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The nationally syndicated, Alabama-based Rick & Bubba show infiltrated the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign’s Birmingham rally earlier this week, and it went about how you would expect. Chris Adler, Rick & Bubba’s producer, donned a hippie poncho, grabbed a microphone and interviewed a diverse range of rally-goers, including a former Russian citizen who hates socialism but supports Bernie ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), a Sanders campaign staffer who couldn’t answer a single question, and a guy named “Reagan” who was named after our 40th president but came to the rally to “piss (his) dad off.” Adler’s conclusion? “If you’re going to live...

The Jeb Bush-affiliated super-PAC Right to Rise is the most prolific advertiser of the 2016 presidential race, and it's looking to spend another $300,000 to place an ad during an event sure to be seen by plenty of people: the Super Bowl. The super-PAC is crowdfunding the cost, enticing donations with swag like Super Bowl koozies, a commemorative poster, a hat, a campaign gift bag and a sneak peek at the ad before it airs. A $10,000 donation earns an invitation to a Super Bowl watch party in New Hampshire and a strategy briefing with Mike Murphy, CEO of Right...

Reacting to the latest bombshell revelations about Hillary Clinton's email arrangement, Judge Andrew Napolitano said on The Kelly File Wednesday night that Clinton should be lawyering up, because "the case against her is overwhelming, damning and, from her perspective, grave."Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, continues to insist that the latest allegations about her emails while secretary of State change "nothing." During a Wednesday interview with NPR, she said, "I'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the Justice Department, because nothing that this says changes the fact that I never sent or received material marked classified."Via...

R. Kelly has had his own share of controversy, so it's perhaps no surprise that he would feel sympathetically toward Bill Cosby. The singer shared his thoughts in an extensive new interview with GQ, saying, "I'm a fan of Bill Cosby's from the Bill Cosby show, of course." As for the allegations of sexual abuse against Cosby, Kelly said, "For me to give my opinion on something that I have no idea if it's true or not, all I can say is that it was a long time ago. "And when I look on TV and I see the 70-,...

Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday called out Donald Trump for previously supporting immigration amnesty in 2013, back when Cruz was fighting against the Gang of Eight amnesty bill. "Congress must protect our borders first. Amnesty should be done only if the order is secure and illegal immigration has stopped," Trump tweeted in August 2013, expressing a more lenient stance on immigration than he does on the campaign trail today. "Trump SUPPORTS amnesty. Read his 2013 tweet - while I was leading the fight to defeat Rubio Gang of 8 amnesty. #Truth" Cruz said in his retweet of Trump's words. Trump...

Some of Hillary Clinton's emails on her private server contained information so secret that senior lawmakers who oversee the State Department cannot read them without fulfilling additional security requirements, Fox News has learned. The emails in question, as Fox News first reported earlier this week, contained intelligence classified at a level beyond "top secret." Because of this designation, not all the lawmakers on key committees reviewing the case have high enough clearances. A source with knowledge of the intelligence review told Fox News that senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, despite having high-level clearances, are among those not...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks that millionaires and billionaries buy elections. He hammered away during Sunday’s Democratic debate, complaining about people “pouring unbelievable sums of money into the political process.” According to estimates made by the Center for Responsive Politics, $3.77 billion was spent on elections for federal office during the 2014 midterms. Sanders blames this on the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, prohibiting the government from restricting independent political spending by unions, corporations and advocacy groups. But the growth rate in campaign spending long predates that case, and has actually slowed down since that decision....

With Ted Cruz clinging to a narrow lead in the fast-approaching Iowa caucuses, an increasingly vocal chorus of evangelical leaders and campaign rivals is questioning the authenticity of the candidate’s vaunted Christian faith by pointing to his reportedly meager record of charitable giving. In a series of interviews this week, political opponents and pastors alike suggested Cruz — an avowed Baptist who is aggressively courting evangelical voters — has flouted the Biblical commandment of tithing in his personal life.

Full title: Judicial Watch: Obama Family's October Weekend Fundraising Getaway to San Diego Cost Taxpayers $2,001,468.90 in Travel Expenses Alone Known Travel Expenses Now Approaching $10 Million A Year (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that the October 2015 Columbus Day getaway enjoyed by President Barack Obama and his family cost taxpayers $969,783.90 in flight expenses alone. The documents regarding the Obama travel expenses came in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request first filed on October 13, 2015. According to the newly...

