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"Nooooo!" shouts Cruz half-heartedly as he lounges in the briar patch. "There's a lot of people who don't feel he can appeal to people across the board," [Orrin] Hatch said. "For us to win, we have to appeal the moderates and independents. We can't just act like that only one point of view is the only way to go. That's where Ted is going to have some trouble."... "An awful lot of us really didn't like to be targeted as corrupt, establishment bought by the lobby establishment," [Dan] Coats added. "It sure looks like someone was using it as a...

"I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves," said Anderson. "I had a half-dozen people stop to take a picture because they hadn't seen a chair like this before."

Meanwhile, 12 News Now reports Clinton was in West Beaumont to attend a fundraiser organized by Pakistani businessman Tahir Javed. The news station reports the campaign collected about $500,000, “making it one of the top five private fundraisers Clinton has had in this country.” “Many of the Pakistanis at the event were pleased with Clinton’s vocal support of the Muslim religion,” 12 News Now reports. “Talking about Muslims and favoring Muslims, so I really appreciate her whatever effort she is making against Islamaphobia, so I really think she needs to be the next President of the United States,” Aisha Zahid...

It is a common misconception that around 650,000 Palestinian refugees were created because of fighting that took place in 1948. But a closer look at both the population data and statements made by UN officials at the time suggest that the true figure is much lower, possibly as low as 270,000. The conventional figure of 650,000 cannot be true for more than one reason. Firstly, there were fewer than 660,000 Arabs living in the part of Palestine that eventually became Israel; and secondly, UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency), either through incompetence or deliberate manipulation, handed out multiple...

OBERLIN – Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov answered a wide-ranging, 14-page list of student demands Wednesday by telling black students he would not respond to their sought-after policy changes. Marvin Krislov Marvin Krislov Krislov, president since the summer of 2007, posted his response on the college’s website more than one month after students in Oberlin’s Black Student Union called on the college administration to address what students believe are underlying racial tensions on campus. It comes at a time when the campus is nearly empty of students who are on an extended winter break. Attempts to reach students have been...

WASHINGTON - Republicans in the U.S. Senate are confronting an unsettling possibility: Sen. Ted Cruz, their least favorite colleague, stands within reach of becoming the party's presidential nominee and standard-bearer. Worse than that, many Republican lawmakers and aides fear the Texas senator could ruin Republicans' chances of hanging onto control of the Senate in November's elections, alienating voters in a half-dozen key swing states with his hard-line stances on issues from immigration to abortion....

A Muslim school has failed an Ofsted inspection after investigators found extreme books in its library promoting stoning to death. The watchdog's inspectors said they discovered three texts promoting inequality of women and illegal punishment during a 'brief visit' to Jamiatul Ummah School in Tower Hamlets, East London. The books found at the all-boys private secondary school - which has annual fees of £3,400 - also undermined the rule of British law, according to inspectors in a report published two weeks ago. The school, which insists it 'condemns all forms of extremism unequivocally', said it has removed the texts following...

Maybe Donald Trump’s not as anti-establishment as some people think. It seems GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch — one of the most “establishment” senators out there — thinks Trump could be the ticket to a GOP victory in November:

The fight heats up Texas Sen. Ted Cruz returned fire on establishment Republicans Thursday, including former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, who suggested that Cruz would fare worse in a general election than Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters following a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Cruz said Dole, among others, were looking to continue the "cronyism" and "corruption" of Washington. "If you think of the last time we beat the Washington cartel it was 1980, it was the Reagan revolution, where millions of Americans rose up," Cruz said. "And I would note that Mr. Dole then opposed Reagan, and said we...

Speaking on The View on Wednesday, actress Whoopi Goldberg threatened to leave the United States if Donald Trump is elected president. While she's not entirely sure where she would actually go, she expressed displeasure with Trump's views and said that she would like to vote for a candidate that actually fixes things rather than blames a person or group for society's problems. Whoopi Goldberg Threatens to Leave America Over Donald Trump - Can't Blame Immigrants for ProblemsIn 2000, many celebrities posited that they would leave the country if George W. Bush were elected. Only one actually followed through.

