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Levin might cry and whine about Trump's tactics but here's the thing, there are no rules in politics. The only rule is winning. Trump is making that clear this cycle by breaking all the rules and winning so far. If Cruz can't beat Trump, he doesn't deserve to be the nominee. Hillary and the democrats would use the same "tactics" and more to pulverize him. This is what primaries are about. They are tests for the strongest nominee. They make the eventual nominee stronger. Cry baby whining about Trump does not make Cruz stronger. It's what losers do when they...

The Iroquois, the Osage, the Tuscaroras, the Hurons, the Omahas, and many other North American Indians all speak of giant men who once lived and roamed in the territories of their forefathers. All over what is now the U.S. are traditions of these ancient giants. Over 1000 accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have reportedly been unearthed from ancient burial sites over a two-hundred-year period in North America. Newspaper accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos and Smithsonian ethnology reports have carefully documented this. These skeletons have been reported from coast to coast with strange anatomic anomalies...

Is Donald switching teams again? A while back he said he had been on the establishment team, but had flipped against them. Yesterday, he attacked Ted Cruz for daring to truthfully point out Mitch McConnell had lied to conservatives. That does not sound very anti-establishment to me. Defending Mitch McConnell is a defense of the establishment. It is also bad form. Cruz was right. McConnell was lying and had been lying to conservatives. Him pointing it out on the Senate floor was necessary to expose McConnell. Trump is wrong to attack him for that. This is just more evidence that...

(LINK IS TO THE TRAILER) I was able to attend the sequel to GOD'S NOT DEAD last night. Packed house of pastors and activists. Great movie! Like the first film, the multi-plot story follows several characters as they faces challenges due to their faith. Many of the characters (and the Newsboys) from the first film are back. The primary story is about a teacher who answers a student's question in class and references the teachings of Jesus. Enjoyable film and relevant as today's headlines. A worthy sequel covering new territory. Big cheer from the crowd at the end.... and a...

Pussyfoot Palin's endorsement makes an old political insult spike Pussyfoot spiked the morning of January 20th, following Sarah Palin’s use of the word the prior evening in her endorsement of Donald Trump for president. Palin made a speech at Iowa State University and, in giving praise to the candidate uttered the phrase “No more pussyfooting around!” Her choice of words, while more colloquial in tone than is typically encountered in classic rhetoric, were well suited to pussyfoot’s linguistic history, as the term began its life as a political term. “No more pussyfooting around!” —Palin, endorsing Donald Trump for President The...

Survivor: Kaoh Rong is the 32nd season of Survivor (for those unfamiliar with the show, there are two seasons each year). It begins Wednesday, February 17, 2016 on CBS at 8/7c with a special 90 minute episode. References: Official Survivor site at CBSWikipedia article As with Survivor 28, there will be eighteen new players - no returning players - divided into three tribes of six players each, based on brains, brawn, and beauty. A twist for this season: Two idols can be combined into an idol that can be played after the votes are read. Survivor host Jeff Probst reveals...

Fox's Meghan McCain: Ted Cruz is 'the thinking man's Donald Trump' via Fox News

Before Christmas break the President vowed to make some changes for his swan song year. When he returned he went to work with his Attorney General Loretta Lynch strengthening gun control laws. Then last Tuesday in his final State of the Union Address the President made it sound as if it was absurd to think that he was after America's guns. On Wednesday night's GOP debate every single candidate saw this rouse. Ted Cruz laid it all out for America when he sited Eric Holder's mission to brain wash the American people against guns, and the fact that Obama appointing...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump for the Republican nomination sucked up all the media oxygen on Tuesday, with many commentators saying that Palin's stamp of approval would give Trump the conservative credentials he so desperately needs. While Trump has been sharply criticized by many (including me) for his lack of support for conservative principles on many issues, Palin has been viewed as a conservative standard-bearer ever since she first appeared on the national scene in 2008. Much of Palin’s popularity with tea partiers and conservative activists comes from her willingness to be a strong voice for...

Confidence is at a low. The Davos man is, once again, less confident than he was a year ago. Only 27% of CEOs around the world think the global economy will improve in 2016, according to a new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. That was down from 37% a year ago; confidence peaked 2014 at 44%. The accounting and consulting firm released the survey of more than 1,300 top executives on the first official night of the World Economic Forum, the global confab held each year in Switzerland.

