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On a straight-up question about whether people view New York City favorably or unfavorably, Republicans split 54/35. Huh. I wonder what those numbers would look like if you could somehow control for the "solidarity effect" of 9/11. Here's another surprising result, probably with a similar explanation. When people are asked whether NYC is more, less, or as "American" as other places, not only do a clear majority of Republicans say "more" or "as," there are actually more Republicans who say so than independents.

Remain virgins or we will take away your bursaries. This was the condition given to 16 young women who received the Maidens Bursary Award from the UThukela District Municipality for remaining pure. In addition, they had to undergo virginity testing every holiday to ensure they were not sexually active. The municipality introduced the new category of bursaries during its Mayoral Matric Excellence Awards on January 11. Municipality spokesperson Jabulani Mkhonza said more than 100 matrics, including those who were not virgins, who excelled in their 2015 matric year, received awards. A total of 113 pupils from various schools got bursaries....

It's the day for polls, apparently. Civitas reports a phone survey of Republican voters on the GOP presidential candidates with one big takeaway: It's a tie between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz. The numbers show Trump pulling 27 percent of the support, while 23 percent favored Cruz, which is within the margin of error. Eleven percent said they have no preference in a candidate. Ten percent favored Sen. Marco Rubio, and 7 percent went with Ben Carson. The rest: Chris Christie, 4 percent; Jeb Bush, 4 percent; Mike Huckabee, 2 percent; John Kasich, 2 percent; Rand Paul, 2 percent;...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Over on the Democrat side, there is upheaval. It's unexpected -- and you might even say over there, it's unprecedented. Bernie Sanders is literally mopping the floor in New Hampshire with Hillary Clinton. It has got people totally perplexed and wondering if it is real. The New York Times put together a compendium of quotes from a number of Democrat elected officials intended to frighten every registered Democrat voter to flee from Bernie Sanders immediately. Claire McCaskill, Missouri, said, "The Republicans won't touch him because they can't wait to run an ad with a hammer and a...

At least one of the emails on Hillary Clinto's private server contained extremely sensitive information identified by an intelligence agency as "HCS-O" which is the code used for reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations, according to two sources not authorized to speak on the record. Both sources are familiar with the intelligence community inspector general's January 14 letter to Congress, advising the Oversight committees that intelligence beyond Top Secret -- known as Special Access Program (SAP) -- was identified in the Clinton emails, as well the supporting documents from the affected agencies that owned the information and have...

Despite several recent cases of snakes slithering into people's homes, the reptiles are not taking up residence in the suburbs, says a reptile expert. Snakes became more active and came out of hiding with the first major rains of the year, which was also when most snakebite cases occurred, herpetologist Johan Marais said on Thursday. "Most of these cases happen from January to April, during the warm and wet season. "Every year people see a lot of snakes this time of the year and think that it's strange. Then the next year they forget and the same thing happens again,"...

"Change has come to comics!" Introducing the life-story of Barack Obama in comic book form, following him from infancy through the first 100 days of his administration as the 44th President of the United States of America. Featuring the smash hit, best-selling comic book Biography of Barack Obama that became a media sensation, this volume also collects the follow up series that detailed the historic Obama campaign from the Democratic National Convention through his election to President on November 4th, 2008, and then until the inauguration. The story continues with the most relevant details of his first 100 Days in...

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The “ridiculous waste” of Christmas beer was the subject of discussion at Alþingi, the Icelandic parliament, today, mbl.is reports. Member of Parliament Brynhildur Pétursdóttir, Bright Future, used those words when deploring the fact that regulations require for perfectly good, unsold beer to be discarded right after Christmas or Easter if it’s labeled as Christmas beer or Easter beer. The regulations originate in the Ministry of Finance. Thus, she asked Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson whether those could be changed. Bjarni responded, “Of course these are rules which should be reevaluated, as are rules regarding where liquor can be sold. And it’s...

