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REPUBLICAN LEADERS ...RNC AND FOX NEWS ARE PLANNING A BROKERED OR CONTESTED CONVENTION ELECTION 2016NEWS AND UPDATES...etc etc
The RNC is preparing a brokered convention...to not allow Marco Rubio to win...They will bring in an establishment candidate to give it to that candidate...What can be done about that..We know it will be Jeb or Rubio..They can do this because of the ways that they have structured the riles...this is incredible.. the pick at a brokered convention never wins..they said FDR was the last to ever win a brokered convention.What they are really doing is saying they had rather elect Hillary than have Trump win............I AM TOO DISGUSTED FOR WORDS
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Cleveland Cliffhanger? Prospects of a Deadlocked GOP Convention
The big winner in Iowa’s Republican caucuses on Monday night might not have been Ted Cruz. It may have been a nominating process that fails to yield a clear winner. A clear winner being a candidate who goes to Cleveland this summer with the presidential nomination in hand.
At the end of Monday night, which count really mattered? Delegates acquired. As of this writing, Cruz has bagged eight delegates, Trump and Rubio, seven each, with four other delegates going to also-rans.
Raw vote totals are what most folk tend to watch and weigh. But in 2016, it pays to more closely follow the candidates’ delegate totals. Thanks to the Republican National Committee (RNC), caucuses and primaries held prior to mid-March mandate proportional distribution of delegates based on candidates’ vote totals in given contests. Most early caucuses and primaries impose threshold minimums to win delegates (say, Alabama, with a 20% threshold).
Prior to Mid-March, 25 States, along with DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, will hold proportional contests. That accounts for 1,022 bound delegates (“bound” being delegates committed to a candidate for the first vote). 45% of the bound delegates will be picked proportionally or in “hybrid” formats, which include triggering provisions for larger delegate yields for candidates who meet higher vote percentage thresholds. There are WTA (winner-take-all) thresholds, but those will be quite difficult to achieve.
Starting with Super Tuesday, March 15, most of the remaining states have opted to hold winner-take-all contests, though a handful will continue to make proportional distributions. From mid-March forward, 1,238 bound delegates will be chosen (Colorado’s delegates declare at convention).
The number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination is 1,237. There are a number of unbound (3 per state) and unpledged delegates. The unpledged delegates are mostly establishment picks who would factor in at a deadlocked convention.
Short of a breakout by one the major contenders (Trump, Cruz, and Rubio), it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where the proportional phase of the nominating process yields tightly packed delegate counts among the three. Complicating matters is if new life is breathed into the Carson, Kasich, or Christe campaigns (as improbable as that appears).
But, say you, won’t the nomination fight be resolved with Super Tuesday and the subsequent contests?
That could happen, but consider this prospect. Cruz, Rubio, and Trump take roughly a third each of the delegates in the proportional phase. For illustration, say, 340 delegates per man. That means in the winner-take-all phase, one of the principals would need to capture 897 of the available 1,238 bound delegates to win. That’s about 73% of the total or three out of every four delegates. Possible, but how likely? This assumes, too, that the principals are competitive with one another, affording each the chance to pick off states.
Cruz, Trump, and Rubio have the resources to stay the course. Trump is self-funding. Cruz’s fundraising operation is already solid and benefits all the more from his Iowa win. Rubio’s stronger than anticipated finish in Iowa boosts his fundraising. And as Rubio consolidates establishment voters -- as he began doing in Iowa -- and lesser establishment candidates drop out, expect a significant upswing in his campaign’s financial fortunes.
Writes Michael Snyder at “Before It’s News”:
[I]f no candidate is able to secure enough delegates, that means that we would end up with a “brokered convention”. The mechanics of a brokered convention can get quite complicated, but on a practical level what that would essentially mean is that the party establishment would get to hand select the nominee. And in case you are wondering, that would not be Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
Snyder’s assessment is flawed in a couple of respects (though not his conclusion about the candidates).
“Deadlocked” versus a “brokered” convention, the more accurate designation is “deadlocked.” A brokered convention suggests that party bosses call the shots nearly exclusively. The party boss era in American politics is long past.
Though unpledged delegates -- who are likely establishment recruits -- will play a critical role at a deadlocked convention, it’s important to remember that bound delegates are only committed to their candidates on the first ballot.
Thereafter, they’re unbound. Candidates’ and, perhaps, dark horses’ (yes, a draft is possible) primary focus for vote gathering will be among all those plentiful unbound state delegates. If the convention deadlocks, it’s going to be the Wild West, with plenty of wheeling and dealing, barroom brawls, shoot-outs, shenanigans, and backroom deals. But all that will occur across delegations and not just among the establishment few.
