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<p>Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, will endorse Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, officials with his campaign confirmed. The endorsement provides Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost just 13 days before the state's caucuses.</p>

Video has been viewed a quarter-million times on Facebook since it was posted SundayPart home-made convertible, part home-made snowplow: it's how some streets in Cape Breton are getting cleared of snow in style. A video of a "redneck snowplow" clearing driveways in Whitney Pier is going viral on social media. Since the original video was posted by James Macdonald Sunday morning, it has racked up more than 4,500 shares and has been viewed more than a quarter-million times on Facebook. Although a 2000 Grand Prix may not be the vehicle of choice for most commercial snowplows, the driver doesn't seem...

The chair of the State Senate Education Committee said state legislators are looking at how to address the series of sickouts staged by Detroit Public School teachers who are upset about plans by Gov. Rick Snyder to completely revamp the troubled school district. Detroit Public Schools Spokeswoman Michelle Zdrodowski didn’t respond to questions about how many schools had been closed due to sickouts. The media reported that five schools recently had been closed in one week. The Detroit News reported that Steve Conn, who was the president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers before being removed, was taking credit for...

Sunday night's NBC face-off between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was watched by 10.2 million viewers, making it the most-watched Democratic primary debate since October. The ratings were an improvement over the other two Democratic debates on broadcast networks this election season. CBS's Democratic debate on a Saturday night in November averaged 8.5 million viewers. The ABC debate on the Saturday before Christmas in December had 7.8 million. NBC had an advantage over ABC and CBS, since Sunday nights have heavier TV viewership. Still, NBC's debate -- the fourth of the Democratic cycle -- didn't come close to matching the...

Has Trump forgotten how angry people are with the GOP establishment? Not only is he using establishment arguments to attack Ted Cruz, he’s now boasting that the establishment sees him as a candidate they can get behind and that they are contacting him left and right. Oh Trump. Only he would boast this as a good thing two weeks before the first Republican primary state: This is an ad in the making for Ted Cruz. Video: Donald Trupm on establishment types contacting his campaign

A Trump/Kasich two-man race for the nomination would, I think, trigger the End Times. And I’m an atheist. I’m not even supposed to believe in the End Times.Are there any conservative voters left in this party?Among Republican voters who say they’re definitely going to vote, Trump leads Kasich by … two points, 24/22. I know what the data nerds are going to say: “That’s an ARG poll and ARG has a C- rating for accuracy from FiveThirtyEight.” Fair enough. Discard it if you like but you can’t ignore the trend in New Hampshire. Go have a look at how...

After significant deliberation U.S. District Judge Amy Berman has struck down Obama's assertion of executive privilege over documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, the Department of Justice program that allowed the sale and trafficking of thousands of weapons to violent Mexican drug cartels. Berman was appointed to the Court by President Obama in 2011. POLITICO has the details: U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim. The standoff over the records led to a House vote in 2012 holding...

Parents of a five-year old "transgender" child are asking the school's kindergarten class to take up the task of educating students on gender dysphoria, the condition of identifying as a sex that is opposite of one's biological makeup. The request has prompted opposition from a number of parents, while several others have voiced their support. According to the Daily Caller, it began when the parents of a gender-confused boy, who remains unidentified, sent their child to Nova Classical Academy, a charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, wearing a girl's jumper and pink shoes. The parents, Hannah and Dave Edwards, indicated...

As rumors swirled Tuesday that Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, would endorse Donald J. Trump in Iowa, the former Alaska governor posted on Twitter a link to a comment from her daughter Bristol slamming Senator Ted Cruz ... Bristol Palin said that she didn't know whether the endorsement would happen, but that what Mr. Cruz's camp was now saying about her mother "makes me hope my mom does endorse Trump."

Forget the primaries .. We know those deadlines are meaningless if Hillary is "replaced" because she is indited at any time before November. (The democrats don't follow election law anyway in past elections, so why would they care this time? But that is being cynical, right?) Lautenburg in NJ was stuffed into the ballot for an Senate seat illegally after the primaries. Missouri elected a dead man to the Senate when he died before the election. California's most infamous "Mexican-American" representative was elected to the House only after she changed her name to a Spanish-sound. Three other Senate seats were...

There's an assumption among casual consumers of politics that establishment Republicans loathe Donald Trump. Not really true. Yes, they worry about what Trump might do downballot to the GOP if he is the nominee. But most view him with some mix of puzzlement and fascination. The Republican establishment saves its actual hatred for one man and one man only: Ted Cruz. Witness Terry Branstad, the four-term governor of Iowa and, without question, the face of the Republican establishment in the state. On Tuesday, he told reporters that he wants to see Cruz beaten in the Iowa caucuses in 13 days...

Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal regulators should increase the amount of ethanol blended into the nation’s gasoline supply. Speaking at an event hosted by the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Trump, a real estate mogul and the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ought to follow the ethanol volumes Congress set in 2007. “The EPA should ensure that biofuel ... blend levels match the statutory level set by Congress under the [renewable fuel standard],” Trump said. The mandate is popular in Iowa, which hosts the nation's first caucuses.

Ten years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published my first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone. The Journal headline sums it up: "It's the Demography, Stupid." Opening paragraph:Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There'll probably still be a geographical...

Guest workers in United States earn less than the average U.S. wage for the same job, and there's little evidence of a labor shortage in the fields where they are employed, a study contends.

Apple today released OS X 10.11.3 which improves the stabiliy, compatibility, and security of your Mac. This update is recommended for all OS X El Capitan users.To update: 1. Open the App Store app on your Mac. 2. Click Updates in the toolbar. 3. Update each app individually, or click Update All to install all available updates.For more detailed information about this update, visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205356.For more detailed information about the security content of this update, visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222.

PHOENIX — The nation's high court this morning refused to resurrect a challenge by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the Obama administration's deferred action programs. Without comment, the justices let stand a ruling last year by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that the self-named "toughest sheriff in America'' had no right to sue.

So I was watching a movie with my kids (10 and 13) the other day and was thinking about how different the media is that they consume than from the stuff I was raised on. I would like to get them interested in older movies with positive messages. Which John Wayne and which WWII movies are your favorites and which would think would grab kids' attention? I'm thinking "The Cowboys" would be good, but what else would everyone suggest?

Developing countries' growth is at its lowest rate in more than a decade. A strong U.S. dollar vexes importers and pressures oil demand. And China, the long-time driver of global demand isn't living up to expectations. All of which leaves the world awash in an oversupply of cheap oil whose prices apparently have nowhere to go but down, according to the International Energy Agency's January oil market report. The agency revised oil demand expectations down for the fourth quarter 2015 by 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) and another 100,000 bpd for the first quarter 2016. Supply from countries not operating...

Rick Santorum was a guest on KCWI's Great Day on Tuesday morning. Santorum talked about a number off issues in his 17-minute interview with the KCWI morning team, but when Meteorologist Jason Parkin asked what differentiates him from Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Santorum explained it was his view on marriage. "Marriage is probably the big thing. Ted has the position that states can do whatever they want with marriage," Santorum stated. "I don't believe that's true. Abraham Lincoln said that states don't have the right to do wrong. Santorum went on to explain his position in depth. I would offer...

Morning Consult poll, January 14-17, 2016: Trump 39% Cruz 13% Rubio 9% Carson 8% Bush 7%