This could be the next 4 years. No matter who the GOP nominates...just vote for em. Don't get all stiff necked and shut down just because your fave candidate didn't get picked.... It can get a whole lot worse.... < /rant

One start-up is betting on a new super food to shake up the dairy aisle. "We're America's new dairy generation, and we sell camel milk," said Walid Abdul Wahab, the founder of Desert Farms, the first start-up producing its own line of camel milk in North America. He told CNBC he wants to provide the U.S. with what he calls a "clean and better dairy alternative" that is already popular in Saudi Arabia, his native country. Desert Farms offers three varieties: raw, pasteurized and kefir. Currently, 150 retailers across the U.S. carry the milk, including Whole Foods, and it's sold...

As Donald Trump called many illegal Mexican immigrants "rapists and criminals" and questioned Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) war hero status and suggested temporarily banning Muslim immigrants -- all while climbing to or remaining at the top of the Republican presidential polls -- we in the political media scratched our heads and wondered how this could happen. (SNIP) Meet Maine Gov. Paul LePage, the Donald Trump before there was Donald Trump. If you haven't heard of him -- or hadn't heard of him until he recently said drug dealer with names like "D-Money" were coming to Maine and impregnating "young, white...

It's time to unite. Trump-Cruz in 2016. Yet here is the headline from the New York Times. Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? Republicans Argue Over Who Is Greater Threat The story reads in part: snip Say again? "The Republicans who dominate the right-leaning magazines, journals and political groups can live with Mr. Cruz..." Speaking for myself - I can more than "live with" Ted Cruz. In fact, if Donald Trump wins this nomination, I believe Ted Cruz should be to Trump as George H.W. Bush was to Reagan or Lyndon Johnson was to John F. Kennedy - the runner-up whose...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Yakima, Washington. You know what Yakima, Washington's famous for? It's the first city in the country with 92-gallon rolling trash cans that you put out in the front yard near the street when the garbage guys come pick up. Yakima, Washington. Here's Josh. Great to have you on the phones, sir. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for having me. I just want to say, we need to effect change, and the only way to do it is to get Trump in office. He is the only person who has a pair that's willing to talk about the...

I am so sick of the lack of logic used on Free Republic when some argue either for or against Trump or Ted Cruz whom I do not support, or at least a declaratory opinion/argument by a creeper who AT LEAST explains his or her line of reasoning/thinking. All of the blustern(either made up in someone's mind) or taken directly from either of the campaigns (which are not based ON ANY evidence other than the candidate or a surrogate's opinions are worth NOTHING). As conservatives, libertarians, tea partiers, Christians, constitutionalists, nationalists/Proud Americans, Republicans, yes even some moderates, shouldn't we at...

Not even a special performance by singer Demi Lovato improved the mood of some supporters who were unimpressed by Democratic candidate's brevity Hillary Clinton left her audience cold in Iowa City on Thursday night, after she spoke for less than five minutes to a crowd of more than a thousand people, some of whom had lined up for more than an hour to see her. ...."It was like a political commercial," said Allison Steigerwald, a 24-year-old graduate student at the university. "I thought she was saying goodbye to Demi and then she'd start her speech. But it never happened."

We were impressed before she started getting quadrilingual!“Bint El Funk” started as a small group based in Jerusalem. After playing on the local circuit for a short time, their popularity grew quickly and they started appearing in the line-ups of all the biggest festivals in Israel including: “InDNegev”,”Ashram in the Desert”, “Yearot Menashe”, “Israel Festival” and more. Get The Jewish Standard's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories FREE SIGN UP! Bint El Funk developed a style that fuses traditional Yemenite music with contemporary grooves. This fusion gave rise to the term “Yemen funk” – a rich...

An epic war is coming between our home galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy, which is currently racing toward us at a speed of 250,000 mph. Astronomers estimate that 3.75 billion years from now, Earth will be caught up amid the largest galactic event in our planet's history, when these two giant galaxies collide. Luckily, experts think that Earth will survive, but it won't be entirely unaffected. The collision will unfold right in front of us, changing the night sky to look like nothing any human has seen before. Join us on a journey into the future to see what it...

Backstage at Iowa State University - tossing in a few more zingers to get the media all spun up before my surprise endorsement of Donald Trump for President. Todd visiting with one of the many Iowa vets there to show support for Donald Trump. We owe our freedom to them! Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin met us when we landed in Tulsa. It was great to catch up with her - but she was missed at the rally! Tulsa is Trump Country. A "Yuuge" Crowd ready to Make America Great Again! Mr. Trump, Todd and I giving three thumbs up...