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Chick-fil-A made an exception and opened its doors on Sunday to allow volunteers to work to help victims of the deadly tornadoes in Texas. Some of the locations in northeast Texas opened in order to help those who were victims of the tornadoes and those who were helping them. The stores were not open to the public. Founder Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant in 1946. Chick-fil-A is based in Atlanta and has been closed on Sundays since its creation. The company policy is designed to allow employees to rest and be with family, and attend a house of worship...

A Minneapolis city councilwoman published the addresses, phone numbers and other personal contact information of people who took her to task for taking part in a Black Lives Matter protest that shut down the Mall of America on Wednesday. Not only that, but Alondra Cano had the audacity to complain on social media that she was the one being targeted for abuse. Cano, who was elected to office in 2013 on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party ticket, published screenshots of the critical messages she received through the city's website. The shots included the names, home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of...

With no further ideas, the Authority posted a picture on Facebook and one of 300 responders identified the object: It's a Weber Isis Beamer, a German device that claims to create "a protective field" against radiation. Haaretz reported that the objects are sold online in various sizes for up 120 euros ($131). The firm promises they will "ensure energy harmony" at home, at work and when traveling.

Under fire from Democrats and the media for saying Hillary Clinton "got schlonged" in 2008 by Barack Obama, Republican hopeful Donald Trump doubled down. Claiming a candidate getting "schlonged" is "a commonly used word in politics," Trump refused to back down. Once again, #MSM is dishonest. "Schlonged" is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got "schlonged" that meant beaten badly. - Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2015 He even cited NPR using the term in a political context. NPR's @NealConan said "schlonged" to WaPo re: 1984 Mondale/Ferraro campaign: "That ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls." #Hypocrisy...

Here's what Trump said. "Everything that's been involved in Hillary has been losses," Trump averred. "Even her race to Obama, she was going to beat Obama. I don't know who'd be worse. I don't know. How does it get worse? She was favored to win and she got schlonged." Schlong, of course, is Yiddish for penis. So she got reamed. Or screwed. Or any other plethora of English-language equivalents. But no, Trump's vulgarity is suddenly the talk of the town. Not Hillary's lies about Trump appearing ISIS promotional videos. The fact that Hillary Clinton must face down that awful sexist...

He ought to be ecstatic when his numbers reach zero! Jeb Bush peaked in the polls back in July at 18%. Today he is down to 3-4% support. Jeb Bush told Face the Nation he hated being the frontrunner and likes where he's at in the polls. "I hated that. I feel much better being back here." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY7P75r14SoOf course, Donald Trump couldn't let Jeb's comment go unnoticed. .@JebBush today said he didn't want to be the front-runner, he would rather be where he is now, 2%. That is the talk of a loser, can't win! - Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)...

What viewers didn't know was the sole women's bathroom was a little further than the men's room from the stage. And when the debate went to a long commercial break Clinton lost out to Lis Smith, the caffeine-guzzling deputy campaign manager for former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who beat her to the restroom. Smith declined to comment for the story. A top Clinton staffer who was strategically posted outside the bathroom (presumably to avoid these kinds of situations) gave Smith a verbal OK to make a quick pit stop, according to one person familiar with the ladies' line. The women's...

Author's Note: Universities are supposed to prepare people to be productive citizens. They are failing miserably because they are failing to reward hard work and initiative. In fact, it is worse than that. They have actually started rewarding dependency in our government schools. At the beginning of every semester, I try to inform students that things will be very different in my class. This latest message, which I have written to my students and will send to them early next month when classes begin, is illustrative. If you are tired of our public schools and universities producing helpless, dependent children...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So I just got a flash note from Cookie, who is monitoring all of the cable news networks out there as we scour constantly for intriguing audio sound bites, and she says -- what's she say here? I want to read it verbatim: "MSNBC cannot stop reporting that you turned on Trump today." You know, can I tell you all something confidentially? I don't want you to tell anybody. It's just between us. If you tell anybody, I guarantee you I'll hear about it. The media, they think I have the ability to make or break any...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: On this program, ladies and gentlemen, we have praised repeatedly the way Ted Cruz has been behaving in this campaign. We have praised his strategy. We have recognized what he's doing and have praised it, called it out, and this program has been front and center in telling everybody, "Keep a sharp eye on Cruz because when all the shouting's done, when everything shakes out, don't be surprised if Ted Cruz leads the pack." And now we've got at least two polls with him way up in Iowa, including the Des Moines Register poll, which among the...

