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During a Wednesday morning interview on "Fox & Friends," Republican front-runner criticized the group of celebrities boycotting the Academy Awards on the grounds they are "too white." "I think it's really sad," noted the real estate tycoon. "I think it's a tough situation. I saw somebody on your show today say, 'well, what do we do with BET?' Whites don't get any nominations, and I thought it was an amazing interview. I'd never even thought of it from that standpoint.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Kansas officials who want to execute two brothers who were involved in a brutal mass killing known as the “Wichita Massacre.” The court ruled 8 to 1 that the Kansas Supreme Court was wrong to have overturned the death sentences of Reginald and Jonathan Carr for crimes that Justice Antonin Scalia described as including acts of “almost inconceivable cruelty and depravity.” The justices were reviewing two issues from the Kansas court’s decision: whether the jury received inadequate instructions on how to weigh evidence that might lead it to show mercy, and whether the...

A pistol carrier in Connecticut was asked by a police officer to produce a permit.  He asked the officer what the reason was for the officer asking for the permit.  The officer replied with an expetive.  From fox61.com: Brown told FOX 61 what happened next: "Well, you have a gun. So then he said, 'do you have a permit?' And I'm like why? He said 'because I (expletive) said so." But, according to the newly written law, police may only request a permit if there is reasonable suspicion of a crime.The officer did not arrest or detain Brown.I did...

A Danish town has made it mandatory for public institutions such as schools to serve pork, in the latest development of what has become know as the Nordic country’s “meatball war”. Denmark is home to 5.6 million people and around 13 million pigs. Sales of pork products and live pigs account for more than 5% of the country’s exports and the product is considered integral to nation’s culture by many citizens.

Hospitals in Europe have been warned that newly-arrived migrants may bring with them diseases that have been eradicated in the country for several decades. The Danish State Serum Institute (SSI) has warned hospitals to be on the lookout for signs of diphtheria, an illness that has not been seen in Denmark for 20 years, after two Libyan migrants tested position for the disease. “The infection can be very dangerous if one isn’t vaccinated against it. The dangerous type is very rare and we last saw it in Denmark in 1998,” spokesman Kurt Fuursted said.

According to a columnist for the Duke University student newspaper, America's "obsession with the First Amendment" is really just "an expression of white supremacy." "I am thinking about how an urgent and overdue conversation about racism-on our campus and across our country - has been derailed by a diversionary and duplicitous obsession with the First Amendment," graduate student Bennett Carpenter wrote in university newspaper The Chronicle. "I am thinking about how quickly the conversation has shifted from white supremacy to white fragility - and how this shift is itself an expression of white supremacy." Apparently unaware of the irony of...

WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio is reporting tonight that Julio Pino, an associate professor of history at Kent State University, has been under investigation by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for alleged ties to ISIS. Chris Tye@TVTye FBI comment on their investigation of @KentState prof for allegedly trying to recruit students for #Isis. @WKYC Pino, a convert to Islam, includes on his CV the articles “Born in The Fist of the Revolution: A Cuban Professor’s Journey to Allah” and “How a Cuban Embraced Islam.” Twitchy’s sister site Townhall.com attempted to contact Pino in 2007 about his “Global War”...

UNITED KINGDOM, January 20, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – British sufferers from multiple sclerosis are reporting remarkable improvements in their condition after injection with adult stem cells taken from their own bodies. The treatment is part of a clinical trial of techniques pioneered at America's Northwestern University by Dr. Richard Burt. The adult stem cell treatment for MS is just one of many being applied around the world for more than 100 medical conditions, many to do with diseases of the auto-immune system. Sheffield patient Holly Drewry, a 25-year-old mother of one, went into that city's Royal Hallamshire Hospital in a wheelchair...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he threw his endorsement behind Jeb Bush because he thinks the former Florida governor will "get stronger over time" -- and because Donald Trump is "pissing" away the Latino vote.Graham, who suspended his own presidential campaign just before Christmas, told MSNBC he looked at the candidates in the GOP field and considers Bush "most qualified to be president.""He'll do well and beat expectations. His opponent is expectations. Can he beat Mr. Expectations? I think he can," the senator said."Donald Trump is the most unelectable Republican I've seen in my lifetime," Graham continued. "He's got...

It has been a week of uncomfortable conversations in Hollywood. While many agree that the Academy's overwhelmingly white membership does play a role in the types of films and performances that get Oscar attention, some white members privately express resentment over accusations of racism in failing to nominate a single nonwhite actor or anoint Straight Outta Compton a best picture candidate. Penelope Ann Miller, best known for Carlito's Way and The Artist, is a member of the actors branch that could have nominated Creed's Michael B. Jordan, Concussion's Will Smith, The Hateful Eight's Samuel L. Jackson or Beasts of No...

