Local GOP leader ruffles feathers with Ted Cruz nod

Local GOP leader ruffles feathers with Ted Cruz nod

Every Republican leader and/or activist has a favorite primary candidate and in this weird landscape where the outsiders are gaining ground on both the establishment and Tea Party boys, they are making their choices known. Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo are still behind the failing campaign of former Gov. Jeb Bush. State Sen. Miguel […]

Round 4 GOP debate winners and losers = no big surprises

Round 4 GOP debate winners and losers = no big surprises

As the crowd thins, it’s almost harder to recognize the clear winners and losers in the debate among those who want to represent the Republican Party in next year’s presidential election.  But Ladra’s gonna try anyway. It’s late and it was long, so some of these observations may be fuzzy, but here are Ladra’s knee […]

Cuban ‘quiz’ for Ted Cruz is attack on all Hispanic voters, too

Cuban ‘quiz’ for Ted Cruz is attack on all Hispanic voters, too

Mark Halperin should apologize to all of us Political journalist/pundit Mark Halperin is taking a lot of heat for his what really amounts to a lazy interview of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, one of the Republican contenders for the presidential nomination. In what some have characterized as a test of Cruz’s cubania — the Canadian-born […]