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CARDELLO: Rubio Seals the Deal for the Top Spot with Newest Job Assignment

May 7, 2026 Ray Cardello

I have been debating as to what the Republican ticket will be in 2028. Vance/Rubio or Rubio/Vance. I think the Right can win with either combination, especially if it faces any combination of Newsom/Pritzker/Harris. I would pay to watch either Marco Rubio or JD Vance debate any of the potential Democratic nominees, and maybe they … Read more

CARDELLO: Little Marco is All Grown Up

February 18, 2026 Ray Cardello

I have been a fan and supporter of Marco Rubio since he entered the 2016 presidential race. I remember walking with Sharon through the streets of Concord, New Hampshire, on a very cold February night to hear the young candidate address his supporters after a disappointing showing in the NH primary. He was strong, took … Read more

JENNY BETH MARTIN: Rubio Rights Ship At State

December 11, 2025 Jenny Beth Martin

The State Department is finally undergoing the course correction it has long needed. According to recent reporting from FOX News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reinstated and promoted a number of career Foreign Service officers who were denied advancement under the Biden administration’s expansive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) regime. This is a welcome development … Read more

Mitchell: State Department Employees to Face Reduction in Force in Coming Weeks

July 16, 2025July 16, 2025 Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell – The Daily Signal The State Department will soon notify employees affected by its long-awaited reduction in force, kick-starting the final stage of its reorganization, according to an internal memo obtained by The Daily Signal. “Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio, at the direction of President [Donald] Trump, has undertaken a historic reorganization … Read more

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MacDonald: Free Speech Brute Force Diplomacy

May 31, 2025 Steve MacDonald

We should have seen this coming. A mere 25 days after the Inauguration, Vice President JD Vance went to Munich to convey a few key messages. Things that made some in the EU cry. To ensure freedom, Western “democracies” needed to protect free and open public discourse, and the EU is “disappointing” history. Vance spoke … Read more

Marco Making The Fwee-Marketeers Big Mad

April 16, 2024 Ed Mosca

A thread (eleven in all) from Marco Rubio on X well worth reading. In my words, not his … we are a country, not an economy. This is heresy to free-market ideologues like the Koch-bots, who believe that the “free market” is the end, NOT the means to an end … that end being a stronger, more prosperous country for ALL Americans, not just for Wall Street and Big Tech and the corporatist/globalist class.

Digital Book Burning: Hey Amazon, What Is Hate Speech?

February 28, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Amazon has been under fire for pulling a conservative book from its online store. Its new policy is banning books that promote “hate speech.” What is Amazon doing? But where do hate speech rules come from?

So Marco Rubio believes that “Hope” is attained by a $2,000 Government check????

January 14, 2021 Skip

Sigh – Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” was a fictional prop but can’t even BEGIN to match what we are going through right now. Seriously, the American People’s lack of “hope” can be assuaged by a BidenCheck (hey, we had ObamaPhones, so let the belittling of the new Not My President begin!) to the tune of $2,000 … Read more

America After Trump

February 4, 2020 Amil Imani

Is it too early to contemplate a search for a clone of Donald Trump for the 2024 election? Maybe not! But is Trump replaceable? The man who restored America’s pride, dignity, optimism, and hope after a devastating eight dismal years of Barack Hussein Obama!

Tulsi, Marco, and Hillary’s Shadow

January 31, 2020 Op-Ed

So I was with a state rep friend on a Saturday night last November at the Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon watching football on the Pub’s TV. Dartmouth was beating Princeton in a game played in Yankee Stadium, of all places. Then Tulsi Gabbard walks into the bar.

Could This Be The Congress That Ends Switching the Clocks Twice A Year?

March 11, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Would it surprise you to know that Daylight Savings Time was a plot concocted by the Kaiser in WWI? It was imported to the US in 1918 and has plagued us in various forms ever since. Until 1966 when Congress forced it on all but a few locals who said screw you.

Marco and Nikki, Sitting in a Tree…

July 15, 2024February 25, 2016 Steve MacDonald

Marco skipped out on a Conservative conference to pal around with his newest convert, Nikki Haley, who is positioning herself to be Rubio’s VP. We also talked about the RNC’s tolerance (blame Steve Duprey) for moderators who hate their candidates, vote fraud, a primary for Kelly Ayotte, and does she have a shot just a … Read more

GrokTALK! – Scott Brown Can’t Change a Tire

July 15, 2024June 10, 2015 Steve MacDonald

Did you now Scott Brown can’t change a tire? We also ponder the irony of Governor John Sununu’s book on George Bush I, there’s news about Bill O’Brien’s new job. Then it’s on to the driving records of spouses of presidential primary candidates, and whether it would be racist and or sexist to bring it … Read more

BlogHeadline of the Day – courtesy of the Gang of Eight Immigration Bill

September 26, 2018May 29, 2013 Skip

Now clocked at over 1,000 pages (detailed down to the exact wages to be paid to some classes of immigrants). This headline courtesy of Powerline: Marco Rubio is “our Republican,” says Chuck Schumer — and with good reason For someone that rumor has him paying attention to the next Prez election, this is not good. … Read more