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...“Have you ever had a speck of dirt fly into your eye?” he began his response about Donald Trump. He called it “annoying, irritating, might even make you cry. But if the dirt doesn’t go away, it’ll keep scratching away at your cornea until eventually it blinds you with all its filth… and then it makes fun of you on CNN.” Larry just wanted to clarify the metaphor, “So the eye is the conservative voter and Donald Trump is the speck of dirt?” he asked. “No, Larry. Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag. A speck of...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The story here at TheHill.com: "Trump: I'll work with Democrats." I saw that headline, I said, "Now, wait just a minute. What's this?" So I read the story. "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is stressing his bona fides as a dealmaker who'd be able to enter the White House and work with congressional Democrats to hammer out agreements. 'I think I'm going to be able to get along with Pelosi -- I've always had a good relationship with Nancy Pelosi,' Trump said Tuesday on MSNBC. ... 'Reid's going to be gone. I've always had a decent relationship...

Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, top Hollywood producers and directors who got their start with the hilarious 1980s movie "Airplane," announced tonight in Los Angeles that they were in advanced preparations to begin to film a new motion picture about the life of real estate mogul and Republican candidate Donald Trump. "We expected it to be a real challenge" Abrans said, "but it's really going to be much easier than anyone thought. "We were worried about getting up to the minute video, with Trump changing his mind so often," said Zucker, "but in the end, we found a way to...

"Rise, Peter, and fulfill this pastoral office divinely entrusted to you as mentioned above. Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth. [...] Moreover, because the preceding errors and many others are...

CNN)One person was killed as authorities arrested a group of people -- including Ammon Bundy -- involved with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the FBI and Oregon State Police said. The deceased individual, who has not been identified, was the subject of a federal probable cause arrest, officials said.

Donald Trump’s decision to skip the next debate marked yet another unexpected twist in his presidential campaign but probably a very smart political decision. Trump’s conflict with Fox News started after Trump began bashing moderator Megyn Kelly, whose questions in the first GOP debate he said were unfair. But it quickly turned into the entire network mocking him. When Trump polled his Twitter followers about whether he should participate, Fox News put out a news release mocking him: “We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet...

Venerable Engelmar Unzeitig, CMM, whom Pope Francis declared a martyr last week. Credit: (c) Archiv Redaktion Mariannhill, Reimlingen via engelmarunzeitig.de. Vatican City, Jan 26, 2016 / 06:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Engelmar Unzeitig, a young priest with Czech roots serving in Germany and Austria, was arrested by the Nazis on April 21, 1941.His crime? Preaching against the Third Reich from his pulpit, particularly against their treatment of the Jewish people. He encouraged his congregation to be faithful to God and to resist the lies of the Nazi regime.As punishment, Fr. Unzeitig was sent to what has been called the "largest...

Establishment Republicans and donors are seeking to coalesce around whichever candidate is not Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) , according to the New York Times. One influential Republican strategist says he wants to see former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to go after Cruz. "Whoever is not named Trump and not named Cruz that looks strong out of both Iowa and New Hampshire, we should consolidate around," said veteran Republican strategist Henry Barbour. Barbour, according to the New York Times, was so irritated by the internal battle between the establishment candidates that he wanted to raise money for Huckabee's...

You'll also be able to see in an instant if a candidate says something on stage that contradicts something they said only a few days ago on Twitter, or in a statement. Google will also highlight trending issues, social rankings, and more via Google Trends to help you dig into those statements, or a candidate's stance on an issue you care about.

A new vulnerability in the eBay-owned Magento e-commerce platform could be remotely exploited to take over sites and steal client information, researchers have discovered. Security vendor Sucuri discovered a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the core system libraries for Magento Community Edition version 1.9.2.3 and earlier, and the Enterprise Edition version 1.14.2.3 and older. The critical flaw could be triggered by sending an email to adminstrators. Sucuri reported the bug to Magento's security team early in November last year. Magento acknowledged the vulnerability on 1 December 2015, but did not issue a patch until 21 January 2016. The Magento...

Fox News and Google have invited three YouTube personalities to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate - including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot and who visually portrayed him as being in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler. "We have a presidential candidate whose loudest message reeks of hatred and Islamophobia... turning on the news now is scary, and oftentimes, humiliating," the Muslim woman, Nabela Noor, says in a December YouTube video. She admits to becoming a Muslim political activist amid the growing criticism of Islam's doctrines. "The current social environment for Muslims today...

An article in which Jeremy Clarkson criticised changing attitudes towards transgender people has provoked a storm of criticism on social media.The self-proclaimed "equal opportunities loudmouth" used his weekly column in The Sunday Times to argue that parents who "indulge the whims" of children wanting gender reassignment are living "lunatic lives".He also commented on the recent focus on high profile transgender cases, writing: "We must now all turn our attention to the plight of people who want to change their name from Stan to Loretta. As far as I was concerned, men who want to be women were only really to...

Due to this weekend's torrential winter downpour, we are currently in the midst of a federal government shutdown. Uh oh. We've been told so often by so many that a government shutdown will shake the Earth from its orbital path and send us careening into the Sun. So far, thankfully, that has not occurred. Despite our promised fiery demise, we have begun to excavate DC (...wait a moment, what's the rush?). DC is doing what anyone does in such situations. You triage - you prioritize what gets attention in what order. There is oh-so-much that should just stay buried. Not...

Trump talks about his decision not to do the Fox News debate. Trump also holds a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa where he will receive an endorsement from self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff” Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa.

A Jeb Bush super PAC is hitting Marco Rubio on his messy financial history in a new TV ad running in Iowa. "Car repairs, home improvements, a family trip - it's not easy to afford. What did Marco Rubio do? He put $22,000 in personal expenses on a Republican Party credit card," the ad from Right to Rise says. "Rubio's bad judgment caused a scandal and for five years. Rubio refused to release the credit card records. Marco Rubio: skipping major votes, all over the place on immigration, bad judgment. He's just not ready to be president."

http://polling.reuters.com/#poll/TM764AY15/filters/LIKELY_PRIMARY15:1,PARTY_ID_:2 Cruz now leads trump 52-45, after recently being down 38-58.

<p>President Obama’s last year in office is shaping up as the Year of the Veto.</p> <p>After vetoing only seven bills over the first seven years of his presidency, Mr. Obama has vetoed two measures already in January. What’s more, the White House has issued veto threats against all five pieces of legislation to come out of the House since Jan. 1, from a measure to cut “burdensome” government regulations to a bill that would give Congress greater oversight of the Iranian nuclear deal. A House vote on the latter is scheduled for the week of Feb. 1.</p>

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." In George Orwell's dystopic novel 1984, the totalitarian Big Brother regime issues perverse edicts reflecting the opposite of what is said. Likewise, in the American Civil Liberties Union's dystopic world, "silence is freedom of speech." The latest example unfolded recently in the Pittsburgh suburb of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, where the ACLU bullied the city council, which had been considering allowing faith leaders to give rotating prayers before the meetings. The Council had long been opening with recitations of the Lord's Prayer, and after a complaint from a single, disappointed petitioner morphed into...

According to a friend in the area there was or is a shooting at rangeview high school in aurora co. Heard off police scanner. Located in aurora colorado. NOTHING yet on local channels.

Tonight on the Mark Levin Radio Show, Ted Cruz told CR's Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin that he is challenging Donald Trump to a one on one debate.  He suggested that the debate be held on talk radio, and that it be a Megyn Kelly free zone. Listen:Cruz Challenges Trump To Debate (Audio)The challenge comes after Trump said he would not participate in the Fox News debate on Thursday January 28, 2016.Cruz told Levin, "the fact that Donald is now afraid to appear on the debate stage. That he doesn't want his record questioned. I think that reflects a lack of respect for the...