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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz threw his support behind T.W. Shannon in Oklahoma's GOP senate primary, The Hill reported. Shannon is a former state House Speaker. This was the first primary endorsement made by Cruz, who has a strong following among tea party-aligned Republicans. The endorsement allows him to honor his pledge not to back insurgents in primaries involving Senate GOP colleagues, The Washington Post reported. Shannon is in an open primary. A special election in November will fill the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn two years before his term ends in 2016. Cruz plans to attend...

McCain for President? Vote in This Urgent Poll. This poll by NewsMax.com is up now. Ask for your preference for John McCain, Condi Rice, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and George Allen for the ‘08 Presidential run. Also asks, “If the 2008 President race was between John McCain & Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?” If I have to pick from this sorry lot, I’d swallow hard and pick Mitt Romney. http://www.newsmax.com/poll/mccain/?refid=1284

NewsMax got serious notice Friday in the New York Times for its coverage and promotion of the new, controversial biography of Hillary Clinton. But the Times has bought into the spin liberals have tried to put on "The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President" by Edward Klein. The newspaper quotes a journalist who says the book "has the feel of a ginned-up right-wing effort to smear anybody who is seen by the right as politically threatening." What the Times doesn't mention is that Klein is anything but a...

For decades, neuroscientists have recognized that the brain has three distinct systems. One is derived from primitive reptiles that were adept at survival strategies. Another includes the limbic system – often called the “seat of emotions.” The third includes the neocortex and prefrontal lobes (comprising the right and left hemispheres of the brain) that account for thinking, verbal abilities and other “higher” functions. My theory is that Terri’s putative husband Michael, his attorney George J. Felos, and Judge George Greer – who ruled for years against Terri’s right to life – have highly developed reptilian brains and prefrontal lobes, but...

Let us get this straight: NewsMax reports that Hillary Clinton has recently polled ahead of George Pataki and Bill Frist in a head-to-head-to-head poll if the 2008 Presidential Election were held today. As my kids would say, “duh.” In the same story, published December 21st, NewsMax says that neither John McCain nor Rudy Giuliani’s names were included in the poll. In an even bigger stunner, a Fox News poll was said to have shown that if the election were held tomorrow, Hillary Clinton would handily defeat presidential brother, Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, 46 to 35 per cent. And that...

BOND: Jesse Jackson 'Hijacked' King's DreamThe mainstream press doesn't want to acknowledge the small but growing fire on the right within the African-American community. And so you won't see the New York Times, the Washington Post or any of the other prestige press outlets reporting on the unorthodox Martin Luther King Day commemoration that took place in Los Angeles on Monday. But we think every American - black, white and every shade in between - has a stake in the crusade launched four years ago by the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny...