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The federal government took in a record of approximately $765,645,000,000 in tax revenues in the first three months of fiscal 2016 (Oct. 1, 2015 through Dec. 31, 2015), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. That equaled approximately $5,107 for every person in the country who had either a full or a part-time job in December. It is also an increase of about $24,288,810,000 in constant 2015 dollars from the $741,356,190,000 in revenue (in constant 2015 dollars) that the Treasury took in during the first three months of fiscal 2015. ...

Taking advantage of a splintered vote, the Texas senator is assembling a coalition of tea partiers, libertarians and social conservatives. HUDSON, N.H. -- He hasn't been here in two months, his evangelical emphasis is out of step with this secular-minded state, and he's routinely overshadowed by Donald Trump. But none of that is stopping Ted Cruz from making a final big push for New Hampshire, where he's slowly gained ground since October and is poised to finish among the top three or four candidates. Few in Republican New Hampshire circles expect him to win here, a state where Trump has...

Dogs really are man's best friend, it seems, as researchers have shown they can recognise emotions in humans by combining information from different senses. They are the only creatures outside of humans who have been observed to have that ability. -SNIP- "Our study shows that dogs have the ability to integrate two different sources of sensory information into a coherent perception of emotion in both humans and dogs. "To do so requires a system of internal categorisation of emotional states. This cognitive ability has until now only been evidenced in primates and the capacity to do this across species only...

The finding, published Wednesday in Nature, solves a long-standing mystery about water ice in comets. Scientists already knew that the coma... is dominated by water molecules.... "It is exciting because now we are starting to understand the upper dynamic layers of the comet and how they evolved." The surface of comet 67P, like most comets, is primarily covered by dark organic materials that appear almost black. That's because as comets fly toward the sun, they are exposed to warm temperatures that cause volatiles like water ice on their surface to sublimate - or go directly from solid to gas. What...

--SNIP-- In interviews in wedding chapels and casinos, all around this city of stretch limos, slot machines and neon signs, Mexicans who make up so much of the workforce said it would be far more meaningful to elect the first Mexican American president than the first Latino. Many said they would vote for a non-Latino over a Cuban American. In two days of interviews, not a single Mexican said he or she supported Rubio or Cruz, and even some Cubans said they don’t plan to support either Cuban American candidate.

The effect of global warming on the planet is so great it will suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a new study has found. Researchers say the relationship between of insolation and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has been key to the last eight glacial cycles in Earth's history. But rising man-made greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century could mean the balmy period will last for 100,000 years, they wrote in the journal Nature. The findings suggest human influences 'will make the initiation of the next ice age impossible over a time...

In 2009, American inventor Jordan Fishman won a $26 million patent infringement lawsuit against Al Dobowi Group of Dubai and Shandong Linglong of China. (SNIP) Scolded by Laura Ingraham In 2011, Cruz was scolded by Laura Ingraham for his opposition of Jeff Sessions’ bill reigning in Chinese currency manipulation

You may have noticed that things are starting to get crazy. Financial markets are imploding, violent crime rates are soaring in our major cities, and we have witnessed a truly unusual series of natural disasters in recent months. War in the Middle East continues to rage out of control, and Islamic terror continues to spread all over the globe. And many believe that 2016 is going to be a year of political shaking, civil unrest, governmental crackdowns and great economic chaos in the United States. All it is going to take to plunge our society into full-blown panic mode is...

A new twist has appeared in the legal attempts to attack the IDF for defending the maritime blockade of Gaza in the infamous 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, as radical activists sued Israel for "breaching US territory" in the raid. Three Americans and a Belgian who took part in the breach of the naval blockade launched a civil suit to a US federal court on Monday in Washington, reports The New Arab on Wednesday. The blockade is a legal measure according to international law meant to prevent the influx of weapons to Gazan terrorists. Aside from suing the Israeli government for...

