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I am sure there are a great many conservatives who were deeply disappointed with Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump Tuesday. It was hard on the ears and harder on the heart. If anything, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump made Sen. Ted Cruz look more presidential...

Please follow the link to a table with the results. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2016/IowaGOPCaucusPollJan2016.pdf

The best the Democrats can do is Bernie Sanders with an "I" by his name until he changed it to a "D" late last year? Not only was he an Independent , but a Socialist in congress for for over 17 years. With a record like that the question "What is the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?" is sure to come up. So far no Democrat, not even Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has been able to answer that question (even after the question is repeatedly asked). So the real question is whether the Democrat base is willing to vote...

Donald Trump cheered on Stacey Dash who went on an Oscar-black-boycott rant on Fox News, saying "if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET" and there shouldn't be Black History Month. The network's cultural analysis contributor made her comments Monday on the morning show "Fox & Friends" while weighing on African-Americans like Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith who say they will boycott the Academy Awards for its lack of diversity in major acting categories. Dash called their protests "ludicrous," said People magazine. "Either we want to have segregation or integration," said Dash....

Full title: Campaign Watchdog Group Files FEC Complaint – Ted Cruz Failure To Disclose Goldman Sachs/Citibank Financials… By now most people are aware of the controversy surrounding Candidate Ted Cruz and his failure to reveal $1.3 million in campaign “loans” from Goldman Sachs and Citibank during his 2012 campaign for the senate. At the heart of the issue is a failure of Ted and Heidi Cruz to list Wall Street “loans” on the required Federal Election Commission financial reports. Together with the campaign officials the Cruz’s say the non-reporting was an accidental oversight.  However, a watch dog group has now filed...

"Everyone Is Looking for You" -- A Meditation on a Short Sentence from Scripture Msgr. Charles Pope January 20, 2016 There is a brief line in the first chapter of Mark's Gospel that simply and completely sums up what we all are doing, even if we're not aware of it. The setting of the passage is the outskirts of Capernaum in the early morning.The prior day Jesus had healed a great many people at the house of Simon Peter. As the new day dawned there was already a multitude gathered in hopes of seeing this healer. Word must have...

It is critical for U.S. citizens to understand the meaning of the Constitution’s term “natural born citizen” when choosing a prospective Commander-in-Chief. The candidate must be free from all possibility of foreign loyalties through either his or her parentage or place of birth. Why is the adoption of a narrow interpretation of “natural born citizen” essential to the future of our nation? If it is sufficient for a person to have only one U.S. citizen parent in order to be considered a “natural born” citizen, then dual citizens could become President, including dual citizens of countries hostile to the United...

J. Taikwok Yung has been doing a terrible, god-awful job of making fun on Donald Trump on the internet since 2007. Yung has been sitting on multiple parody websites including the name "trump" in the title, such as trumpindia.com, trumpbeijing.com, and trumpmumbai.com. The sites have a banner at the top reading "Fan, Parody and News," and feature scintillating commentary ranking each season of "The Apprentice" on a scale from "All around sucks like hell" to "OK Season" to "Pretty good." They also feature some links to YouTube "Apprentice" parody videos that are so bad they don't even give you schadenfreude...

Vote Description This vote was to confirm Wilhelmina Marie Wright, an ultra-liberal judge to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. A proponent of "critical race theory," Wright once argued the right to property, one of America's most foundational rights, perpetuates racism in America. She has even gone so far as to claim that property rights are racist. Rather than reject this judge, who clearly holds views antithetical to the Constitution, Republicans confirmed her for a lifetime appointment. Overall this vote is one of the latest examples of President Obama packing courts around the country with liberal judges. Liberal judges have...

During the second hour of his show today, Mark Levin went through Trump's latest attack on Ted Cruz where he suggested that Cruz was worse than Hillary for not filing a loan disclosure for his Senate campaign in 2012. Trump said this was intentional by Cruz in order to hide his loans from the American people. But Levin called that a flat out lie, pointing out that Cruz did report the loans in other filings and explained how it's common that someone might think this type of collateralized loan didn't need reporting to the FEC, considering it was basically his...

