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Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said President Obama has already successfully secured the U.S. border, and objected to the tone of a House border security bill she said militarizes the country. "The president has spent $108 billion on border security, and we have been successful," Jackson Lee said in a Homeland Security committee markup Wednesday. "Oh we've had our moments, but we have been successful."

Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press," Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she gets paid over $200,000 for a speech because of interests in various matters including "a lot of interest in the bin Laden raid." Partial transcript follows:

No need to worry about ISIS anymore. This weekend Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, announced that the US and our gallant allies are going to turn up the heat on the marauding murderers of the Middle East. Listening to the Pentagon say that they’re going to get tough with ISIS is like one of those Ripley’s Believe It or Not questions. Not! After seeing the performance of the US Navy a couple of weeks ago in the Persian Gulf, I’m sure ISIS is quivering in fear. This sudden bout of manliness from the Obama Administration and Ash and Trash Carter...

Rose is back! Formerly the Rose half of the Quinn & Rose Morning Show, she is back on the air and ready for the fight! Catch her on Pittsburgh's 1250 AM The Answer WPGP, from 8AM to 10AM Monday through Friday or via live stream at www.am1250theanswer.com, where you can also get the podcasts. Join us for real no-nonsense conservative talk with a passion that only Rose can deliver! Grab a cup of joe and lets discuss Rose's latest show. Lots of good guests and and a round table discussion on Fridays!!

If you do a simple search of the internet there is page after page of this false reporting on Trump. All of the stories and videos show-one line, taking it all out of context. The media tried like hell to do a "gotcha." Trump was quoting what someone else said about his supporters being so loyal, that he could shoot someone on the street and they would still support him. It was lighthearted not serious VIDEO Watch the entire context of what the media is misrepresenting.

The Star Tribune Minnesota Poll surveyed 800 Minnesota registered voters Jan. 18-20, 2016. Respondents were reached on both landlines (70 percent) and cell phones (30 percent). The poll has a margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points, plus or minus....

Shmoocon Foxglove Security bod Stephen Breen has strung together dusty unpatched Windows vulnerabilities to gain local system-level access on Windows versions up to 8.1. The unholy zero-day concoction, reported to Microsoft in September and still unpatched, is a reliable way of p0wning Windows for attackers that have managed to pop user machines. Breen released exploit code for his attack dubbed Hot Potato following his talk at the Shmoocon conference in Washington over the weekend. "Hot Potato takes advantage of known issues in Windows to gain local privilege escalation in default configurations, namely NTLM relay -\- specifically HTTP-SMB relay - and...

He said the case would get a "more serious and less completely partisan" consideration there than it got in the lower courts, which he described as "ultraconservative". "In terms of the children, USA citizen children, of these undocumented parents, it takes a huge toll especially when they come at age 9, 10 years old when they start to understand that their parents could be arrested and could be deported", Marcus said. In addition, applicants had to register, pass a criminal background check, and prove they had paid their taxes. They said if they tried applying legally it could mean they'd...

She once called Donald Trump "a maggot, a cockroach and a crumb." This week, he remembered her as "an impossible person." ... Coking battled with Trump and prevailed in a 1998 state Supreme Court case that blocked attempts by the state to use eminent domain to condemn the property. ... But back in the day, Coking wasn't afraid to throw a zinger. At the height of their battle in 1998, the 70-year-old Coking said of Trump to the New York Daily News: "A maggot, a cockroach and a crumb, that's what he is." "If Trump's thinking I'm gonna die tomorrow,...

Live stream from Mecca. Because it's good to know what they're up to. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/makkah-live-27042014

There’s a new study by the Center for Migration Studies which suggests the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. is going down. The report found almost 1M fewer illegal immigrants are in the country, compared to 2008. The total US undocumented population continued to decline in 2014 and has fallen by more than a million since 2008; The undocumented population of the majority of US states declined after 2008; however, 11 states reached their maximum population in 2014, including Texas; With the exception of Alabama and possibly Georgia, restrictive state immigration laws in 2010-2011 had little impact on undocumented...

New York City's city council is set to dilute a host of criminal laws including laws against public urination and excessive noise because council members believe too many members of minorities are getting arrested.

He said it during the meeting with the pope at the synagogue. And it is the refusal to "discuss theology" with the Catholic Church. Because of Jewish fears of a blurring of that which distinguishes them from Christians? ROME, January 23, 2016 - In the Catholic camp almost no one made note of it. But in the Jewish camp they did. And it is that curt "no" which the chief rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, said to Pope Francis during his visit to the synagogue on Sunday, January 17: "We do not receive the pope in order to discuss...

Even before the first primary votes are cast, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is dreaming of a face-off with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. He warns his supporters about what he thinks America will look like under a Hillary Clinton administration, predicting a nuclear-armed Iran, amnesty for millions of people in America illegally and the continuation of President Barack Obama's health care law. "That's how we win with a clear contrast," Cruz told voters at a Wednesday town hall in Exeter, New Hampshire...

The Edmonton Oilers became the first NHL team to use Pride Tape, a multicolored tape to promote inclusiveness in sports. The Oilers used the tape Sunday during their annual Skills Competition at Rexall Place. "Many view professional hockey players as role models and our team felt this was a great initiative to let every person know they're welcome in the game of hockey," defenseman Andrew Ference told the Oilers website. "We're all proud to play for a team and city that supports diversity and human rights." The Oilers' Twitter account posted photos of the players' sticks wrapped in the tape...

Omigosh start X-files already.

something with a bit more power that also happens to be based on the x86 architecture? If so, the JaguarBoard currently seeking funding on Kickstarter may be worth a look. The JaguarBoard is an x86-based single board computer that measures just 101.9mm x 64.5mm x 1.6mm. It's powered by Intel's quad-core Atom Z3735G (1.33GHz that boosts up to 1.83GHz) mated with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of local eMMC storage. The board features one HDMI 1.4 port, a 10/100 LAN port, three USB 2.0 ports, a 3.5mm audio jack, two COM ports, an SDIO port, four GPIO pins and an...

Russell Kirk was a prolific author, essayist, lecturer, and critic best known for The Conservative Mind (1953). Kirk made conservatism intellectually respectable in the modern era and christened the conservative movement with its name. In the following speech, delivered at the Heritage Foundation in 1987, Kirk enumerates ten principles of conservatism. The list, which he did not intend to be exhaustive, emphasizes an attitude—not a “fixed doctrine”—toward tradition, private institutions, and prudence which he calls “the negation of ideology.”

It was another interesting week on the presidential political scene on several fronts. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was vocal, Sarah Palin took a stand and Hillary Clinton raised her attacks on Bernie Sanders. Former Illinois Congressman Phil Hare and former Iowa State Representative David Millage addressed these issues during an appearance on 4 the Record. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad got involved in presidential politics. It's not typical of him, but, he doesn't want Ted Cruz to win the Iowa caucuses because of his stance on ethanol. Cruz is ahead in the polls for Iowa....

A Minnesota youth basketball team has been ejected from a league for being too good and now the coach, parents and players are crying foul. The Rogers Area Youth Basketball Association girls high school team was forced to the sidelines by the Northwest Suburban Basketball League -- and it’s all because the team is 3-0, Fox 9 reported Saturday. “We found out Friday at lunchtime that we’re not going to be allowed because according to the league our girls were too talented,” coach Jason Hanauska told the station. RAYBA sent parents a letter that said the main reason for the...