In President Obama's quest to shut down Guantanamo Bay, his administration is continuing apace in releasing detainees. We're only 13 days into the new year and four have already been released, including 40-year-old Muhammad al Rahman al-Shumrani. Al-Shumrani's transfer back to his home country of Saudi Arabia is particularly troublesome because he's already made it clear that killing Americans will be a top priority upon his release. According to his leaked confidential file, he reportedly told guards on October 14, 2007, the following: On 14 October 2007, detainee stated, "When I get out of here, I will go to...

Just for fun, go to Google, search on "Webster Hubbell", and then click on images.

Over at Conservative Review today they have an in-depth piece looking at Trump's questionable political history, from his positions on everything from immigration to Syria to even support for Mitch McConnell. Here's an example: On September 8, 2015, Trump said the following about the Syrian refugees: "I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis of what's happening, you have to." Just a day later he partially reversed course: I think we should help, but I think we should be very careful because frankly, we have very big problems. We're not gonna have a country if we don't...

The White House said on Wednesday that it is pleased that Iran released 10 American sailors it had detained, but continues to have concerns about Tehran's sponsorship of terrorism and threats to Israel, Reuters reports. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told Reuters he was not aware of any discussions between Washington and Tehran about an American apology for the incident and noted one "certainly" had not been given. Earnest explained that President Barack Obama had not mentioned the incident during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night so as not to elevate the issue and jeopardize the sailors'...

More recently, on January 6th 2016, a video-message from Pope Francis diffused all over the world's social networks, was dedicated to inter-religious dialogue, where Catholics, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims seem to be placed on the same level, as "children of (a) God' whom everyone encounters in their own religion, in the name of some common profession of faith and love. Francis' words, combined with those of the protagonists in the video and above all with the images, are the vehicle of a syncretistic message which contradicts, at least indirectly, the teaching as regards the redeeming uniqueness and universality of Jesus...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of Rio's Guanabara Bay on Wednesday, not far from where events are being held at this year's Olympic Games, environmental officials said. The incident was the latest involving water quality in the bay, where sailing, open water swimming, and triathlon races are due to take place at the Games in August. "Officials found rubbish in the water and on the beach as well as a considerable number of dead fish all from the same species of sardine," the government's State Environmental Institute said in a statement....

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A terror suspect who was arrested in Houston last week went before a judge Wednesday afternoon, where his bond was denied. During testimony, we learned disturbing allegations against him. A federal investigator testified that Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 24, wanted to blow up the Galleria and Sharpstown Mall with a remote bomb. According to testimony, Al Hardan would put the bomb in a trash can and detonate it using a cell phone. They also say he received military training on how to use an AK-47 late last year at a farm just outside of Houston. Agents...

In case you'd forgotten about Baltimore, here's a few stores from the past 12 hours: 3rd Teen Confessed To Stabbing Man Biking Home From WorkWoman shot in chest, neck in NW Baltimore Tuesday nightBaltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake calls killing of bicyclist 'tragic' Family, friends remember Baltimore stabbing victimNeighborhood activist grapples with son's alleged role in murder

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to give you a quote from Ronaldus Magnus. I'm still struck here by Nikki Haley and, again, just to preface: I've always liked her. I've never had a problem with Nikki Haley. I was a little -- you know, silly me -- surprised last night. I shouldn't have been. I know she's establishment. I know all of this. I'm just... Like I said yesterday, I'm an optimist. I always... I'm expecting the best, and I often get slapped upside the head many times in that position, and I did last night. Grab sound bite number...

Yesterday, we noted With All Due Respect's report on Chelsea Clinton's absurd attack on Bernie Sanders, in which Chelsea claimed Sanders would "strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance." John Heilemann rightly called Chelsea's line a "lie." Today, Heilemann reported that he and co-host Mark Halperin have received "a lot of blowback," i.e. criticism, from fellow MSM members for their report. Heilemann chalked up the MSM's criticism up to its "muscle memory" in not reporting on a president's child. I'd say the real reason for the MSM's reticence is its tendency to rally around liberals...

It was perhaps the lowest moment in Senator Edward Kennedy's career. Shortly after President Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork - a highly distinguished former US Solicitor General and Yale Law professor - to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987, Kennedy took to the senate floor to attack the conservative Bork as follows: Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim...