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One consistent behavior of the left is that they create a crisis, then offer to solve it, all the while blaming the victim. So it goes with Donald Trump and his rallies. The group #BlackLiesMatter has stormed his rallies, fighting with his supporters in Chicago, and disrupting other events, and even had a lone wolf Thomas Dimassimo rush Trump on his podium. Thank the Good Lord the Secret Service was prepared and protected him quickly with their bodies, for who knows how this might have otherwise played out. In response, the Propaganda Ministry (formerly and inaccurately known as the American...

2 Peter 1:4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. Unlike Conservatism, Liberalism a Godless faith which forces its followers to be fundamentalists in the belief of their liberal dogma. It forces people to work their way to being a better person than those who do not march in lockstep to the Democrat doxology. Theirs is a man made set of morals and laws which often counters the Bible’s moral authority. This is...

Since it is more and more clear that the GOP Presidential Primary race is evolving into a two man race, with Donald Trump leading and Ted Cruz attempting to challenge that lead, I though I would post a chart of the various people supporting both candidates. This is not, by any means and exhaustive list...but it is a list of some of the better known people endorsing them. I think it is an interesting comparison. well know people on both sides with strong records and histories behind them in their various areas. Irrespective of whom you support, it is clear...

Rubio announced Wednesday night on Fox that he is not dropping out of the race before Florida. "No. I am not dropping out, I am fighting all the way through. We’re going to win Florida...and this election changes completely, and it gives us the momentum to go forward to win the nomination." But apparently someone forgot to tell the people Rubio turnout for at Hialeah stadium in southeast Florida. When he attends such rallies, it has to be obvious to him. Meanwhile, Trump, who is leading in the polls is getting these types of turnouts in Flrida. 'nuff said.

2016-0309 Presidential Primary Election Numbers & Analysis (click on image for full resolution) This week's presidential primary numbers include the primaries from Tuesday's election for the GOP and DNC. On the Republican side, this included Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho, and Hawaii. On the Democrat side, it included Michigan and Mississippi. GOP Results: Doanld Trump won Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii, though in all three Ted Cruz took second place, staying within 9-12 points and accumulating delgates. Ted Cruz won Idaho by 17.5%. John Kasich did well in Michigan, ending up in 3rd place but only 1% behind Ted Cruz, and picking...

Donald Trump, the Sensible Party and the Silly Parties What we have in Washington are two Silly Parties. The reason both parties are silly is because within each party the sensible people (defined below) are being outvoted by silly people (also defined below). This explains why 1) no matter which party wins an election, the downward spiral continues and 2) neither party has been able to reform itself. We need to break out of this cycle; and I think this is what Donald Trump is trying to engineer, by doing the following: Recruit as many sensible people as possible from...

The Donald Trump Phenomenon II After writing "The Donald Trump Phenomenon - Straight Talk," a couple fo weeks ago. I thought I would further articulate my feelings about this 2016 Election cycle, and in particular the Donald Trump Phenomenon and what it continues to mean. This is probably one of the most critical elections for the future of the United States in my life time...similar to, and equal in import, to the 1980 election between then President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Throughout the GOP Primaries, people have gone from believing that Donald Trump's campaign was not serious, to being...

On February 29, 2016, New York Times reporters Amy Chozick and Patrick Healy provided an insider analysis of the Clinton team's plan to defeat Donald Trump. Citing interviews with "more than two dozen" Clinton insiders, including several who spoke directly to Bill Clinton, the article reported on a series of emergency meetings Clinton supporters convened to respond to Donald Trump's February 20 victory in South Carolina and his February 23 win in Nevada. The article reported that Bill Clinton and others argued against those inclined to underestimate Trump "that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood...

2016-0307 Presidential Primary Election Numbers & Analysis (click on image for full resolution) This week's presidential primary numbers include the primaries from Saturday and Sunday for the GOP and DNC. On the Republican side, this included Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Kansas, and Puerto Rico. On the Democrat side, it included Nebraska, Kansas, Louisian, Maine, and American Samoa. GOP Results: Doanld Trump won Louisiana and Kentucky, though in both states he was contested fairly closely by Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz won going away in Maine and Kansas. And Marco Rubio won his second contest by a huge majority in Puerto Rico....

