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Like some of you, I've been a bit puzzled how this subliminal Clinton/Democrat partisan and ersatz political pollster Larry Sabato character found his way to Thomas Jefferson's UVA. Turns out old Larry, like Bill Clinton and many other left leaning double dome "experts", was a RHODES SCHOLAR! Jefferson must be whirling in his grave up the hill there in Charlottesville! Don't have bandwidth to explore that here but if YOU want to explore the Marxist roots of where we find ourselves today, pick up a copy of "Tragedy and Hope" (available several on-line sellers)) by Bill Clinton's old chum and...

One expert witness, Paul Rosenzweig, predicts fireworks during the First Panel: "I will be testifying as well, but on the second panel—the fireworks will be on the first panel, I'm sure." The first panel will include many in favor of multinational oversight for ICANN, and the questioning will likely get hot. While many in congress trust President Obama's plan, Paul Rosenzweig noted: "The Chairmen of the four relevant committees (Senate and House, Judiciary and Commerce), however, have called for the administration to reconsider its decision." ** Get that -- ALL FOUR chairmen [who are most informed about the controversy], and...

Well, Team Hillary has decided what "they" - and just WHO "they" are and WHO chose who "they" are is never asked - are going to do about Hillary's near-continual collapses and failures to finish events even during a sleepy, near comatose campaign schedule. The phrase is "Power Through" .... And you will see her slavishly devoted national press corpse suddenly use "Power Through" in dozens of excerpts and headlines the next few hours. All expressed in actual terms of relief and enthusiasm by a breathless propaganda national press corpse. It is a common, now routine Clintonian pattern. An event...

NEVER NEVER FORGET NEARLY 3,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS WERE MURDERED ON 9/11 IN THE NAME OF ISLAM BY EVIL COWARDLY MUSLIMS Click link below for the world's most famous 9/11 tribute video: Steve Golding VideoThis fantastic, moving website memorial was created by a survivor of 9/11, Steve Golding of New York City. It is the most viewed of all 9/11 memorials. It is now in the Smithsonian Museum. Music by Enya.

The media, the Democrat Party, Hillary's handlers, and the turncoat #NeverTrump'ers are reminiscent of the shopkeeper in the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch.

Previous Editions:November 6, 2012 Post Mortem This is the premier edition of my 2016 state-by-state presidential election model. I made several significant changes to the model from the previous election cycle: The model no longer uses Rasmussen as the polling source. I moved to a poll averaging model based on the polls listed at Real Clear Politics. I do not use their poll averaging, I use my own method, but I use their listed polls. I am not using a random Monte Carlo simulation of 32,000 iterations. I now use a 1,000 iteration methodology based on Stochastic Information Packages developed...

On September 9th, at a Democrat fundraiser in New York City, Hillary Clinton labeled half of Donald Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables" made up of "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" people. Many opinion and news commenters have called it Hillary's "47% Moment", likening her comments to Mitt Romney's comment that 47% of the population would never vote for him. They express distaste for her comments and reject her premises and conclusion. I would like to take a different tack: I feel we should embrace her comments, and wear them with pride. The German Kaiser Wilhem II called the...

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil. Thousands died in the attack, and many thousands more died in wars that resulted from that attack. Solidarity with the dead drives patriotism in this regard. Our flag and our anthem are symbols of the unity that compels us to stand together in affirmation of those murdered lives and in determination to defend ourselves from those who would wantonly kill us. Football also unites us in a way. To be sure, the NFL is a pastime. That is, it is a diversion -- a game that people...

New polls: Arizona (WaCompost) Trump 39, Cankles 37 (There is a poll today showing this one point. I don't believe it. We had a poll here in AZ about two weeks before the primary showing McCain up over Kelli Ward by more than 40 (!!) and he won by only 13. That's a huge MOE. Every cycle we hear that "Arizona is in play," and it never is. Colorado (WaCompost) 37/37 tie Florida (Rasmussen) Trump 44, Cankles 37 (second poll today having Trump up in FL, previous poll Trump +1, avg. 3+) South Carolina (First Tuesday) Trump 50, Cankles 38...

Many years ago Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a Sherlock Holmes Memoir that included a series of short stories. One of those was entitled “Silver Blaze”, where the great detective ended up solving the mystery because ‘the dog didn’t bark’. In effect, the ABSENCE of a presence or reaction was used to solve the crime. Sometimes politics makes for strange bedfellows as the old saying goes and anyone who has read the Edward Klein books over the past decade knows three themes that he continually harps on: • The Clintons and the Obamas do not like each other • The...

