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I consider myself to work with plenty of smart people. Some staunch conservatives, others moderate. But being that this is a financial business, most are not liberal. So the following came up at lunch today with a person recently away from news on vacation. Person: Anything exciting happen with Trump? Me: Not really Person: I can't believe he's still around Me: Why? Person: He's so obnoxious. You wouldn't vote for him would you? Me: Of course. 7 days a week if he's against Hillary. Person: If it's the two of them, I'm not voting. What do you think? Isn't this...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: It was a shocking, somewhat sad day for many in the music world today. And that's the surprise death of David Bowie, who succumbed to cancer after 18 months. Many did not know that he had cancer. I have to admit there are only a couple of David Bowie songs that I like. I was not one of these dyed-in-the-wool David Bowie fans but he had a couple of tunes I really like, and the first one is this one, ChiCom Girl. And there's one other. No question, he was a supremely talented rock 'n' roll crooner....

GREENVILLE — It's like a rodeo, Maine-style. A three-man field crew flies in a helicopter above the woods near Moosehead Lake, the pilot getting as close to the treetops as he can. Once a moose is spotted, the crew's "muggers" leap from the helicopter and wrestle the animal to the ground. They belt the moose's legs, take blood and fecal samples and place a radio collar on it. "In about 10 minutes we can get a moose sorted,"

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Hillary Clinton's lead over Bernie Sanders has nearly vanished. George Stephanopoulos -- here it is -- audio sound bite number 16. Sunday morning on This Week, this is Stephanopoulos talking about the presidential primary. STEPHANOPOULOS: The Clinton campaign seems to be bracing for losses in Iowa and New Hampshire. They still hope they can pull out Iowa, but you hear a lot of talk about how this is a delicate fight; it's gonna take a long time. RUSH: Really? It's gonna take a long time? She might lose Iowa and New Hampshire? None of this was supposed...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of circus elephant acts with local governments passing "anti-circus" and "anti-elephant" ordinances in response to concerns over animal cruelty. The circus's parent company, Feld Entertainment, told The Associated Press exclusively that all of the iconic elephants will be permanently retired to the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation, located between Orlando and Tampa. The company announced in March that it would retire the full herd...

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Jan 6-10 Likely Republican Caucus Goers Bush 3% Carson 8% Christie 6% Cruz 25% Fiorina 1% Gilmore - Huckabee 2% Kasich 3% Paul 4% Rubio 10% Santorum 2% Trump 29% Other 1% Undecided 5%

He’s a hypocrite. No, this is not name-calling. It’s not hateful rhetoric. It’s just the plain truth. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has introduced H. Res. 569, a foolish piece of legislation condemning “hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.” The legislation already has 105 co-sponsors, all Democrats, with more supporters jumping in every day. Rep. Beyer, who was a car dealer before entering Congress in 2015, submitted the resolution on Dec. 17, just over two weeks after a Muslim couple – in the name of Islam – wounded 22 people and killed 14 innocent souls in San Bernardino, Calif....

Donald Trump leads Ted Cruz by 2 percentage points in a new poll from Iowa, suggesting a tightening presidential race ahead of the state’s Feb. 1 caucuses. Trump leads the GOP field, with 31 percent support, in Quinnipiac University's new poll, followed closely by Cruz's 29 percent. That slim lead is within the poll’s 4-point margin of error. ADVERTISEMENT Voters view Cruz more favorably than they view Trump, however, and more are open to the possibility of voting for him, according to the new findings. This is only the third poll of the last 11 in Iowa in which Trump...

In recent years, a small but growing number of people have advocated a convention of states to propose amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The reaction to the proposal has been hostile, out of all proportion to either the originality or the danger of such a convention. The political left has been especially vehement in its denunciations of what they call "messing with the Constitution." A recent proposal by Governor Greg Abbott of Texas to hold a Constitutional convention of states has been denounced by the Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and nationally by an...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seemed poised on Monday to deliver a severe blow to organized labor. The justices appeared divided along familiar lines during an extended argument over whether government workers who choose not to join unions may nonetheless be required to help pay for collective bargaining. The court's conservative majority appeared ready to say that such compelled financial support violates the First Amendment Collective bargaining, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said, is inherently political when the government is the employer, and issues like merit pay, promotions and classroom size are subject to negotiation. The best hope for a victory...

