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While campaigning in Iowa Saturday to rescue Hillary's floundering presidential campaign, the former president's hand could be seen trembling while he was making a point. As he was explaining his wife's rationale for invoking 9/11 to defend her ties to Wall Street, Clinton said, "She was making the point that the people devastated on 9/11 were people to her, not categories."

In an interview with the Tunisian Al-Wataniya TV channel, Professor Amel Grami said that in the days of early Islam, "society was more aware of its diversity and more pluralistic, while today we are more rigid and unaccepting of the other." According to Grami, a professor of Arabic studies at the University of Manouba, Tunisia, and an authority on gender studies, "many judges talked openly about their passion for boys, and said that they have their own boy, whom they meet intimately, and so on. Many jurisprudents had such relations." The interview aired on December 20, 2015. Video at link

Mark Levin has spent years defending the Constitution, his radio show bumpers refer to him as "Mr. Constitution". In his view, the constitutional debates and the views of the founding fathers should determine its meaning. Levin has abandoned this standard in his defense of Ted Cruz's eligibility to run for President. This is evident in at least two ways - ignoring the founders' intentions and arguments, and suggesting that there are only two types of citizenship: naturalized and natural born. Levin revisits this issue with exasperation every day, knocking Mr. Trump and others for discussing it. Last week he referred...

Up to 15 to 20 people have died of starvation in the Syrian eastern city of Deir Ezzor last year and 200,000 residents - mostly women and children - face sharply deteriorating conditions in its western side, which is under siege by ISIS, according to a United Nations report. Islamic State militants have closed access to the city since last March, leaving inhabitants with no electricity for more than 10 months. The restrictions led to a severe shortage of food, medicine and basic commodities. Water to the area is supplied for only three hours a week.

In 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy and took more than sixty Americans hostage for 444 days. Those hostages were not released until Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President on January 20th, 1981. This week the Obama government admitted it is paying the same Muslim extremist Iranian government that took those U.S. hostages in 1979 $1.7 BILLION in penalties and fees the Iranians claim was owed to them for agreements the United States had with the previous Iranian government prior to the revolution that saw Iran overtaken by radical Islamic fundamentalists. Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/insanity-obama-govt-gives-iran-1-7-billion-in-were-sorry-money/#7r1Bsxpl5oU8fOru.99

Survivors of the harrowing attack in Burkina Faso have described how jihadis targeted Westerners by executing those who looked to be European as they lay injured after being gunned down. At least one American and six Canadians, as well as French, Dutch and Swiss nationals are among the 29 people from 18 different countries killed during the 15-hour terror attack by Al-Qaeda militants. Burkinabe special forces, assisted by 30 French special forces, broke the lengthy siege last night by storming the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou. Three of the gunmen were killed after a firefight before the hotel was re-captured by...

LONDONDERRY, N.H. --Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is working to keep his momentum in the polls rolling with a five-day bus tour through the Granite State. Cruz started off in Londonderry Sunday afternoon, where he spent quality time with members of a voting bloc that has played a key role in primary politics -- local veterans. The GOP hopeful spent a few hours chatting with veterans at American Legion Post 27 in Londonderry. "The great thing about New Hampshire is that the men and women here expect to look you in the eye," said Cruz. Iran was a big topic...

ONDONDERRY, N.H. --Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is working to keep his momentum in the polls rolling with a five-day bus tour through the Granite State.

Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz have the greatest chances of winning the Iowa caucuses two weeks from Monday, new polling-based forecasts from FiveThirtyEight show. Cruz has a 51 percent chance of winning Iowa when national and state polls as well as endorsements are taken into account. In that forecast, Donald Trump trails Cruz with a 29 percent chance of winning Feb. 1. A look at just state polls shows a much closer race between Trump and Cruz, giving the business magnate a better chance of winning by 2 percentage points, 44 percent to Cruz's 42 percent.....

Join me on Tuesday, January 19th at the Iowa State University Hansen Agricultural Student Learning Center in Ames, Iowa! I will have a major announcement and a very special guest in attendance. You will not want to miss this rally!

  Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~Lawrence Joel Info from here.             Lawrence Joel (February 22, 1928–February 4, 1984) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class who served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. While serving in Vietnam, as a medic with the rank of Specialist Five assigned to 1st Battalion of the 503rd...

In the midst of the financial panic seven years ago, the government took over and bailed out two of the culprits of the bubble, the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now, as we start 2016, they have $5 trillion in assets but are still entirely wards of the state. It’s high time to resolve this great unfinished business. We need to extract Fannie and Freddie from their government bondage, while simultaneously ensuring they will never repeat their disastrous free ride on the taxpayers. In September, 2008, Fannie and Freddie were put in federal conservatorship as their losses from...

This document establishes new Federal motor vehicle safety standard (FMVSS) No. 401; Internal trunk release, that requires all new passenger cars with trunks be equipped with a release latch inside the trunk compartment beginning September 1, 2001. Instead of a release latch, this document also permits the installation of an alternative system such as a passive trunk release system which would detect the presence of a human in the trunk and would automatically unlatch the trunk lid. During the summer of 1998, eleven children died when they inadvertently trapped themselves in the trunk of a car. This new standard will...

In recent weeks, much time and effort has been devoted to debating whether Ted Cruz is a "natural born citizen" eligible for the presidency. Whichever way you come down on this question of constitutional interpretation, the real lesson of this debate should be the absurdity of excluding naturalized citizens from the presidency in the first place. Categorically excluding immigrants from the presidency is a form of arbitrary discrimination based on place of birth (or, in a few cases, parentage), which is ultimately little different from discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity. Both ethnicity and place of birth are...

A police officer was shot and killed while responding to a traffic accident in Holladay Sunday, and the suspect who shot him also wounded another officer before being fatally shot a short distance from the first alleged crime. Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder identified the deceased officer as Doug Barney, an 18-year veteran of the department and a father of three who worked in the Holladay Precinct. Barney was responding to a traffic accident at 4500 South and 2300 East around 10 a.m., and when he arrived a man and woman were observed leaving the scene of the crash....

A group of young Syrian refugees have been arrested for sexually assaulting women on a train. These little scumbags are 12-13 years old! So much for Obama's "harmless widows and orphans." This proves that these people are savages, even when they are young. Three women have come forward to report being sexually assaulted by young Muslims on a Belgian train, the Express reports. One 22-year-old woman revealed that these punks "threw themselves on her" groping and rubbing their filthy bodies on her. Sick animals. "Her cries were heard by other passengers. Passengers alerted train staff and the police arrived to...

Trump's "birther" theories have sparked a growing controversy in the Republican Party and critics are now using it to question the eligibility of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and even Donald himself. Donald's "birther" theories have sparked a constitutional lawsuit in Houston questioning Cruz's eligibility to be president, while Trump defended Rubio Sunday morning saying he was a natural born citizen. Meanwhile, a strict interpretation of Donald Trump's own "birther" theories could call into question his own eligibility to be president because his mother was born in Scotland, according to CNN. "I would note that the "birther" theories that Donald has...

Unified Police Department announced Sunday afternoon that an officer shot Sunday morning during a police chase was killed in the line of duty. According to officials, police responded to the scene of a car crash just before 10 a.m. Sunday morning. When police arrived, one male and one female suspect ran from police officers, who then pursued them on foot. Police say the male suspect, identified as Corey Lee Henderson, shot officer Doug Barney in the head during the chase. Barney was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead. Sheriff Jim Winder announced the...

Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman and GOP presidential frontrunner, has taken off the gloves in his fight with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. What was friendly jabbing in the Fox Business Channel debate has gotten nasty as Trump now directly questions Cruz’s eligibility to serve as president and the $1 million loan Cruz took from Goldman Sachs to jumpstart his Senate campaign. “Goldman Sachs owns him, he will do anything they demand. Not much of a reformer!” Trump tweeted. “Ted Cruz purposely, and illegally, did not list on his personal disclosure form personally guaranteed loans from banks,” Trump added. “They own...

The standard political rules don't apply to Donald Trump. We have seen him get through controversy after controversy that would have instantly ended the campaign of a traditional candidate and not only has he remained virtually unscathed but his poll numbers have actually increased. Trump has struck a nerve in this country and capitalized on what is perhaps the most perfect window for him to run in thanks to the fact that people are more divided than ever and extremely frustrated with the establishment and status quo in both parties. A recent poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal...