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Here are some phrases President Barack Obama uttered in a speech at the White House last week: “gun violence,” “gun rights,” “gun possession,” “gun safety,” “gun laws.” Here is a term he did not use: “gun control.” This isn’t surprising. Advocates for tougher gun laws have for years edged away from “gun control” as a way of referring to gun regulations. The word “control” suggests government overreach, the opposite of what they want to evoke. “How you label things has consequences,” said Robert Spitzer, the chair of the political-science department at SUNY Cortland, and the author of five books about...

Trump, the current GOP frontrunner for President, will appear on the show January 11, which is notably a day before President Barack Obama's last State of the Union address. Trump's visit also comes weeks before the Iowa caucuses on February 1 and New Hampshire's primary on February 9...

Michigan set a new record in December on background checks of firearm purchasers, as gun dealers around the state report a sharp spike in sales since the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., and subsequent debate about gun control. "It's been said that Obama is the best kind of salesman (for guns) and that's pretty much the truth," said Brian Laskowsky at Moose Creek Archery Gun/Tackle in Lansing. Traditionally, his store is busiest during deer-hunting season, he said, but "that's nothing compared to this." "This is a small shop," Laskowsky said. "If I sell three guns a day, that's a...

The Two State solution (TSS) is dead but rather than bury it, the US and the EU want to embalm it, in the off chance that it can be brought to life in a decade or two. In the meantime they are doing their utmost to prevent Israel from building Jewish homes east of the armistice lines, including in Jerusalem. They do this in knowing violation of Israel’s rights. Moshe Arens, a former Israel Ambassador to the US, Israel Defense Minister and Minister of Defense, noted in Haaretz, Israel’s version of the New York Times: "These critics (of settlement construction)...

Why West Virginia’s School Children Need Coal WV’s former Secretary of Tax and Revenue, Rob Capehart, explains the importance of coal to the state’s budget. Coal companies, and the utilities they support, pay almost 2/3 of business taxes in the state. What will the War on Coal do to WV?

within the margin of error, but Trump leads of any sort have been scarce in Iowa lately. He also topped Cruz in the last Quinnipiac poll of the state taken in early and mid-December, 28/27, and led narrowly in a PPP poll of Iowa taken around the same time. But of the last 10 surveys conducted there, those were the only two where he took first. He trailed Cruz in the other six and tied him in another. Is this statistical noise or Cruz’s grasp beginning to slip?Note the last two columns. Among college grads, Cruz leads comfortably by seven....

I have heard something about two tablets that were supposedly written by Enoch or Seth. Have you heard about this? They were supposed to have been written before the flood. I read about this some years ago and have forgotten the details.

Query is a prejudicial term used by DBAs, Data Analysts, Data Technicians and others, which is unsafe for LGQBT and other people.Query must stop being used.

A Frightening History of the Militant Greens Robert Zubrin’s book, Merchants of Despair, shows how some of the most tragic events of the 19th and 20th centuries were inspired by radical environmentalists who used the “green” agenda to mask scary ambitions.

Iran has rejected an assessment by the U.N. nuclear agency that it did past work on nuclear arms but is praising some aspects of the agency's investigation of the issue, reflecting satisfaction that the more than decade-long probe has ended. Closure of the file means that some questions about the alleged weapons work may never be resolved. Before the 35-nation board of the U.N's International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution last month ending the investigation, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told the meeting that his investigation couldn't "reconstruct all the details of activities conducted by Iran in the past." But...

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Hillary Clinton dismissed a Fox News report Monday that suggested the FBI has expanded its investigation to include corruption at the Clinton Foundation, calling the story "irresponsible." "No, there's nothing like that that is happening," she said during an editorial board meeting with The Des Moines Register in Iowa Monday afternoon.

That Rubio surge is coming annnnny minute now. In fairness, he's only two points behind Kasich and Cruz in a poll with a margin of error of 4.8 percent, so he's effectively tied for second. On the other hand, how many Rubio fans are excited to find him battling John Effin' Kasich for center-right votes less than a month from primary day?

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: In Reno Donald Trump with a rally on Sunday afternoon. Now, Trump has, for five days running now, been toying with this idea that Ted Cruz has a citizenship problem. And it's understandable. Cruz is leading in Iowa. Trump wants to win Iowa. Trump has had some success going after Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility and so forth. It could be argued that's what put Trump on the political map, in fact. So now Trump has focused on Ted Cruz. All of the official recognition is in and there's no question. Ted Cruz is a United...

Fighting the BLM Texans on the Red River awaken one day to find that the BLM has declared their ranches to be… within the Red River and under BLM control. Landowners organize to fight for the land that has been theirs for generations, and TPPF’s Rob Henneke is leading the fight.

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If you need a sign of the level of rot in the Ben Carson campaign, this is it: All five paid New Hampshire staffers at the pro-Ben Carson 2016 Committee super PAC quit their posts on Sunday to become volunteers for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, WMUR.com has learned. Jerry Sickles of Keene, the spokesman for the staff, said he and the other four staffers recently came to the conclusion that Cruz is the conservative most able to win the GOP presidential nomination and the presidency. He also noted that Carson has spent very little time campaigning in New...

Donald Trump continues to surge in the polls and is getting a little extra boost from a white nationalist group thanks to an endorsement and a series of robocalls in Iowa. In a statement, the American Freedom Party, which is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "political party initially established by racist Southern California skinheads that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule," says that it's throwing its support behind Trump, in which he's referred to as "the great white hope." The ads started airing over the weekend and are paid for...

One dollar! One dollar! Do I hear a bid for a dollar to buy the New Republic magazine? For the price it cost to buy Newsweek you can also own the New Republic as your personal liberal magazine toy. Ah! I see a bid out there but, sorry Stephen Glass, that fake play money you are waving is not acceptable. I see serial fabulist Scott Thomas Beauchamp is making a bid which we also can't accept because we already know he is lying.  Yes, the New Republic is now being put up for sale by comedy of errors owner Chris Hughes so, just like...

Survey Sponsor: American Research Group, Inc. The American Research Group has been conducting surveys of voters since 1985. Sample Size: 600 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of likely Republican primary voters living in New Hampshire (340 Republicans and 260 undeclared voters (independents)). Sample Dates: January 7-10, 2016 Margin of Error: ± 4 percentage points, 95% of the time, on questions where opinion is evenly split. Question Wording: If the 2016 Republican presidential preference primary were being held today between (names rotated) Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand...