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Noam Chomsky, the noted radical and MIT professor emeritus, said the Republican Party has become so extreme in its rhetoric and policies that it poses a “serious danger to human survival.” “Today, the Republican Party has drifted off the rails,” Chomsky, a frequent critic of both parties, said in an interview Monday with The Huffington Post. “It’s become what the respected conservative political analysts Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein call ‘a radical insurgency’ that has pretty much abandoned parliamentary politics.”

There is a pattern emerging on the Iran deal: we got and they got. That’s how it’s supposed to work -- something for something -- right? Okay. We got: Iranian ballistic missile tests in violation of UN resolutions;Missiles fired near a U.S. aircraft carrier sailing in international waters; andTen American sailors illegally captured, whose rights under the Geneva Convention were violated when they were photographed for propaganda purposes. Oh, wait – we’re probably supposed to look at the positive effects of the deal. Okay. We got – and this is not to be minimized – although none of them should...

In a strange incident, a teacher who was giving Muslim students private tuition in Islamic studies turned to be a Christian. The news went viral on social media, drawing many mixed reactions. Amal, a Kuwaiti woman said that the teacher must be punished. “It is not acceptable to cheat in religion. How can someone who is from a different religion teach these kids about Islam and Sharia?” she questioned. Sharing similar views, Seham, another Kuwaiti woman said that the religion of the private tuition teacher does not make a huge difference if he is teaching them Science, Mathematics and English....

Energy bills will soar as green policies shut coal-fired power stations and cause an "electricity supply crisis", experts say. Prices will be forced up as the UK has to import more power, according to a report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers today. -Craig Woodhouse, The Sun, 26 January 2016

The left is going absolutely nuts in their efforts to maintain the "Climate Change/Global Warming" scam. As more and more real evidence slips out from the national media-guarded cracks, the house of cards that is "climate change" is continuing to fall. The latest evidence of the radical environmentalists' flight from reality comes from California. The Daily Signal has the absurd new developments: California Attorney General Kamala Harris has joined New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in trying to prosecute ExxonMobil for supposedly lying to its shareholders and the public about climate change, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times...

Corporate America wanted nothing to do with Ronald Reagan in 1980. Not a single Fortune 500 CEO backed him-all of them supported George H. W. Bush or John Connally in the primaries. When informed of this (Jude Wanniski, who was at the meeting, told me), Reagan said that he didn't need them-he would be the candidate of the entrepreneur, the small businessman, the farmer, the workingman. Cruz wants to be Reagan redux. The Establishment remembers Reagan; in particular, it remembers that the corporate powers-that-be of 1980 were dwarfed by the entrepreneurial newcomers whom the Reagan reforms unleashed. It didn't like...

Links include http://uphellyaa.com/ http://www.SHETLAND.org Also up Hella Aa means the end of the holidays and also represemts the retirn of the sun to the far north. Shetland’s annual Up Helly Aa fire festival is almost upon us and you can join in the celebrations online - the spectacular torchlit procession will be broadcast live tomorrow on uphellyaa.com. The live coverage will begin at 19.00 (GMT) and run through until 21.00, culminating with the dramatic burning of the replica Viking galley. You can support this live webcast by subscribing to our 60 North Magazine - a quarterly publication which covers stories...

Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintain significant leads among voters across the nation, even as both find themselves in tight races in early-voting states, a new Morning Consult poll finds. The weekly tracking survey shows Trump ahead of the Republican field with 40 percent of the vote, near his all-time high. Just two other candidates crack double digits: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who takes 11 percent, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, at 10 percent. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are the only two candidates with significant levels of support, at 9...

This is not how Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House was supposed to go: full of never-ending scandals, with a close primary competitor, and two FBI investigations. There is but one week to go before the Iowa caucuses, where the first votes in this year’s presidential race will finally be cast.While Hillary Clinton is still the clear leader in national polls and likely to receive the nomination, the numbers are extremely close [1] in Iowa between Hillary and the democratic socialist candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). And in the first actual primary, the following week in New Hampshire, Mrs....

Isolated, polluted and – above all – cold, it is a city built on misery and blood. It is also a city of surprising wealth – the reason for its unlikely existence. Norilsk, squatting 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, has the largest deposits of nickel, copper and palladium on earth and its hellish mines are thriving. Gulag prisoners began expanding the Siberian settlement in 1935 and over the next 20 years, 500,000 slaves took part in its construction . Thousands lost their lives.