Vandals targeted Donald Trump's Massachusetts campaign headquarters in Littleton over the weekend, writing "pig" and "Nazi" across several windows in red spray paint. Police said the graffiti was reported Saturday morning at the historic Conant Building on King Street. Vandals had spray-painted "vulgar and sexual references," "references to Trump as a nazi" and the word "pig" across three storefront windows. A local CBS News affiliate reported seeing "a phallic drawing" and a curse word written in large letters. "These types of acts are surprising and certainly not representative of the kind of town that Littleton is and the kind of...

The U.S. government says it will help Kenya get the financing it needs to build an $18 billion pipeline from the oil fields in the country's northwest to its southeastern Indian Ocean coast to help it become a net exporter of oil. The pipeline would stretch nearly 500 miles from Lokichar in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to the coastal town of Lamu, and would be an almost impossibly expensive project for the East African nation. Yet there is enough oil there to make the plan worthwhile. The pan-African financial institution Ecobank Transnational Inc. says it has proven reserves of about...

Quick question: How many of the celebrities at the Golden Globes approve of President Obama and his ongoing plan to restrict your rights under the 2nd Amendment? We know this one does: Amy Schumer attends White House event on guns where Obama mentions Lafayette shooting: http://hill.cm/IP72d3x We only ask because Schumer and the other Obama-voting celebrities in attendance are only able to gather in safety thanks to good guys with guns. Hypocrites. They get machine guns; you get Obama’s executive actions.

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Canadian authorities arrested two Muslim men and a third remains at large after an attempted mass shooting on a Calgary nightclub Sunday morning that is being reported as a "random" crime by some major Canadian media outlets. The incident could have easily resulted in another mass-casualty act of Islamic terror, similar to the Nov. 13 attack on a Paris concert hall, if not for the quick response of two bouncers. The two staff members at Ten X nightclub in Calgary are being praised as heroes after they quickly tackled the shooter as he entered the establishment and fired at least...

Yogi Berra said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." But here goes. Barring a major political earthquake, Ted Cruz will be the GOP nominee later this year. As the primaries get under way, two or three candidates will quickly emerge. Based on the voting blocks which are apparent in the current polling, and their likely moves as the options narrow, the most likely result is a Cruz win, perhaps by a landslide. With a strong anti-establishment sentiment among GOP voters, 65% are going for one of the opposition candidates, either Donald Trump (35%), Ted Cruz (20%), or...

A brutal new year selloff in oil markets deepened on Monday, with prices plunging more than 6 percent to new 12-year lows as further ructions in the Chinese stock market threatened to knock crude into the $20s. On Monday, China's blue-chip stocks fell by another 5 percent and overnight interest rates for the yuan outside of China soared to nearly 40 percent, their highest since the launch of the offshore market. Morgan Stanley warned that a further devaluation of the yuan could send oil prices spiraling lower still, extending the year's nearly 15 percent slide. While China's ructions are spooking...

2015 was a record year for the National Instant Checks System (NICS), and for firearm sales. The previous record year was in 2013, another year in which President Obama put considerable effort into passing strict gun control, and failed. It is one of the few policies that President Obama has not been able to use his allies in the media to ram legislation through Congress. In 2013, there were 21,093,271 background checks completed through NICS, according to the FBI.  That amounted to 16,031,210 additional private firearms added to the stocks, according to the ATF. The numbers for NICS checks...

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed ready Monday to agree with a group of California teachers who say it violates their First Amendment rights to be forced to pay dues to the state's teachers union. A 40-year-old precedent allows states to permit unions to collect a so-called agency fee from non-members to support collective bargaining activities, and California is one of about 20 states that allow it. Public employee unions say such fees are essential to their well-being, and that challenges to the arrangement are born of conservative efforts to weaken their strength. Liberal justices during an hour and...