I looked into Trump University. It was active in the earlier 2000s when a housing boom and then bubble were in full swing. Nearly every person that paid for the training rated it highly and many made a lot of money in real estate. But in 2008, many people lost money. In 2008, there was a massive real estate collapse due to a once-in-a-century banking collapse. Is Donald Trump responsible for the real estate collapse of the late 2000s? Of course not. Is he then responsible for people losing money? No. Greedy lawyers filed for a class action. They certified...

Folks, we need to keep our eye on the prize and settle down. We are going to have a great pro-America candidate whether it's Cruz or Trump, and we're going to crush the godless America-hating Marxist/fascist felon, Hillary Clinton, in the general election! And that's just a fact. And that's the bottom line. We are finally going to secure our borders and start helping repatriate the illegal aliens to Mexico or where ever they came from. And we're going to tighten up and start enforcing our immigration laws, including ending sanctuary cities and possibly ending anchor babies. Both of our...

Romans 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. We have never seen a Party declare and fight an all out war on any candidate like we are seeing now. The GOP has had nearly all of the onion skins removed to reveal itself as one of the most corrupt organizations in DC. What we are watching is the fear of a Party petrified they will lose their power if an outsider was to do the unthinkable and win their Presidency. This is Tea Party times ten. It is obvious...

They're killing us and we're not even bothering to fight back. What do we manufacture in the U.S. anymore? Where have all our manufacturing jobs gone? Why can't we be competitive? Why are our costs so high? Is government the solution or the problem?

My Open Letter to Mitt Romney Mitt March 3, 2016. I am writing this with quite a bit of consternation. I am not sure you will see it, much less read it. But I hope you will. Please forgive the length in advance. I watched your speech today about Donald Trump, and I have to say, I was disappointed. I watched you in 2012 accept Donald Trump's endorsement in Las Vegas. You said glowing things about the man. You were clearly glad to get his endorsement and talked about his success in business and that he was someone who saw...

Keep blasting away at your leading candidate and trying to thwart the will of your voters, you will lose any chance at winning the presidency and you'll lose the House and Senate too. Leftist open-borders RINOs Romney, McCain and the so-called GOP "leaders" are complete idiots. They don't call it the stupid party for nothing.

2016 Super Tuesday Results and GOP Presidential Analysis Now that Super Tuesday is over and tabulated, there are some clear trends setting in. Here is a table of data I am using to see the trends, and comment on the data: Click for a larger, readable image Going into Super Tuesday, some very definite trends had already been established in the GOP Presidential race. Bacisally it was the very steep trend line of Donad Trump in both the cumulative vote and the cumulative delgates from the first four primary contests, the last three of which he had won. Here's...

It appears that the media outlets have already begun to leak exit data about Super Tuesday results. It seems fairly predictable so far. In the same way, what will happen with the Trump and Cruz haters in the media is also predictable. They will deny any victories on the part of either man by comparing it to what some talking head thinks "should have happened". We know that that has been a big part of their playbook to date, and we know that Marco Rubio is their establishment guy. They will pull out all the stops tonight, because he appears...

If there is one thing that this election cycle has exposed is the intense rage that voters feel about the political ruling class (the "establishment") and how deaf and unresponsive they are to the will of the people that they are supposed to represent. We keep thinking that the problem is the people we elect, and that if we elect better people they will pay more attention to us than the pressure groups that end up co-opting them. But how many times have we tried that in the past with no change in the results? (2012 and 2014 are the...

On the eve of Super Tuesday we are about to witness (and many will take part in) a pivotal day in the GOP Presidential Primary Election of 2016. Donald Trump is building momentum. He has won the last three elections straight and his polling numbers and delegate count are both rising rapidly. He seems almost unstoppable. Only two men are in any kind of position to blunt Donald Trump's momentum. They are senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Ted Cruz won the Iowa vote and is the only other candidate in the GOP line...

Trump supporters, I would like to celebrate the Session's endorsement, by giving F.R. a $10 spot. Would any of you like to join me, and help push the FReepathon over the top? 0050 = $00,500.00 0100 = $01,000.00 0250 = $02,500.00 0500 = $05,000.00 1000 = $10,000.00 Gotta go, I'm going to donate right now! Click on the graphic to join me...