Snyder’s guess that the nominee won’t be named “Cruz” or “Trump” should a deadlock occur is reasonable. Deadlocked conventions -- if past brokered conventions are any guide -- tend to nominee candidates who at least appear more centrist or moderate. At a deadlocked 2016 Cleveland affair, the buzz word may be “electable.” Right now, Marco Rubio seems to fit the bill. As Snyder pointed out in his article, that’s not an endorsement; it’s merely an observation.
If the Republican field narrows to two principal candidates, then the chances for a deadlocked convention melt away. But if, as anticipated, Cruz, Trump, and Rubio (and possibly one or two others) remain in the race, then a deadlocked convention moves from “maybe” to “probable” with each passing primary, caucus, and state convention. The Republican presidential nominee who emerges will have done so after the fight of his political life – and ours.
The big winner in Iowa’s Republican caucuses on Monday night might not have been Ted Cruz. It may have been a nominating process that fails to yield a clear winner. A clear winner being a candidate who goes to Cleveland this summer with the presidential nomination in hand.
At the end of Monday night, which count really mattered? Delegates acquired. As of this writing, Cruz has bagged eight delegates, Trump and Rubio, seven each, with four other delegates going to also-rans.
Raw vote totals are what most folk tend to watch and weigh. But in 2016, it pays to more closely follow the candidates’ delegate totals. Thanks to the Republican National Committee (RNC), caucuses and primaries held prior to mid-March mandate proportional distribution of delegates based on candidates’ vote totals in given contests. Most early caucuses and primaries impose threshold minimums to win delegates (say, Alabama, with a 20% threshold).
Prior to Mid-March, 25 States, along with DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, will hold proportional contests. That accounts for 1,022 bound delegates (“bound” being delegates committed to a candidate for the first vote). 45% of the bound delegates will be picked proportionally or in “hybrid” formats, which include triggering provisions for larger delegate yields for candidates who meet higher vote percentage thresholds. There are WTA (winner-take-all) thresholds, but those will be quite difficult to achieve.
Starting with Super Tuesday, March 15, most of the remaining states have opted to hold winner-take-all contests, though a handful will continue to make proportional distributions. From mid-March forward, 1,238 bound delegates will be chosen (Colorado’s delegates declare at convention).
The number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination is 1,237. There are a number of unbound (3 per state) and unpledged delegates. The unpledged delegates are mostly establishment picks who would factor in at a deadlocked convention.
Short of a breakout by one the major contenders (Trump, Cruz, and Rubio), it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where the proportional phase of the nominating process yields tightly packed delegate counts among the three. Complicating matters is if new life is breathed into the Carson, Kasich, or Christe campaigns (as improbable as that appears).
But, say you, won’t the nomination fight be resolved with Super Tuesday and the subsequent contests?
That could happen, but consider this prospect. Cruz, Rubio, and Trump take roughly a third each of the delegates in the proportional phase. For illustration, say, 340 delegates per man. That means in the winner-take-all phase, one of the principals would need to capture 897 of the available 1,238 bound delegates to win. That’s about 73% of the total or three out of every four delegates. Possible, but how likely? This assumes, too, that the principals are competitive with one another, affording each the chance to pick off states.
Cruz, Trump, and Rubio have the resources to stay the course. Trump is self-funding. Cruz’s fundraising operation is already solid and benefits all the more from his Iowa win. Rubio’s stronger than anticipated finish in Iowa boosts his fundraising. And as Rubio consolidates establishment voters -- as he began doing in Iowa -- and lesser establishment candidates drop out, expect a significant upswing in his campaign’s financial fortunes.
Writes Michael Snyder at “Before It’s News”:
[I]f no candidate is able to secure enough delegates, that means that we would end up with a “brokered convention”. The mechanics of a brokered convention can get quite complicated, but on a practical level what that would essentially mean is that the party establishment would get to hand select the nominee. And in case you are wondering, that would not be Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
Snyder’s assessment is flawed in a couple of respects (though not his conclusion about the candidates).
“Deadlocked” versus a “brokered” convention, the more accurate designation is “deadlocked.” A brokered convention suggests that party bosses call the shots nearly exclusively. The party boss era in American politics is long past.
Though unpledged delegates -- who are likely establishment recruits -- will play a critical role at a deadlocked convention, it’s important to remember that bound delegates are only committed to their candidates on the first ballot.
