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Having made it no secret he seeks to transform Turkey so he can wield absolute authority with no checks and balances, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has allegedly begun the final push to implement a 'palace coup' and wrest control of the Turkish government from its parliament. Final pieces in place for Erdogan's alleged coup to take over Turkish government Having made it no secret his intention to transform Turkey so he can wield absolute authority with no checks and balances, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has allegedly begun the final push to implement a "palace coup" and wrest control of the...

The Republicans horserace continues to be dominated by businessman Donald Trump and neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Trump is still the leader in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, with Carson in second place. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the highest ranked Republican elected official. Those three are the only Republican candidates who score in double digits with registered voters who think of themselves as Republicans.

There may be fireworks on this Wednesday night’s big GOP presidential debate on CNBC – with a likely showdown between Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Immediately following Wednesday’s debate, Sarah Palin and other top pundits will join Newsmax TV’s post-debate special program offering their take on the candidates' performance. In addition to the former Alaska governor, political experts joining the Newsmax special will include Dick Morris, John Zogby, Mike Reagan, Craig Shirley and others. Newsmax TV also will be conducting an instant online poll asking viewers to vote on who won the third Republican debate.

Louisiana voters headed to the polls on Saturday to choose a successor to Governor Bobby Jindal, but experts and surveys suggest the race may go to a runoff after a faltering campaign by early favorite, Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter. The contest, dubbed a "jungle primary"......little interest from the electorate....Light early-voting numbers have led most pollsters to forecast low overall turnout,

http://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2015/10/22/trumps-truths-n2069389/page/full So, here's the deal with Trump: He speaks exactly the way real people do when they're at a bar, a restaurant, leaning on the door jam of an office or over the wall of a cube. He says exactly what average Americans (read "Voters") are thinking they would do - or would want to do - if they were President.. Putin I would kick his butt all the way back to Moscow, stopping only to let the Ukrainians have a couple of whacks at him along the way. Then I'd send all the Syrian, Iranian, Iraqi, Pakistani and whoever...

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/23/trouble-for-hillary-gallup-poll-shows-spike-in-number-of-americans-who-think-crime-is-rising/ A Democratic party so dependent on black votes is constrained to accept the de-incarceration, de-policing agenda of groups like #BlacksLivesMatter. But that brings us to the second profound political fact: the rejection of the de-incarceration, de-policing agenda by other groups, including other groups that aligned with Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008. A 2014 Los Angeles Times survey asked Californians whether local police were too aggressive and posed more of a threat than anything else: 42 percent of black voters said yes, as against 28 percent of Latinos, 21 percent of Asians, and 11 percent of whites. Only...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/23/lincoln-chafee-drops-out-presidential-race/ WASHINGTON — Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced Friday he would end his quixotic Democratic presidential campaign after failing to gain traction against Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders. “After much thought I have decided to end my campaign for president today,” Chafee said at a women’s forum held by the Democratic National Committee. “But I would like to take this opportunity one last time to advocate for a chance be given to peace.” Chafee delivered a widely panned debate performance earlier this month and has struggled to raise money and generate enthusiasm in a field that has...

Thanks to Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi testimony on Thursday, we now understand why the former secretary of state never wanted anyone to see her emails and why the State Department sat on documents. Turns out those emails and papers show that the Obama administration deliberately misled the nation about the deadly events in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. Don’t forget how we came to this point. Mrs. Clinton complained in her testimony on Capitol Hill that past Congresses had never made the overseas deaths of U.S. officials a “partisan” issue. That’s because those past deaths had never inspired an administration to...

image: http://i1.wp.com/powderedwigsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/us1.png?resize=696%2C506 us1 The latest 2016 presidential poll has Donald Trump destroying Hitlery Clinton in a head-to-head matchup, 375 electoral votes to Hitlery’s 163. That is an astonishing 70% to 30%, and is very good news if you are a Donald Trump supporter…. and I am! Based on an average of the RCP (Real Clear Politics) polling data from all the states and all the “head to head” matchups between Donald Trump (by far the winner of the GOP) and Hillary Clinton (The winner of the Democratic Party) shows bad news for the Democrats. Clinton is losing handily in all...

Actually, the headline of the poll doesn't mention Trump's 47.4 number. You have to go to the poll results to see it, but the Hill, which reported the story, did: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/257568-poll-trump-dominates-gops-2016-race-in-mass

Vice President Biden announced that he would not make a third bid for the presidency. [C-SPAN VIDEO]

Vice President Biden announced Wednesday that he will not run for president, ending months of feverish speculation over his 2016 plans and likely settling the Democratic field. Speaking in the Rose Garden alongside his wife Jill and President Obama, Biden said the window of opportunity to mount a viable campaign "has closed." He has been weighing a decision since summer, but cautioned all along that he and his family were grieving over the loss of his son Beau Biden -- and said Wednesday he knew that process could outlast the window for making a decision. "Unfortunately I believe we're out...

A grimly accurate headline, I’m afraid. The good news is that most of the community seems to reject this nonsense for what it is: Racialized, politically-correct social engineering run amok. The bad news is that the administration is standing by its decisions, effectively arguing that ‘diversity’ concerns are simply too serious to be subordinated to such quaint notions as representative democracy. Madness: When Everett held its election three days later, its principal promptly refused to release the results, saying she was concerned that the winners were not diverse enough. While she would ultimately relent and release the results, her...

The elections for the House of Commons of Canada took place yesterday. The Conservative Party of Canada fell from a 54% majority in 2011 to a 29% minority in 2015. The four liberal parties outnumber them at 71%. Here are the breakdowns: Party 2011 2011 pct  2015 2015 pct Conservative  166 53.9% 99 29.3% Liberal 34 11.0% 184 54.4% New Democratic 103 33.4% 44 13.0% Bloc Québécois 4 1.3% 10 3.0% Green 1 0.3% 1 0.3% Totals 308 100.0% 338 100.0% Combined Left 142 46.1% 239 70.7% Conservative 166 53.9% 99 29.3% Source, with graphs and analysis

Several years ago Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s wife Elizabeth sent me a wooden chink that had been used to put together the old school house on the rural farm where he wrote his books. We’d been talking about t=he kinship I felt with Senator Moynihan for his thoughtful approach to governance, his willingness to put country ahead of party, and his search for solutions rather than political expediency. She wrote on it, “square pegs in a round hole.” Some people say I am a Republican who became a Democrat, but that I often sound like a Republican in a room...

The GOPe is planning to wage war on the Republican frontrunner - even if he wins the nomination.

Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Republicans are not the "chief enemy," contrasting with would-be chief Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton should he jump in the race. "I really respect the members up there and I still have a lot of Republican friends. I don't think my chief enemy is the Republican Party. This is a matter of making things work," Biden said Tuesday, during an event honoring former Vice President Walter Mondale.

According to a report published in Newsmax over the weekend, a source close to the government agency has confirmed that the Secret Service will provide Donald Trump with approximately two dozen agents as early as next week. Additionally, Newsmax reported that the Secret Service will provide government protection to former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson. According to the government source, the agency’s decision was prompted by an “off the charts” number of threats, including death threats and terrorist chatter.

While Americans got a community organizer who began to systematically dismantle America in 2008, Canada will now be led by a part-time drama teacher who has never worked a day in his lif The Province of Ontario with twice the debt of California making it now the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower, saddled Canada with its first lib-left government in more than a decade in elections tonight. Prime Minister Elect Justin Trudeau’s friendship with the high spending Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynn is a matter of public record. Ontario has a whopping $307 billion in bond debt; spends less per person...

LIB 19 NDP 2 CON 1