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It's mid-January and the Iowa Caucuses are not quite three weeks away. We're tired of discussing the issues—like where the candidates stand on national suicide by open borders. Whatever shall we talk about? I know, let's consider the weighty question of whether Sen. Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen! Donald Trump is skeptical. Lawrence Tribe, who teaches what's alleged to be constitutional law at Harvard, says that whether Cruz is qualified to serve as president under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution is hardly settled law — because the Supreme Court hasn't had an opportunity to misinterpret it yet....

The head of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in Texas has left his post. Corbin Casteel, who was named Trump's Texas state director in October, said Wednesday he has left the campaign, but declined to comment further. In an email, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed the departure but offered no details. It is unclear what now becomes of Trump's efforts in Texas with less than two months until the March 1 primary. Casteel had built a paid staff of four with an office in downtown Austin.

> A female physician in Munich, Germany sends a message to the World .. .. . . . > > 'Yesterday, at the hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable.. Clinics cannot handle the number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the main hospitals. > > Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and we women are now refusing to go among those migrants! Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to...

At Pennsylvania State University, no hurt feeling is too small, no slight too inconsequential, no unintentionally biased statement too unimportant. Administrators want to know it all.

GOP presidential frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump tells Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that the women who former President Bill Clinton has allegedly targeted, including Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones and others, have “gone through a lot.”

Racism. It's the go-to for liberals. Every institution of American life is touched by it according to the racialists. Well, almost every one. Somehow, the industry that kills, disproportionately, black human beings for a profit isn't racist. It's "reproductive justice"! Enter Congressman Sean Duffy, a Republican from Wisconsin. On the House floor he gave a powerfully disturbing speech about the alarming levels of abortion in the black community and wondering why the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has been silent. But they haven't been silent. They've been complicit. The CBC, like every other black-led liberal "civil rights" group, is pro-abortion. The...

We've already weighed in on S.C. governor Nikki Haley's big response to U.S. president Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Our view? The governor's address was highly offensive. Basically, she said anyone protesting the current bipartisan debacle in Washington, D.C. was one step removed from a white supremacist mass murderer. Of course the "Republican" establishment was enamored by Haley's speech - giving it rave reviews and calling her "very, very presidential." Of course while ideologues like us were assessing the politics of the governor's remarks, the rest of the country was looking at something else entirely ... Haley's teeth....

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Quack! Quack! Be advised that the article you are about to read did not appear in The Onion. However, it is completely understandable if that is what you think because the story, which appeared in the U.K. Telegraph, takes Global Warming Alarmism to such an extreme that it has passed from the absolutely absurd into the completely hilarious. Just how laughable is the article? So funny that The Telegraph science editor, Sarah Knapton seriously quotes a (quack?) scientist proposing that the rise of sea levels could cause humans to evolve webbed hands and feet: The perils of climate change are...

True friendship knows no species. Just ask this trio of blind cats and their new pit bull besties.

1-13-16 11:37 AM EST: This is a very nice endorsement and one heck of a good ad at the same time. What do you think? This video has been out for a while, and by that I mean about 15 minutes :-)

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says she would consider being the vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party this year. The rising political star revealed that she is open to the possibility in an appearance on NBC News’ “Today” show Wednesday, a day after delivering the GOP response to President Obama’s final State of the Union address. “If a candidate wanted to sit down and talk, I would sit down and talk,” she told host Matt Lauer. “I think that’s a big decision. It’s a family decision. It’s a state decision. It’s something I’d have to think about. But I...

The company began looking to leave Fairfield, Conn., last year after state legislators threatened to raise corporate taxes. GE’s quest for a new global headquarters can be traced back to a decision by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and Connecticut lawmakers last spring to significantly change business tax policies, to help fill a big state budget gap. The package, among other things, altered how multistate companies collect corporate taxes and how losses can be used to reduce tax bills over a period of years.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 13, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - The next Republican president will "respect" different forms of marriages, including same-sex "marriages," South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in last night's Republican response to the State of the Union address. "If we [Republicans] held the White House," she said, "we would respect differences in modern families, but we would also insist on respect for religious liberty as a cornerstone of our democracy." Even the terminology "modern families" evokes the ABC sitcom featuring a homosexual couple raising a child. The GOP has been uncertain how to respond to the Supreme Court's Obergefell v....

The United States will increase the number of refu­gees it admits to allow in more people fleeing violence in Ccentral America, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Wednesday. In a speech at the National Defense University, Kerry said the expansion of the Refugee Admissions Program will be directed toward people from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, to “offer them a safe and legal alternative to the dangerous journey many are currently tempted to begin, making them easy prey for human smugglers who have no interest but their own profits.”

Rob with former US Senator Tom Coburn Note: A shorter version of this article originally appeared at The Originalism Blog at the University of San Diego. Some commentators are dismissing as merely frivolous the claim that Senator Ted Cruz is not a “natural born citizen” as the Constitution uses that term, and therefore ineligible for the presidency. This dismissive attitude is a serious mistake. Although Senator Cruz’s belief that he is natural born may ultimately be vindicated, the case against him is very respectable. At the outset, we should note that the requirement that a president be a “natural born...

We're in a weird place when the GOP's SOTU rebuttal is essentially a rebuttal of the GOP frontrunner. And lest you think that was all Haley, she acknowledged today that her speech, as is customary, was approved by party leaders before she delivered it. It was a group effort. I, for one, welcome the impending Republican crack-up!

Situational changes are coming into play now for My Children of Light as never before , for as The Bride comes into The understanding that not only her wedding Gown but also her armor is held together with the oil of Unity and Oneness truly She will begin to form in all fullness, Beauty and Color within My children's hearts for "I have come for One Bride" woven into My Agape' Love and she carries the aroma and scent of eternal Life found only in Me The Lion of Judah ! Joshua 15:17-19 17 So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother,...

Until her 2013 arrest in Texas, the Mexico City-based Nepalese smuggler Rakhi Gauchan was one of the most prolific kingpin smugglers of Islamic world migrants that federal agents had seen in years.During her long career, Gauchan delivered scores of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and Indians to the Texas and Arizona borders. Ten or more every month, according to court filings from her case. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "special interest alien" (SIA) hunters were glad to finally remove her from the borderlands, because Gauchan confided to an undercover government agent that she believed a Pakistani client she had smuggled into Arizona was...

I've never understood guns - why people love them so much, why they think it's fun to shoot them, why they collect them. I was always simply terrified of guns - which was extra difficult, given that I grew up in the South, nearly surrounded by them. My mother claimed to have one tucked away somewhere in the house when I was growing up, but I never believed her, because I never saw it. My cousins used to shoot BB guns in the backyard on holidays while I would stand on the porch and watch. I went to parties in...