Thereafter, they’re unbound. Candidates’ and, perhaps, dark horses’ (yes, a draft is possible) primary focus for vote gathering will be among all those plentiful unbound state delegates. If the convention deadlocks, it’s going to be the Wild West, with plenty of wheeling and dealing, barroom brawls, shoot-outs, shenanigans, and backroom deals. But all that will occur across delegations and not just among the establishment few.
Snyder’s guess that the nominee won’t be named “Cruz” or “Trump” should a deadlock occur is reasonable. Deadlocked conventions -- if past brokered conventions are any guide -- tend to nominee candidates who at least appear more centrist or moderate. At a deadlocked 2016 Cleveland affair, the buzz word may be “electable.” Right now, Marco Rubio seems to fit the bill. As Snyder pointed out in his article, that’s not an endorsement; it’s merely an observation.
If the Republican field narrows to two principal candidates, then the chances for a deadlocked convention melt away. But if, as anticipated, Cruz, Trump, and Rubio (and possibly one or two others) remain in the race, then a deadlocked convention moves from “maybe” to “probable” with each passing primary, caucus, and state convention. The Republican presidential nominee who emerges will have done so after the fight of his political life – and ours.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/cleveland_cliffhang...
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Among 47 Executed by Saudi ArabiaNBC News, by Alastair Jamieson And Charlene Gubash Original Article Posted By: Emerson- 1/2/2016 9:33:43 AM Post Reply The Middle East was braced for sectarian violence Saturday after Saudi Arabia said it had executed 47 prisoners, including a prominent Shia cleric who had organized anti-government protests. There were warnings of a backlash against the ruling Al Saud family after Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was named on list of prisoners carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. Al-Nimr was a central figure in protests that erupted in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring, and his execution may spark new unrest among the oil powerhouse´s Shia minority. Scores marched through Nimr´s home district of Qatif shouting "down with the Al Saud" and, in R-TA-Wide_2 Heroin’s surge raises
life-or-death medical ethics issueTampa Tribune, by Keith Morelli Original Article Posted By: Hazymac- 1/2/2016 9:22:50 AM Post Reply TAMPA — Heroin addicts with recurring heart valve problems caused by their use of dirty needles are forcing surgeons across the state to make difficult ethics decisions on continuing to provide them expensive care. Cardiac surgeons are seeing a 50 percent increase in ineffective valvular heart disorders attributed to the use of dirty needles, said Scott H. Bronleewe, a cardiac surgeon practicing in Tampa for the past 26 years. The cost is staggering: more than $500,000 for the procedure and hospital stay for an uninsured addict, many of whom are back on the operating table within a few months, suffering from the Obama: On Monday, I move on guns Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article Posted By: SurferLad- 1/2/2016 8:28:32 AM Post Reply President Obama´s weekly remarks Happy New Year, everybody. I am fired up for the year that stretches out before us. That’s because of what we’ve accomplished together over the past seven. [Snip] The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone. The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organized in our defense of our kids. Amid a historic wave of emigration,
some Cubans are returning homeWashington Post, by Nick Miroff Original Article Posted By: FlyRight- 1/2/2016 8:02:35 AM Post Reply HAVANA — Mauricio Estrada left Cuba in 2003 full of the same frustrations as so many others eager to move away. He married a Spanish woman, moved to Barcelona and got a job as a prep cook.A dozen years later and divorced, Estrada is back, this time as the proprietor of a stylish Iberian-themed restaurant, Toros y Tapas, decorated with old matador posters and the taxidermied heads of longhorn bulls. “Having my own restaurant is a dream,” said Estrada, 48. “I never could have done it if I’d stayed in Cuba.” Estrada is a repatriado, a repatriate, one of the growing number 15 Stats That Destroy Liberal Narratives Townhall, by John Hawkins Original Article Posted By: Judy W.- 1/2/2016 7:55:23 AM Post Reply 1) “Muslims account for only about 1 percent of the U.S. population but account for about half of terrorist attacks since 9/11. That means Muslims in the United States are about 5,000 percent more likely to commit terrorist attacks than non-Muslims.” -- Mark Krikorian 2) “Consider, for example, that in 1958 a mere 4 percent of Americans approved of interracial marriage. By 2013, that number had grown to 87 percent. In 2012 these once-taboo unions hit an all-time high. Ku Klux Klan membership has shrunk drastically from millions a century ago to fewer than 5,000 today. The Black Panthers are essentially extinct. The Open Future PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez Original Article Posted By: Hazymac- 1/2/2016 7:35:34 AM Post Reply To paraphrase Charles Dickens, every age is in its own peculiar way ´the best of times, the worst of times´. His famous literary curtain opens upon a scene "so far like the present period" that the same paradoxical adjectives applied to every time and place. We are always living through some equivalent of the French Revolution; the difference merely being that they may never make a Broadway musical about our life and times. That we live in the best of times is proved, according to the Cato Institute, by that almost everything -- except "the highly distorted healthcare, education and housing The larger meaning of Rahm Emanuel’s woes Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article Posted By: MissMolly- 1/2/2016 4:50:16 AM Post Reply One of the underreported stories of 2015, it seems to, was Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago crisis. Elected to a second term as mayor just last spring, it’s now unclear whether he will be able to cling to office following the police shootings that are roiling Chi-town. The Wall Street Journal reports: Mayor Rahm Emanuel cut short a holiday break in Cuba amid a wave of criticism at home that isn’t letting up more than a month after the release of a video showing a Chicago police officer shooting and killing a black teenager. The mayor’s decision to return early, his administration said, came partly The Sad Lessons of the “Affluenza” Teen New Yorker, by Rebecca Mead Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/2/2016 4:48:05 AM Post Reply In considering the lamentable chronicle of the “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch—which was positioned to be this year’s final tabloid preoccupation until Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault—it’s been hard to know where to let one’s sense of appalled fascination come to rest. Should it be with Ethan himself, who, in the late spring of 2013, two months past his sixteenth birthday, plowed the truck he was drunkenly driving off a residential road in Burleston, a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, and into a knot of people, killing four and injuring nine? Or with Fred Couch, Ethan’s father, a sheet-metal Lawmakers blast White House
