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After months of watching all sorts of political polls, we are finally just a few weeks away from actually beginning to see some voting in primary elections. Polls let people vent their emotions. But elections are held to actually accomplish something. The big question is whether the voters themselves will see elections as very different from polls. If Republican voters have consistently delivered a message through all the fluctuating polls over the past months, that message is those voters' anger at the Republican establishment, which has grossly betrayed the promises that got a Republican Congress elected. Whether the issue has...

I've already written the 25 Best Donald Trump Quotes and it seems like the right time to do the 25 worst quotes as well so primary voters can read both lists before they choose a candidate. 1) "(John McCain is) not a war hero…. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." 2) "I get called by a guy that can't buy a pair of pants, I get called names?" - Trump's comment about paralyzed commentator Charles Krauthammer 3) "How stupid are the people of Iowa?" after talking about a poll showing Ben...

There will be a recession in the United States and much of the rest of the world in 2016. After reading the above sentence, you should be thinking, what possibly could the writer know that the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve and the Obama administration do not know given all their resources and all of their professional economic forecasters? If one looks at the forecast record of the IMF and the Fed over the past several decades, one will not find any case in which a year of positive growth was followed by a year of contraction in which...

2016 is upon us and more and more voters are deciding who they support for President. As we get closer to the Iowa caucuses and even the Texas primary, we will continue to find out who you support for President. Let us know who you support in today's KFYO Poll of the Day.

Donald Trump has been pretty dull lately, which isn't by his own design. He's tried hard to keep the fires burning, but those continuous fires burnt American citizens right out. How could Trump resurrect media interest in his political antics? Well, he could choose a firebrand running mate, or at least, he could imply said running mate in advance. All along, folks have suspected that the ballad of Trump and Sarah Palin could come to a roaring crescendo in 2016. Let's quickly recap the evidence of how this could happen.

Word For The Day, Tuesday January 19, 2015 In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". kerflooey [ker-floo-ee] -advInformal. to cease functioning, especially suddenly and completely; fall apart; fail:

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton continue to lead their respective fields nationally, according to the NBC|SurveyMonkey weekly online tracking poll. Methodology: This SurveyMonkey Election Tracking data for the week of Jan. 11-17, 2016 was conducted online among a national sample of among a national sample of 11,579 adults aged 18 and over, including 10,320 who say they are registered to vote. Respondents for this survey were selected from the nearly three million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. Data for this week has been weighted for age, race, sex, education, region, and voter registration status using...

Here's an important thing to understand; this woman is a moderate. And I'm not saying that sarcastically. In Islamic terms, her position is a moderate one. She's specifically staking out a position against concubinage and slavery within Muslim society. The exception is when Muslims attack non-Muslims and take female prisoners. The fact that this is a moderate position says all you need to know about Islam. The video was translated by Memri. The professor is from Al-Azhar, which is as mainstream establishment as Islam gets in Egypt. She limits this to what she describes as "legitimate wars", suggests that Jewish...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton was asked by host Rachel Maddow how she might court the supporters of her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) , if she were her party’s nominee.

10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona, IA on Jan 19, 2016 The Meadows Conference Center at Prairie Meadow 7:30 AM. Event registration begins 8:15 AM. Event Begins Mr. Trump is scheduled to speak after lunch This event is open to the public http://www.donaldjtrump.com/schedule http://iowarfa.org/10th-annual-iowa-renewable-fuels-summit-program/

Just in time for the kick-off of the electoral season comes a movie that reminds Americans yet again what is wrong with the government we have endured for the past eight years. The riveting 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, directed by big budget action film director Michael Bay and based on the nonfiction book 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff, is a soldier's-eye view of the notorious terrorist assaults on two American compounds in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. The movie is not for all tastes, featuring combat violence aplenty (though no gratuitous gore) and an excess of...

The British Parliament on Monday debated whether or not to ban Donald Trump from the country for the crime of saying that in light of jihad terrorist attacks, there should be a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration into the U.S.

Donald Trump has been teasing a "major endorsement" that he is scheduled to release today in Iowa, and the rampant speculation is that it will be Sarah Palin's. I don't really know if this particular speculation is true, but I do know that if Palin doesn't endorse Trump today, she will endorse him eventually. At this point, only a particularly aggressive hair splitter would concede that she has not endorsed Trump already. The last few months have not been pretty for conservatives who have long denied with angry vehemence the allegation that many of the leading figures in the conservative...

If you live in one of the following 11 states you should be paying close attention to how the program is run in your state and begin questioning whether the federal government has the constitutional authority to pass off a federal program to a non-profit group which effectively eliminates, or nearly eliminates, any state control of how state tax dollars are spent. Do you live in one of these Wilson-Fish states? Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee or Vermont. ***Update*** There are 12 W-F states at this time (Oct. 2015): Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho,...

An ocean data buoy is alerting to an "event" in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the west coast of Oregon. This is where a magnitude 9 earthquake hit in 1700. According to the data buoy, the water column height (depth) fell sharply within minutes off the coast of Oregon, signaling the land beneath the ocean has suddenly "sunk." As of 0231:30, the initial water column height is 2738.80 Meters deep (8985.56 feet). Two minutes and thirty seconds later, that same water column height had dropped to 2738.66 Meters deep (8985.10 feet). Where did the four inches of water disappear to?...

The rally will be held outside the John Wayne Museum gathering at the John Wayne statue. Please Note -- This announcement will be held outside. Please dress accordingly. Tuesday, January 19, 2016 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (CST) John Wayne Birthplace Museum - 205 John Wayne Drive Winterset, IA 50273

Scheduled for Jan 19, 2016 Update: Mr. Trump will have major announcement and a very special guest in attendance. You will not want to miss this rally! January 19, 2016: LIVE Stream of the Donald Trump Rally at Iowa State University. Event will be held at the ISU-Hansen Agricultural Student Learning Center in Ames, IA beginning at 5:00 PM CST

This survey was conducted by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies from January 11th through January 16th, 2016. A total of 819 registered voters in Maryland who vote regularly were interviewed by telephone, utilizing both landlines and cell phones. A cross-section of interviews was conducted in each jurisdiction within the state to reflect general election voting patterns. This survey also includes an over-sample of 402 Democratic primary voters (MOE: ± 5%) and 301 Republican primary voters (MOE: ± 5.8%). Snip Republican primary election were held today, for whom would you vote for President: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz,...

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You won't be getting a subsidy on your new smartphone in 2016. AT&T (NYSE:T) and Sprint (NYSE:S) are the last two of the four major wireless carriers to do away with the two-year phone contract and subsidy model. Now, any new contract requires customers to pay for their new smartphone upfront or in installments separate from their service bill. Verizon (NYSE:VZ) killed off smartphone subsidies in August, and T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) is now three years removed from its Uncarrier initiative that kicked off this whole trend. Ultimately, wireless carriers could be better off for it, and big phone companies like Apple...