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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Winston-Salem State University is currently on lockdown, according to campus police. A RamALERT was sent out that read: RamALERT: WSSU campus is currently on lockdown. Secure inside a room until further advised. Do not come to campus if currently off campus until advised. It is unclear why the university was placed on lockdown. Winston-Salem police confirm they are assisting WSSU police.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Bernie Sanders defended his call for raising Americans' taxes in exchange for lower heath care costs, as he opened a candidate forum Monday night that served as a platform for Democratic presidential hopefuls to make a closing argument to voters one week before the Iowa caucuses. "Yes, we will raise taxes," said Sanders, an admission rarely heard in presidential campaigns. "We may raise taxes, but we are going to eliminate private health insurance premiums for individuals and businesses." Sanders would replace the nation's existing employer-based system of insurance with one in which the government becomes...

Inside a secure conference room on the sixth floor of the Justice Department in early 2014, top federal law enforcement officials gathered to hear what criminal charges prosecutors were contemplating against David H. Petraeus, the storied wartime general and former CIA director whose public career had ended about 15 months earlier over an extramarital affair. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and FBI Director James B. Comey listened as prosecutors did a mock run-through of the government's case, a preview of how they would present their evidence to Petraeus's lawyers in order, they hoped, to force a guilty plea. The...

The prevalence of such stories encourages a gross exaggeration of the importance of the Chinese economy for our markets. Consider that United States exports in goods to China have recently accounted for only six-tenths of 1 percent of our gross domestic product. (United States imports in goods from China, though about four times bigger, are still relatively small as an overall proportion.) But once story-based thinking gets started, there is comparatively little public interest in such numbers.

Romans 12:2 Be not Conformed to this World: But be ye Transformed by the Renewing of your Mind, That ye May Prove what is that Good, and Acceptable, and Perfect, Will of God.

European Union interior ministers urged Greece on Monday to do more to control the influx of migrants, some threatening to have it excluded from the continent's prized passport-free travel zone as the crisis increasingly divides bloc members. Greece was the main gateway to Europe for more than a million refugees and migrants who reached the EU last year. It has been criticized for a failure to control the flow of arrivals, which has shown little sign of easing over the winter. Some member states said Athens must deliver on obligations to alleviate the crisis, which has put the passport-free Schengen...

The Supreme Court restored death sentences Wednesday for three Kansas murderers by an 8-1 vote, undercutting predictions by some that a majority of the justices is ready to strike down capital punishment nationwide. Speaking in court, Justice Antonin Scalia described the "notorious Wichita Massacre" in which two brothers broke into a home, tortured five young men and women and then took them to a snowy field where they were "shot in the back of the head, execution-style." Amazingly, one young woman survived when a hair clip deflected a bullet, and she later testified against Reginald and Jonathan Carr. A jury...

The plaintiff, Walter L. Wagner, asserts that Cruz is not natural born as defined by the Constitution because only one of Cruz's parents (his mother) was a U.S. citizen at his time of birth in Canada and because, he alleges, their intention at Cruz's birth was "to have residency or citizenship in a foreign (non-U.S.A.) country." ... In 2008, Wagner filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Energy and European Center for Nuclear Energy Research (CERN), alleging that the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator might create a black hole that could destroy Earth -- and that the...

Over the weekend, radical radio host Glenn Beck traveled to Iowa to officially endorse Ted Cruz for president because he is convinced that Cruz is literally being raised up by God to save America. Beck has never endorsed a presidential candidate before and from listening to him discuss this decision on his radio program today, it is clear that he took this unprecedented step at this moment largely because he is terrified of the prospect of Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination. Beck stated that he is going back to Iowa this weekend to campaign for Cruz in any way...

This is an unbelievable miscarriage of justice. It's of pure Satanic caliber that Planned Parenthood could do what they're shown doing on video and yet have the audacity to claim themselves to be the victims. While liberals want to let Hillary Clinton off on any technicalities they can find, and also want to let Planned Parenthood off on them, yet they dare to indict on technicalities the people who would expose PP's evil. Let's pray especially for the vulnerable unborn. Every life is created by God and belongs to Him. Let's also pray for the utter failure of the prosecution...

On last night's episode of Downton Abbey, the Crawley family matriarch -- played splendidly and hilariously by Maggie Smith -- is confronted over her opposition to proposed management changes at the village hospital (the latest skirmish in a rather dull plot line, in my option).  At issue is whether her board of advisors will relinquish local control, a stance that has been portrayed as self-interested and parochial for much of the current season.  But in this exchange on the matter, Smith's character reveals a more high-minded rationale behind her entrenched resistance to the "progress" sought by others.  She mounts an energetic (for her) case against...

Beyond a shadow of the doubt, Archie "The Stomper" Gouldie was the biggest homegrown star ever in Stampede Wrestling and one of the greatest talents to survive the training in the Hart Family Dungeon. But his tale, which ended Saturday with his death at age 78 79, is much more than just that. It's the story of a small-town boy from tiny Carbon, Alberta (pop. 600) who made it big at home and abroad as the vicious Mongolian Stomper.

who is the interviewer in the cheap suit? And, are all the questions pee-scripted?

Don then questioned if Ted Cruz was going to be around longterm and that's when I showed him this interview from Oct 17th which someone still has under 1000 views on youtube. There are two things worth noting concerning this interview it to understand them you need to see the RCP polling from that day...

An East Chicago councilman was sworn into office behind bars earlier this month while in custody on murder charges. Robert Battle, who was re-elected in November when he ran unopposed, was given his oath of office and signed required paperwork on Jan. 15, said Paula Miraldi, of the Lake County Board of Elections in northwest Indiana. The board of elections received the paperwork Friday morning, but it was dated Jan. 15. Battle needed to be sworn in and submit his paperwork by Feb. 1, otherwise the council post would be declared vacant. Battle has been in the custody of the...

Watching the video, it's clear he was trying to be funny -- the audience laughed -- and I'm generally inclined to cut candidates some slack when they're obviously joking around.   But in this case, I’m not sure Rubio's rhetoric is quite so easy to dismiss. Celebrating a natural disaster while it's ongoing -- we're talking about a blizzard that left at least 30 people dead -- is bizarre, especially for a presidential candidate. As many actual comedians can attest, there is such a thing as "too soon."   For that matter, the nature of Rubio's pitch is absurd. The...

I'm thinking about The Stepford Wives again for some reason.

[VANITY] Dem Debate Headache

The Center for Medical Progress uses the same undercover techniques that investigative journalists have used for decades in exercising our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and of the press, and follows all applicable laws. We respect the processes of the Harris County District Attorney, and note that buying fetal tissue requires a seller as well. Planned Parenthood still cannot deny the admissions from their leadership about fetal organ sales captured on video for all the world to see.

Chris Hayes can assert that Planned Parenthood's sales of baby body parts were not illegal. But for him to claim, as he did on his MSNBC show tonight, that PP did not sell baby parts is . . . choose your synonym for dishonest. As the videos revealed, not only was PP selling body parts, one of its officials joked [we have to hope] that she wanted to get as much money as possible so she could buy a Lamborghini. To support his absurd claim, Hayes relied on the Orwellian decision of a Houston grand jury today to indict not...