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U.S. Governors (former) Rick Perry, Texas (former); Presidential Candidate 2016, 2012 U.S. Senators (former) Bob Smith, New Hampshire (former); Presidential Candidate 2000 U.S. Representatives (current and former) Brian Babin, Representative from TexasBob Barr, former Representative from Georgia; also Libertarian Nominee in 2008Jim Bridenstine, Representative from OklahomaMo Brooks, Representative from AlabamaMichael C. Burgess, Representative from TexasJohn Culberson, Representative from TexasLouie Gohmert, Representative from TexasJody Hice, Representative from GeorgiaSteve King, Representative from IowaJohn Ratcliffe, Representative from TexasDana Rohrabacher, Representative from CaliforniaSam Graves, Representative from MissourTom Tancredo former Representative from Colorado; also presidential candidate in 2008Randy Weber, Representative from TexasSam Johnson, Representative...

A Ted Cruz-aligned super-PAC is out with new ads deepening Cruz's White House feud with Donald Trump by playing back the real estate magnate's previous praise of Cruz and questioning Trump's conservative chops. The ads are part of a $2.5 million buy already announced by Keep the Promise I, which will run in Iowa and South Carolina this week, just before the Iowa caucuses. The first ad plays audio from Trump's introduction of Cruz at the Lincoln Day Fundraising Dinner in Palm Beach, Fla., where the real estate mogul lauded the Texas senator as a "very popular and important future...

Swedish police were forced to run for their lives after being attacked by a mob of asylum seekers as they tried to relocate, amid allegations, a 10-year-old boy who had been 'raped repeatedly' at a refugee centre.

FBI seeking indictment of Hillary in email scandal, Tom DeLay claims By Jamie Schram The FBI is seeking an indictment of Hillary Clinton in her ever-growing email scandal that has dogged her democratic presidential bid, according to a former U.S. House Majority leader. “I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they’re ready to indict [her],” former Texas Republican congressman Tom DeLay told Newsmax TV. DeLay then clarified his statement, saying that if the Justice Department does not hand down an indictment, then the FBI will revolt. “They’re ready to recommend an indictment and they also...

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa - Entering the Iowa homestretch under attack and still overshadowed by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz hit back Monday by painting the billionaire as a phony conservative and evangelical. And he projected confidence that he’ll finish strong in the first test of the 2016 contest next Monday night. He asserted that Trump supports taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and 'Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine.' And he launched a coordinated effort to portray Trump as a 'New York liberal.'...

A new weekly tracking poll from NBC News finds Donald Trump opening a big lead over Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% among evangelical voters nationwide. The poll, conducted by NBC News and Survey Monkey, shows a 14 point shift in favor of Trump over the past week. According to the survey, Trump has 37 percent support among evangelicals, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has the support of 20 percent of evangelicals. Last week, Trump led Cruz by just 3 points in the tracking poll.

A Muslim in Minneapolis named Ahmed Hersi grabbed a ten year old in an elevator, took her to a hallway and then raped her. Here is the photo of this repulsive heretic: (see site) According to a report: A Minneapolis man has been charged after police say he raped a 10-year-old girl in the hallway of an apartment complex in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood. The assault happened Sunday, Oct. 4, on the 1600 block of South Fourth Street in Minneapolis, which is Riverside Plaza. The child said a man followed her onto the elevator and that they got off on the...

The Kremlin accused Germany of "covering up reality in a politically correct manner for the sake of domestic politics" the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl identified only as Lisa. The student from Berlin-Marzahn was reported missing on January 11. She resurfaced 30 hours later and filed a police report claiming to have been abducted by three men at a railway station in eastern Berlin, Russian government officials claim. Lisa, the child of Russian immigrants in Berlin, says she was taken to an apartment where she was "beaten and sexually assaulted" by men speaking "broken German". Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...

With the bromance between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump over, the mogul turned GOP front-runner has begun trash talking the senator from Texas. "He's a nasty guy," Trump recently huffed. "Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him." For members of the politerati, this was no revelation. As Cruz has quickly climbed the political ladder, he has left a long line of associates who complain, without much prompting, that he is an insufferable schmuck. A prominent aide to George W. Bush's 2000 campaign could barely contain himself when we asked...