Tuesday, February 02, 2016

LIMBAUGH: Trump Lost Iowa Because He Attacked Cruz ‘Like A Liberal Democrat'

By Christian Datoc

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that Donald Trump lost the Iowa caucus because his criticism of Ted Cruz made him sound “like a liberal Democrat.”

“I don’t think Trump skipping the debate had a thing to do with what happened last night,” began Limbaugh. “This is a Republican primary. It’s Iowa. Conservatives win in Iowa.”

The Constitution, Donald Trump and the Sarah Palin I Used to Know

By Jen Kuznicki

How is it possible to suggest that after all the exposure that Donald Trump has had, the positions he’s taken, and the smack he’s talked, that he is a constitutional candidate who most represents the constitutional restoration of our government, free market capitalism, and a return to our Judeo-Christian principles?

It seemed awfully strange that Sarah Palin would try to help Donald Trump, given that her most memorable speeches and work always seemed to track toward our founding and constitutional principles. I have been a Palin fan since 2008; in fact, my first ever published piece was in defense of this great Hockey Mom from the Great White North, who thought outside the box and drove the establishment crazy. She was the first true maverick of recent years.

Larwyn’s Linx: Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk

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Nation

Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk: John R. Schindler
Behind Closed Doors, Media and Government Buzzing about Hillary’s Emails: Jon Gabriel
That ever changing Clinton email defense may be running out of excuses: Bruce McQuain

Hawkeye Humiliation: Cruz Crushes Cartel: Daniel Horowitz
Cruz, Rubio Over-Perform on Caucus Night: Reid Wilson
Don­ald Trump leav­es Iowa with a whim­per: Josh Kraushaar

Sanders: Iowa has begun a 'political revolution': Philip Klein
The Return of the Middle American Radical: John B. Judis
How Clinton is plotting to go after Trump: Glenn Thrush

Give 'Em a Few More Days, And Everyone Will "Know" That Rubio Won Iowa: Ace
The RNC Shoots Itself in the Foot (Again): Daniel Larison
Dear American Muslims, Can We Have An Honest Talk?: John Hawkins

Trump's Answer About His Past Devotion To Universal Healthcare Is Unsettling: Red Dawn
Jeb Spends $2,884 Per Iowa Vote: Daniel Halper
Donations to Jeb Bush's Super PAC Dry Up: RightPundit

Economy

National debt hits $19 trillion: Pete Kasperowicz
25% of Feds Would Consider Leaving Their Jobs if Trump Becomes President: Eric Katz
Obama Partners w/Outsourcing Corps Taking US Jobs: Daniel Greenfield

Scandal Central

Hillary’s Email Scandal Envelops the Intelligence Agencies: Jed Babbin
Three Big Unanswered Questions About Hillary Clinton's Emails: Mark Hemingway
Hedge Fund Billionaires And Untraceable Money Fill Rubio Super PAC Coffers: Paul Blumenthal

Climate & Energy

Ted and Trump Take Different Tracks on Ethanol: Maria Noon

Media

Breitbart News: The conservative outlet is taking swings at all of Donald Trump’s opponents: Callum Borchers
The Fundamental Rules of Politics Still Apply: Erick Erickson
Is Donald Trump #Winning, Charlie Sheen Style? We're About To Find Out.: Ben Shapiro

What "Anti-Establishment" Trump Has Said About Pelosi, Reid, Hillary, Schumer, and Obama: Ben Shapiro
Can We Shoot All the Pollsters Now?: Erick Erickson
Iowa Rejects Donald Trump’s Politics of Jackassery By 75%: Erick Erickson

Ted Cruz top Google search for how to caucus for Iowa: FAM
The United States of Trump: Cal Thomas
2016's first loser: Trump's unsophisticated, shoe-string campaign catches up with him: Politico

World

You Won't Believe What's Happened Since Friday...: Clarion
Terror Suspect Was Placed in Charge of Hillary’s Security During Libya Visit: MB
Israel lifts post-attack restrictions on access to Ramallah: DailyMail

Refugees 'will cost Germany €50bn by 2017': EUobserver
Here’s How This Bus Driver Handled a Young Refugee Punk: “Kept Beating Him Senseless”: Mac Slavo
Bearded infidels in the EU capital: Nikolaj Nielsen

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Big Data on the Beat: Predictive policing has arrived.: David Black
16 Vehicles of the Special Operations Forces: Tactical Life
9mm vs. .40 Caliber: Sydney Vail, M.D.

Cornucopia

Sixty Percent Unfavorable Rate = Trump Not Electable: MB
What Hillary Just Said on Camera Could Cost Her the Election: RWN
MOTUS’ Handy Hawkeye Cauci Guide: I’d Caucus For That Guy Even If: MOTUS

Image: Ted Cruz Wins Republican Caucus
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QOTD: "From my re­port­ing in the fi­nal week of the cam­paign, the signs of Trump fa­tigue were all over. A rally in Coun­cil Bluffs on Sunday hardly filled the middle school gym­nas­i­um, and drew out-of-state gawkers, mem­or­ab­il­ia seekers, and Iowa voters who were there just to see the spec­tacle. His lead­ing sur­rog­ate, Sarah Pal­in, was re­ceived with si­lence in in­tro­du­cing him Monday in Ce­dar Rap­ids. Empty seats con­tin­ued at his events. He not­ably de­clined to pre­dict vic­tory on Monday’s morn­ing shows.

