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"Look, Ted's a great lawyer," Huckabee said Tuesday about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. "But I don't think American needs a good lawyer right now, it needs a good leader. My question to you would be can you name me what efforts (Cruz) has been a leader in ... He's been a senator. He's been a lawyer and a lobbyist ... What has Ted Cruz done in his life that prepares him to be president of the United States?" Huckabee's comments came during a 12-minute exchange with Joseph Brown, pastor of Marion Avenue Baptist Church in Washington, Iowa. Brown, who started...

This really pisses me off.

One in six American men will develop prostate cancer.  It is the most common cancer after skin cancer, and the second biggest cancer killer for men.  Two Israeli scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel promise an almost miraculous cure, now in clinical trials at New York’s Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  It is the culmination of 20 years of basic research by plant scientist Avigdor Scherz and cancer researcher Yoram Saloman. Professor Scherz took a naturally occurring form of chlorophyll from aquatic bacteria: … chemically modified by Prof. Scherz's lab at Weizmann to fit the team's pharmaceutical needs. Once...

https://youtu.be/_hUlp13jpF4?t=31m48s Some habits caused friction in the household. This song is called (untranslatable), which is slang for "Hashish Smoker". And this hash-head is getting scolded by his woman, who says, my "bederosaki, stop smoking the hash, all you do is get stoned, and take it out on me. Don't smoke the black stuff." And he says, "but I have to get stoned in order to break my blues, because I keep losing everything in gambling." (Audience laughter; a wry look on performer Sophia Bilides' face.) And she says, "As long as you smoke AND gamble, you're NEVER going to see...

Although New Year’s confetti is still being cleaned off the floors, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) 56% already issued a statement that could easily be a contender for the most remarkable statement of 2016. In a Monday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Paul Ryan declared without a trace of humor that “People who know my record know that I’m for border enforcement, border control, not for amnesty.” But a review of Paul Ryan’s record demonstrates a two-decade history of pushing amnesty and mass immigration. In fact, Ryan has developed perhaps the most open borders record in Congress– for members of either...

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In the Des Moines Register poll, Cruz has a three point lead. Likewise, in the newest ABC News poll, Cruz has the highest popularity among Republican voters, which Gallup's polling also reflects. The problem for Cruz is that the polling average in Iowa has him tied with Trump. He is at 26.7%, while Trump is at 26.2%. It is a very close race. There are, however, some anecdotes for Cruz to take comfort in, though anecdote is not data. Other campaigns are beginning to admit Cruz has outworked them on the ground in Iowa. He has operations in every county,...

Remember when Trump called for a halt to all Muslim immigration? While I'm personally very wary of the idea it's hard not to see his point following the rash of sexual assault happening in Arab soaked Europe. While I was aware of the New Years rape attacks in Cologne, Germany. A tip was sent to me about it that really put into focus how much more seriously we should be taking this and future attacks on women. There are lessons the west can learn, the very very hard way, about the Arab world when it let them in with wide...

Longtime readers know that I am not exactly the strongest supporter of Donald Trump.  As a big employer of illegal aliens and a five-time party switcher, his commitment lends itself to some doubts.  But that is no excuse to criticize him in a forum meant to represent the Republican Party response to the Democratic Party.  That is, however, just what South Carolina governor Nikki Haley did. According to her prepared remarks, Haley said: During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices," she will say, suggesting that Trump is an irrational, angry...

Angela Merkel clearly missed the Santayana section of Literatur Eine Null Eine. I have a relative who works for a German bank in the States. I'm told that the Germans remain so stigmatized by Holocaust thing that they are paralyzed by events occurring now, i.e. "rapefugees" running amuck across Germany. In its paralysis, the German government has fallen onto one of its old bad habits- persecution. Germany again is persecuting its citizens. They are being deprived of their rights. The first sentence in the German Constitution guarantees this: "Human dignity is inviolable." Apparently, that no longer applies to German citizens, specifically women. Persecution...

Must watch Nikki Haley interview on Hannity when running for governor.

