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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are energizing grassroots voters as the first balloting of the 2016 presidential race draws near. Yet the three maverick contenders are also alarming political operatives over the damage each could wreak on their own parties' House candidates this November. The worry is that each man's take-no-prisoners appeals would alienate moderate voters in the two to three dozen competitive House races expected in seats from Florida to California, often in the suburbs. While it seems unlikely Republicans will lose House control, some in the GOP envision a serious dent in their...

Case 3:16-mj-00004 Document 1 Filed 01/26/16 Page 1 of 32 AO 91 (Rev. 11/11) Criminal Complaint   UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT For theDistrict of Oregon United States of Americav.Ammon BUNDY, Jon RITZHEIMER, Joseph O'SHAUGHNESSY, Ryan PAYNE, Ryan BUNDY, Brian CAVALIER,Shawna.COX, Peter SANTILLI,___________________________________Defendant(s) ))) Case No. 3:16-mj-00004-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)))) CRIMINAL COMPLAINT I, the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.On or about the date(s) of January 2, 2016, to the present in the county of Harney in theDistrict of Oregon , the defendant(s) violated: Code Section Offense Description 18 U.S.C. §...

And why she should listen to Killer Mike. At the the Iowa Democratic forum on Monday night, Hillary Clinton took one of the easiest questions lobbed her way -- Who is your favorite president? -- and blasted it right into the back of her own goal. She did fine with the first part, naming Abraham Lincoln, but then dipped into the history of Reconstruction, bemoaning the vengeful way in which the North targeted the South after Lincoln's assassination. You know, he was willing to reconcile and forgive. And I don't know what our country might have been like had he...

Axelrod's Wish: On page 424 of his recent memoir, Obama's former top strategist David Axelrod describes running into Fox chieftain (and immigration amnesty supporter) Rupert Murdoch at a dinner in the fall of 2010: During the dinner, Murdoch, who was seated beside me, insisted that the president had to move on immigration reform. "But the solution has to be comprehensive," I said. "We can't just attack a piece of the immigration problem. And you know, there's one big thing that you can do to help, and that is to keep your cable network from stoking the nativism that keeps us...

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Trump's standard line when he is about to storm out of a media event because he doesn't like how it covers him is that he is going to go host an event to raise money for veterans. Thus it was no surprise when he announced that he would be skipping the FoxNews event to hold a separate event to raise money for.... well, "veterans," generally. Of course, Trump did not name a specific charity so that his feet might be held to the fire on this, just "veterans," generally. Well, there are two small problems. The main veterans group that...

Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) explained to host Megyn Kelly where he saw inconsistencies from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) , one of his opponents for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, on the issues of immigration and the NSA data collection program. Paul said those inconsistencies raise questions about his U.S. Senate colleague's "authenticity." "I think the biggest problem that Cruz faces right now is authenticity," Paul said. "He was for the NSA reform, saying the government shouldn't collect all our phone records. But then in the debate, his response to Rubio was, oh...

If you look at an English translation of Ex 18:4, (NIV) and the other was named Eliezer, for he said, "My father's God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh." all versions refer to Eliezer as "the other," when in fact this is a mistranslation of the Hebrew original. In Hebrew Moses' children are referred to as: ...ONE of whom was named Gershom....and ONE of whom was named Eliezer. Whenever there are seeming errors in grammar or syntax, the rabbis expound... The attached class explored the deeper meaning behind this "mistake" in the text of our...

"....The Washington Examiner's Byron York reports on the burgeoning Kaelism among Republican poobahs who were gathered at Saturday's First in the Nation Town Hall in Nashua. "Most of the politicos in Nashua didn't deny that the polls are what they are," York writes. "They just explained that they haven't personally encountered evidence that the Trump-dominated polls are accurate." As one "very well-connected state Republican" says, "I don't see it....I don't feel it. I don't hear it, and I spend part of every day with Republican voters." Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and his wife, after racking their brains to...

Former presidential candidate and New York governor George Pataki announced on Tuesday that he's "throwing his support," as ABC News put it, to Marco Rubio. I bet it was like catching a feather. But it was characteristic of how the great-on-paper Rubio campaign has progressed. With the invisible primary coming to an end, it's time for Rubio, everybody's early smart-money candidate for the GOP nomination, to start piling up the kind of support that suggests a big, clanking political machine. Instead he's winning over George Pataki. Back at the beginning of December I wrote a piece that didn't deny Rubio's...

