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Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave his definition of a conservative. Partial transcript s follows: DICKERSON: "What is your definition of conservative?" TRUMP: "Well, I think it's a person that doesn't want to take risks. Source: http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/24/trump-6/

The Hillary Clinton campaign is currently in the middle of a bizarre tango, attacking Bernie Sanders for not supporting slavery reparations while dodging questions about whether she supports them herself. The issue has since spurred countless thinkpieces from left-wing publications and political actors. As the primary season continues, expect the conversation to bleed into the mainstream media, as it did this weekend in an NBC interview of Sanders. When Clinton and Sanders desperately scramble to win over black voters ahead of the Southern primary states, it's not unreasonable that Clinton will eventually come down on the side of reparations or...

Cologne-style sex attacks by migrant gangs occurred in 12 of Germany's 16 states, or 75 per cent, on New Year's Eve, as revealed by German police. Although localised reports of attacks emerged almost immediately via social media, the full scale of the phenomenon is only now becoming clear – and it's having a devastating effect on German society. Some 1,049 men and women were victimised in Cologne on New Year's Eve, subject to a litany of crimes ranging from pickpocketing to gang rape at the hands of migrants and asylum seekers. ... a report by the German Judicial Police (BKA),...

LONDON -- A British man has been ordered by a court to give police 24 hours' notice if he plans to have sex with a female. The unusual "interim sexual risk order" will be in effect until a further hearing is held in four months. A longer restriction may be sought at that point. Sexual risk orders are used in cases where a person has not been convicted of a sex crime but is judged by police as posing a potential threat to the public. The order was sought by North Yorkshire Police and issued by York Magistrates' Court. It...

Former New York Mayor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who hasn't yet endorsed a candidate, said if it came down to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump versus Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), he would vote for Trump. "If it came down to Trump or Cruz, there is no question I'd vote for Trump," Giuliani, who was mayor during the 9-11 terrorist attack, said. "As a party, we'd have a better chance of winning with him, and I think a lot of Republicans look at it that way." The statement comes as The Washington Post is reporting that the GOP establishment...

I have followed Mark Steyn for years. I have read his columns, followed his career, bought and read his books and now his recordings. Steyn has over the years, fought time and time again for freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. I respect him. I find him a highly ethical man in this world of dubious ethics. I watched him in the legal battles at McLean's magazine. I read his forward to Geert Wilders Book "Marked for Death" where he said that Wilders could not find anyone who would be associated with the book and would Mark mind writing...

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a 27-year-old Houston man on death row for the shooting deaths of a young couple during a carjacking nearly 10 years ago. The high court, without comment Monday, rejected the case of Dexter Darnell Johnson. SNIP He does not yet have an execution date.

The FBI is ready to indict Hillary Clinton and if its recommendation isn't followed by the U.S. attorney general, the agency's investigators plan to blow the whistle and go public with their findings, former U.S. House Majority leader Tom DeLay tells Newsmax TV. "I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they're ready to indict," DeLay said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show." "They're ready to recommend an indictment and they also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they're going public."

... The spot also features a clip of Trump knocking Iowa voters during a campaign rally when he said, "How stupid are the people of Iowa?"...

We are just one week away from the Iowa Caucuses. The presumed front runner last year at this time? Jeb Bush. Or rather "Jeb!" as his campaign has dubbed him, hoping to add a little excitement to the mix (and possibly to underplay his famous last name.) But after one year of failing to rev up voter enthusiasm, is it time for Jeb to pack up his attack ads and go home?

Late Thursday night, the National Review, the storied conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley, published an issue denouncing Donald Trump. "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," the editors wrote. "Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself." The Republican National Committee reacted swiftly - immediately revoking the permission it had given National Review to...

Boulevard NE where a car had crashed into a house Friday, according to a criminal complaint. Police say Michael L. Martin, 20, took off on foot after he ran his vehicle into the wall of a home on Menaul Boulevard NE. According to APD, after running the vehicle through their system, the vehicle was reported stolen. APD then tried locating the driver of the vehicle when they say they noticed two suspects running through several yards in the neighborhood. The homeowner told police she was in the back bedroom when she heard the crash. She then said when she stepped...

A 22-year-old accused of murdering a young man over a game of beer pong was arraigned Monday. Nathan Ware pleaded not guilty in Second Judicial District Court. The judge set his bond at $200,000 cash or surety. According to court documents, Ware went to a New Year's Eve party at an apartment on Estancia near Central. Albuquerque police said Ware got into a fight with Joray Chavez during a game of beer pong. Ware then left the apartment, but came back with two friends, according to APD. Police said Ware told his friends to start shooting. Chavez was killed in...

Iowans head to their local caucus precincts a week from Monday - and Jeb Bush on Tuesday is headed to ... Elko, Nev. Yes, that's right, Elko - where fewer than 1,000 people typically show up to caucus. The Bush campaign said the stop was designed to show Nevadans that it was taking their state seriously. -snip- But the move also seems intended to keep expectations low in Iowa, where Mr. Bush is unlikely to fare particularly well.

Spend one week in a Calais migrant camp for feminism (without bodyguards) In order to show how safe current migration is to Europe, particularly regarding the cause of feminism (I reject wholeheartedly the notion that North African and Middle Eastern migrants are unsafe, and rapists), Emma Watson should spend a week's holiday in a Calais migrant camp, without guards of course, to show how safe, and how pro feminism these migrants are.

All is forgiven if you're not familiar with the "take care" clause in Article II of the Constitution about the presidency, the words that say "he shall take Care that the laws be faithfully executed." The Supreme Court hasn't fooled with it in many years. The words are buried below the State of the Union clause, and the business of receiving "Ambassadors and other public Ministers." They lack resonance; they sound polite. But their meaning, traced back through hundreds of years of history and translated into today's colloquial English is indeed a command: They mean "Mr. President, don't act like...

Conservative heroine Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum is slamming National Review, declaring it does not represent "the authority on conservatism." Schlafly had previously thrown her weight behind Donald Trump, describing him as the "the only hope to defeat the Kingmakers" - or the Republican establishment. In exclusive comments to Breitbart News, Ed Martin, the president of Schlafly's grassroots organization Eagle Forum, predicted that "National Review will be defunct in the next year or so."

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the intellectual leader of the modern conservative movement and the catalyst behind much of the rise of nationalist populism in this election cycle, told Breitbart News exclusively that he thinks there's much about 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for voters to like when it comes to the issue of trade negotiations... Sessions, who is standing up for American workers on this issue, told Breitbart News that the reason nobody on Capitol Hill or in the political class - save for Trump - really seems to be fighting this is "complicated," because the polling data so...

The Opening of the Key to the Electric Universe Criticized, ostracized, derided, scorned and rebuked; Cuvier and Schaeffer. These two French eccentric geniuses ranged their new practical paradigms against the sanitized teachings of the Royal Societys consensus science. Georges Cuvier and then later Claude Schaeffer, dared question the hidebound uniformitarian teachings demanded by the Royal Societys geology darlings, Hutton and Lyle. They insisted that the worlds development was a slow evolutionary process explained by millions of years of uniform steady change. This misneme eventually influenced Darwin to explain evolution as a child of slow natural selection that, by chance, produced...

Here are 337 reasons why Democrats and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves By Dan from Squirrel HillPosted on September 24, 2013. Updated on January 24, 2016.As the author of this blog post, I place it into the public domain. Anyone may freely copy it in any part or in its entirely, without asking my permission, and without paying any money. I do ask you please cite a link to https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/obamacare-59/I ask you to please show this list to as many people as possible. Sunshine really is the best disinfectant. I can't stop Obama from doing any of...