The nation's capital is now under a blizzard watch, the first watch of its kind issued in advance of Winter Storm Jonas. Now is the time to prepare for Winter Storm Jonas, which is expected to kick into high gear Friday and pummel parts of the East through the weekend with heavy accumulations of snow and ice. Strong winds will likely add to the threat of power outages and may also bring serious coastal flooding along parts of the Atlantic coast. The National Weather Service issued the blizzard watch late Wednesday morning for Washington, D.C., and nearby Baltimore. The watch...

How can you hate TARP, but love Trump? For all their faults, the Star Wars prequels ride on undercurrents of political insight. In Revenge of the Sith, there's a moment when Padme Amidala tells her husband of growing doubts about their government. "Have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side?" she asks him. "What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we've been fighting to destroy?"How Padme felt then mirrors how I feel now. Only my "republic" isn't a galactic government. It's a movement...

You may think this column is going to be a righteous, self-help narrative, right? Wrong! "Doing what you think is right, even if you're dead wrong" is just plain evil. It's the work of imposters. Our country has become plagued with a destructive mentality. You're either all-in or all-out; we've lost any middle ground. We see this most prominently in politics. For example, let's take Bernie Sanders. I believe him when he says he wants to help the poor, provide affordable health-care for everyone and rid this country of corruption and corporate greed. After all, that's what's right. The problem...

Four years ago, the Iowa caucuses were very, very good to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. In a race where seemingly every Republican candidate took a turn at the head of the polls, Santorum peaked at just the right time. He won a razor-thin race in Iowa, proclaimed "game on" to a caucus-night crowd, and went on to be 2012's GOP runner-up. Things are different this time for the 2012 caucus victor With poll numbers low and consistent relegation to undercard debates, Santorum often finds himself justifying his campaign's continued existence. "People say, why are you still doing this?" Santorum...

The robo-machines are now having a grand old time hazing the August lows at 1870 on the S&P, and may succeed in ginning up another dead-cat bounce or two. But this market is going down for the count owing to a perfect storm. To wit, the global and US economies are heading into an extended deflationary recession; S&P earnings peaked at $106 per share more than a year ago and are already at $90, heading much lower; and the central banks of the world are out of dry powder after a 20-year binge of balance sheet expansion. The latter is...

"Thank you so much. It's so great to be here in Iowa. We're here just thawing out. Todd and I and a couple of our friends here from Alaska, lending our support for the next president of our great United States of America, Donald J. Trump. "Mr. Trump, you're right, look back there in the press box. Heads are spinning, media heads are spinning. This is going to be so much fun. "Are you ready to make America great again? We all have a part in this. We all have a responsibility. Looking around at all of you, you hard-working...

According to press releases issued by the Trump campaign, Palin was supposed to spend today (and the next several days) criss-crossing Iowa with Donald Trump, stumping for him. However, at the rally Trump held this morning, Palin was absent with no explanation from the Trump camp. Instead, Trump just took the stage for a little longer than planned. The media inquired about Palin's absence and were basically given "no comment" in response.

Today we saw someone who was once a rising star in the conservative world explode in an inglorious display of crass opportunism. Sarah Palin, that darling of a failed John McCain presidential bid, has resurfaced to throw her voice and her support behind the gilded toad of the GOP, Donald Trump. Where she was once a strong Tea Party leader, promoting free market ideas, limited government, and power back in the hands of the people, today she forsook it all, in favor of a big government, foul mouthed, Wall Street liberal with atrocious hair. Far too often, we see that...

Well, I guess we can rule out another rate hike in January. That's what economists are saying, not that anyone seriously believed that the Federal Reserve was going to engage in back-to-back hikes after promising that rates would go up only gradually in the months ahead. With Wall Street off to its worst annual start in history, stock prices have been but one indicator that the economy could slow in the weeks and months ahead. That should give the Fed pause. Stocks, of course, have not been the only market-based gauge to suggest that both the domestic, and global, economies...

We've said it before. The Clinton's do not believe rules are for them. They think they're better and smarter than everyone else. They're insatiably avaricious. They're dishonest. Let's review her email lies: Hillary Clinton, March 2015"I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material." March 10, 2015"I'm certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material." July 25, 2015: "I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received." Clinton had more than 1300 emails containing classified...