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National Review reports Republican voters care more about 'intrusive' government than 'big' government: "The rise of conservative populism has triggered yet another round of soul-searching in the conservative movement about the proper size and scope of the federal government. As my colleague, Jim Geraghty, notes today, most Americans seem just fine with big government. In fact, that's been the case even of core tea-party supporters at the very height of the movement. How easily we forget recent history, but in 2011 FreedomWorks "crowdsourced" a deficit-reduction plan and found that 40,000 core tea-party activists were reluctant to make any financially meaningful...

Living legend and conservative heroine Phyllis Schlafly slammed National Review for their efforts to take down GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump. On Friday's program of The Laura Ingraham Show, Schlafly declared, "I don’t recognize National Review as the authority on conservatism." Schlafly blasted National Review for being more eager to fight Donald Trump than they are to fight the Republican donor-class, whom Schlafly calls the Kingmakers.

"When you're in a fight, people just don't like the fight, so they're going to respond negatively," DeLay said on CNN. "It's who wins and comes out of the fight that has long-lasting effects. And I got to tell you right now, out here in the real world, outside of New York and Washington, D.C., these people think Ted Cruz is a hero. They think that those Republicans in the House are heroes. And they think that Obama is destroying this country." Cruz helped kick off the congressional chaos by speaking on the Senate floor for 21 hours in a...

With all the guns owned by Americans and the surge of purchases every time President Obama opens his mouth on the subject, there is still a huge population of adult Americans who have no knowledge of guns and how they work. I would fall into that category even though I once owned a rifle, but that was a lifetime ago; any knowledge I then had has totally dissipated. My son was interested in the experience so we engaged my brother who target shoots as a hobby and he willingly provided us a primer on the gun range experience. We met...

The first white British youth to join ISIS in Syria was a 'class clown' turned to Islam by his Muslim school friends, MailOnline can reveal. Jack Letts, who now goes by the name Ibrahim or Abu Muhammed, is living in Iraq after fleeing the UK when he was 18. The middle-class 20-year-old son of an organic farmer from Oxford told his parents that he was going to study Arabic in Kuwait before secretly travelling to war-torn Syria, arriving in September 2014.

". . . Showing forbearance to one another in love" (Ephesians 4:2). In order to walk worthy, we must forgive our enemies and love them. The term forbearance is not often used today and is therefore unfamiliar to many of us. The Greek word translated "showing forbearance" means "suppressing with silence." It carries the idea of throwing a blanket over sin. First Peter 4:8 says, "Love covers a multitude of sins," and Proverbs 10:12 declares, "Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions." A forbearing person doesn't trumpet other people's sins but rather forgives them. Forbearance has room for...

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended negative ads that a super PAC supporting him has run against his rivals, saying that "politics isn't beanbag." During a town hall event here Saturday night, Mr. Bush took a question from a voter who said he'd grown tired of overwhelmingly negative ads that are now blanketing the airwaves in New Hampshire, Iowa and other early primary states. "I bet you have a lot of them," Mr. Bush joked in return.

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened" (Eph. 1:18). Spiritual enlightenment doesn't come through self-effort or introspective meditation but through God's Holy Spirit. Our society has been enamored with the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, especially since the influx of Eastern thought into the West during the 1960s. Now we are drowning in a sea of false religions and New Age philosophies. True enlightenment continues to elude many because they have denied its source and have turned to gurus and teachers who have no light to give. They propagate self-effort and introspective meditation, but spiritual enlightenment doesn't...

BANGKOK (AP) - A large chunk of metal that could be from an aircraft washed ashore in southern Thailand, but Malaysian authorities on Sunday cautioned against speculation of a link to a Malaysia Airlines flight missing almost two years.

A post on Facebook describes the scene: Amazing site from Pennsylvania. Dowling Catholic [High School, in Iowa] students stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike meet kids on the bus from Missouri. They have a priest. And create a snow altar for mass in the middle of this stand still. Very proud of all you Dowling Catholic students.WBAY from Green Bay reports on another stranded band of marchers: A group of 150 people from the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, mostly students, is stranded in their buses by the East Coast blizzard.The group was in Washington, DC, for the "March for...

