second is that some amount of population growth is necessary to healthy and sustainable economic growth. Read More Sponsored

Sincerely yours, Leon Wolf Managing Editor, RedState