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Hillary Clinton dismissed a report that emails she sent on her private email server contained a high level of classified material. Speaking to NPR's Ari Shapiro in San Antonio on Wednesday, the Democratic presidential candidate continued to maintain that she "never sent or received any material marked classified" while at the State Department "and that hasn't changed in all of these months." According to a Fox News report Tuesday, more emails that went through Clinton's private email server than previously reported were classified beyond the "Top Secret" classification level, according to a letter sent to lawmakers from the Intelligence Community...

I posted this a year ago and received minimal interest. The warning speaks for itself.

Every time I pass a construction site here in Coastal South Carolina, I wonder how the contractors manage to employ a labor force that consists almost entirely of illegal aliens. The only language spoken at theses sites is Spanish and my experience as a prosecutor tells me that the people employed there are almost all illegal and do not have Social Security Numbers. How are contractors able to employ these workers? Are they all paid under the table? Does no one inspect job sites? Is there some loophole in the law that allows the employers to avoid record-keeping and tax...

A new DARPA program aims to develop an implantable neural interface able to provide unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world. The interface would serve as a translator, converting between the electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and zeros that constitute the language of information technology. The goal is to achieve this communications link in a biocompatible device no larger than one cubic centimeter in size, roughly the volume of two nickels stacked back to back. The program, Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), stands to dramatically enhance research...

Is Republican establishment willing to stop Cruz at any cost? Bob Dole, who has endorsed Jeb Bush, has weighed in on the budding Ted Cruz v. Donald Trump contest in the early GOP primaries, and backed Trump in the strongest terms. According to the New York Times, Dole warned of "cataclysmic," and "wholesale losses" if Cruz is nominated. Dole's logic is viewing the Trump/Cruz contest explicitly in terms of what is better for the Republican Party establishment: "I question his allegiance to the party," Mr. Dole said of Mr. Cruz. "I don't know how often you've heard him say the...

Some people have claimed that Greenland was no warmer 1,000 years ago than it is today...In this essay, I will examine some of the historical facts concerning Greenland starting 1,000 years ago and will then attempt to demonstrate how much warmer Greenland had to be in order to accommodate the history that transpired in this region.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to read something to you. I want you to really listen to this. This was written back in 1996, written by a man named Samuel Francis, who later in life suffered the -- acquired the -- reputation of being a white supremacist. Undeservedly so, but there have been efforts undertaken to destroy his credibility and so forth. He was an advisor to Pat Buchanan. But don't let any of that cloud what I'm gonna read to you yet. I want to read to you from an essay he wrote called "From Household to Nation." It...

World | Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:18pm EST Russian bombs take toll in Syria as Islamic State under pressure BEIRUT | By Tom Perry and Suleiman Al-Khalidi Four months of Russian air strikes in Syria are taking their toll on rebel forces, strengthening the hand of a defiant President Bashar al-Assad as the United Nations struggles to get peace talks off the ground. Insurgents in the west are being hit harder, while in eastern and central parts of the country, Islamic State is also under military pressure and is cutting fighters' pay as its oil-smuggling operations are hit by plunging...

At this point, Donald Trump is simply crushing the opposition in the Florida Republican primary, said Kevin Wagner, Ph.D., associate professor of political science at FAU and a research fellow of the Initiative. Not only has he increased his lead, Mr. Trump’s favorability ratings among Republicans are now ahead of his competitors by a substantial margin. CNN/WMUR New Hampshire poll: Trump — 34 Cruz — 14 Bush — 10 Rubio — 10 Christie — 6 Kasich — 6 Paul — 6 Fiorina — 4 Carson — 3

CONCORD, N.C.... The Cabarrus County Health Department is investigating after a woman said she saw roadkill being taken to a Concord restaurant over the weekend. That woman took a picture Sunday afternoon after she saw the people in the car pick up a dead deer off the road and throw it in the back of a car. She recognized the car from it delivering food to her home and office. "I just couldn't believe what I was seeing," said the woman, who didn’t want to be identified. She called police after the car drove behind China Fun with the roadkill...