HI-larious. Sen. Ted Cruz, responding to a barrage of attacks from a sitting GOP governor and businessman Donald Trump, Wednesday said his campaign raised $700,000 in the hours after he was pointedly criticized by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad. Mr. Cruz, speaking to reporters in New Hampshire, said party leaders in Washington are so fearful of his candidacy that he believes they are rallying behind Mr. Trump rather than Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida – a rival of Mr. Cruz’s who has been considered an establishment favorite. With enemies like those, who needs friends, right? Cruz continues to have plenty of...

WASHINGTON -- One year from Wednesday, a new President of the United States will be inaugurated. A new poll shows Republican Donald Trump leading Ted Cruz two-to-one in New Hampshire, less than three weeks before the primary. Sarah Palin's endorsement helps Trump deflect attacks from Cruz over Trump's conservative credentials. But the candidates differ on several issues, including taxes, government surveillance and immigration. (Click Link for Balance of Article)

The TV veteran — the subject of Sundance's opening night film 'Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You' — sounds off on politics and reveals his Democratic presidential choice.

They think he wasted money on everything from an iPad-sized video mailer to direct mail for donors in states that don’t yet matter. They think his attacks on Marco Rubio are doing more harm than good. And they worry that, at the end, all he will have accomplished is the destruction of the Bush family brand. The big-money supporters fueling Jeb Bush’s super PAC have found their boogeyman: Mike Murphy, a sharp-witted, Twitter-obsessed veteran GOP ad man who runs Right to Rise.

Quarterbacks have all the leverage in the NFL when it comes to contract negotiations. But Sam Bradford's reported demands from the Eagles were a bit out of whack with the current market. Appearing on NFL Insiders Wednesday, ESPN's Jim Trotter reported, via The Big Lead, that Bradford wanted a whopper from Philly in his most recent contract chatter, asking for $25 million a year when discussing a contract with Chip Kelly.

She explains that those behind Common Core and the new AP U.S. History framework have attempted to minimize the Constitution and remove Christianity from the core concepts, while they also stress the importance of teaching about Islam.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged executives in Davos to use their influence to drive change in countries where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people face repression, putting gay rights at the heart of this year's meeting. The issue is on the official agenda for the first time at the World Economic Forum, where political leaders from countries that discriminate against gay people, such as Nigeria and Russia, schmooze business leaders and billionaire investors. ... He said he and President Barack Obama privately raise the issue of repression of the LGBT community when they meet political leaders. "I have had...

Property magnate Donald Trump shared a strange Twitter image on Thursday in order to mock his top primary rival, Sen. Ted Cruz....Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, retweeted someone who had altered the cover of Cruz's book, "A Time for Truth," so that the Texas senator looked as if he were balding. The altered book's title: "A Time To Lie."Text beneath the title echoed a number of Trump's recent campaign-trail attacks against Cruz: "I am an untrustworthy person, I took loans from Wall Street and lied about it. I was in cahoots with Wall Street, also Trump was also right I...

A measure of international trade often seen as a bellwether for the global economy has crashed to its lowest level ever, fueling fears we could be heading for another 2008-style crash. Back in November, the Baltic Dry Index dropped below 500 for the first time in recorded history, and it has kept falling ever since. On Wednesday morning it fell to a low of 369. To put that into perspective, the index was as high as 1,222 in August, and it has fallen 84% from a recent peak of 2,330 in late 2013. The Baltic Dry Index measures how much...

The North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government has released the full log of offences recorded in the city centre on New Year's Eve, which lists in detail the forms of crimes committed, and the genders of those attacked. With crimes ranging from mere pickpocketing to full blown "group rape", what Germany's Bild newspaper calls the "list of shame" runs to a staggering 821 complaints. When considering all the major cities of the NRW state including Cologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Bielefeld the number of complaints is closer to 1,000. In the list, sexual offences are recorded 359 times, and 659 women are...