delay on Iran sanctionsWall Street Journal*, by Jay Solomon Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/2/2016 4:38:49 AM Post Reply Leading lawmakers, including supporters of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, rapped the White House for delaying fresh sanctions on Tehran over its missile program, warning that the move would embolden it to further destabilize the Middle East. The abrupt reversal by the administration came as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani publicly ordered his military to dramatically scale up the country’s missile program if the sanctions went ahead. Senior U.S. officials have told lawmakers the sanctions were delayed because of “evolving diplomatic work” between the White House and the Iranian government. The administration had notified Congress on Wednesday that it would impose new financial The Post-Presidential Reagan You Never Knew Daily Caller, by Ben Elliott Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/2/2016 4:35:53 AM Post Reply The history of Ronald Reagan’s life would be incomplete without a clear understanding of his final years after leaving the White House in 1989. This is the subject of leading Reagan biographer Craig Shirley’s splendid new book, Last Act. Building his narrative around the historic week of the President’s passing – from the day of his death, Saturday, June 5, 2004 through his burial on June 12 – Shirley skillfully weaves in key events from the President’s life and their indelible impact on people and history. The emerging storyline highlights a stark and unbridgeable chasm between two Americas: the citizenry
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Bill and Hill - and the Evil that Men Do - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016Time and neurology are working against the Clintons. More==========================================================================================The Clinton Honor Roll: Those Bill and Hill call liars - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016Add the families of the Benghazi victims to Bill's long list of "bimbo" rape accusers. More=========================================================================================sing the war against terrorism - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016White House has near zero credibility in the fight against the terrorists. More==============================================================================================New York AG looks to destroy two legitimate businesses - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016Are fantasy sports sites FanDuel and DraftKings a form of gambling? More=========================================================================================Iran responds to threat of sanctions by promising to expand missile... - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016In the end, Iran will have its missiles, its money, and more than likely, its nukes. More=========================================================================================Dem Alderman in Jackson, MS suggests 'throw rocks and bricks and bo... - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016Does Mississippi have a law against incitement to riot? More=========================================================================================Violence erupts at Newark anti-violence rally - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016Not hipster irony, or post modernist theatre of the absurd, just real life. (video) More=======================================================================================The most spectacular political falls of 2015 - 1/2/16 January 2, 20162015 was a tough year for a lot of proud pols. More=======================================================================================Trump, appearing in Al Qaeda video, blamed by Lib Media for causing... - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016It's all about the liberal media trying to take down Donald Trump. More============================================================================================Harvard Bows to Its Masters - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016The latest grievance of social justice warriors at Harvard is to the use of the title “House Master” to describe those people who are in charge of the residential and educational facilities called “Houses” More===============================================================================================Nutty things Jeb Bush is trying to bring life to his dead campaign - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016Including fighting for an endorsement from Lindsey Graham. More===================================================================================Louis Farrakhan has the nerve to lecture whites about Donald Trump - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016The pot calling the kettle...something. More=====================================================================================States with open primaries that may help Donald Trump - 1/2/16 January 2, 2016A comprehensive list. More===================================================================================================================================================================
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Netanyahu Echoes Trump on Arab Population Following Tel Aviv Attacks
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemingly echoed some of the sentiments of Donald Trump on Saturday, when the Israeli leader questioned the loyalty of segments of the Israeli-Arab population.
