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Thank you for the love expressed on Bristol's blog post. The homegoing of our Grandma Lena yesterday is so sad, but we'll always be uplifted and encouraged by her strong, tenacious Christian spirit. This beautiful 95-year-old Yupik Eskimo elder is matriarch to our five generations here; she was a hard working commercial fisherman who loved God and family so much! She's been a blessing to our entire state of Alaska. But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love...

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown told federal officials that it is time to advance on ranchers holed up in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge since Jan. 2. "[Federal officials] must move quickly to end the occupation and hold all of the wrongdoers accountable," the governor said

Language warning Really funny Achmed has a Son

Hey Jada, I saw your video about boycotting The Oscars because The Academy nominated zero blacks in the best actor category this year (The second year in a row by the way). All I have to say is...'That’s not right and it’s right up there with some of the greatest atrocities known to mankind.' Any way ... I'm sorry that you and Spike Lee are upset. I haven't seen Concussion yet, but I hear Will did a fantastic job. I hope you guys get over your deep grief. I’ll be praying for you. As I watched your angry video, I...

In response to Sarah Palin's endorsement of candidate Donald Trump, an apoplectic Glenn Beck has announced his intent to rally with Ted Cruz in Waterloo Iowa. However, the event itself is being organized by a pro-Cruz group 'Keep the Promise 1' (KtP1), a Super-pac originally started by billionaire hedge-funder Robert Mercer, who eventually turned over control of the Political Action Committee (PAC) to David Barton. David Barton is Co-Chair for Glenn Beck's Mercury One charity, and the assembly of interests provides an opportunity to explain how all of these entities connect. [GPH: Documents at link] Billionaire Robert Mercer originally started...

The Chargers and Raiders have been divisional rivals since the start of the AFL back in 1960. The Chargers have been located in San Diego almost as long, moving south from Los Angeles in 1961. Philip Rivers has played a big part in that history, having spent all 12 of his NFL seasons as quarterback for the Chargers in San Diego. With the Rams moving to Los Angeles and the Chargers being the first team invited to join them, there's always the possibility of the Raiders moving from Oakland to San Diego. And that, quite frankly, makes Rivers sick to...

For those living in the Washington, D.C-area, last night's commute home was a nightmare, as commuters in the District and the Northern Virginia area were stuck for hours on the roads. Last night's forecast only called for one inch of snow, but it wasn't the snow that caused the chaos - it was the icy conditions that arose due to the apparent lack of preparation from any municipal authority. It was something that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser apologized for earlier today: Yet, it still doesn't negate the fact that this is weak sauce. The area has been hit with bitterly cold...

Donald Trump is plenty loathed these days for lining his campaign trail with what many find to be racist proclamations, but Woody Guthrie was way early on the tip with a hatred for Trump's father spanning back more than 65 years. In 1950 the famed "This Land Is Your Land" populist folk singer moved into a Brooklyn public housing project owned by Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, and soon found it to be segregated by a color line excluding any black tenants. As Gawker reports, in Guthrie's writings he took to calling the white "Beach Haven" neighborhood "Bitch Havens." How...

The Obama administration is "blatantly breaking the law" with its implementation of the new Visa waiver program, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI) argue. The terror attacks in Paris urged lawmakers to launch a bipartisan effort to strengthen the program. McCaul and Miller, along with other members of Congress, asked the White House to consider a national security and law enforcement waiver only for certain individuals intending to enter the country. They made this clear in their proposed Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, which passed 409 to 21. Instead, the...

National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley, will publish a special issue on Friday opposing Donald Trump's bid for the presidency, according to a source with knowledge of the issue's contents. The issue will feature a blistering editorial that labels Trump a threat to conservatism, as well as essays by 22 prominent conservative thinkers from various ideological factions, in opposition to Trump's candidacy, the source said. "Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot on behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as The Donald...

A spokesman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign implied that the inspector general of the intelligence community, an Obama nominee, has been coordinating with Republicans to damage Clinton by leaking information about her ongoing personal email controversy. Brian Fallon, the Clinton spokesman, made the comments in response to news reports Tuesday about a letter Charles McCullough III wrote to top lawmakers laying out a recent intelligence review that found "several dozen" classified emails on Clinton's personal server, some of which contained intelligence from the government's most secret programs. "I think this was a very coordinated leak yesterday," Fallon told CNN Wednesday,...

Conservative authors are banding together to publish a manifesto Friday denouncing the ideas of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Leading conservatives including Erick Erickson, William Kristol and Yuval Levin have written essays for a special issue of National Review to be published Friday, The New York Times reports. "Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot on behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as The Donald himself," reads an editorial accompanying the essays in the issue, according to the newspaper. The issue will include essays from 22...

With the revelation that Hillary Clinton stored above top secret documents on her unsecured email server, the question being discussed on the news talk shows is not whether she will be indicted but when. Two scenarios have arisen concerning a possible Clinton indictment under the Espionage Act and perhaps other, related charges

Former General Electric CEO says the Texas senator always 'does what he says he's going to do' on 'Your World' Watch the video at the site.

A San Diego man who sent explicit material to an 11-year-old girl featured on the reality TV show "Dance Moms" was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Phoenix Sundown, 37, pleaded guilty to sending harmful material to a minor with intent of seduction and to a charge of animal cruelty. ((snip)) When Judge Herbert J. Exarhos asked Sundown if there was anything he'd like to say before sentencing, the defendant made several statements unrelated to the case. "Vote Hillary Clinton for President," the defendant said...

Donald Trump has captured a double-digit lead in the first voting state of Iowa a little over a week before the caucuses there, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Thursday. Trump is supported by 37 percent of likely GOP voters in the Hawkeye State, followed by Ted Cruz, at 26 percent, and Marco Rubio at 14 percent. That represents at least a 3-point rise for each of those candidates from the same survey conducted in late November and early December. All other candidates remain in single digits in the latest survey, with Ben Carson at 6 percent, Jeb Bush at...

Jerry West, the model for the logo of the National Basketball Association, wore basketball shorts the length of loincloths. Michael Jordan inspired a major alteration when he appealed for a longer and baggier cut. Then a group of freshmen at the University of Michigan known as the “Fab Five” became a national sensation in the early 1990s in part because of their sartorial swagger, with shorts that dropped below their knees. For years after, the subject of inseams inspired older observers of the game to fret: How low could they go? But now, the hemline is creeping back up. In...

So many polls have come out in the last two days I decided to update the relevant graphs.

The latest issue of Islamic State's online magazine targets the terror group's fellow Muslims even more than the West. Dabiq, as the English-language publication is called, devotes a majority of the 56 pages in the latest issue to justifying the killing of Shia Muslims. In numerous articles, the magazine goes to great lengths to give a theological basis for killing members of the minority Muslim sect that controls Iran and Iraq and has been at odds with Sunni Muslims for over a millennia. "The magazine spends so much time justifying the killing of innocent Shiites that it suggests that ISIL...

WASHINGTON - If business mogul Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz win the GOP presidential nomination, Republicans will lose the 2016 contest, one of their former rivals, Sen. Lindsey Graham, declared Thursday. "The only way we lose this election is to nominate somebody who cannot grow this party's vote among minorities, young women, and the coalitions we need to win," Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill. "If you nominate Trump and Cruz I think you'd get the same outcome. Whether it's death by being shot or poisoning, does it really matter? I don't think the outcome will be substantially different."