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With Bernie Sanders on the march and hot on her tail, Hillary Clinton agreed to subject herself to an interview blitz ahead of last night's Democratic debate. On ABC News, she weighed in on her allies' good cop/bad cop routine regarding the release of Sanders' medical records. On NBC's Meet the Press, she was confronted with quotes from voters who articulated the reasons behind her likability an trustworthiness struggles. And on CNN, she shot daggers at anchor Jake Tapper for asking a reasonable, relevant question about the FBI's ongoing, expanded criminal investigation into her improper, unsecure, national security-compromising private email server. If icy glares could kill...

Hanson blames the current state of affairs on the modern, elite liberals who controlled the levers of power in California throughout its decline. These "richerals" - a term he coined for rich, cool liberals who shelter themselves from the real world in a cocoon of wealth - reshaped the state to fit their vision of utopia. All the while they used their clout to escape the effect of the high taxes and regulations they imposed on others, namely the middle class and people who settled away from the coast. "California is run from a sort of Pacific Versailles, an isolated...

A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad. What’s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change alarmism. Here is how Piers Sellers (pictured) – acting director of NASA’s Earth Sciences division – begins his New York Times article: I'm a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I've spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which...

Civic leaders, activists, artists and others are celebrating, marching and paying homage Monday to Martin Luther King Jr., marking the 30th anniversary of the federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader. In South Carolina, civil rights leaders planned a march to their state capitol as in past years when their rally highlighted calls to remove the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds. The King Day at the Dome gathering began in 2000 with that call. Last July, organizers got their wish as South Carolina swiftly removed the flag which had flown at the capitol for more than 50 years after...

"I was just in Puerto Rico," recalled Charles Venator Santiago, political scientist at University of Connecticut. "The buses no longer work because they haven't been able to pay their fuel obligation." He also says his mom and several friends are waiting on overdue tax refunds. Good luck with that. Puerto Rico's contemporary debt troubles have deep roots. "Puerto Rico doesn't really have an engine of economic growth. Ever since 2006, it has been in an economic funk," said Ted Hampton, a vice president at Moody's, who has been following the territory's troubles. Now, it is broke. Enter Secretary Lew. The...

Beloved detective Nancy Drew is returning to TV - but she'll look different from how fans remember. American network CBS is pledging that the new Nancy Drew won't be white. At the Television Critics Association press previews last week, the head of the CBS entertainment division, Glenn Geller, told reporters his network wanted to focus on diversity, including shows designed around characters who were black and Latino. "We're not casting colour-blind, we're casting colour-conscious," he said.

Huckabee raises questions about Cruz's Canadian birthplace. Pursuing America's Greatness, a super PAC supporting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), launched a new TV ad in Iowa that briefly swipes at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). "New York City or Dubuque, Iowa, there is only one Mike Huckabee," the narrator says after an image of Cruz appears on screen. The spot is backed by a $550,000 buy. (Hotline reporting) GOING THERE. "Huckabee said Thursday that there is a 'convincing and compelling' case to be made that Cruz's Ca­na­dian birth makes him ineligible for the presidency." Huckabee: "It was never a concern...

Gui Minhai is one of five missing people who are associated with the publisher Mighty Current, which specializes in gossipy books on political scandals involving China's Communist leaders and other sensitive topics that are banned in the mainland. Their disappearances raised concerns Beijing is eroding the "one country, two systems" principle that has preserved freedom of the press and other rights in Hong Kong since China gained control of the city from Britain in 1997. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Gui said while in detention that he surrendered in October, 10 years after he fled China after killing...

I just got today's Hotline from National Journal. It is behind a pay wall, but it is worth noting their top story confirms what I have been seeing and hearing. Josh Kraushaar writes, It's the $64,000 question for establishment-minded Republicans: Would they rather see Ted Cruz or Donald Trump win the Iowa caucuses, assuming none of the more moderate candidates prevail? In an informal survey of senior GOP strategists, the clear winner was Trump. Their arguments were reasoned but underscored: a) how they're still underestimating Trump; and b) how much they personally hate Cruz to the point where emotion is...

She began her work in a Hamburg Refugee Reception center, but this experience destroyed any illusions she had. This is an employees first person account: *It's a long article, written as a first person interview and very enlightening, everyone is quite surprised a national newspaper has published this... Google translate does an excellent job translating.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's supporters unveiled an ad responding to new attacks from Donald Trump. Trump amped up his criticism of Cruz on Twitter following Thursday night's GOP presidential debate, and a pro-Cruz super PAC, Keep the Promise, responded with a new video. The ad plays audio of Trump heaping praise on Cruz as part of an introduction at a Lincoln Day fundraising dinner in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2014. "One of the reasons that I like Ted Cruz so much is that he's not controversial," Trump says in the ad to laughs from the audience. "But the truth is,...

Senator Cruz has massively flip-flopped from championing high-skilled immigration as an "unambiguous good" and calling for a 500% increase in H-1Bs and a needed, substantial increase in green cards to now saying immigrants take jobs from native-born workers and depress wages. It is simply inconceivable to see these 2013 and 2015 positions are anything other than political posturing from the self-professed "purity" candidate. The group cites a number of Cruz quotes including this from 2013: "I think high-tech immigrants are an unambiguous good for economy and for our country. And I think bringing more high-skill, high-tech immigrants to this country...

Donald Trump was on Fox and Friends this morning siding with the GOP establishment, suggesting that everybody in Washington hates Ted Cruz and that he is very unpopular there and because of that he won't be able to get 'deals done' as president:

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Gun "law" noncompliance activist and citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh has been given a terminal prognosis by his doctors, readers of his Sipsey Street Irregulars blog were told earlier this month. The sad news comes after years of being at the forefront of the "I will not comply" movement while struggling with major health problems and hospitalizations. In addition to participating in gun transfer defiance protests and "smuggling" standard capacity magazines in states that have banned them, Vanderboegh is noted within the Second Amendment community as the architect of the "Three Percent" movement. Of special note, he's the blogger...

Trump and the Clinton's enjoyed a tense friendship with Hillary attending Trump's wedding in 2005 and Trump giving upwards of $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation. While rumors are circulating that Trump is actually a plant to discombobulate the Republican voters, the axiom, 'divide and conquer' comes to mind. Trump has changed political parties as often as Hillary changes her hair. From Democrat to Independent to Republican and a host of 'in-betweens', his changing ways are a bit unnerving. If he were actually, gasp, elected, would he become a Democrat while in office? The most telling would be finding a connection...

Trump At CPAC 2013: "Every one of those 11 million people will be voting Democratic...you're on a suicide mission."

Why is Iowa important? Because it is. Same reason the Kardashians grace the cover of magazines at the supermarket checkout: They're somebodies because they are. In two weeks from today, Iowans - some Iowans, will go to someplace in their town or neighborhood, listen to speeches in favor of one candidate for President or another, and cast a vote for their favorite. Grand Avenue in Des Moines will be packed with reporters, campaign staff, influence-peddlers, and hangers-on as they talk to each other, passing along rumors overheard at a bar, nuggets overheard from network correspondents chatting off-camera, and items overheard...

She's been charged with bringing the feminist icon Wonder Woman to the big screen for the first time in the character's 75 year history. And Gal Gadot was pictured hard at work on the set of the eagerly-anticipated superhero flick dressed as the Amazonian pin-up's alter-ego Diana Prince in London on Sunday. The Israeli beauty, 30, looked to be portraying the character caught between identities. She dressed head to toe in a vintage outfit circa the First World War while clutching Wonder Woman's sword and shield.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz, saying, “Everybody hates Ted.”Appearing on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Trump said “it is true, he [Cruz] is very unpopular in Washington.”...“I have to do what I have to do,” he said, referring to his attacks on Cruz. “You know, I want to make America great again. I have to get things done. When you have somebody that can’t get along with anybody in Washington, you’re not going to get deals done. I mean, you have to get deals done. We can’t always keep...