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Wow.   We've never seen this before: articulate and successful sons and daughters of a Presidential candidate making meaningful — not token — contributions to a campaign. There's been a lot of back and forth about family values in this campaign, but how well his successful children turned out tells you all you need to know about the kind of a Dad Trump is.   It's also exciting to see young people — millenials! — active in a political process dominated by senior citizens and seasoned politicians.

Muslims in Switzerland are demanding that the white cross be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol, it "no longer corresponds to today's Muslim multicultural Switzerland." Poqari The Muslim group behind this idiotic demand known as the "Secondos," began a nationwide campaign in October to urge Swiss citizens to change the flag to something that is "less offensive" to Muslims. How about this? Gatestone Institute reports: The proposal to change the Swiss flag has been met with outrage across the political spectrum and is sure to fuel anti-immigrant sentiments in Switzerland. Sylvia Flückiger a councillor with...

It would be wise for everyone to remember, Donald Trump stood up to defend the Tea Party when the left-wing nuts and the media attacked them/us. A full year before Ted Cruz emerged as a Texas senate candidate, Trump was doing all he could to advance grassroots efforts against entrenched political types. While back-stabbing lapdogs like Glenn Beck joined with the left-wing media whackos who were accusing the Tea Party of being filled with radicals, extremists and racists. Donald Trump stood up and said no; he defended the Tea Party at a time when few politicians were willing to do...

Officials in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania are scrambling to save face after they inadvertently allowed a local developer to begin demolition on the reputed birthplace of the U.S. Bill of Rights. Triple Crown Corporation secured the necessary permits and followed the proper protocols to demolish a two-story stone house along Carlisle Pike that was most recently used as Stone House Auto Sales. But it wasn’t until the company started demolition Jan. 6 that local officials realized its historical significance, The Sentinel reports.

...U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv The U.S. Embassy in Israel is currently in Tel Aviv. Cruz wants to move it to Jerusalem, Israel's "once and eternal" capital.Commerce DepartmentIn a piece for the National Review, Cruz said shuttering the department would "close the congressional cookie jar" and promote free trade.Education DepartmentAnother standard line from Cruz: "U.S. Department of Education, which should be abolished." Cruz is a states' rights guy -- he wrote his college thesis on the 10th Amendment -- and wants to give control of schools to states or localities....Energy DepartmentCruz has said the country needs an "energy renaissance." .......

missing 2-year-old Published January 17, 2016 FoxNews.com Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre435 Email Print NOW PLAYING Stunning photo of cross in sunrise goes viral Never autoplay videos The search for a 2-year-old boy missing in the Tennessee woods resumed Sunday with volunteer search teams comprised of only law enforcement members. Noah Chamberlin, of Pinson, disappeared Thursday afternoon and has not been found despite a massive search. “We have total faith we’re going to find Noah and bring him home safe,” Chester County Sheriff Blair Weaver said Saturday, WBBJ-TV reported. He does not believe the boy’s disappearance was the result of foul play....

ALBANY, New York, January 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Farmers who host weddings in their backyard cannot refuse ceremonies where two people of the same sex are trying to get married, a New York court has ruled. The court's decision affirmed the state's Division of Human Rights (DHR) ruling against Robert and Cynthia Gifford, owners of Liberty Ridge Farms, after they declined to host a "wedding" for a same-sex couple. The Giffords said they would host the reception for a lesbian couple, but the ceremony itself would have to be hosted elsewhere because of their religious beliefs about marriage. DHR found...

Live debate. Humorous if you are not DT.

Portland Community College has designated April "Whiteness History Month" (WHM), an "educational project" exploring how the "construct of whiteness" creates racial inequality. "'Whiteness History Month: Context, Consequences, and Change' is a multidisciplinary, district-wide, educational project examining race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins, and heritage," PCC states on its website. "Scheduled for the month of April 2016, the project seeks to inspire innovative and practical solutions to community issues and social problems that stem from racism." Whiteness "does not simply refer to skin color[,] but [to] an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits,...

Friends of Tulip Siddiq, the MP leading the campaign to ban Donald Trump from Britain, have said she will be "tearing" his reputation to "shreds" during today's parliamentary debate on the proposed ban. The Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn compared Mr. Trump to a "hate preacher" and claimed that his call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration into the U.S. had incited violence.

A super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee took a quick snipe Thursday at opponent Ted Cruz. The ad cuts to images of Cruz while a narrator asks "will you remain steadfast and true or will you wake up deciding who to be that day?"

I know everyone has their won special ways of celebrating holidays. How about MLK Day? What do you do to make it special?

We don't all just sit here like milch cows chewing the cud until our time to be fired comes. The economy as a whole is a constant churning of jobs. If we count just people who are fired (or their employer goes bust) then it's about 10% of the workforce each year. If we add in quits (where we decide to leave a job for a better one) then it's another 10% of all jobs each year. Meaning that we expect 50 to 100% of all jobs to change over those five years anyway: no, obviously not that all jobs...

After she left the White House, “Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork that she had stolen.” Of course that was petty larceny compared with the countless millions the Clinton’s have amassed during the Pay to Play years of the Clinton Foundation. What follows is a disturbing example of theft-by-political-clout. Between 2009 and 2013, the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom purchased Uranium One, “…a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West.” According to a New York Times article, the Canadian owners of the company had been...

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Americans' civic knowledge continues to be abysmal, finds a new report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). "Survey after survey shows that recent college graduates are alarmingly ignorant of America's history and heritage," the authors note, and federal civics testing has not improved the situation. Among the more disheartening findings of this analysis: How do Americans amend the Constitution? More than half of college graduates didn't know. Almost 60% of college graduates failed to identify correctly a requirement for ratifying a constitutional amendment. We live in a dangerous world - but almost 40% of college graduates didn't...

A Reflection on a Sermon of Dr. Martin Luther King Refuting Atheistic Materialism Msgr. Charles Pope January 17, 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we commemorate this weekend, is best known as a civil rights leader who worked to end racial injustice. But Dr. King had other things to say as he preached each Sunday, first in his own assembly and later as he moved about.Among his recorded sermons is one in which Dr. King addresses the problem of unbelief, of materialism and atheism. His reflections are well worth pondering today because the issues he addresses are...

[Full title] Chris Wallace Relentlessly Grills Ted Cruz on Flipped Crop Insurance Vote: 'Senator, Isn't That Exactly the Kind of Game That the Washington Cartel Plays?' Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz was grilled Sunday morning by Fox News host Chris Wallace over his flipped vote on crop insurance. "One final question, and as I say we're just running out of time, you condemn the Washington cartel, which you call the lobbyists and career politicians who rig the game. I want to ask you about one of your recent acts as a senator," Wallace said before playing video of Cruz switching...

The cop-show parody "Angie Tribeca" has so many terrible jokes and awful puns and outright idiotic bits of random humor. That's meant as high praise. Taking affectionate shots at everything from "CSI: Miami" to "The Shawshank Redemption" to "Casino Royale," "Angie Tribeca" was created by Steve Carell and his wife Nancy. Jones plays Angie Tribeca, a veteran LAPD detective who's unhappy to be assigned a new partner, J Geils.

There are moments in our national history that have called Americans to bend the arc of history towards justice. Each moment has required exceptional leadership. Today, we commemorate one such leader who illuminated our nation by his courage and dedication to the truth. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. understood the American potential more fully than it was actualized at the time. He challenged the distorted conventional acceptance of a "separate but equal" citizenry. Instead, he drew upon that promise of our founding that every person is "endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." Reverend King reminded communities across the...