Here we go again. Donald Trump will speak Sunday, January 24, 2016 in Muscatine, IA at Muscatine High School at 12:00 PM CST. I will post additional Live Feeds. Mr. Trump will be attending church services this morning at New Hope Christian Church in Marshall Town, IA. I think it would be over the top for the media to be filming this. Mr. Trump will do TV shows via phone today as well: CBS’ “Face the Nation”: Trump will call into the show to gauge his chances in the Iowa caucus, with Sanders speaking afterwards. NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Clinton...

I had written previously about accusations that Donald Trump properties were gun free zones. At the Shot Show in Las Vegas, the Trump tower is a convenient five minute walk away. I grabbed my camera and headed over to see if I could find any No Gun signs. In the picture above, you can see that the buffed and polished entrance to the Trump Tower in Las Vegas is not marred with any "NO GUN" signs. If you look at the two people leaving the tower, each of them is wearing a Shot Show badge. It was obvious that many...

Former GOP presidential candidate George Pataki is predicting that Democrat Hillary Clinton's "legal issues" will force an outside candidate to jump into the 2016 White House race as a white knight. "People talk about the problems in the Republican Party, but I think Democrats have a bigger problem," the former New York governor told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970 on Sunday. "Hillary Clinton is cratering, the scandals just keep coming. She has grave legal issues that could totally prevent her from continuing her campaign, and the alternative is a self-avowed socialist who has never...

On Saturday Sen. Ted Cruz, at an Iowa event with his newest high-profile endorser, media personality Glenn Beck, dropped an awkward routine from the first event of the day, at which Beck had given Cruz a mock "presidential oath of office." When Cruz joined Beck on stage, after Beck spoke for nearly an hour to a room of more than a thousand supporters here on Saturday night, Beck opted to to give Cruz the presidential "oath of office" as they had done earlier in the day on the other side of Iowa, just outside Des Moines. The exchange in Ankeny...

The Talk Shows January 24th, 2016 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio; Jeff Roe, campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sanders; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush; Sanders.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Bush; Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie.Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure Today: Non-Profit$, Iran Payout, Debt Danger, Fast And Furious Latest...

The Iowa caucuses are 10 days from Friday. And Donald Trump, the larger-than-life real estate reality star, is -- still -- the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Not only has Trump not disappeared or imploded -- as everyone everywhere predicted he would -- he appears to be getting stronger in both early-state and national polling as actual votes draw closer. At this point, Trump's path to putting the nomination away quickly is far easier than the one Hillary Clinton must travel to capture the Democratic nomination. That doesn't mean Trump is a sure thing just yet, but he has,...

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Magnitude 7.1 earthquake felt throughout Southcentral Alaska Alaska Dispatch News January 24, 2016 Email -A+A Southcentral Alaska was rocked by a strong and prolonged magnitude-7.1 earthquake early Sunday morning. The quake struck 86 miles west-southwest of Anchor Point at 1:30 a.m. Alaska time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS initially measured the quake at magnitude 6.4, but upgraded it to 7.1 shortly after. The Alaska Earthquake Center said it hit about 65 miles west of the Kenai Peninsula town of Homer and about 160 miles southwest of Anchorage. According to the National Weather Service, the quake was not...

At a rally in Iowa this week, Donald J. Trump explained in bold terms and broad brush strokes the many ways he would improve the United States as president: building a wall, rebuilding the military, beating China on trade. When a protester chimed in to question how the Republican would do the things that he promised, Mr. Trump decided that instead of removing the man from the audience, he would respond. "You watch," the billionaire developer said flatly. His supporters cheered. Mr. Trump has regained momentum in Iowa two weeks before the state's caucuses, and many voters cite his bravado...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote next week on an annual report about the state of high-speed Internet deployment around the country, something that has become a magnet for debate.A proposed draft of the congressionally mandated report finds that advanced telecommunications capability isn't being deployed in a "reasonable and timely fashion" to all Americans. According to a fact sheet released by the agency, 34 million Americans do not have access to wired internet service that meets the FCC's definition of broadband — download speeds of 25 Mbps and upload speeds of 3 Mbps. The commission also found that the...