I retired in March, and shortly afterwards, with unfamiliar time on my hands I took a little drive eventually passing through a small town called Royce City and decided to take a look around. Turning off of HWY66, I drove only a few short blocks north before running into a place called City Lake Park, or something like that. There was indeed a little lake there, and also some virgin ground for metal detecting in the park. But while the metal detector was languishing in the garage, the ever handy fishing poles in my truck were ready for use and...

This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. Isaiah 48:17 NIV As one of the only people who picked Trump as the winner of the primaries and continue to see him winning this election in a Trunami there is nothing I see to change that prediction and is going exactly as predicted. The reason the Pundiots have been completely wrong all year with their guesses and are wrong now is they are...

I have been regular, listening to Glenn Beck and Mark Levin in the past and enjoyed their musings, analysis, postings. Then they got behind Cruz they made me wonder. After Trump fought for and won the nomination, they went nuts. Successful businessman, family man, one seeing the derailment of Regan's GOP into RATs ditch became the enemy of these "big mouths". They disregarded the support of majority of disenchanted population, they "know better" - he is not "good enough conservative". I gather he is supposed to be as conservative as establishment republicans, who shafted recent Tea Party elected reps into...

Mark Levin aka "The Great One" has always been a great constitutional conservative and great friend of Free Republic. Doesn't post much anymore but has had an account here (holdonnow) from nearly the beginning. He stood up for FR when his good friend Hannity was running us down. Also when O'Reilly accused us of not moderating our forum good enough against racism. I hate to see our good friend getting trashed on FR. I understand why people are upset with him over his position against Trump, but best advice I can give is if you can't stand him, don't listen....

An open letter to Mr. Trump: Obama told us how the election will be stolen. Our government agencies are tripping over themselves to 'protect' our election integrity. I see nothing but the fox is racing to 'protect' the henhouse. The latest fox is Mr. Jeh Johnson who is following orders in refusing to enforce immigration laws! http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/homeland-eyes-special-declaration-to-take-charge-of-elections/article/2600592 With such knights in shining armor coming to the rescue, I have decided to write an open letter to Mr. Trump to sound the alarm and head them off. Dear Mr. Trump, Repeatedly, you have been advised, warned and alerted of the following:...

FReepers are a special kind of people. The first FReeper, was a man named Jim Robinson.  Seeing things take place in our nation that he knew were wrong, he decided to develop an internet site where patriots could gather and network to effect change.  In a short period of time there were literally thousands of people who had joined him.  Many were joining him in Washington, D. C. to let our leaders know, we weren't happy.  Today those people are known as FReepers and they do something no other site requests of it's members.  They voluntarily pay to support the...

The recent argument regarding softer tones on the border issue is driving me nuts. Trump is going to build the wall and enforce the law and deport as many illegal aliens as he possibly can! And end sanctuary cities. And try to end anchor babies. Just enforcing the law alone will cause millions of illegal aliens to leave. For crying out loud, when is the last time we had a president of EITHER PARTY willing to do anything at all about the borders? I think you'd have to go all the way back to Eisenhower. Other than that: There is...

Psalm 26:10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes. We know the Clinton Family Laundry is how Harpy amassed over $200 million by selling American favors it is simply the details we are not sure of. Most of those details are buried in the 30,000 deleted emails which are most likely hacked by some very dangerous people both foreign and domestic. When you hear of a hacking every day you know someone was trolling the Secretary of State’s home account. Grandma Clinton most likely had no idea how to send an email off her...

The very best thing we can do is recognize that Trump is less than what we'd like in a candidate, so we should just sit this one out and NOT work our butts off to help him get elected. This strategy worked very well for us when McCain was our candidate. And again when Romney was the man. Obama was not that bad as president. Hillary can't be much worse. /sarcasm WAKE THE HELL UP, PEOPLE!!

Never underestimate the stupidity of the average Democrat voter in overlooking pure evil and utter corruption in their candidates. Never underestimate the stupidity of the Republican establishment and their natural talent in losing elections when they should have been sure-winners. The proof is in the pudding: Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996 over the GOP establishment's loser, Bob Dole. . Obama's election in 2008 over the GOP establishment's loser, John McCain. . Obama's reelection in 2012 over the GOP establishment's loser, Mitt Romney. And now after we the people rejected the GOP establishment's sure-loser (Jeb Bush) and voted in our own...