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So...I don't need to buy a Powerball ticket, because I already seem to have my fortune waiting for me.... Dearly Beloved Calvary greetings in the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ Amen! With a heart heavy laden I write this email to you. I am Mrs. Tumelo Tebogo, (Widow) from South Africa. I was brought up from a motherless babies home, was married to Mr. Masego Tebogo (A Rich Business Man). Before his sudden death in a fatal motor accident we were married for twenty years without a child. Besides, we were both true Christians before died and...

Grant County, Oregon Glenn Palmer called the group occupying buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge 'patriots'. He was interviewed by the "Blue Mountain Eagle". Palmer has been an outspoken critic of federal government overreach and he's even written to Vice-President Joe Biden about gun control. Members of the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom group at the refuge traveled to Grant County to ask Palmer to come over to Harney County to help them. But Palmer said he wouldn't come there without permission from Sheriff Dave Ward, but Ward told Palmer he was only welcome if he would 'shame and humiliate...

Bulletin Headline Summary From Bloomberg and RanSquawk Amid the fresh downturn in risk sentiment, there is one standout move to highlight this morning; the USD/CAD ramp through 1.4400 and 1.4500 WTI and Brent are below USD 30/bbl, with analysts noting that the UN are expected to approve the removal of Iranian trade sanctions as soon as Monday Highlights today include US retail sales, PPI final demand, empire manufacturing, industrial production, business inventories and University of Michigan sentiment as well as Fed's Dudley, Williams and Kaplan Treasuries gain as global stocks plunge led by China, crude at 12-year low; 10Y has...

When David Bowie died after a very private fight with liver cancer, obituary writers churned out words like "icon" and "legend" and "subversive." Despite a life of very fluid explorations of musicality and sexuality and spirituality, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano celebrated Bowie as "never banal," displaying an "artistic rigor" which seemed to contradict the sexually "ambiguous image" he presented to "attract the attention of the media." This star-struck eulogy ignored Bowie's 2013 album "The Next Day." His "artistic rigor" included a nasty anti-Catholic video, starring actor Gary Oldman as an angry priest. It begins with this priest punching a...

We now know that there was no mechanical problem with the two U.S. Navy boats the Iranians captured. Our sailors were treated like prisoners while the American president refused to even acknowledge the incident in his State of the Union address. The Obama Administration claimed that Iran's quick release of our sailors was proof of a new and better relationship with the Iranians. Please pay no attention to the number of Americans being held in Iranian prisons for, among other things, reporting on Iran for American newspapers. Were there a Republican in the White House, the American media would provide...

. Very Few seem to understand the BRILLIANT political theater orchestrated by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump ... The entire controversy over Natural Born Citizen and New York Values, raised by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz respectively ... is POLITICAL GENIUS ... Donald Trump gives Ted Cruz a National Prime-Time TV Audience to properly defend his genuine Natural Born Citizen status ... Ted Cruz gives Donald Trump a National Prime-Time TV Audience for Donald to defend that ALL New Yorkers ARE NOT Liberal Scumbags ... At the end of the Two-Act Play ... both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump WIN...

NBC News journalists - including veteran reporter Andrea Mitchell - conducted interviews last week with Juanita Broaddrick, the Arkansas woman who says Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, but decided not to go forward with a story, claiming that there was not "anything new" to report. "When Juanita Broaddrick went public last week, NBC News sent an associate producer to Arkansas to see if there was anything new in her story. We established there was not, and decided not to pursue it any further," an NBC spokesperson told Buzzfeed News. Broaddrick, a 73-year-old retired nursing home administrator, spoke out on...

The German government appears to be in full damage-control mode post-Cologne sex attacks, with the official journal of the state propaganda bureau publishing an editorial claiming Mohammed was a feminist, and that as of yet there has been no evidence the increase in sex attacks in Germany has been caused by refugees. The article in Fluter (Floodlight) magazine, the trendy journal for young Germans published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education is the work of Indian heritage German journalist Khola Maryam Hubsch, a vocal advocate for Islam in German public life. Ms. Hubsch has been at the forefront of...

