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With the Iowa caucuses just two and half weeks away, Hillary Clinton suddenly finds herself in a hyper-competive race against Vermont Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.

A new poll from YouGov confirms Donald Trump’s position as the clear frontrunner in the Republican nomination contest. With less than three weeks until Iowa begins the voting season, Trump leads the national poll with 36 percent. Cruz is second

New tracking poll information from Reuters confirms Donald Trump as the frontrunner, but also breathes new life into the Jeb Bush campaign. As on Tuesday, Jeb Bush had moved into third place nationally, with 10.6 percent support.

One high-profile conservative, Becky Gerritson, has picked up some key endorsements in her big to challenge Alabama Rep. Martha Roby in the GOP primary on March 1.

Federal attorneys are prosecuting an 8-count indictment against Matt Sorensen, Chair of the McLean County Board in Illinois. Sorensen is accused of defrauding State Farm Insurance of more than $400,000 in unearned consulting fees.

New polling info from Reuters finds a nationwide toss-up 2016 contest between GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton — but he’s beating her by 20 points, 46 percent to 26 percent, among white working-class voters.

A new poll from FoxNews finds voters souring on President Obama’s tenure in office, as his presidency enters its final year. President Obama entered office in 2009 with some of the highest approval ratings recorded in modern politics. He prepares to leave office with every poll finding his approval rating underwater.

A new FoxNews poll shows GOP frontrunner Donald Trump edging Hillary Clinton in a general election match-up. A December poll from Fox showed Hillary ahead of Trump by 11 points. This latest poll, however, has Trump beating Clinton by 3 points, 47-44 percent.

The unemployment rate remained at 5 percent, even as the Labor Department revised up its estimates for job growth in October and November. The worrying detail in an otherwise good report, however, was wages. Not only did wages fail to rise by the amount expected, they actually fell in December.

On Tuesday, Aetna, the third largest health insurance company in the country, announced it was quitting America’s Health Insurance Plan,(AHIP), the powerful lobbying group for the health insurance industry. The company is the second to leave the group, after UnitedHealthCare quit the group in June.

This isn’t just the cynicism of technophile citizens in the developed world. The number of Americans who view the government as corrupt is almost twice the number of Germans who believe their government is dirty. Residents of most developed European countries, in fact, have much more favorable views about corruption in their governments.

President Obama announced sweeping new executive orders on gun regulations Tuesday at the White House. Within moments of those remarks, Republican Congressional offices issued press statements criticizing Obama’s unilateral moves to tighten gun restrictions. Left out of any Republican statements, however, was any promise to cut funding for Obama’s actions. No matter what the White House may propose, Congress still exercises the power of the purse.

Presidential elections usually turn on a few, simple macro-issues. While daily campaign brush-fires and controversies get clicks and sell papers, most elections can be predicted with the answers to two simple questions. Do people feel safe? Are they worried about their economic future? Look for 2016 to follow this trend.

International financial analyst Tony Nash said China was “clearly in an industrial recession,” posing increasing risk to financial markets around the globe. “What you have in China right now is a lot of overcapacity within the industrial sector,” Nash, Global Vice President of Delta Economics told Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon. “China is clearly in an industrial recession and markets are simply catching up to that.”

New York real-estate developer Donald Trump has dominated the Republican nomination campaign for months — but his strongest support doesn’t come from any of the organized blocs in the Republican party.

Taken together they provide a humorous snapshot of the priorities of the nation’s elected officials. A few, however, will have far reaching consequences. On Friday, a new law in California, passed almost unanimously in its legislature, could throw employers into a torrent of new lawsuits.

Few people earn the minimum wage, of course, but its impact is felt in parts of the economy, retail and food service, that Americans utilize every day. In some areas, years of labor union agitation have successfully raised the wage floor to a level that will dramatically affect Americans’ every day activities, making them more expensive.

Stand for Truth and Keep the Promise, super PACs affiliated with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have booked more than $4 million in TV advertising for Iowa and South Carolina.

Fiscally, this pension deficit jeopardizes taxpayers and almost all other state and local budget items. The amount states have allocated to their pension systems has almost doubled in the past decade, but even that higher spending hasn’t made a dent in the unfunded liability owed. The number of retired and inactive members now outnumbers active members in the public sector pensions.

In the Rasmussen survey of 1,000 likely voters, Clinton has 37 percent support against Trump’s 36 percent support. The finding upends most pundits’ predictions for the 2016 contest.

The Republican establishment is reliving its 1980 New Hampshire trauma — it is in disarray and unable to consolidate behind a candidate to challenge more conservative rivals.

A new study from the Urban Institute finds lower income Americans paying 10-20 percent of their income on ObamaCare health benefits. These high costs come after generous federal subsidies covering premiums for individuals making up to $55,000 a year are considered.

Puerto Rico is sending $120 million in Christmas bonuses to government employees in the U.S. Territory. Year-end bonuses, even for government employees, aren’t especially unusual, except that Puerto Rico is more than $70 billion in debt. Moreover, the island territory is at risk of defaulting on $900 million in debt payments due on January 1.

New polling from three early voting states shows Donald Trump leads the Republican field, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is moving into a strong second place in the race for the nomination.

His withdrawal ensures his name can be removed from the primary ballot in South Carolina, which votes on February 20. A recent poll of the Palmetto State found Graham with just 1 percent support, even though he has represented the state in Congress for twenty years.

If you’re looking at the country through the eyes of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley, it’s hard to muster the fortitude to get up in the morning. Everywhere rapacious bankers, money lenders, plutocrats and health company executives are conspiring to enrich themselves off the labors, and dreams, of regular Americans.

A new CBS poll shows Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has opened a strong 9 point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa, the first state to vote in the 2016 nominating contest.

A Politico cover story perfectly encapsulates the bizarre, insular world of the D.C.political establishment. The article purports to take readers behind the scenes of the strategic machinations of the Marco Rubio campaign.

It often seems that the only places in the nation where Democrat policies hold any sway is within the leadership office of Congressional Republicans. Living in their own bubble of abject fear of a partisan media, Congressional Republicans are regularly bullied into accepting Obama’s policies, when neither experience, economics nor political judgement would recommend doing so.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Senator Marco Rubio share a complicated political history, with Rubio a one-time protegé of Bush the younger. In the 2016 presidential race they share another distinction as the two candidates most dominating the airwaves with paid political ads.

The Republican budget agreement renews multi-billion dollar subsidies for wind and solar power. The subsidies were scheduled to expire at the end of this year.

House Republicans waited until the middle of the Republican presidential debate to announce details of their budget agreement with Democrats on the year-end $1.6 trillion spending and tax package. The deal failed to curtail or reform Obama’s refugee resettlement program, block his executive orders extending amnesty, roll back his plans to issue hundreds of thousands of new green cards to immigrants from the Middle East nor roll back any funding for Planned Parenthood.

Almost three-quarters of American voters want the next President to take a different approach than the incumbent, Obama, a number not seen since the waning days of the George W Bush Presidency, according to a new NBC/WSJ poll.

As Republicans in Congress race to complete their work on an end-of-year spending package before the holidays, any attempt to reform or curtail President Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq is being left on the legislative floor.

A new national poll from Monmouth University finds Donald Trump opening up a massive lead for the Republican nomination.

The latest Des Moines Register poll shows Texas Senator Ted Cruz surging to a 10 point lead over his nearest rival, Donald Trump, among caucus goers in Iowa.