Trump: ‘I Don’t Have Rough Edges’ — I Can Be ‘the Most Politically ...
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” when asked about his non-political correct persona, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rejected that characterization, but added people are “tired” of political correctness. Host John Dickerson asked, “You talked to some of our supporters,
Trump: Hillary Clinton Should Disarm Her Bodyguards If She Really B...
On January 3 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump used a Facebook post to call out Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy in telling the American people that guns “don’t keep you safe” while simultaneously surrounding herself with “heavily armed bodyguards.”
Trump Rejects Executive Gun Control: ‘Bad Guys Are Always Going To ...
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he opposes President Barack Obama’s effort to unilaterally impose further gun-controls, claiming it represents another sacrifice of freedom in a world where “bad guys are always going to have…guns.”
Donna Brazile: Trump ‘Enjoys’ Going Into The ‘Sewer’ Against Hillary
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s plan to go after the husband of his potential general election opponent Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, former president Bill Clinton, for his sexual indiscretions is going into
Rand Paul: Media ‘Led by the Nose’ by Polls to Think Trump Is Going...
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that the news media is being misled by the polls when it comes to his opponent Donald Trump. Host Chuck Todd asked, “You know you started this race as
Christie: ‘Petulant Child’ Obama Acting Like a ‘Dictator’ on Gun Ex...
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” while discussing President Barack Obama’s plan to taking executive action on gun control, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said the president is acting like a “petulant child” and a “dictator.” Christie
Trump: Hillary ‘Not Innocent’ — She Went Along With Bill’s ‘Serious...
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his potential general election opponent Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is not “innocent” in her husband former president Bill Clinton’s “serious” abuse of woman. Trump said, “Her defense is —
Fox News: Chris Christie Signed 10 Gun Control Bills In 2013
During the January 3 airing of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out that Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie signed 10 gun control bills in 2013.
NY Post: Hillary Clinton’s $13M Fail as Secretary of State
It turns out that Bill Clinton raked in millions from entities with matters before Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Oh, and the Clinton Foundation collected millions more from the same bunch.
Trump: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Created the Islamic State
BILOXI, MS — During his rally on Saturday night at a packed Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump took aim at his potential general election opponent, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. Trump referenced Saturday’s protest in Tehran at
Guardian: Bill Clinton Debuts New Act Monday in New Hampshire
David Smith and Sabrina Siddiqui report in the Guardian that Bill Clinton could be Hillary’s secret weapon to win in 2016 or he could be a liability.
Trump Pummels Media, Opponents Before Record Crowd in Mississippi
On a chilly January evening, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump addressed an overflowing crowd at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum – at a rally billed as the largest presidential campaign event in Mississippi history. Trump’s wide-ranging speech touched on topics from “Trojan horse” Syrian refugees and trade deals to Common Core, the Iran nuclear deal, illegal immigration and ISIS.
Uncompromising Cruz Embraces “Abrasive” Image
Ted Cruz’s reputation as an arrogant, grating, in-your-face ideologue has dogged him throughout the Republican presidential race. But it hasn’t stopped the Texas senator’s rise.
Watch Live: Donald Trump Rally in Biloxi, MS
On Saturday night, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump will be holding a rally in Biloxi, MS. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
Donald Trump Goes After Hillary: Hopes ‘Hypocrite’ Bill Clinton Tal...
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is daring President Bill Clinton to speak about women’s issues while campaigning for his wife, Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Jason Johnson: ‘White Americans’ Need to Have Internal Conversation...
Political analyst and Hiram College professor Dr. Jason Johnson responded Saturday on MSNBC to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments during his campaign, saying the country may not survive another 50-60 years “if we don’t deal” with Trump’s rhetoric. According to
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Trump Rejects Obama’s Executive Gun Control: Tired of People Blamin...
In a preview of a larger interview that will air during Face the Nation on January 3, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he does not like Obama’s efforts at executive gun control and is tired of people blaming guns for America’s ills.
Huckabee: Israel Has ‘More Good Sense’ Than US When It Comes To Pro...
Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee declared, “Israel has shown more good sense than the Americans have when it comes to protecting their citizens” and argued that none of President Obama’s gun control proposals would have prevented mass
The Hill: Trump Goes for Broke in New Hampshire
Donald Trump is ramping up his ground game and promising a heavy advertising campaign in the homestretch to New Hampshire’s Feb. 9 primary.
