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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) backpedaled Wednesday after joking that, among the current Republican presidential field, he's considering backing Donald Trump for the nomination. "Look, we've gotten along fine," the Democratic leader told reporters. "With that bunch of people running, I'm kind of pulling for him." Reid made the remark after the GOP front-runner touted his ability to work with top Democrats in Congress, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), expected to be the next Senate Democratic leader. Asked about Trump's statement, Reid added, "Oh, I remember the good old days when he...

Pray For Our American Heroes and Our Nation Stand Firm Psalm 34:17-20 ESV When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Memories of the Walker family spy ring and British double agent Kim Philby could be resurrected if a new angle of the FBI investigation works toward its logical conclusion. Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports that the FBI is going directly to the intelligence agencies that generated the assessments to determine the original classification level. The investigators "will go directly to depose specific individuals in agencies who generated the highly classified materials." This is the prudent and smart thing to do in order to get specifics on the classification authority and to compare original documents with those that were stripped...

Rafael Cruz, a Christian minister, speaker and the father of GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling Christians and their leaders to get involved politically or face the fact that it will be the "wicked electing the wicked." Cruz's father, whose new book, "A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America," addresses the issue, was interviewed by Glenn Beck on a recent radio program. He pointed to GOP front-runner Donald Trump's presentation of himself as an evangelical Christian. "If Christians just do what they're supposed to do biblically, the whole game changes," Rafael Cruz told Beck....

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them" (vv. 8-10). - Ephesians 2:1-10 One of the signature confessions of the Reformed tradition, the Westminster Confession of Faith stands out for its comprehensive summary of biblical doctrine. Chapter 14 of this confession deals with saving faith, explaining that "the grace of faith, whereby the...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Character Studies From The Bible Paul (Paul's First Letter to The Corinthians) 14 I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. 15 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you to imitate me. 17 For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg_SnL0OrNo&feature=player_detailpage#t=166 In Carl Cameron's own words in March of 2013. Video is cued to start at comment.

 Picture from Human Events One of the most popular articles that I have written was "Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens".  The article is a compilation of documented cases where armed citizens stopped what would likely have become mass killings before they occured.  Such incidents are usually spiked by the media because the body count is either non-existent or too low to meed the FBI criteria of a mass killing. It appears that the Air Force has got the memo.  In an article From military.com: The Air Force on Wednesday said its review of "active-shooter incidents across the country"...

As you read this, a convoy of buses carrying an estimated 8,000 Cuban nationals is arriving at our southern borders after departing from Costa Rica and El Salvador. The circuitous route is due to an increased Coast Guard presence in the Florida Straits, which itself is a response to record-level illegal crossings from Cuba this year. What's driving this exodus may not be due to completely natural factors, however. Writing in the Miami Herald, Maria Werlau of the Cuba Archive, says that what's arriving at our door is nothing but a "fabricated crisis," intentionally designed by Cuba to "stir humanitarian"...

BEDFORD, Pa. Locked arm and arm with each other, complete strangers saved the life of a driver whose tractor-trailer lost control during the weekend snowstorm and was teetering over the edge of a hillside. It was a mess, dangerous. The truck was smoking, couple hundred gallons of diesel fuel, debris everywhere. People didn't seem to care, they jumped out to help," said Arlyn Satanek who witnessed the incident. Satanek has been driving trucks for years and he's never seen anything like this. On Friday night, inch-by-inch, the snow started to fall and by evening the roads were covered. One trucker...

...Francis was asked last year about the Charlie Hebdo attacks and suggested that a violent reaction could be expected when someone's faith was insulted. He said while violence must be condemned, anyone who insults his mother can expect to be punched...

The rumors are swirling... Two Republican candidates reportedly called Donald Trump and said they wanted to attend his veterans fundraiser tonight at Drake University.

Digital Currency: The Key Tool of 21st Century Monolithic Nanny State Tyranny   January 28, 2016 - 6:47 am | Current Events & Politics, Economics & Investing There has been talk of doing away with paper currency for several decades, but up until now that has mostly been idle conjecture and mostly bluster. Gradually, however, the building blocks of such a system have indeed been developed. These enabling technologies include: Credit cardsDebit cardsPostal metersCredit and debit card enabled pay phonesCredit and debit card enabled vending machinesCredit and debit card enabled “pay before you exit” parking garage kiosksGrocery and warehouse...

Do you know what socialism is? Hillary Clinton struggled to find an answer when recently asked. Socialism is a system in which the government owns or controls the means of production, and allocates resources and rewards. Sen. Bernie Sanders proudly proclaims himself a "democratic socialist," and many in the Democratic Party seem to have no problem with it and, in fact, are embracing him and his ideas. Why does socialism always fail, and why will Bernie Sanders' schemes and, to a lesser extent, Hillary's Obamacare version, also fail? Under a capitalist free-market system, the business person seeks to produce goods...

The rapture was supposed to happen on September 13, 1988. A few fringe pastors were screaming that the end was nigh, that the righteous would soon disappear into the air while the rest of humanity was doomed to suffer a quite literal hell on earth. Forget the biblical admonition that no man knows the day nor hour of Christ's return, these men had figured it out. It was time to prepare yourself. I was a sophomore at a Christian college in Nashville, and it was the talk of the campus. No one likes to make fun of crazy Christian...

Hillary says "Anybody Who Knows Me Knows You Can't Buy Me". (Original of the "cosmetic surgery" photoshop job.) What should the caption read for an editorial cartoon showing the mirror cracking when Hillary asks "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"

Ukraine Threatens Sanctions Against Israelis Doing Business With Russians in Crimea Ukrainian embassy claims to receive information that Israelis entered areas of Russian-occupied Crimea in violation of Ukrainian and international law while contravening a March 2014 UNGA resolution. Barak Ravid Jan 18, 2016 3:40 PM The Ukrainian government is threatening to impose sanctions on private Israeli citizens, or Israeli companies, doing business in Russian-occupied Crimea. The Ukrainian Embassy in Israel published an announcement to that effect on its website on Friday, in English and Ukrainian. The embassy had received information, the announcement said, that Israeli citizens were entering areas of...

DONALD Trump has been mocked for behaving like a cowardly Monty Python character by his fiercest rival for ducking out of a crucial TV debate. Ted Cruz tweeted a video of "Brave Sir Robin" from The Holy Grail film after the billionaire said he would not participate in tomorrow's Fox News event for Presidential candidates, due to a row with one its hosts...

Saudi Arabia approaches Russia about oil output cuts, report claims Alexander Bueso | Sharecast | 27 Jan, 2016 17:42 - Updated: 19:48 Saudi Arabia approached the Russian Federation about possible oil output cuts within the framework of the Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries, Transneft chief Nikolai Tokarev said on Wednesday, according to a report from TASS. "Saudi Arabia came forward with the initiative to have a discussion that would include the members of OPEC," Tokarev said following a meeting between oil company executives and the Ministry of Energy. "In particular, we talked about oil prices, the measures everyone should take,...

How did the universe begin? And what came before the Big Bang? Cosmologists have asked these questions ever since discovering that our universe is expanding. The answers aren't easy to determine. The beginning of the cosmos is cloaked and hidden from the view of our most powerful telescopes. Yet observations we make today can give clues to the universe's origin. New research suggests a novel way of probing the beginning of space and time to determine which of the competing theories is correct.