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For the last seven years, the nation has suffered under a president who ignores the law and treats the legal process as a political weapon. Yet in the most recent Republican debate, Donald Trump displayed a clownish, similar disregard for the law when he demanded Senator Ted Cruz "get a declaratory judgment" about his eligibility to run for president.The meritless nature of Trump's birther controversy was neatly summarized by Susan Carleson in the Washington Times: As the Supreme Court made clear, there are only two types of American citizenship -- citizens at birth, such as Sen. Cruz, and those who...

At a police training academy on the outskirts of Brussels, new recruits are wrestling one another to the ground - practising techniques of unarmed restraint. There are about 40 of them - fresh-faced young people in their 20s, men and women - but what's immediately noticeable is that with one exception, they're all white. Watching them is Paul Jacobs. For 20 years he dealt with discrimination complaints in the Belgian police - and he's just finished a session teaching this class "inter-cultural communication". They discussed why so many Belgian youngsters go to fight in Syria - a higher proportion, relative...

The Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, already facing scrutiny for not disclosing a Goldman Sachs loan he used for his 2012 Senate campaign, also failed to disclose a second loan, from Citibank, for the same race, according to a letter he sent Thursday to federal election officials. The one-page letter said that the “underlying source” of money for a series of personal loans Mr. Cruz made to his Senate campaign in Texas included both bank loans, which totaled as much as $1 million. Both loans were “inadvertently omitted” from the required filings, the letter said. Previously, Mr. Cruz has only...

They said it, not me. Hillary Clinton's sense of style has been criticized for as long as she has been on the national political scene. One of the uglier forms this mockery has taken, most often in barbed private jokes and comments but occasionally openly by anti-gay activists, has been the "rumors" of secret lesbianism, supposedly evidenced by her pantsuits and her (actually not always full-throated) support of gay rights. Suggestions that Hillary Clinton is or might be a lesbian rightly belong where I first heard them: in the hallways of a middle school, coming out the mouths of homophobic...

Watching the Fox Business News debate last night, in particular Donald Trump's savage rejoinder to Ted Cruz's attack on "New York Values", I was reminded of a debate over twenty five years ago when another young Senator found himself on the receiving end of a similar shiv in the ribs from a more seasoned competitor. In the 1988 Vice Presidential debate, Senator Dan Quayle was attempting to allay fears that he was too young (41) for the job. He compared his level of experience to that of John F. Kennedy at a similar point in their careers. His opponent, Texas...

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Trump’s favorite wedding guest Hillary Clinton came out in support of his defense of “New York Values” against Ted Cruz.Watch below: Just this once, Trump's right: New Yorkers value hard work, diversity, tolerance, resilience, and building better lives for our families. -H— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 15, 2016 Another far left liberal politician from New York came out in support of the Trumpinator this morning as well – the sainted Andrew Cuomo. He’s presided over the “New York Values” of gun grabbing and demanding prolife conservatives be run out of New York.

It doesn't get media coverage, but the homeschooling community has a passionate and committed lobby, which has thrown its support behind Ted Cruz. Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced Monday the launch of the Homeschoolers for Cruz coalition, an alliance of over 6,000 members of America's homeschool community and prominent homeschooling lobbyists who have united to endorse him for president. Common Core is perceived as the enemy of homeschooling, which in other countries like Germany (for instance), has been criminalized. Especially among evangelicals, homeschooling is a major issue. Elections have consequences, and if Hillary wins, the "it...

The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age,” during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world, lasted many centuries, and included the establishment of the world’s first universities. Today, however, Muslim-majority countries lag well behind the rest of the world in terms of education and research. This must change if the region is to provide modern jobs and better lives to its booming population and keep up with global development. As it stands, only one university from the Muslim world — Turkey’s Middle East Technical University — makes the top 100...

Clinton's private lawyer got his way when he pushed back after being asked to delete all copies of a classified email-a level of deference an expert calls 'far from the norm.' The State Department put up virtually no resistance when Hillary Clinton's private lawyer requested to keep copies of her emails-even though those emails contained classified information, and even though it was unclear whether the attorney was cleared to see such secrets.