The Hill: Thirty Days to Iowa, Candidates Make Final Sprint
The Hill reports on the final sprint to the Iowa caucuses.
After The Trump Terror Vid, Can We Start Calling Her ‘Al Shabaab Me...
Refresh your Christmas booze-addled memory for a second with the video below, from December 19th in New Hampshire, where former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the astonishing proclamation: “[Donald Trump] is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter. “They are going to
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El Trumpo said that Bill Clinton is a “serious abuser” and explained why it is that attacks on his past accusations of sexual harassment are reasonable to...
In a fiery debate on “State of the Union,” the Democrats appeared to be salivating over the thought of Bill Clinton coming into to the 2016 election and...
Carly Fiorina went on the attack against Ted Cruz and accused him of saying anything he needs to in order to get elected. Watch below: .@CarlyFiorina: @tedcruz says...
The Cliven Bundy saga continues on today. This time it’s his son who seized a federal building in Oregon with several armed men and are now making demands of the...
El Trumpo appears to be following his old formula of “if you’re hit, hit back ten times as hard” after she said, falsely, that videos of his statements...
I swear liberals are the most miserable pathetic useless people on Earth, and their only mission is to spread their misery to others around them. Exhibit A – this...
The House of Saud is royally pissing off Iran after they executed a Shiite cleric they said was involved in terrorism. Here’s a video about the execution: And...
Justice Scalia just made a statement on the place of religion in the state that will anger a lot of liberals. Watch below: More from the Guardian: God is good to the US...
Well, we knew this was coming. Watch below: More from the BBC: President Obama has said he wants to take unilateral action to tackle the problem of gun violence in the...
Looks like Sweden all of a sudden turned into a country of Islamophobes!! From the Washington Post: When the small, crumpled body of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on...
It looks like the reason that Obama has been unable to close Gitmo is because the Pentagon is fighting him on it. Watch below: More from Reuters: In September, U.S....
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A dispute over prayer accommodation has led to 150 Muslims being fired from their job at a Colorado Cargill beef plant. Watch below: More from Denver ABC 7: Nearly 150...
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Hollywood wringing hands over possible all white nominations - again - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016Check your privilege, Oscar voters. More
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Coming soon: EPA to tackle 'light pollution' - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016EPA chief thinks darkening our cities is within her agency's purview. More==============================================================================Stupid MSM tricks #2 - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016When is a Hillary Clinton lie not a lie? When ABC News gets done with it. More=============================================================================Stupid MSM tricks #1 - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016The Washington Post takes more than 4500 words writing about a scandal but leaves one important thing out. More==============================================================================Suicides on Navajo reservation soaring thanks to EPA inaction on to... - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016The EPA's despicable tactics being used to delay compensating farmers. More==============================================================================The Fall of Chicago - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016Chicago, run by Rahm Emanuel a White House majordomo for Barack Obama and intimate friend of Hillary Clinton, is about to fall off a cliff, and national Democrats won't be able to evade the bankruptcy of their policies. More==================================================================================Iranian mob storms Saudi embassy in Tehran after execution of promi... - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016Sectarian tensions rising as protests erupt over the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent Shiite leader. More=====================================================================================The global warming consensus that isn't - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016At last, we have a peer-reviewed paper that accurately surveys how much support there is for anthropogenic global warming among relevant scientists. More===================================================================================Countdown to Gorepocalypse - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016We have until January 25 to save the planet, according to Al Gore. Let the coutdown begin. After that, it is all over. More=======================================================================================Armed protesters occupy building on federal wildlife refuge - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016What the protest is really about. More===================================================================================Muslim tries to run down French soldiers guarding mosque - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016Here’s a new world order riddle. Let me know if you can figure it out. More======================================================================================A quick run-down of Donald Trump's positions - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016That is to say, his positions from within the past year, and no earlier. More================================================================================'Philomena' and the Magical Sodomite Archetype - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016If the movie Philomena shows up on your Netflix page, skip it. It is dumb, and it is dangerous. More==============================================================================Peggy Noonan and the left's prom dress - 1/3/16 January 3, 2016For how much longer are establishment Republicans going to wear the clothes their Democrat enemies tailor for them? More===================================================================================Health care, California style - 1/3/16 January 3, 20161 of 3 Californians is under a program originally designed to help the=============================================================================================
