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There was an unusual shooting in Garland, Texas on 15 January, 2016 .  It involved an old girl friend, a home security system, and a warning phone call.  It seems the homeowner and the person he shot knew each other.  The person had been told to leave the property an hour earlier.  Then the homeowner received a phone call from the person's ex girlfriend, that he was returning, and was a threat. From cbslocal.com: Tampered home surveillance equipment is the first sign that this was not an ordinary crime. Police say that and a warning phone call is what...

http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-hammers-trump-on-eminent-domain-in-new-tv-ad-video/This is actually a pretty good ad exposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman's home to create a limo parking lot for his casino:

...the pain of more than a year and a half of falling prices is forcing increasingly desperate measures. Nigeria's top oil official used a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to bluntly plead for an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Other member states of OPEC, a cartel of some of the world's biggest producers, have quietly lobbied for such a meeting for months. But on Thursday, Nigerian Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu made one of the strongest, public calls yet by an OPEC member. He asked the group to convene, in part...

Clinton said in Indianola, Iowa, Thursday that while she shares many goals with Sanders, such as covering as many people are possible with health insurance, he is too theoretical while she is pragmatic. "I'm not interested in ideas that sound good on paper, but will never make it in the real world," Clinton said. "....Sen. Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years; he's introduced his health care plan nine times. But he never got even a single vote in the House, or a single Senate co-sponsor. ... Now he has a new plan. You hear a promise to build...

The Democratic presidential nominee will win the race for the presidency but the election is shaping up as historically tight, according to a political model. Less than 11 months from Election Day, Moody's Analytics is predicting that whomever lands the Democratic nomination will capture the White House with 326 electoral votes to the Republican nominee's 212. Those results are heavily dependent on how swing states vote. The latest model from Moody's reflects razor-thin margins in the five most important swing states - Florida, Ohio, Colorado, New Hampshire and Virginia.In each of those states, the Democratic advantage is less than 1...

The House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on the reconciliation bill President Barack Obama vetoed that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which was caught selling the body parts of aborted babies. Hearings have exposed how the abortion company likely violated federal laws to sell the body parts. The measure also repealed the abortion-funding Obamacare legislation and Obama cited that as the primary reason for vetoing the overall bill. The vote override vote comes just days after more than half a million Americans are expected to March for Life in the nation’s capital and solemnly mark the anniversary of...

Imagine my shock when people started emailing this week to inform me that my old nemesis Professor Julio Pino was being investigated for "allegedly" trying to recruit people into ISIS. It was about as shocking as finding out that Elton John is still gay and that Sean Penn is still angry. Regrettably, some people are already putting the wrong spin on the story so I will have to weigh back in. After all, it's been nine years since I first exposed this guy for "allegedly" recruiting people to kill innocent Americans. About a day after the story of the current...

The photo, titled "Potato #345 (2010)," is by photographer Kevin Abosch, who charges huge fees to shoot portraits of famous business people in the Silicon Valley tech industry. Business Insider reports that Abosch's "iconic black backdrop" portraits have become a sort of status symbol among the elites of business and entertainment — the rich and famous pay over $150,000 for a photo shoot with Abosch, and up to $500,000 if commercial usage is included. In addition to shooting pricey portraits, Abosch is also a fine art photographer, and that’s how the potato photo came about. "Kevin likes potatoes because they,...

Pro-lifers in New Mexico have uncovered new evidence showing that a late-term abortionist and the University of New Mexico may be breaking the law when they are harvesting aborted babies’ body parts and using them for research. The New Mexico Alliance for Life reports that it “has obtained details from a 2015 University of New Mexico research study describing … how aborted baby liver and kidney ’tissue’ [was] harvested from ‘six fetuses,’ only 15 minutes after the abortion procedure.” The university receives the aborted babies’ body parts from late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd. “This leaves many alarming questions concerning how notorious...

California's four largest health plans may be on the hook for $10 billion in state back taxes -- and at least $1 billion every year going forward -- if a closely watched legal case does not break their way.