Donald Trump may not have to win the White House for the Senate to start voting on his agenda. Senate Democrats plan to force their Republican colleagues to take sides on the GOP presidential frontrunner's most controversial proposals by offering them as amendments to other bills this year. "Since Republican leaders in the House and Senate have pledged loyalty to Trump, the obvious next step is to vote on his policies, including his unconstitutional plan to bar people from entering the United States based on their religion," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a Thursday statement, referencing Trump’s...

Pakistani lawmakers have withdrawn a proposal to impose harsher penalties on those who arrange child marriages after it was scuttled by a religious body who branded it "blasphemous" and against Islam, sources told AFP Friday. The proposal, which would also have raised the legal age of marriages for females from 16 to 18, called for "rigorous" punishment up to two years in prison for those who organize child marriages, still common in some parts of Pakistan. Marvi Memon, a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), had moved to amend existing child marriage legislation in the lower house but...

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina slammed Hillary Clinton -- and her marriage -- this morning on MSNBC. "If my husband had done some of the things Bill Clinton had done, I would have left him long ago," Fiorina said, when asked why she was making Clinton's marriage a campaign issue. "I think if you're running for the presidency of the United States, everything is an issue. You know why? Because leaders need to be trusted. And

With Hillary's demise accelerating, and Trump's lead over the GOP field surging, it appears the "money" has finally figured it out. For the first time during this campaign, Trump has become the bookies' favorite to win the Republican nomination, surging past Bush who it appears has finally lost the real "money" backers.

Now more than ever Fox needs a firm hand on the wheel. In many ways, the channel faces the same rebellion from the grassroots that’s cleaving the GOP. “I can tell you, my base is fed up with Fox,” conservative commentator Michelle Malkin told me. Malkin, who quit Fox as a contributor, actually goes after Murdoch for supporting immigration reform in her new book Sold Out (she calls him a “treacherous bedfellow”). Rush Limbaugh, whom Ailes first put on television in the early ’90s, has said he “no longer watches cable news.” A Limbaugh friend told me the dig was...

The showdown over eligibility may shift from the political arena to the courts – at least, it might if two plaintiffs get their way. Both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio face legal challenges to their presidential ambitions based on the circumstances of their birth. In Florida, the challenge comes from a voter whose previous lawsuit against Barack Obama’s eligibility went nowhere, and names both Republican contenders. Rubio’s legal team didn’t exactly shrug it off, but asked the court to do so instead: This week Rubio sought to have a court complaint in Florida against him thrown out, saying the...

Ted Cruz's national co-chair, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, said this morning on CNN that Donald Trump got the better of exchange last night on New York values. "I didn't think he went too far," King said on CNN of Cruz's comments on New York values, "until I saw Donald Trump's reaction. And then I thought it would've been better on the part of Ted Cruz not to have had that exchange." King continued to praise Trump

INDIANAPOLIS - Prosecutors say a third suspect should be charged with killing a pastor's pregnant wife even if he didn't pull the trigger. Diano Gordon appeared in court Friday morning, one day after prosecutors filed murder charges against him. Police believe Gordon was a lookout while two others went inside to rob the home of Davey and Amanda Blackburn. Larry Taylor Jr. and Jalen Watson already face charges of murder and robbery in the Blackburn case. Gordon faces two counts of murder, along with burglary, robbery and theft. The three men are accused of breaking into the Blackburn home on...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to get back to this story in TheHill.com, and then, after we finish this, we're gonna get to some of the latest polling data that is hidden in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, because there is some shocking internal information. In addition to the fact that Trump's lead continues to grow, there is some really surprising inside stuff about... I'll just tell you one thing. Of all the Republicans in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, while it acknowledges that Donald Trump is adding to his lead, there is one Republican, according to the people polled...

Top US, Kremlin officials meet at Russian border for closed Ukraine talks AFP By Anna Smolchenko with Ania Tsoukanova in Kiev 1 hour ago Moscow (AFP) - Top US and Russian officials met Friday in Russia's westernmost outpost to discuss the Ukraine crisis amid a fresh international drive to bolster a fragile truce in the east of the ex-Soviet country. US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and top Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov met near the city of Kaliningrad in Russia's exclave bordering European Union members Lithuania and Poland, a source familiar with the situation told AFP. "The meeting is...