HOUSTON, Texas - The Cruz for President campaign today announced a new TV ad, "Have Your Back", highlighting Cruz's promise that if elected President, America will once again lead from a position of strength.The ad makes the connection between the weakness of the Obama/Clinton foreign policy and the recent illegal capture of our sailors by Iran. In a Cruz administration, we will have a Commander-in-Chief who will stand strong in defense of our nation and our brave men and women in uniform. Our allies will once again have confidence that we have their backs and our enemies will know the...

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr on Thursday strongly denied a news report that said he had told people he would vote for Democrat Bernie Sanders over Republican Ted Cruz. Burr’s aides asked The Associated Press for a retraction. An AP spokesman said the news agency was sticking by its story. “I will support whoever the GOP nominee is,” Burr tweeted. “@AP is trying to create discord where there isn't discord by telling lies.”

Wednesday on ABC's "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump needs to "stop blaming" others for the problems in America and threatened to "move" out of the country. Goldberg said, "People don't like being the butt of the jokes and now that people say, listen, you can't make me the butt of your jokes, I don't like it. You can't use me as some sort of stereotype. I don't like it. That's the PC people are talking about. And the bottom line is this--find a different way to say what you're going to say. People are...

... Beltway Republicans say they consider Donald Trump the lesser of two evils. Cruz wears their loathing as a badge of honor...

"Walk . . . with patience" (Ephesians 4:1-2). Patient Christians endure negative circumstances, cope with difficult people, and accept God's plan for everything. In our instant, microwave, drive-through, "I want it now" culture, patience is hard to come by. We get upset if we have to wait too long in the supermarket line or get stuck behind the guy driving ten miles per hour under the speed limit. But today's Scripture tells us that our lives need to be marked by patience. The Greek word translated "patience" literally means "long-tempered." A patient person doesn't have a short fuse or lose...

CHARLESTON — Thousands of union members crowded the West Virginia Capitol Wednesday night to protest right-to-work and other items on the Legislature’s agenda. In a campaign organized by the West Virginia AFL-CIO, union members were bused to the Capitol to kick off lobbying efforts for the state's 60-day legislative session. The protesters gathered under the Capitol dome and chanted at legislators who were on their way to the governor’s annual state of the state address. Union officials want to prevent any changes to prevailing wage requirements for government-funded construction projects, avoid cuts to government employee health benefits and prevent West...

A long-standing discrepancy between predictions and observed results in test reactors has been called "the great unsolved problem" in understanding the turbulence that leads to a loss of heat in fusion reactors. ... [I]t turns out that interactions between turbulence at the tiniest scale, that of electrons, and turbulence at a scale 60 times larger, that of ions, can account for the mysterious mismatch between theory and experimental results. ... The expectation by physicists for more than a decade had been that turbulence associated with ions (atoms with an electric charge) was so much larger than turbulence caused by electrons...that...

Just a few days ago, David Mahler had his contracting company quit the agreements with the state of Louisiana to remove Confederate monuments, citing death threats and threatening calls to his home. It seems like quitting wasn’t enough for some disturbed people, as his Lamborghini was found burned to the ground this morning.TV station WDSU reports there’s almost nothing left of the $200,000 Lamborghini Huracan, just four, tire-less wheels surrounding a pile of ash and some surprisingly durable seat frames.Someone who saw the streamers-in-the-wind liveried Huracan at a Baton Rouge Cars and Coffee recently posted this before-and-after image:Yikes. While there...

Donald Trump started dreaming about the 2017 inauguration more than a year ago, months before he jumped into the presidential race. In late 2014, the billionaire businessman launched a promotion for his upcoming luxury hotel in Washington: a bet on the chance to stay there during inaugural week. The idea is simple: For $250, you purchase a "Candidate Key" from the hotel website. If your chosen candidate wins the general election, you snag a room reservation at a yet-to-be-determined rate (probably $1,000 or more per night.) If you back the wrong horse, you lose the $250. It's unclear how Trump's...

You were sealed with the Holy Spirit "with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory" (Eph. 1:14). Someday God will take full possession of all that is rightfully His. Yesterday we saw that God seals us with the Holy Spirit as a pledge of our eternal inheritance. Here Paul says He does so "with a view to the redemption of [His] own possession." That refers to when God takes full possession of all that is rightfully His. Everything is God's by creation, but Satan has usurped God's rulership to become the "god...