NEWSMAX — A poll released Friday gauging Indiana voters ahead of the state's primaries on Tuesday shows Ted Cruz holding a commanding double-digit lead over Donald Trump among Republicans.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — For the 45th year in a row, the American Conservative Union has ranked the voting records of every single member of Congress according to their support of ideals found in the Constitution: limited and transparent government, individual rights, personal responsibility. Applause, please, for this gargantuan effort, a helpful undertaking in a tumultuous presidential year.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Sean Hannity sat down Friday with Sen. Ted Cruz and his running mate Carly Fiorina at a Fox News Town Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grilled the prospective presidential team... (more)

FOX NEWS — The second installment of Friday's Fox News Town Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana, in which Sean Hannity grilled the prospective presidential team of Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina told supporters Friday in Indiana that they presented the best contrast to both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, whom they slammed as "ultimate" Washington insiders.... (more)

TREVOR LOUDON — The media is working hard to convince you that they caught Ted Cruz in a lie about working with John Boehner. But they are the ones lying, as usual.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — Donald J. Trump's foreign policy address was delivered with the aid of a teleprompter and was written by his pro-Russian advisers. He took no questions. It was a replay of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's disastrous Russian "reset" that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yet, Trump pretends to be an opponent of Mrs. Clinton's foreign policy.... (more)

FOX NEWS — "We may have had a dangling chad. We're looking into it," said Tommy Pope with a smile. The tall, courtly lawyer, who serves as speaker pro tem of the South Carolina House of Representatives, was gamely trying to entertain a crowd of GOP activists while a few of them spent a full hour poring over paper ballots that 80 of them had just cast in a non-descript ballroom at the local Holiday Inn.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Despite Donald Trump's victory in the Virginia primary at the beginning of March, supporters of Ted Cruz could help the Texas senator pick up more delegates at this weekend's state convention.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg says the media is "slobbering" over Donald Trump and has turned its coverage of the Republican presidential front-runner into "one great big infomercial."... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama announced new steps Friday to help curb gun violence, including by identifying the requirements that "smart guns" would have to meet for law enforcement agencies to buy and use them as well as sharing mental health records with the federal background check system.... (more)

LEO HOHMANN — The daughter of a Muslim ruler in the Middle East recently had a miraculous encounter with Jesus Christ that has caused her to repudiate her faith in Allah and openly express her faith in Jesus. As a result, she has been placed under house arrest.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Target elevated its social activism a week ago, boasting of a new policy allowing transgender "team members and guests" to use whatever restroom they like, and largely has remained mum on the issue since.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Friday backed Ted Cruz for president, days ahead of the state's vital Republican primary contest. The Republican governor announced his choice in an interview on WIBC radio. He prefaced his announcement by saying he likes and respects -- and has met with -- all three of the Republican presidential candidates.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Rush Limbaugh says John Boehner's slap at Ted Cruz as "Lucifer in the flesh" is the "best endorsement" the Texas senator could hope for as he attempts to kick-start his stalled campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Sen. Ted Cruz Thursday turned former House Speaker John Boehner's insults back against him, delivering a blistering response saying the former House leader's attacks "reveal something that is wrong with Washington," and that he's never worked with Boehner and doesn't know him.... (more)

THE EDITORS OF NATIONAL REVIEW — We get it. John Boehner doesn't like Ted Cruz. In a witless cheap shot, Boehner called him "Lucifer in the flesh" at an event at Stanford University. Boehner's attitude is widespread among Republican insiders who are foolishly allowing personal ill will to cloud their reasoned judgment about who, among the candidates left in the GOP race, is the best representative of conservative principles and policies, and about who would be the best candidate in the upcoming general election.... (more)

THE RIGHT SCOOP — Check out the exclusive statement from Cruz to the scoop that we posted here about Boehner lying. He also rips into the other talking points from "Trumpkins," before challenging the Donald yet again to another debate -- which we know he won't take because he's just too cowardly to face the TedNado!!!... (more)

NEWSMAX — Carly Fiorina, just one day after GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz tagged her as his running mate, rejected concerns that the Texas senator's Washington battles are a negative factor in his campaign for higher office... (more)

NEWSMAX — Indiana's largest newspaper on Thursday declined to endorse anyone in the state's upcoming GOP and Democratic primaries, but advised Hoosiers to definitely vote against GOP front-runner Donald Trump.... (more)

NEWSMAX — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's approval rating has tanked to an all-time low, with just 26 percent of voters in his state giving him a favorable opinion in a new poll.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — House lawmakers took a large step toward putting female soldiers on the front lines on Wednesday, approving legislation requiring women to register for the draft. Members of the House Armed Services committee passed the measure as part of the panel's version of the defense spending bill for fiscal year 2017, according to the Associated Press.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama says the U.S. can meet his goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year. Obama says the goal he set last year has been challenging, partly because of the need to assure the U.S. public that refugees are being thoroughly checked out.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama's unilateral pen-and-phone approach to governing has been aided by a decades-old secret memo that allows him to avoid economic scrutiny of some of the most intrusive rules and regulations his administration has issued, a top senator said Thursday.... (more)

ELIANA JOHNSON — Call it a Hail Mary. With no chance of winning the Republican nomination before the convention in Cleveland and with the odds of a contested convention growing dimmer, Ted Cruz announced Carly Fiorina as his potential running mate Wednesday afternoon.... (more)