An empty chair for the victims of "gun violence"? Puh-lease. Here's five much better uses for the chair 0bama had at his STFU address last night: 5) The approx. 4000 babies murdered daily at Planned Parenthood, Obama and the Democrats' favorite baby butchery factory, and other clinics. 4) The thousands of men, women, and children who have been beaten, raped, enslaved, burned, drowned, blown up, and any other way murdered by radical Muslims throughout the world, including right here in the United States. Directly, it is inarguable, due to the policies of POSUS himself. 3) Non-blacks who have been murdered,...

WASHINGTON— Donald Trump stepped up his attack on Sen Ted Cruz’s eligibility to run for president Wednesday calling for Cruz to drop out of the race. Donald J Trump @realDonaldTrump"Sadly, there is no way that Ted Cruz can continue running in the Republican Primary unless he can erase doubt on eligibility. Dems will sue!" Trump recently warned the GOP that if Cruz becomes the nominee ,the party would be risking the White House. Trump claims Democrats would hold up the election in court, litigating whether or not Cruz is considered a natural born citizen.Trump’s views on Cruz’s eligibility have changed...

"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it" (Hebrews 13:2). Hospitality should be a trait of all Christians, because whenever we display it, we minister to the Lord. If you are a Christian, your responsibility to love others does not stop with fellow believers. The apostle Paul is very explicit and direct about this: "See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all men" (1 Thess. 5:15). "All men" includes even your enemies. The "strangers"...

Under the old rules Democrats got to take dirty money and Republicans who brought it up were laughed at. That was then this is now. Here are just a few of Hillary Clinton’s donors that show how arrogant she is and how dirty they are. Clinton took $36,800 from Weitz &Luxenberg the corporate partner to convicted felon and former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Silver is on his way to a 120 year federal prison sentence for taking kickbacks from Weitz & Luxenberg’s asbestos scam. The money was obviously funneled to Clinton through Weitz & Luxenberg. This is...

In Christ we have "the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of [God's] grace, which He lavished upon us" (Eph. 1:7-8). In Christ we have infinite forgiveness for every sin-past, present, and future. On Israel's Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) the high priest selected two goats. One was sacrificed; the other set free. Before releasing the second goat, the high priest symbolically placed the sins of the people on it by laying his hands on its head. This "scapegoat" was then taken a great distance from camp and released-never to return again (Lev. 16:7-10). The Greek word translated...

This is really damn amazing. I mean really amazing. I told you guys the Republican Establishment was coming to terms with Donald Trump because they hate Ted Cruz so much. This is another data point.Follow this story from the Politico. A leading Republican pollster privately told Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team Sen. Ted Cruz would be the biggest drag on House Republicans should he win his party's nomination, according to multiple sources who attended a small meeting of senior GOP lawmakers earlier this month.During the gathering in Annapolis, Maryland, Dave Sackett of the Tarrance Group reviewed a recent...

After yesterday's article, "Cruz Makes it Official - The Race is ON!!!" I believe there are more than just a few out there who need a civics lesson. Ted Cruz, as a matter of LAW and U.S. Codes...IS indeed qualified AND eligible to run for the office of president. The Constitution, clearly states that to serve as president, one must be 35 years of age, one must have resided in the United States for at least 14 years and that one must be a Natural Born Citizen. Just as clearly, the Constitution never defines Natural Born Citizen nor do any...

Forty-five years ago, the U..S landed a man on the Moon and brought him home safely.  The effort cost, in today's dollars, around $135 billion spent over ten years. Ever since then, whenever government wants to spend a lot of money solving a problem, the moon program is cited as an example that we can do anything we put our minds – and dollars – to. Last night, the president invoked the Moon landing to announce his initiative to cure cancer – "once and for all."  But someone should have whispered into the president's ear that the idea we can...

Taharrush is the Arabic word for the phenomenon whereby women are encircled by groups of men and sexually harassed, assaulted, groped, raped ... A culture that has a specific word for sexual assaults of women by groups of men is a danger to all women ... The Islamic world is steeped in misogyny. The Koran explicitly states that a woman is worth only half a man (Suras 2: 228, 2: 282, 4:11), that women are unclean (5:6), and that a man can have sex with his wife whenever he wants (24:31). The Koran even says that men are allowed to...