There might be a ninth planet in the solar system after all - and it is not Pluto. Two astronomers reported on Wednesday that they had compelling signs of something bigger and farther away — something that would definitely satisfy the current definition of a planet, where Pluto falls short. "We are pretty sure there's one out there," said Michael E. Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. What Dr. Brown and a fellow Caltech professor, Konstantin Batygin, have not done is actually find that planet, so it would be premature to revise mnemonics of...

“It’s just classless,” said a former senior adviser to McCain of the endorsement, predicting it would backfire. “It’s undermining to a key Trump message which is one of competency. What Trump has said is that he’s going to hire the very best people and bring in men of Carl Icahn’s ilk … and he’s appearing with someone who’s viewed as one of America’s most astounding morons.” Palin’s endorsement of Trump follows a public dispute between the New York real estate tycoon and the Arizona senator who accused Trump of “firing up the crazies” after Trump held a campaign rally in...

Lupita Nyong'o is the latest star to address the complete lack of diversity among this year's acting nominees for the Academy Award. The actress, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2014 for her performance in 12 Years a Slave, wrote on Instagram; 'I am disappointed by the lack on inclusion in this year's Academy Award nominations. 'It has me thinking about unconscious prejudice and what merits prestige in our culture.'

It’s Panic Time for the Democratic establishment No, Bernie Sanders likely isn’t ahead in New Hampshire by 27 points, as yesterday’s CNN/WMUR poll showed (the other polling just doesn’t back that up). But 12 days before the Iowa caucuses and 20 days before the New Hampshire primary, there’s something happenin’ out there. And now he’s viewed as enough of a legitimate threat that the Democratic establishment and the liberal wonks are piling on him as if he were the frontrunner.

For Meghan McCain, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump was difficult to watch. -snip- Meghan McCain, who said that she has still not spoken with Palin since 2008, remarked of the former vice-presidential candidate's endorsement speech, "This is not my style of politics, using sort of vulgar language." During her endorsement speech, Palin declared that Trump would "kick ISIS ass."

Mr. Trump's support [36 percent] was down a bit from 41 percent in a Monmouth poll released last month, while Mr. Cruz picked up 3 points of support since last month.Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has a 19-point edge over his closest 2016 GOP rival, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, in a national poll on the Republican field released Wednesday. Mr. Trump was at 36 percent in the poll from Monmouth University, followed by Mr. Cruz at 17 percent, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 11 percent, and retired doctor Ben Carson at 8 percent. The survey was conducted from...

At my very first newspaper job, the editor had a banner above the newsroom that said, "Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable." Thus, he trumpeted his view of the news business as a vehicle by which to reform society. Reporting objectively? Surely you jest. That pretty much sums up the media today, although they're nowhere near as honest about their true calling as was my editor, an old-style liberal who was open about his biases but still actually attempted to provide fair and balanced coverage. Nowadays, they don't even bother to pretend. Nothing has exposed this more than the...

Minnesota jurist Wilhelmina Marie Wright's written accusation that President Reagan tolerated racism did not hinder her ascent to the federal bench. The Senate voted 58-36 on Tuesday evening to confirm President Barack Obama's nominee to U.S. District Court in Minnesota. While a student at Harvard Law School in 1989, Wright wrote an article published in the prestigious UCLA Law Review that accused Reagan and his administration of "bigotry" and implied that property rights undergird American racism.Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in July, Wright, an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, renounced the style but not the substance of...

The world's financial system has become dangerously unstable and faces an avalanche of bankruptcies that will test social and political stability, according to a leading global banker. William White, chairman of the OECD's review committee and former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements, suggests the stresses in the financial system are "worse than it was in 2007." Speaking with the UK Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard before the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, White warned that macroeconomic ammunition to fight further economic downturns was essentially "all used up."

Clarifications regarding cited 'sniper training' article In English: Because of the recent international citations of the 2013 Allehanda article 'Laddad for prickskytte' I as News Editor feel that a few clarifications are in order. Several websites refers to the immigration project in Sollefte 'sniper training'This is not a correct description. The word sniper training implies military combat education which is something completely different from this. Although the refugees in the pictures can be seen holding what looks like sniper rifles, it is in fact biathlon sports equipment. Biathlon is since the 1960s recognised as an Olympic discipline, and the Sollefte';...