Missile kills 11 Islamists, 5 civilians in Syria's Idlib: activists BEIRUT: At least 11 Islamist fighters and five civilians were killed as a ballistic missile struck a building in northwest Syria during a meeting between rebel groups, activists said Monday. "Eleven fighters from (Al-Qaeda affiliate) the Nusra Front and other Islamist groups were killed on Sunday, along with five civilians, when a ballistic missile hit a police station being used as a court in Salqin" in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based group said it was unclear if the missile was fired by Russian or...

Predict % picking Trump as debate winner on Drudge poll tomorrow.

Jurors watched video Wednesday showing the man on trial for the murders of three Middle Eastern store owners in Brooklyn lurking outside the second victim’s 99-cent shop — just minutes before the merchant was murdered. The footage, captured by a bakery across the street from victim Isaac Kadare’s Flatbush store, shows Salvatore Perrone shuffling by around 7:02 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2012, carrying a large black duffel bag that prosecutors have called his “kill kit.” The bag, which held a sawed-off shotgun and a bloody knife, was later found by police stuffed behind his girlfriend’s couch.

Nobody has been paying attention to the rules governing the Republican Party's early caucuses and primaries. They make it inevitable the 12-person field will be winnowed down to a two-way race by March 15. Here's how: It will take 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination in July. Of the nearly 700 delegates Republicans will parcel out on March 1, 363 of them -- 52 percent -- will be in states that require candidates to reach a threshold of either 20 percent or 15 percent to share in the proportional allocation of delegates. Only two candidates are likely to meet...

David Cameron was branded 'shameful' and 'callous' today after he described people in the Calais refugee camp as 'a bunch of migrants' during Prime Minister's Questions. Mr Cameron is facing calls to apologise for using 'inflammatory language' as he ridiculed Jeremy Corbyn's visit to the makeshift French camp known as the Jungle last weekend.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired Wednesday night that special interest groups cannot buy her to gain access and influence as she continues to face scrutiny for taking large sums of money in speaking fees from the financial industry in recent years. Speaking over the phone with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Clinton was asked how she will respond to impending attack ads from her main primary challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.), who is expected to target her ties to Wall Street. "As anybody who knows me knows, you can't buy me," Clinton said in response, defending...

Glenn Beck then goes on to say the deal with Mitch is why he dropped support for Rand Paul and yet supports Ted Cruz. Here’s the problem…. Actually, here’s the lie… Senator Rand Paul and Senator Ted Cruz made the same deal, together, at exactly the same time. Stop – Repeat ! “The deal”, as Beck describes it, was actually real – and did actually take place. The deal was to go along with Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell’s overall objectives, electoral objectives AND legislative objectives, as the GOP entered into the 2014 mid-term election cycle. The deal, which few...

In the early morning hours of January 27, 2016, the FBI and Oregon State Police (OSP) established a series of checkpoints at major roads in and out of the refuge. In the hours prior to the checkpoints several vehicles are known to have left the area. Since the establishment of the checkpoints, a total of eight people have left the refuge. Of those, the FBI released five and arrested three. At approximately 3:30 pm, the FBI made probable cause arrests of Duane Leo Ehmer, age 45, of Irrington, Oregon and Dylan Wade Anderson, age 34, or Provo, Utah. At approximately,...

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Wednesday that he's considering backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. "Look, we've gotten along fine," Reid said. "With that bunch of people running, I'm kind of pulling for him." According to The Hill, Reid then tried to walk back his comments. Asked about Trump's statement, Reid added, 'Oh, I remember the good old days when he did a fundraiser or two for me.' Reid quickly walked back his comments, apologizing for joking about supporting Trump - whom he called a 'hateful demagogue who will do immeasurable damage to our country.' 'There's some things...

A leading Muslim cleric has warned against the influence of extremists, who he thinks could come from the UK and infiltrate the Muslim community in Ireland. Shaykh Dr. Umar Al-Qadri believes that although extremism is not yet an issue in Ireland, there is a danger of extremist Islamic groups in the UK showing a greater interest in Muslims across the Irish Sea and attempting to recruit them. He warned the estimated 60,000 Muslims in the Irish Islamic community to be vigilant and stated that education must be put in place to prevent the problem. ...