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WASHINGTON — After he left Wall Street to enter politics eight years ago, Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, began fielding the occasional question of when he intended to run for president. “It has come up in jest any number of times,” said Mr. Himes, who always has his answer ready. “There could be constitutional questions.” Mr. Himes, you see, was born in Peru in 1966 while his father worked for the Ford Foundation. That makes him one of at least 17 current members of Congress who, because of their birth outside the United States, could run afoul of the...

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Glenn Frey, a founding member and guitarist of the Eagles, has died ... TMZ has learned. Frey had been battling intestinal issues for months and had surgery in November. We're told in the last few days his condition took a turn for the worse. Glenn co-wrote and sang most of the Eagles hits, including "Take It Easy," "Tequila Sunrise," "Lyin' Eyes," and "Heartache Tonight," to name a few. He also co-wrote "Hotel California" and "Desperado" with Don Henley and took home 6 Grammys with the band. After the Eagles' 1980 breakup, Glenn launched a successful solo career, recording numerous hits...

Bishop Hinder (c), Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia, flanked by the newly ordained Capuchin priests Fr. Manuel (L) and Fr. D'Souza (R) in Abu Dhabi, Jan. 8, 2016. Credit: AVOSA. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jan 17, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Last week Catholics in Southern Arabia gathered in Abu Dhabi to celebrate the ordination of two Capuchin Franciscan priests by Bishop Paul Hinder, Vicar Apostolic of Southern Arabia.Fr. Darick Paul D'Souza and Fr. Arun Raj Manuel were ordained at a Mass in St. Joseph's Cathedral in the capital of the United Arab Emirates Jan. 8, for the...

The super PAC supporting GOP hopeful Jeb Bush is asking donors to pitch in to fund a Super Bowl advertisement. On Friday, The New York Times reported Mike Murphy, the head or Right to Rise, urged donors in an email to contribute online to air an advertisement supporting Bush in New England during the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is Feb. 7, two days before New Hampshire's primary on Feb. 9. According to the Times, the email to donors included a link to the website. The organization is looking to raise $300,000 for the advertisement, according to the fundraising campaign's...

The phenomenon of global jihadism has been around in its current, recognizable form since the ‘90s. It achieved definition in the decade of conflict in Afghanistan during its disastrous series of civil wars that lasted in some form or another from the 70s to the early 90s. The Islamist mujahedeen ultimately won that war. And in the process, they humiliated the Soviet Union, who had supported the previous socialist government. It is no overstatement that this conflict contributed significantly to the collapse of the Soviet Empire. What nobody expected, however, was that the ideology of the mujahedeen would rise in...

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the fall of the Roman Empire and how it started off as the Roman Republic and how it took a very long time from the fall of the Roman Republic to the fall of the Roman Empire. If a Republic doesn't fall into chaos and collapse, it will eventually de-evole into an "Post-Republic Empire". I think we are already there. I am starting to think that the American Republic is long dead and has long since been dead. Especially in everything I have experienced in the last few presidential elections....

Donald J. Trump/@realDonaldTrump: "I am self-funding my campaign - putting up my own money, not controlled. Cruz is spending $millions on ads paid for by his N.Y. bosses." This morning, Trump pointed out that Cruz "supported liberal Justice John Roberts" who upheld Obamacare in the Supreme court: Donald J. Trump/@realDonaldTrump "Just a reminder that Ted Cruz supported liberal Justice John Roberts who gave us #Obamacare. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214989/right-stuff-ted-cruz ..."

Mark Halperin Verified account ‏@MarkHalperin Does anybody know where @SarahPalinUSA plans to be on Tuesday? Trump will be having a major announcement with a special guest tomorrow in Ames, Iowa.