Mark Levin is growing steadily angrier at Trump, saying tonight he's acting very "Nixonian," running an "Alinskyite" campaign, and straight-up lying about Ted Cruz. Levin has been criticizing Trump a lot recently, but tonight he took it to a whole new level, declaring, "If he becomes the nominee, a lot of people who otherwise would unite under that tent may not, because when you run a campaign of personal attacks, an Alinskyite campaign, wittingly or unwittingly, you turn people off." He's really tired of Trump's attacks on Cruz over his bank loans, Canadian birth, supposed unlikeability, etc. Levin is no...

I had the opportunity to attend the Trump rally in Tulsa today. I wanted to hear him first-hand without media bias. Palin being there was an added bonus. I was asked to give a full report and here's my views: 1. Trump seems trustworthy. If you're surprised to hear that, so am I to write it. I'm not saying he'll always be right. Look, the President is going to face situations we don't know about yet. How will they be handled? Trump rightfully blasted the stupidity, incompetence, and weakness of the present administration. He made no bones about it. Calling...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ TATTOO TWIRL The U.S. Air Force Honor Guard Drill Team performs during the 2014 Virginia International Tattoo at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, VA, April 26, 2014. The annual festival highlights military bands and performers from around the world to honor Vietnam veterans and their families. Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. ANTI-TANK MISSILE U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Timothy Antolini provides security with an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile in...

What Caliph Al-Baghdadi wanted to gain through terrorism, Erdogan of Turkey was able to gain 'by peace' where he is "deceiving many". Erdogan in two months will lead the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (O.I.C) considered to be the Muslim 'U.N' coming second to the United Nations in size and global power. But that's not all. As this happens, the cunning Erdogan was able to woo Saudi Arabia to arrange the Turkey-Egypt talks setting the framework for a peace deal between Turkey and Egypt to be finalized before April where Al-Sisi hands over the leadership of the O.I.C to Erdogan. Keep...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Trump accepting an endorsement somewhat puzzled me. I just have to be honest. I look at Trump as a genuine outsider, as somebody who doesn't do anything by the book in politics. And yesterday he did two things by the book that, frankly, surprised me. One is accepting an endorsement. I did not see Sarah's speech, but I saw sound bites of it. And I saw Trump standing aside while she was at the podium, and he's not the kind of guy that stands aside. He just isn't. He's that dominant. He is that huge to give...

This is in reference to the scene in The Dark Knight where (Heath Ledger's) Joker reveals he doesn't care about having money, and that Gotham City "deserves a better class of criminal." See that scene here, or the full version here.

Bloomberg's Mark Halperin said Trump could end the race after the New Hampshire primary. On Tuesday night, prior to Sarah Palin's endorsement of the Republican frontrunner, Halperin said on MSNBC that Trump is well poised to win Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and then run the table. "I think at this point, if you said, of all the people in the race, who's the one most likely to win both Iowa and New Hampshire, today you'd have to say it's Trump," Halperin commented.

Palin can make it happen, says ex-political director in Hawkeye State The former political director of the Iowa Republican Party predicted Wednesday that Donald Trump will win the Iowa state caucuses on Feb. 1, a result that likely would be played as an upset given Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's recent polling strength.

What is an excerpt? lol I'm just trying to learn how to post. Bare with me. Lurker (reader and donater for years). Does anyone think our current administration is honest? I don't trust them as far as I could throw any of them.

Hey Chris Matthews: is GloZell qualified to be President of the United States? How about John Travolta or Joy Behar? On his MSNBC show this evening, Matthews absurdly attacked Sarah Palin's legitimacy as a Trump endorser by questioning her presidential qualifications. GloZell, Travolta and Behar are all Hillary endorsers. So how about it Chris: which of them could you imagine in the Oval Office? Trump advocate Omarosa Manigault [a former Apprentice star] ably dismissed Matthews' absurd attack, saying she was supporting The Donald for president, not Palin or anyone else. View the video here.