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“Climate Change” Expert Jailed
for Conning EPA out of $900KLegal Insurrection, by Leslie Eastman Original Article Posted By: Honeybadger- 1/3/2016 7:22:30 AM Post Reply The EPA has been hit with a veritable flood of scandals recently. We covered the Animas River spill, caused by the EPA’s rush to solve a non-problem involving a mine’s wastewater, which impacted the water quality for several Western states. Now, one climate change expert who posed as a CIA operative has been jailed for conning the agency out of nearly $1 Million. The Environmental Protection Agency’s top climate change expert and highest paid employee was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison today for defrauding the government. John C. Beale, who lives with his wife in Virginia, claimed he was a CIA agent A quick run-down of
Donald Trump´s positionsAmerican Thinker, by Ed Straker Original Article Posted By: Judy W.- 1/3/2016 6:25:53 AM Post Reply ConservativeReview.com, which is edited by conservative talk show host Mark Levin, has emerged as a great ranking service for politicians. Recently the site ranked the positions of Donald Trump based on his public comments. Since everyone knows that Trump has spent most of his adult life as a liberal but has since recanted nearly all of his former positions, I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and exclude any quotations over one year old. Everything you read below has come from Trump´s own plush lips in the past twelve months: Taxes: Trump wants to lower income taxes Trumping Hillary American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article Posted By: Judy W.- 1/3/2016 6:18:35 AM Post Reply You must concede this about Donald Trump: He does keep his enemies and opponents rocking back on their heels. He does it, as the Wall street Journal’s sage James Taranto, observes, by following the very Saul Alinsky tactics that so impressed Hillary as a Wellesley undergrad. This week he made clear that if Hillary was going to charge him with being part of the “war on women” (the successor, I take it, to her historic “vast right wing conspiracy”), he was going to attack her as an enabler and defender of a serial sexual predator -- her husband. Now, he is accusing Visa Vulnerability National Review Online, by Kevin D. Williamson Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 5:12:18 AM Post Reply Some years ago I had a medical procedure that required visiting a few different doctors, and, dysgraphic as I am, I was intensely annoyed by the fact that at every doctor’s office, I was given pencil and paper to fill out what was essentially the same questionnaire, over and over. (Snip)The Transportation Security Administration, which is a nest of petty thieves, drug smugglers, and child pornographers, routinely misses firearms and explosives being sneaked past their checkpoints, but you can be confident that nonconforming tubes of toothpaste will be seized. I have many times crossed the U.S.–Mexico border on foot, and Who’s lying, Hillary or members of
several Benghazi victims’ families?Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 5:08:02 AM Post Reply The question all but answers itself, I should think. Here’s why it’s being asked: On September 14, 2012, at a memorial service for the victims of the Benghazi attacks, Hillary Clinton spoke with members of the victims’ families. At least three of these people say that Clinton talked about the alleged role in the attack of a video produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Charles Woods, the father of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, says that Clinton blamed the video and even told him that she was going to have Nakoula arrested. Nakoula was, in fact, arrested. Similarly, Kate Quigley, the sister of Glen Myth of the ‘Moderate Muslim’ Townhall, by Matt Barber Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 5:05:25 AM Post Reply “When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.” – The Quran, Surah 9:5 When it comes to the global scourge of orthodox Islam, the Western world, which Islamists expressly seek to “destroy from within,” is an upside-down realm wherein objective facts, logic and reason must yield to multiculturalist make-believe, “progressive” propaganda and political correctness run amok. Faithful Muslims want to kill you, and faithless progressives seem all too happy to help them along. Look at the ongoing Muslim invasion of Europe. This progressive paradise, a burgeoning Sheldon Adelson’s Purchase of Las
Vegas Paper Seen as a Power PlayNew York Times, by Ravi Somaiya* Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/3/2016 5:00:57 AM Post Reply LAS VEGAS — Two days after Sheldon Adelson’s lawyers lost in their attempts to have a judge removed from a contentious lawsuit that threatens his gambling empire, a call went out to the publisher of this city’s most prominent newspaper. Almost immediately, journalists were summoned to a meeting and told they must monitor the courtroom actions of the judge and two others in the city. When the journalists protested, they were told there was no choice in the matter. It is unclear whether Mr. Adelson, who was then in talks to buy the newspaper, The Las Vegas Review-Journal, or his Inhofe on Rubio: He is the