Liquor is abundant in Arabic culture, its role a liquid of material and spiritual pleasure; considering that the Arab heritage is poetic as well as literary, liquor and other spirits abound in these works, their presence being felt in many types of poetic works. This makes liquor an element in reading material, a depiction meant to show splendor and fame, or a catchall term for drinks similar to it. So that one may attempt to approach the poetic truth, characteristics are attributed to liquor, like being a drink with the ability to transcend that which is sensual or habitual (any...

r months, the press and the Republican establishment alike have been expecting the Trump bubble to implode. Now that it is clear Trump is not going anywhere, we are seeing stories about a long slog of a campaign or even a brokered convention. But there is a very real possibility that, far from those kinds of days of reckoning, Donald Trump could actually RUN THE TABLE. Ironically, Trump not only could win — he could win more decisively than any non-incumbent Republican contestant for the nomination since the dawn of the modern primary system. New Hampshire First, let us look...

Says be began doing this after watching it on TVA 19-year-old Yemeni has demonstrated an unprecedented skill in rock-balancing, becoming one of the world’s best-known persons in such an art. Rock balancing is an art, discipline or hobby in which rocks are balanced on top of one another in various positions. There are no tricks involved to aid in the balancing, such as adhesives, wires, supports or rings. Salah Mohammed Baithan has hit headlines in many publications worldwide for such skills, with the latest report about him published in the US magazine ‘The Strange,’ which classified him as second...

Blizzard warnings have been issued for the Baltimore and Washington D.C. metro areas, and blizzard watches extend northward to the Philadelphia and New York City metro areas as Winter Storm Jonas begins to take shape. The storm is expected to deliver heavy snowfall to at least 15 states, and heavy ice accumulations, strong winds and coastal flooding will add to the storm's impact as it carves a path from the nation's heartland through the South and onward to the East Coast now through Sunday. As of Thursday morning, just over 73 million people – or roughly one in every four...

Vote “yes” for our tax hike or you may die of a heart attack or your house may burn down. That’s the message implied by mailings sent out last fall by the city of Rochester Hills to promote a property tax hike labeled as being for public safety. Yet the mayor of that city is one of the local government officials complaining about a new law that restricts their communications before an election to increase property tax rates. Rochester Hills Mayor Bryan Barnett spoke out against the legislation in a Lansing press conference in January. He also was critical of...

A pack of three Siberian Huskies from San Jose, California, are raising a rescued cat as one of their own, according to the pets' owners.

For months, Donald Trump’s core supporters have told the nation that they do not care if Donald Trump offends anyone. Everyone is so fixated on being liked, they’ve become politically correct unwilling and unable to offend anyone.Suddenly, however, the Washington political class is attacking Ted Cruz for being unlikable and the very Trump supporters who love that Trump offends the politically correct now think it is a reason to vote against Ted Cruz that Washington hates him.Are you people not paying attention?Former Senator Bob Dole, who ran against Ronald Reagan declaring Reagan would be the death of the GOP, has...

Back in 2011 at a Tea Party Rally, when asked about George Soros, did Donald Trump really say: Forget Soros. Leave him alone. He's got enough problems. What about Soros, let's talk about somebody else, sweetheart Answer: yes. I saw the quote attributed to Trump, but with no details. I wondered if it were true. It's true. The audio is at the link. Glenn Beck played it in 2011.

Oberlin College's president released a statement refusing to even consider a 14-page list of demands submitted by student activists, one of the most significant shows of defiance in the past few months to a wave of intense campus activism. The list of demands at Oberlin, released in mid-December, is one of the most extreme seen at any college in the past two months. Among other things, the list demands the firing of several school employees, creation of segregated black-only safe spaces, a school stipend for protest leaders, and the creation of a bridge program to educate released convicts at the...

Only a few days left until the caucuses! Let's get fired up! Join Glenn Beck, special guest Senator Ted Cruz, Congressman Steve King, Bob Vander Plaats, and David Barton for this inspiring campaign rally! Doors open at 6:00 PM. This is a FREE event with limited space...Tickets are required for entry. WHEN Saturday, January 23, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CST) - WHERE Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center - 205 W 4th Street Waterloo, Iowa 50701

A man from the San Francisco Bay Area who may have been the world's oldest living person, and whose lifetime stretched over three centuries, died Monday at the age of 117. Even though the family of Andrew Hatch never formally registered him with the Guinness Book of World Records, friends of Hatch and the mayor of Oakland believe he could have been the oldest person in the country — and possibly the world. The oldest living man on record died Tuesday in Japan at the age of 112. The oldest woman in the United States on record is Brooklyn's Susannah...