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Cal Thomas: If the only motivation for the GOP is the next election, why have any Republicans in Congress at all?

Politicians mortgage the future while preserving their current careers, says Cal Thomas.

Rand Paul emerged from the smoldering debris of the Republican health-care-reform train wreck as a figure of high libertarian principle.

Health care reform affords the new president an opportunity to demonstrate his ability and willingness to embrace a vital middle-class concern.

Don Murphy of Catonsville is set to head to Cleveland as a delegate for the Republican National Convention for the third time.

John Kass: The Iowa caucuses are a week away, and both parties are still spilling blood.

As the holiday season brings a brief break in presidential politics, the final party debates of 2015 have left the voters to ponder how differently the Republican and Democratic candidates' propose to meet the terrorist threat facing the nation.

The recent terrorist attacks abroad and at home have suddenly dominated the 2016 Republican presidential race, putting most of the contestants on a collision course with President Obama. While all concerned vow the objective of "destroying" the Islamic State, the president and the GOP candidates differ fundamentally on approach and timetable.

Debating GOP candidates go full-throttle on anti-terrorism with an agenda that includes shooting at Russian planes and killing innocent children

Donald Trump is Don Rickles with the political inclinations of Francisco Franco, says David Horsey.

In Milwaukee, Rubio shows why he may be the best positioned of any Republican candidate running for president

Carly Fiorina may be the only GOP candidate who can credibly take on Donald Trump's bluster, says David Horsey.

The GOP needs to make clear Donald Trump doesn't speak for the Republican Party, lest it go down with him.

C-SPAN's "Voters First Forum" lacked Donald Trump but featured Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Marco Rubio at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire.

In order from most recently announced, here are the announced candidates for the 2016 presidential election.

He is not sexist, but substantively and temperamentally Sen. Rand Paul is not qualified to be the Republican presidential nominee

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul speaks to Baltimore County Republicans at their annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul speaks to Baltimore County Republicans at their annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner.

Who better to know where the federal government can save taxpayer dollars than federal employees? That's the premise behind a bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Rand Paul and Mark Warner.

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, who captured national attention last week by helping to scuttle legislation reauthorizing bulk data collection by the National Security Agency, will speak to Baltimore County Republicans next month.

The old adage that anyone can grow up to be president is being put to the test in this election cycle.

The status of poor people does not register on the radar of most Republicans, says David Horsey.

As long as so much money is available, particularly from a relative handful of wealthy fat cats and special interests, and ambitious politicians and their well-paid hired guns stand ready to spend it, the election marathon is likely to endure — starting ever earlier each four years.

Only one presidential candidate voted for war with Iraq: Hillary Clinton.

Cal Thomas writes about the Clintons lack of ethics, and adapts lyrics from "The Sound of Music" to fit them.

Republican presidential hopefuls are at war with each other over the budget for war.

Instead of nonstop attacks on Obama, GOP candidates should adopt a positive and future-focused agenda.

Ted Cruz is disregarding the general election by targeting the conservative right wing for the primary, says Jules Witcover.

Jeb Bush has a long way to go to win over the tea party crowd, says Jules Witcover.

The GOP "establishment" is scrambling for money from Mitt Romney backers now that he's out of the 2016 race.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the vanilla candidate, says Jonah Goldberg -- not the favorite, not hated.

The number of people receiving disability insurance from the Social Security Administration declined last year for the first time since 1983, a reduction that comes as Congress is wrestling with a deadline to fund the program or risk cutting benefits to millions.

Jeb Bush easily chased off Mitt Romney from running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, Witcover writes.

Former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is under fire for passages included in a 2012 book that appear to be lifted from an anti-socialism website and other sources.

There seems to be only one year that is not an election year, and that is the first year of a new president's first term.

If the Republican Party hopes to continue its own moment of success, it must resolve to forever lose the dog whistle it borrowed from the Dixiecrats long ago and re-embrace its civil rights legacy.

As a former prisoner of war who experienced torture, John McCain has more standing than any of his Senate colleagues when it comes to rendering judgment about the CIA's Bush-era "enhanced interrogation" program.

Ever since George W. Bush in 2002 began driving up public frenzy for his invasion of Iraq on trumped-up justifications a year later, Congress' constitutional role to declare war has continued to be cold-shouldered.

Two U.S. senators are trying to introduce one form of the European right to be forgotten stateside in their new Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment (R.E.D.E.E.M.) Act, a bill that would effectively expunge federal non-violent criminal records by sealing them from view of employment background checks.

Only former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida has the potential to best Mitt Romney for the nomination if he decides to run