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The battle began on Wednesday's show, when a peeved O'Donnell said: "(He) left the first wife---had an affair. (He) had kids both times, but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America. Donald, sit and spin, my friend."

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America founder Paul Rieckhoff tweeted Wednesday that he would decline any contributions that came from the event, which Trump has proposed in place of his attending Fox News' debate this week. "If offered, @IAVA will decline donations from Trump's event. We need strong policies from candidates, not to be used for political stunts," he said.

Donald Trump's campaign announced Wednesday that the GOP front-runner will hold a "special event" to benefit veterans during Fox News' Republican debate. The event on Thursday, hosted at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, will start with a pre-program at 8 p.m. ET, and the main event will start at 9 p.m. ET, a statement said. No other information was provided, with the statement only saying "additional details to follow."

If there's one thing that Donald Trump has done for the leaders of the conservative movement, the Christian Right and the Republican party it's that he's teaching them a necessary lesson in reality: It turns out that a large number of their supporters don't really care about ideology, morality or even their supposedly mutual loathing of the hippie Democrats on the other side. Their concerns run to something much more primitive.

For those interested, Cruz will be on Hannity tonight.

MORNÄ°NG JOE 1/27/2016 Donald Trump's withdrawal from the upcoming Fox GOP debate a

On this date (January 27) in 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz. Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. However, it evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor. Some prisoners were also subjected to barbaric medical experiments led by Josef Mengele (1911-79). During World War II (1939-45), more than 1 million people, by...

A new Iowa poll finds Donald Trump with a strong seven point lead, less than one week from caucus day. Ted Cruz is in second and Marco Rubio is in third, the poll finds.

Complete title: Breitbart Turns On News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch: He And Fox News Secretly Support Illegal Immigration In their top story this morning, Trump World Headquarters unloaded both barrels at News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. They write: In asking the question of “what’s wrong over there?” Trump has shined a spotlight on one of Washington’s best kept secrets: namely, Fox’s role via its founder Rupert Murdoch in pushing an open borders agenda. The Trump campaign is a direct threat to Murdoch’s efforts to open America’s borders. Well-concealed from virtually all reporting on Fox’s treatment of Trump is the fact...

Looks like it's official, at least for now. There will be no empty podium left for The Donald tomorrow night: "DAILY MAIL - No trace of Donald Trump will be left at Thursday night's debate as a Fox News spokesperson confirmed that an empty podium would not be left on stage for the boycotting billionaire. Trump, over issues he had with Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly, declared last night that he would not be attending the GOP debate taking place in Des Moines, just days before the Iowa caucuses. Instead, he'll hold a fundraiser across town for veterans and wounded...

A new think tank report takes aim at the Black Lives Matter movement's contention that law enforcement’s use of lethal force unequally targets blacks compared to other racial or ethnic groups. According to the report by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, not only are a higher percentage of whites and Hispanics killed by police, the greater threat to blacks comes from violent criminals within their own communities. "The evidence does not support the conclusion that American police are waging a racist war against blacks," Manhattan senior fellow Heather Mac Donald writes. "The Black Lives Matter movement has been a...

The president will propose in his 2017 budget next month that families who qualify for subsidized school meals be given a special electronic benefits card that will allow them to buy an additional $45 in groceries per child each month when school is out. ... The USDA, states and nonprofit groups have been trying for several years now to figure out how to boost participation in a summer feeding program. They've experimented with offering free meals at camps and libraries, where children are likely to show up. And they're using food trucks to deliver meals to more remote areas. ......

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today recalled "the good old days" when Donald Trump "did a fundraiser or two for me." Reid was asked outside a closed policy luncheon on Capitol Hill today about Trump's compliments. "I've always had a good relationship with Nancy Pelosi. I've never had a problem. Reid will be gone," Trump told MSNBC yesterday, in reference to the Nevada senator's impending retirement. "I always had a decent relationship with Reid, although lately, obviosuly, I haven't been dealing with him so he'll actually use my name as the ultimate -- you know, as the ultimate of...

Conservative radio host Mark Levin is criticizing Glenn Beck's widely publicized CPAC speech this weekend attacking Republicans. (SNIP) But on his show Monday night, Levin called on Beck to "stop dividing us" and suggested he "stop acting like a clown." "What I see across the horizon today in my 40 years or so of conservative activism is unity like I've never seen before," the popular radio host and author said, which was first flagged by the blog Radio Equalizer. "It's unity not because of hate for [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell or [House Minority Leader John] Boehner or whatever. It's...

The F-35 is an absolute disaster, and it needs to go. The scandals around it are legion. The supersonic stealth plane called F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was supposed to be the greatest and best military plane the world has ever seen. While the United States' stealthy F-22 is an "air superiority" plane, ensuring the country's dominance over the skies, which is why exporting it is illegal, the F-35 was supposed to be able to do everything, and be the standard fighter-bomber of the U.S. and most countries with which the U.S. has friendly relations. It was supposed to be stealthy,...

Did you ever think you’d live to see anchor babies discussed on TV every night? H1-B visas replacing American workers? Illegal alien murderers? Mexican rapists? Could you ever have imagined that instead of Republicans weeping over illegal aliens “living in the shadows,” we’d see them assailing one another for having once supported amnesty? It’s all Trump. Everything we’ve been begging politicians to talk about for the past decade, Donald Trump has brought up with a roar. But the conservative Miss Grundys complain that Trump isn’t satisfactory. They say he’s “not a serious person”; he’s “a clown,” a “vulgarian”; he’s not...

Cruzin' to Caucus Des Moines Pro-Life Rally with Senator Ted Cruz Special Guest Tony Perkins, Governor Rick Perry and other Pro-Life Leaders6:00pmWednesday, January 27, 2016 at 6:00 PM (CST) West Des Moines, IA Live stream to start @ 6:00 pm CST at linkTickets to attend:http://www.eventbrite.com/e/cruzin-to-caucus-des-moines-ia-rally-with-senator-ted-cruz-tickets-20997843114?aff=erellivcat

The government wants to make it easier for you to buy and use cable boxes from companies other than your cable provider. This could help companies like TiVo, Roku and Apple deliver a cable feed, too, as part of their video recorders or streaming-TV devices. Introducing competition could also help lower people's cable bills. The Federal Communications Commission says that 99 percent of cable and satellite TV customers rent boxes from their cable providers, and that the price of cable boxes has nearly tripled since 1994. Meanwhile, prices of common consumer electronics like cellphones, TVs and computers have fallen sharply....

HOWELL Michigan congressional candidate Melissa Gilbert (D, Howell) is calling upon Rep. Mike Bishop (R, Rochester) to end his Planned Parenthood investigation and “apologize to Michigan taxpayers.” Gilbert said in a press release that Bishop is “wasting … time and money investigating Planned Parenthood based on heavily-edited videos.” A Texas grand jury indicted David R. Deleiden and Sandra S. Merritt for tampering with government records, according to the New York Times. The grand jurors said Planned Parenthood was not guilty of any wrongdoing. According to Gilbert, Bishop has voted six times to defund Planned Parenthood. Gilbert, an actress and former...

Johnson Controls strikes $20bn Tyco acquisition Johnson Controls has agreed to acquire Tyco International in a $20bn industrial tie-up that will allow the manufacturer to slash its tax bill by moving its corporate domicile from the US to Ireland. The transaction is structured as a reverse takeover that will see Tyco shareholders own 44 per cent of the combined group, while Johnson Controls investors will hold the remainder and receive $3.9bn in cash. It values Tyco shares at $34.88, an 11 per cent premium to its closing price at the end of last week High quality global journalism requires investment....