LOS ANGELES — Internationally acclaimed Christian speaker Nick Vujicic has no arms and legs, but he has changed thousands of lives with his personal testimony. This weekend at OneLife LA, Los Angeles’ annual pro-life celebration, Vujicic will remind thousands of people that they, too, can be powerful agents of change. “If God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet, then God can use any willing heart,” he told the Register. “We really want people to be that one voice where actions speak louder than words.” Both OneLife LA and the national March for...

Goldman Sachs once gave Ted Cruz's campaign a $1.43 million loan. His campaign also got a loan of less than $500,000 from Citibank. According to Donald Trump, in a claim that has been repeated roughly a billion times, that means THEY OWN HIM. Even though, as far as I can tell, all or part of these loans have been repaid. As I reported yesterday, at various times Donald Trump has had hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from Citibank and Goldman, some of which have been repaid, some of which were discharged in bankruptcy when Trump's Altantic City casino...

Rep. Pete King: 'I Don't See Malice in Trump like I see with Cruz.' For everybody shouting this is now an Establishment newsletter... I'd argue that in Washington's coming blizzard of the century, when we're all reduced to cannibalism, we eat the Establishment first: This week, the New York Times quoted another major Republican figure -- former Senate majority leader and presidential nominee Robert J. Dole -- as saying he would prefer Trump to Cruz. "Nobody likes him," Dole said of Cruz, adding that the senator would bring on a "cataclysmic" loss as the GOP's nominee. Many have decided that...

Ashley McGuire is just 30, but she’ll feel like a senior citizen at Friday’s March for Life, which will be teeming with pro-life teenagers and millennials on the National Mall. “It’s like a rock concert. I mean, I’m starting to feel old,” says Ms. McGuire, a senior fellow with The Catholic Association, with a laugh. “You see these teenagers — they’re organized and they have these chants and slogans, and these really well-designed, edgy, thoughtful posters.” Her experience at the last few rallies backs up what polling reveals: that the under-35 generation may be more liberal than their parents on...

Trump nevertheless offers a valuable warning for the Republican party. If responsible men irresponsibly ignore an issue as important as immigration, it will be taken up by the reckless. If they cannot explain their Beltway maneuvers - worse, if their maneuvering is indefensible - they will be rejected by their own voters. If they cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn't make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them. Some...

In their editorial, National Review editors put it this way: There are understandable reasons for his eminence, and he has shown impressive gut-level skill as a campaigner. But he is not deserving of conservative support in the caucuses and primaries. Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones. Paraphrasing a line of scripture from 1 Timothy, Erickson writes this: We should not put a new conservative in charge of conservatism or the country, so that he does not become puffed up...

Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family, one of the country’s biggest and best-known evangelical organizations, a group that considers opposing abortion one of its very top values. Yet Friday will be the first time Daly has come to Washington for the huge March for Life, the country’s biggest antiabortion event each year. March attendees are always overwhelmingly Catholic, but this year an influx of evangelicals will be joining them on the Mall. Daly co-sponsored the brand-new Evangelicals for Life event, held Thursday and Friday, part of an effort to refocus a generation of young Christian conservatives who...

What if the real problem is defeatism? The Republican establishment has been spooked for some time by a media that puts every objection to Obama's agenda in the worst possible light, as well as by the narrative of irreversible demographic and cultural change. Despite favorable off-year contests, Obama's re-election in the face of expectations to the contrary has taken its toll. Undoubtedly, serious differences of interest and conviction play a role in Republican divisions, and politicians will always tend to run from risky battles. But the abject surrender of congressional Republican leaders goes well beyond ordinary political caution to defeatism...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz will return to Waterloo for a rally on Saturday night. The event, hosted by the Keep the Promise political action committee that is supporting Cruz, will also feature radio personality Glenn Beck, Cruz national co-chairs Steve King and Bob Vander Plaats, and conservative author David Barton. The rally will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday at Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, 205 W. Fourth St. Doors open at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. People can RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/waterloo-rally-with-glenn-beck-and-senator-ted-cruz-tickets-20824995121. Reservations are required as space is limited.

You truly can't make this stuff up. On a Thursday MSNBC show from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, John Kerry decided to say on live air that money from the 'Iran Deal' would end up in the hands of terrorist groups.