´one that I really do like´Washington Examiner [DC], by Curt Mills Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 4:51:05 AM Post Reply Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., issued a near-endorsement of his Senate colleague Marco Rubio for president Friday. Inhofe told the Tulsa World that he is not yet prepared to formally endorse, but that Rubio is "one that I really do like." "The reason I say that is he´s so knowledgeable. I´d love to see him in a debate with Hillary just for my own personal entertainment," Inhofe said. Inhofe´s embrace of Rubio, a Florida Republican, is a pointed rebuke of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and to a lesser extend, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Cruz and Paul are also Senate Republicans running How DEA Agents Took Down
Mexico´s Most Vicious Drug CartelAtlantic, by David Epstein Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 4:47:01 AM Post Reply For 14 months, the first thing Dave Herrod, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, did every morning was boot up his laptop and begin tracking a 43-foot yacht with Dock Holiday painted on the stern. In the summer of 2005, the DEA had intercepted a conversation in which members of a Mexican drug cartel known as the Arellano Félix Organization discussed buying a yacht in California. Herrod and his colleagues studied the classified ads in yacht magazines and determined that the Dock Holiday was the boat the AFO members wanted. DEA agents then managed to get on board and The Bill Clinton effect: Behind the
left’s sex-harassment problemNew York Post, by Carrie Lukas Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 4:43:13 AM Post Reply News of rampant sexual harassment at a leading progressive public relations firm seems to have surprised some on the Left: How can enlightened liberals, so staunchly committed to women’s equality and progress, allow old-school sexism and abuse of power to persist? How could FitzGibbon Media, which represented MoveOn.org, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the AFL-CIO, have a CEO sending text messages asking for dirty pictures from female underlings? Conservatives shouldn’t start throwing stones: There are plenty of cads in every political party. Yet progressives really shouldn’t be surprised that such behavior exists in liberal enclaves; in fact, there’s reason to suspect there may Why the next Supreme Court vacancy
will favor liberals, no matter who retiresWashington Post, by Linda Hirshman Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/3/2016 4:39:24 AM Post Reply If the Supreme Court follows the election returns, as the old saying goes, the 2016 election will set the court’s path for a generation. When the next president is sworn in, three sitting justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy — will be in their 80s; Stephen Breyer will be 78. These justices are hard-charging, yet statistics are against them: The average retirement age for a justice leaving the court since 1971 is just under 79. They may not be able to delay retirement until the political stars align or even until their replacements are confirmed. So Yes to legal guns Washington Times, by Editorial Original Article Posted By: Pluperfect- 1/3/2016 4:36:30 AM Post Reply All presidents want to leave a lasting imprint on history, a legacy, with a record of their wise words and good deeds. Sometimes a president with a spotty record comes along and tries to fake a good legacy, which can be difficult since what a president does speaks so loud that no one can hear what he says. Barack Obama is trying to write such a legacy with executive orders. In his final year in the White House the president is making the Second Amendment a target of what he imagines is greatest opportunity. If he can cripple that amendment he The Sudden But Well-Deserved
Fall of Rahm EmanuelNew Yorker, by Rick Perlstein Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 4:30:27 AM Post Reply It’s hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn’t a Democratic Party superstar. Go back to 1991, when the thirty-two-year-old took over fund-raising for Bill Clinton. He was soon renowned for making the staff come to work on Sundays, shrieking into the phone to donors things like “Five thousand dollars is an insult! You’re a twenty-five-thousand-dollar person!”—and, not incidentally, helping Clinton afford the blitz of TV commercials that saved him from the Gennifer Flowers scandal, clearing his course to the White House. The legend continued through this past April, when Rahm—in Chicago and D.C., he’s known by that single Clinton campaign hopes Bill will deliver
a New Hampshire ´comeback kid´ boostGuardian [UK], by David Smith & Sabrina Siddiqui Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 4:27:54 AM Post Reply “New Hampshire tonight has made Bill Clinton the comeback kid.” So said Bill Clinton himself in February 1992, when a second-place finish behind the now largely forgotten Paul Tsongas in the state’s Democratic primary revived his fortunes. Later that year he would unseat George HW Bush in the presidential election. Twenty-four years later, “the comeback kid” will return to the stump in New Hampshire on Monday. He will be hoping to administer another Lazarus-like political resuscitation. After the sting of rejection in 2008, when his wife was bested by a young upstart named Barack Obama, he will make the case President Obama’s Bizarro-World victory tour New York Post, by Editorial Original Article Posted By: StormCnter- 1/3/2016 4:22:24 AM Post Reply Having done a world tour on his way into the White House, President Obama’s now planning an even bigger global victory lap in his final year in office. Too bad that everything in-between is a heaping mound of hot foreign-policy mess. The president has reportedly ordered his staff to set a heavy international schedule for 2016. What, to celebrate the arrival of world peace? The White House, Politico reports, means the trips to cement a legacy of “Trans-Pacific Partnership, increased attention to Asia, an opening of Latin America, progress against the Islamic State and significant global movement on climate change.” Left off that
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