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New Jay-Z song answers Cuba critics and Obama haters

After taking some shots from Republicans over his vacation in Cuba, Jay-Z is now punching back as only he knows how, with the release of a sly and stinging new track that slices up his detractors. Read More

Sen. Marco Rubio: Gang of 8 member and Mickey Kaus target. (Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Top Links: Conservative Mickey Kaus goes on a ‘search’ for Marco Rubio’s ‘manhood’ over immigration

The one-two punch of possible immigration and background check deals does not a happy far right make. Read More

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the White House, Washington DC, on Feb 20, 1985. (Photo by Rex Features via AP Images, File)

‘Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead’ tops U.K. charts after Thatcher’s death

A Facebook campaign by detractors lifts the classic “Wizard of Oz” to top of the pops. Read More

President Barack Obama's proposed budget plan, available on iPad. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top Links: The chained CPI debate and the Obama budget’s last dig at Romney

There are a lot of numbers in the newly released White House budget. A lot. But let’s focus on the most contentious one. Read More

File photo dated 22/5/89 of Margaret Thatcher fielding questions with Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe (background), at a press conference, in London. (Photo by Martin Keene/Press Association via AP Images, File)

English miners celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s death, while U.S. conservatives mourn

There's no question that Britain's controversial prime minister remains more popular among certain circles in the United States than she does with many of her own countrymen. Read More

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is the latest to join GOP efforts to filibuster gun control legislation. (Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Top Links: McConnell hops aboard GOP’s filibuster bandwagon. Hope they see that cliff ahead.

There are now 14 senators ready to prevent even a debate on gun control legislation — something which may energize the base but won’t help efforts to rebrand. Read More

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Margaret Thatcher’s death a conservative rallying call for Texas congressman

Rep. Stockman praises Thatcherism and calls for a "crush liberalism" campaign. Read More

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, seen here with President Reagan in 1985, died of a stroke today at the age of 87. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Top Links: Remembering ‘Maggie’: Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013

A look back at one of the most polarizing — and powerful — leaders of the 20th Century, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who passed away this morning. Read More

Construction was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bad March jobs report.  (Press Association via AP Images)

Top links: Why the bad jobs report? It’s the payroll tax, stupid

The March jobs report was, well, not so good. But don’t blame the sequester — blame the payroll tax. Read More

Rutgers Men's Basketball coach Mike Rice was fired after a video of him displaying abusive behavior was leaked.

It’s hard to see Rutgers mired in another scandal, says one current student

The controversy over a coach's abusive behavior has Rutgers' students on the defensive once again. Read More

Then-Rep. Tim Scott, standing on Jim DeMint's good side. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Top Links: Welcome to the Jim DeMint Era at Heritage — and in American politics

Jim DeMint officially takes the reigns at the Heritage Foundation today — and the American political landscape is about to change because of it. Read More

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Texas Republican links gun reform to same-sex marriage, bestiality

For Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, it's easy to connect gun control, gay marriage and bestiality. And did we mention Satan-worshipping cross-dressers? Read More

Sanford with his fiancee Maria Belen Chapur (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Will conservatives forgive Sanford for being unfaithful to their ideas?

Personal indiscretions may be easier to overlook than the governor's ethical lapses in office. Read More

Former South Carolina Gov. is expected to win his congressional primary today. (AP Photo/The Island Packet, Sarah Welliver)

Top Links: Mark Sanford hikes the Appalachian runoff today

Most campaign watchers believe former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford should win his GOP congressional primary today — but his contest versus Stephen Colbert's sister is still an open question. Read More

(AP Photo/David Goldman)

Georgia Republican Sue Everhart, warns same-sex marriage ‘all about a free ride’

"I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits?" she said. Read More

Sen. Marco Rubio has thrown a 2016-sized spanner into the works of immigration reform. (Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Top Links: Rubio may want to read up on what Gallup says about the GOP and ‘compromise’

Sen. Marco Rubio doesn’t want anyone who’s not him spiking the ball on comprehensive immigration reform — even as Gallup says that the biggest “brand” problem for the GOP is a failure to compromise. Read More

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin holds up a 7-Eleven Super Big Gulp soda on stage at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Saturday, March 16, 2013. Earlier in the week a New York judge struck down a ban proposed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to end the sale of sugared sodas larger than 16 oz. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Rejected by voters, Palin and Romney look for roles as GOP power brokers

Romney stays within the Republican establishment, while Palin tries to build on her conservative base. Read More

FILE - In this April 16, 2012 file photo North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple speaks in Bismarck, N.D.  Dalrymple signed legislation Tuesday, March 26, 2013 that that would make North Dakota the nation's most restrictive state on abortion rights, banning the procedure if a fetal heartbeat can be detected — something that can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

Booming North Dakota may avoid legal costs of defending abortion ban

Conservative non-profits may pick up the tab for an inevitable court fight over the nation’s toughest anti-abortion measures. Read More

Just because Ashley Judd won't be starring in "2014" doesn't mean there won't be good storylines to follow. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Top Links: No Judd? No worries. Election 2014 will have plenty of daytime soap opera-worthy storylines

Top story: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, seems safe from Ashley Judd or any other candidate his haters want to throw at him — for now. But his race is… Read More

Karl Rove's approach to same-sex marriage is one any tradition-minded American could approve of. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Karl Rove’s romance…with rewriting his history on same-sex marriage

Karl Rove's approach to same-sex marriage is one any tradition-minded American could approve of. Read More