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Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed supporters after winning the New Hampshire primary. (snip) Sanders name-dropped rivals Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Biden and Warren, promising to "unite together" to beat President Trump. "This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump." "Our campaign is not just about beating Trump, it is about transforming this country," Sanders said.

It was something many of us saw as a near-certain eventuality, the Navy has formally announced that it wants to retire its first four Littoral Combat Ships. Split evenly across both the Freedom and Independence classes of the failed Littoral Combat Ship concept, the oldest of the vessels was commissioned just 12 years ago, the youngest a mere six years ago. Yes, you read that right—six years ago! The troublesome fleet within a fleet has been serving as a training and test force, a dubious role from the start that the Navy says isn't even needed anymore. Giving up on...

The disproportionate number of African American special guests hosted by President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address made clear how very serious he is about courting the support of this community. The question, of course, is whether meaningful change in how African Americans vote is possible or is just wishful thinking by Republicans. Since 1964, Democrats have picked up an average of 90% of the black vote in every presidential election, and Republicans have picked up an average of 10%. Have the Democrats served the black community so well that they deserve such disproportionate support? I...

Tired of all this WINNING yet? – While the Dow closed down by less than 1 percent, while both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 managed record high closes for the second straight day despite indications from Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell that the Fed will not be lowering interest rates again at its next meeting. Speaking of WINNING, Democrat looooosers were dropping like flies after poor finishes in last night’s New Hampshire primary. Andrew Yang was the first to end his campaign, in which he attempted to bribe his way to the nomination with the false promise of paying...

CONCORD, N.H. — Amy Klobuchar rode a late-breaking wave of momentum over the past week to finish third in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, vaulting from relative obscurity into contention for the Democratic nomination for president.

Brian Craig, the host on the Steve Kane Show, the longest running conservative radio show on the air today, gave Kudos to FreeRepublic this morning. Mentioned that he comes here frequently. Brian is a warrior, don't know if he has a handle, but he's a good one. Glad he's here.

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The influential Culinary Union distributed a flier that says Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would “End Culinary Healthcare” if elected president of the United States. The flier, obtained by CNN on Tuesday, outlines where the leading 2020 Democratic candidates stand on health care, immigration and “Good Jobs.” It singles out Sanders as the candidate who will end the union’s health care among the top six Democratic candidates, pointing to his “Medicare for All” plan. The release of the flier by the union, which is a force in Nevada politics, comes just a week and a half away from the Nevada caucuses....

Russia discharged a Chinese national from hospital in the Siberian city of Chita on Wednesday after he recovered from a coronavirus infection, local authorities said. He was the second of Russia's two confirmed cases of coronavirus to recover. The other patient, also a Chinese national, was said by authorities on Tuesday to have recovered and been released from quarantine in Siberia's Tyumen region. Russia has isolated hundreds of Russian and Chinese nationals for virus screening upon arrival from China. A Chinese diplomat was quarantined as a precaution last week in the city of Yekaterinburg. Russia, which has a 4,300 kilometer...

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick planned to end his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, CBS News reported, citing a source familiar with the announcement.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who represents Colorado, announced he is ending his presidential bid Tuesday night. The announcement came soon after the polls for the New Hampshire Primary closed. At the time he made the announcement he had less than 1 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, after pinning his campaign's hopes on the northeastern state.

The candidate argued that no Democratic nominee has succeeded without significant support from African Americans, the core of his base in a fractured primary field. The electorate in South Carolina´s February 29 primary, the first in the South, is expected to be more than 60% black and could approach 70%, according to state party leaders.

The Institute for Justice has taken up the cause of doctors in Texas who want to offer their patients affordable medications at the point of care—a practice known as physician dispensing of prescription drugs. As the doctors point out, the Texas ban on physician dispensing is irrational. “As 45 other states have recognized, doctor dispensing is a safe and effective way to increase patients’ access and adherence to their prescribed medications—which is good for patients, doctors, and the broader healthcare system,” IJ attorneys said in a press conference outside the Travis County Civil District Court where the lawsuit was filed....

Hillary Clinton declared Tuesday that democracy is “in crisis” amid the withdrawal of prosecutors from the case against Roger Stone after senior leaders at the Justice Department (DOJ) effectively overruled the prosecutors' judgment by seeking a lesser sentence for President Trump's former adviser. Clinton, a former secretary of state and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, bemoaned the departure of the DOJ prosecutors on the same day of the Republican-controlled Senate’s move to block three election security-related bills. Four prosecutors withdrew from the case, and at least one resigned from the Justice Department. “The rule of law & our democracy are...

The US has come with strong words in support of Turkey’s policies in northern Syria, hoping to push Turkey to greater action against the Syrian regime and Russia in Syria’s northern Idlib province. US envoy James Jeffrey landed in Turkey on Tuesday where he commemorated Turkey’s “martyrs” who had been killed by the Syrian regime and pledged support for Ankara. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Jeffrey have been seeking to pivot the US back to a Turkey-first foreign policy in regards to Syria, to slowly jettison parts of what they see as the problematic Kurdish region ...

The relatively low turnout for Iowa's Democratic caucuses prompted some concerns about Democratic enthusiasm in the 2020 election, but New Hampshire primary voters turned out in force on Tuesday. With nearly 90 percent of precincts reporting, 274,785 people voted in the Democratic primary, above the 253,062 turnout level in 2016 and edging close to the record turnout of 287,527 in 2008, as NBC's Steve Kornacki notes.

LAS VEGAS - Nevada’s Democrats are vowing not to have a repeat of the debacle now known as Iowa’s Democratic caucus. For early voting in this month’s Nevada Democratic caucus, the state party will use new paper-based balloting for its early vote as it scrambles to reconfigure plans and avoid tech problems and reporting delays that mired Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. Early voting begins Saturday for the Feb. 22 caucus. The party, which dumped its original plan to have people cast early caucus votes with an app downloaded on iPads, is working to simplify the process and build in “additional redundancies”...

Attention Saturday Night Live! Air is mostly nitrogen, not oxygen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbYtKW2BNo

Devin Nunes appears with Lou Dobbs and breaks the news on national media the nomination of former DC Attorney Jessie Liu was withdrawn. Mr. Nunes went on to discuss the issues around the DOJ and Deep State resistance effort and then contrasts the sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone against the 30-day sentence for SSCI Security Director James Wolfe. Additionally, Representative Nunes notes this is only the beginning of sunlight upon the dirty lawyers who organized within the Mueller probe…. and there will be much more to come.

With all the latest polls indicating a surge of support for Bloomberg to be the Dem nominee along with a steady rise in support for Bernie Sanders and a corresponding major decline in support of Joe Biden my FR prediction is a Bloomberg/Sanders ticket for the Democrats in the 2020 race against President Trump. Anyone agree or disagree with this prediction. I did not post a source link to any specific polls since the data is not consistent but the surge and decline are trends when honest analysis is conducted.