A seventh grade student at George Junior High School in Rosenberg, Texas was asked to cover his Star Wars t-shirt because it showed a stormtrooper holding a gun. The students father posted about the incident on Facebook. Student Colton had worn the shirt before without a problem, but on Thursday of last week, he was asked to cover it with his jacket. "You're talking about a Star Wars T-shirt, a week before the biggest movie of the year comes out. It has nothing to do with guns or making a stand. It's just a Star Wars shirt," Southern told KTRK....

The Islamic State has reportedly issued a fatwa ordering the elimination of children with Down syndrome and other congenital disabilities, reminiscent of Hitler’s infamous “Aktion T4” program, which administered forced “euthanasia” on an estimated 300,000 disabled persons. According to the Iraqi activist blog Mosul Eye, sharia judges have ruled that ISIS followers are authorized to kill infants with Down Syndrome or congenital deformities. Already since the religious decree (fatwa) was issued, militants have killed at least 38 children between one week and three months old by lethal injection or suffocation. In a post on the Mosul Eye Facebook page, the...

A University of North Texas police officer shot and killed a student who allegedly threatened him with an ax early Sunday. The student was identified as Ryan McMillan, who had celebrated his 21st birthday Sunday. University spokeswoman Kelley Reese told the Dallas Morning News. McMillan was a sophomore transfer student from Fort Worth studying pre-hospitality. UNT spokeswoman Margarita Venegas says police responded about 1 a.m. to a report that someone was breaking car windows in a parking garage about two blocks from campus. KDFW reported that university police were asked to respond to the situation because local police in the...

Because I so rarely bring it up, it may surprise even regular readers to discover that I am a homosexual. You'll be shocked! But it's true. I am a poof. A Mary. A screaming queen. Anyway, because I am a queer, and given my natural instinct for mischief and visceral loathing for political correctness, I am perhaps the only person in public life who can address a horrible linguistic injustice visited upon us all by the finger-wagging progressive Left, to which my attention has been drawn by my colleague, John Nolte. I speak, of course, of the theft of all...

I know this is not my usual position. But this is a war. Therefore I have come to believe there should be no immigration or visa waivers until the U.S. adopts a completely new system to stop radical Islamic terrorists from entering the country. A wartime lockdown. And a big change in my thinking. ISIS and related Islamic terrorists are already here. More are coming. We must stop them. Until FBI director James Comey gives us the green light, I say seal the borders. Here's what we must do: Completely reform the vetting process for immigrants and foreign visitors. Change...

The liberal media and Republican Party elites erupted this week after Donald Trump announced his plan to ban Muslim immigrants from the US until the government can assure it is safe to do so.But Democrat Jimmy Carter did the same thing, and much more during the Iranian hostage crisis.** Jimmy Carter banned Iranians from the US and deported Iranian students during the hostage crisis.A picture is worth a thousand– Here is a screengrab from the ABC News report of President Carter’s Iran speech – with a TV caption reading “prohibiting immigration.”This was from ABC’s coverage of Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s...

Liberals are taking their war on leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to a new level-beyond calls to assassinate Trump-with a call to shoot his supporters before they can vote for him! "The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, "This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before election day." They're not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there's always force, as Laurie would say.' Loring Wirbel, a board member of the...

Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don't sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known—as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We continue to learn even more and more about the San Bernardino Two and what is beginning to look more and more like a terrorist cell. Looks like it was a terrorist cell. And can I tell you something else, folks? I'm getting a little wary... In fact, I have been wary of this since it was first used to explain all of this, and I'm referring to the term "radicalized." Everybody is now saying, "Oh, yeah, the San Bernardino Two? They were 'radicalized.'" Marco Rubio was talking about it last night on Megyn Kelly's show on...

FULL TITLE- High School Administrator Dismisses Students from Ben Shapiro Speech to 'Protect' Their Feelings: 'It's Starting to Cross a Line'-snip- Shapiro added that America's permanent poor were not poor because they had been exploited by wealthier Americans, but because permanently poor Americans are typically not good with money, which is why lottery winners with a history of poverty largely fall back into poverty after spending their winnings. "The reason people are permanently poor in the United States," Shapiro said, "isn't because they don't have money, it's because they suck with money. The reasons people are temporarily poor can vary."...