We believe, based on comments made by two remarkable experts on this subject, Dr. Peter Pry of emptaskforce.org and Ambassador Hank Cooper of highfrontier.com, the latter of whom worked in the Reagan Administration, that Iran already has the bomb and is working on figuring out how to get it into a vehicle and send it our way. It will not, however deliver annihilation to any single city or cities in the conventional sense. That would be pointless, futile and suicidal. Instead, working together with North Korea, they will seek to take out our electric infrastructure and anything electronic via satellites...

The NYPD is now bound to pretend that the Muslim community is no more likely to produce terrorists than the Amish community or the Jain community. "The New York Police Department has been directed by a U.S. court to remove from its online records an investigation pertaining to the rise of Islamic extremists in the West and the threats these individuals pose to American safety, according to legal documents. As part of a settlement agreement reached earlier this month with Muslim community advocates in U.S. District Court, the NYPD will purge from its website an extensive report that experts say...

We've got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year - Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating - but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump's. This is not just...

He registered as a refugee, made his way to Istanbul, and blew up eleven people for the Islamic State. Solution: bring in hundreds of thousands more refugees. What could possibly go wrong? “Face of a killer: Turkish police release first mugshot of the Istanbul ISIS bomber who registered as a refugee one week before he blew himself up, killing 11,” by Simon Tomlinson, Sara Malm and Imogen Calderwood, Mailonline, January 13, 2016:

Dr. Dave Janda interviews MG Paul E. Vallely on the capture of 10 US Navy sailors near the Farsi Islands

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, let's go to the audio sound bites. This is from the Today Show this morning, Matt Lauer speaking with F. Chuck Todd of Meet the Press. Now, this is about the recurring theme that Trump continues to put himself in a precarious position with talk radio. You know, talk radio, the people that are just entertainers. They're not really to be taken seriously. They're just... They're entertainers. But now, all of a sudden, the establishment's turning to talk radio to deal with Trump. So, all of a sudden, now it's our job to take Trump out,...

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump drew a distinction between eligibility questions surrounding Marco Rubio's run for the presidency versus those clouding Ted Cruz's bid, saying the Florida senator is qualified because although his parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of his birth, he was born in the U.S. -- unlike Cruz. "It's a different, very different thing because he was born here. He was born on the land," Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "Ted was not born on the land, and there's a very strict reading that you have to be born on the land....

Can this fix it? Right to Rise USA, the super PAC supporting Jeb Bush's presidential campaign, has delivered video players preloaded with a documentary about Bush to an undisclosed "select universe of influencers, donors and core supporters" in New Hampshire and Iowa, according to a spokesman. The video player is similar to the ones sold by Hallmark to send video cards to relatives or friends and is preloaded with copies of "The Jeb Story," a 15-minute documentary produced by the PAC. -snip- The documentary debuted in the fall and is still running on the New England Sports Network, a channel...

A 13 year-old German girl recently went missing. Her family posted many messages on Facebook. The girl was kidnapped and raped for by foreign nationals for 30 hours. Now the family is speaking out. At a weekend rally the girl’s cousin told the crowd the horrific story.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Due to "exceptional circumstances" the Islamic State (ISIS) has cut the salaries of its forces in half, a document from the terror groups Treasury Ministry (Bayt al-Mal), released in December, reveals. The document does not elaborate what it means by "exceptional circumstances" but wagers a guess that the intensified air strikes leveled against the group are beginning to take their toll. Especially since the American-led coalition and the Russians began bombing targets connected to that group’s oil smuggling operation and other economic targets. The coalition has since afflicted an even graver toll on the group's financial operation when...

We are sad to report that former WWF star "Iron" Mike Sharpe passed away over the weekend in Hamilton, Ontario. Sharpe, 64, was said to have been found in his apartment. We are told that he had been dealing with a number of health issues in recent years. Sharpe, a second generation talent, was best known for his long run with the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s, where he was billed as "Canada's Greatest Athlete" and was a recurring performer for the company, losing TV and undercard matches on live events. Working heel, Sharpe consistently wore a leather band...