Hillary Clinton and her allies furiously and famously defended her husband's sexual predations by targeting the women Bill victimized with media campaigns designed to portray Bill's victims as lying, conniving bimbos. The best example of such targeting was the memorable television interview with James Carville, a longtime Clinton hatchet man, where he made this statement in regard to the sexual harassment from Bill reported by Paula Jones, an Arkansas state employee: "Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."That dismissive, condescending statement epitomized the theme of the Hillary-directed media response to the Bimbo...

During a live post-debate "Kelly File," a focus group of 26 South Carolina Republican voters overwhelmingly said that Ted Cruz was the big winner of the Fox Business Network GOP debate.

Only one Wisconsin U.S. Representative has lost a primary since 1950 and just four others have won by less than double-digits For the past few weeks there has been chatter around Wisconsin that Tea Party groups are preparing to run a primary challenger against Republican U.S. Representative Paul Ryan due in part to the nearly $2 trillion spending bill that passed last month under his leadership. Although this is now a post-Eric Cantor political environment in which no powerful GOP leader can be labeled 'invincible' in a renomination bid, there is little reason to believe Speaker Ryan will suffer a...

As is the case with a fair number of conservative talk show hosts, I am a recovering liberal. Now in my mid 50's I made the transition in my early 30's. I certainly have no regrets about rejecting an ideology I could no longer defend. But I would give anything to, for just one moment, experience what it's like for liberals to see Paul Ryan, the man they depicted throwing granny off a cliff, being called a RINO and being targeted by some on the right for a primary challenge. I have been entirely dismissive of the notion that Ryan...

Received wisdom is what “everybody knows” is true without anyone having to think about it. Received wisdom has a lot of defense mechanisms: for example, trading in unexamined assumptions, avoiding contrary evidence, dismissing the need of evidence at all, or demonizing those who question it. Question-begging slogans are another. Mantras like “nothing to do with Islam” or “war on women” substitute for evidence and analysis. Another is “you can’t say that,” used to dismiss or marginalize comments or proposed policies by assuming disastrous consequences, or implying that saying such things is morally repugnant and, to quote Obama’s favorite obfuscation, “doesn’t...

The hope was that Rubio would rise and Cruz and Trump would stumble. That didn't happen. The defining development of the sixth Republican presidential primary debate was this: For the first time since the campaign entered its late stage, Ted Cruz was willing to skirmish with Donald Trump, and he did it more effectively than any of the dozen-plus other candidates who have tried before him. He also made an uncharacteristic error. Halfway through the evening, the Texas senator reprised a campaign trail attack on Trump's "New York values," knowing that Trump would retaliate by characterizing it as a slander...

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Dalia Mogahed, formerly Barack Obama’s adviser on Muslim affairs, appeared on Trevor Noah’s sinking-like-a-stone Daily Show last week, to explain to a worshipful Noah and an adoring audience that the hijab represented nothing more or less than the “privatization of women’s sexuality” – and who on earth but the most benighted lout could possibly be against that? The burning outrage of Mogahed’s words was probably missed by most Daily Show viewers. It should not be missed by FrontPage readers.

All new video of this Colombian Parakeets (Perija) that is listed as critically endangered, and threatened species, have voices of my grandchild, wife and myself, quoting biblical scripture.

Android accounts for 81% of China's smartphone sales in 4Q15 According to a report from Stifle, Google's (GOOGL) Android accounted for 81% of overall smartphone sales in China (PGJ) for the quarter ended December 2015, compared to 82.5% in 4Q14 and 88% at the end of 3Q15. Enlarge GraphAs seen in the above chart, non-Android smartphone shipments increased substantially to 24.3 million units in 4Q15 from 18.3 million units in 4Q14 and 14.5 million units in 3Q15.Apple's (AAPL) flagship product, the iPhone, makes up the majority of total non-Android phones sold in China. According to Kantar WorldPanel, BlackBerry (BBRY), Windows...

This week, Harney County Fire Marshall Chris Briels resigned after discovering undercover FBI agents posing as militia members near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which has been the site of a standoff for weeks now. According to Briels, he found FBI agents who were impersonating militia members lurking around the town’s armory. When he inquired about the undercover operation with county Judge Steve Grasty he was told to back off. Just before this discovery was made, there were reports of people who looked like militia harassing locals, which is uncharacteristic of the protesters who initially assembled at the refuge. It...