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With 13 days until the Iowa caucuses, Donald J. Trump and Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, are deploying different surrogates but similar playbooks in the state, where the Republican electorate is conservative and where each is trying hard to win. Mr. Trump's closing argument began on Tuesday night with the endorsement of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 2008, who built a grass-roots following from the ashes of defeat that year. Mrs. Palin could be a significant help to Mr. Trump, certainly in terms of news media attention. But much of the coverage of her endorsement speech was...

Exeter, N.H. — I’ve spent the past couple of days on the campaign trail in New Hampshire with Ted Cruz. A few things are immediately clear: Cruz is an incredibly disciplined campaigner: There’s general agreement among the reporters covering him, including the network embeds who have been with him for months, that he’s a boring candidate from the media’s perspective because he so rarely veers off message. Another reporter offhandedly compared him to Jeb Bush, whom he said he’d enjoyed spending time with far more because Bush was like a little kid who got himself into trouble any time he...

CNN's Wolf Blitzer had Jeb Bush on as a guest Wednesday in "The Situation Room" and made Bush sit through almost a minute of Donald Trump's latest insults. The insults were from Trump's rally Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he and Sarah Palin rallied a crowd of thousands. The clips shown include Trump saying, "How about Bush? Look, the guy spends, now he's up to $79 million. Now, okay I wouldn't even mention this but a lot of it's ads against me. He does these negative ads against me, otherwise I wouldn't mention it. Maybe I would. $79 million and...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, in addition -- and, by the way, I just found the story. It's a Breitbart story. "George Will Hints at Going Third Party if it's Trump Versus Hillary," and predictably one of the comparatives he makes is, of course, Trump equals Goldwater. Conservative nominee equals landslide defeat. Now, wait. Trump and conservatism? This is where everybody's going wrong. That's the tease. Trying to figure out Trump and why conservatives like Trump, and why they're abandoning other conservatives like Cruz, who is the Trump coalition... That's really the key to understanding this. But all that...

The Buffalo Bills are making NFL history. the Bills are the first team in NFL history to have hired a full-time female assistant coach. The Bills hired Kathryn Smith as the team's newest Quality Control-Special Teams coach. Smith spent the 2015 season with the Bills, and was with the New York Jets alongside Rex Ryan the year before that. "Kathryn Smith has done an outstanding job in the seven years that she has worked with our staff," said Ryan. "She certainly deserves this promotion based on her knowledge and strong commitment, just to name a couple of her outstanding qualities,...

After watching this video you’ll be convinced that major liberal universities are basically taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from young people in order to indoctrinate and transform them into anti-Semites. We truly live in an upside down world when terrorist organizations are considered the good guy over nations trying to defend themselves from annihilation.

But after the audience with the Pope, in the course of the liturgical celebrations that the delegation has officiated in Rome along with groups of faithful who came also from Finland, it happened during a Catholic Mass that communion was also given to the Lutherans. This, at least, is what was reported by the Finnish Lutheran weekly "Kotimaa", signaling the surprise of a member of the delegation, Samuel Salmi, bishop of Oulu, according to which the Catholic officiants knew very well to give communion to the Lutherans ...

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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Anyway, we are going to lift (for one instance) my ban on audio sound bites from MSNBC. Something occurred there that dovetails nicely with the theme of the program today, and so I instructed Cookie to get me the bite, and she was just ecstatic. She loves it when I lift the ban on MSNBC. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's get started with all of this that's happening in the Republican campaign, Trump, Cruz, the Palin endorsement, the exploration of so many questions that revolve around how can any of this be happening? How can conservatives abandon conservatism...

One candidate on this national stage wants you to give him power. He tells you he is rich, so he must be smart. If you give him power he claims he will fix America, but there is another tradition in America. A tradition that believes that power corrupts, and that our goal should be not to gain power but to contain power or limit Presidential power. Our founding fathers feared centralization of power. They wrote the constitution to restrain the accumulation of power by the government. Trump is ignorant of this tradition, or worse yet, he is overtly opposed to...

Conservative talk-radio stars gleefully watched as The Donald rubbed everyone in media and Republican circles the wrong way. But now that he's turned his fire on Cruz, they're picking sides--and it's not Trump's. In a gentler, tenderer age--an age long gone--Donald Trump brought talk radio hosts together. These were the simple, balmy days of last summer, when radio talkers agreed that even Trump performed an invaluable public service by driving national media and the Republican establishment totally out of their minds. But those days are gone....

Two years after Fallujah became one of the first prizes claimed by ISIS, the Iraqi city is a ghost town where fearful residents turn on one another and resistance is met with unspeakable brutality, according to sources trapped inside the Pittsburgh-sized community just 40 miles west of Baghdad.

It all happened pretty suddenly. I went to the Walk In Clinic for a cough. I asked the Nurse Practitioner if the numb spot near my underarm was my lymph gland fighting the cough. He quickly sent me to the Vanderbilt Breast Clinic, (God bless him), an awesome place full of great people. Suddenly, I was in surgery (double mastectomy) and soon I'll be beginning chemo I'm told. They say my hair will probably fall out. I'm Stage 3A. The funny thing is I've never felt healthier. There are no symptoms. I held a handstand two weeks ago for a...

Full Title:******************************************************************How accurate are findings from the frontiers of climate science? For example, about warming of the oceans.****************************************************************** By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website.Summary:  This post looks at an often asked question about climate science — how accurate are its findings, a key factor when we make decisions about trillions of dollars (and affecting billions of people). Specifically, it examines the oceans’ heat content, a vital metric since the oceans absorbing 90%+ of global warming. How accurate are those numbers? The error bars look oddly small, especially compared to those of sea surface temperatures. This also shows how...

This is not a post about being right. Politics is not just about being right and it never has been. The way things work in a representative democracy is that you not only have to BE right, you have to convince a critical mass of other people in this country that you are right, otherwise being right will do you no good. Is it right to shut down the federal Department of Education? Probably. (SNIP) Personally, I’m glad Eric Cantor lost. Personally, although I’m broadly in favor of immigration reform (depending on the particulars), I think it would be suicide...

CONTOOCOOK, N.H. - Voters at a VFW hall and a senior center peppered the candidate with questions about global warming, income inequality and raising the minimum wage. They pressed for plans to invest in renewable energy and save Social Security. The presidential hopeful on the receiving end, however, was not Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders - it was Republican John Kasich, whose chances of advancing beyond New Hampshire's primary in 20 days likely hinge on winning over supporters who are more likely to vote for those two Democrats than for Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. The two-term Republican governor of...

The flaw is said to affect "tens of millions" of Linux PCs and servers, and most modern devices running the latest Android KitKat 4.4 software and later. A new, previously undiscovered flaw that allows an attacker to escalate local user privileges to the highest "root" level is said to hit "tens of millions" of Linux PCs and servers. Because some of the code is shared, the zero-day flaw also affects more than two-thirds of all Android devices. Israeli security firm Perception Point disclosed the flaw in a blog post Tuesday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the bug had been...

I hear friends say Ted Cruz sounds like a preacher. They say he is using the gospel to round up voters. They don't like it and they are not sure if Ted is authentic. The Ted Cruz I know is the Ted Cruz who watched his sister consumed by a heroine addiction. She died of an overdose. The Ted Cruz I know is the Ted Cruz who maxed out his credit cards to rescue his sister’s son from that situation. The Ted Cruz I know is the Ted Cruz who, as a boy, was abandoned by his father and watched...

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