It was clear that the pub­lic’s ob­ses­sion with polls had ob­scured cent­ral real­it­ies about the tra­ject­ory of the race. Cruz had a well-or­gan­ized ma­chine that was far more valu­able than the hype man­u­fac­tured by Trump. Ru­bio’s as­pir­a­tion­al mes­sage caught on late, as his crowds got big­ger and his sup­port inched up­wards. Trump’s sup­port­ers were ideo­lo­gic­ally all over the map, and many of his col­lege-edu­cated back­ers de­fec­ted to Ru­bio at the last minute. (En­trance polls showed Ru­bio was seen as the most elect­able Re­pub­lic­an, con­trary to all the me­dia polls show­ing Trump with that ad­vant­age.)

Even with Trump’s de­feat, this is now a true three-can­did­ate race. Cruz has ce­men­ted his stand­ing as the can­did­ate backed by the con­ser­vat­ive grass­roots—which should hold him in good stead for a long while. His or­gan­iz­a­tion was the best in the state. He’s now hop­ing to beat ex­pect­a­tions, and more im­port­antly, fo­cus his at­ten­tion on South Car­o­lina, where evan­gel­ic­als play an even lar­ger role in the state’s polit­ics than in Iowa." --Josh Kraushaar

Monday, February 01, 2016

NEW EMAILS REVEAL: Hillary and State Department Operated Secret I.T. Network to Skirt Rules

By Judicial Watch

‘We should … set up a stand-alone PC in the Secretary’s office, connected to the internet (but not through our system) to enable her to check her emails from her desk’

Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials to set up a “stand-alone PC” so that Clinton could check her emails in an office “across the hall” through a separate, non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton computer system, Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, “The stand-alone separate network PC is a great idea.” The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State.

RUBIO CAMPAIGN ADMITS: Uhm, Yeah, Marco's "Gang of Eight" Amnesty Bill Really Didn't Secure the Border First

By Julia Hahn

In a remarkable interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer following Thursday night’s presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s campaign spokesman, Alex Conant, admitted that the 2013 Gang of Eight bill, which Rubio co-authored and ushered through the Senate, did not secure the border first.

In the Friday interview, Blitzer pressed Conant on whether in 2013 Sen. Rubio “called up the [former] Florida governor [Jeb Bush] and asked him for his support for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United States.” Conant dodged the question twice, refusing to directly answer whether Rubio had called Governor Bush to ask for him to endorse the 2013 amnesty bill. Rubio’s bill, unlike Jeb’s book, pushed citizenship for illegal aliens of all ages.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Iran Wants to Buy 500 Planes and Resume Flights to the U.S.

The headline and the story courtesy of Ed Driscoll at Instapundit:

Iran will need hundreds of new aircraft as it rejoins global aviation networks, a move that could include direct flights to the U.S. for the first time in 36 years...

...Years of sanctions have left Iran's airlines with outdated and unsafe aircraft. With those restrictions now lifted, Iran is looking to spend heavily with Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSF), Iranian transport minister Abbas Akhondi told CNN.

Larwyn’s Linx: The Coming Wave of Oil Refugees

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Nation

The Coming Wave of Oil Refugees: Michael Meyer
NYT Reporter: Clinton’s Problem is the FBI, Not Republicans: David Rutz
Plan to infuse small towns with Muslim migrants meets resistance: Leo Hohmann

Trump Questions: Erick Erickson
Iowa poll reveals a line of attack that could sink Trump: Philip Klein
Wow: Ted Cruz Converts Iowa Farmer Angry About Ethanol Subsidies: Sooper

Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll: Still Trump: Patterico
Seven Questions About Iowa: Patrick Ruffini
Cruz caucus eve rally filled with parting shots at Trump: W. James Antle III

Hillary Pretends To Bash Wall Street Because Iowa Feeling “The Bern”: Thornton McEnery
Feeling and Fleeing the Bern in Iowa: Roger L. Simon
A Felon By Any Other Name: Derek Hunter

Economy

The Fed Is Freaked Out about the Financial Markets: Larry Kudlow
Teachers' Unions vs. Better Schools: Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Jared Meyer
Democrats in Congress waste $2 million protecting Clinton on Benghazi: Sam Rolley

Scandal Central

The Connection Between Malheur, Putin, The Clinton Foundation, And Big Money: Herschel Smith
Too Dangerous to be President: Flopping Aces
Microsoft on the hot seat in Iowa: Mario Trujillo

Climate & Energy

California of the Dark Ages: Victor Davis Hanson
Clinton: ‘Deploy Half a Billion More Solar Panels by End of My First Term’: Penny Star
Quartz: Fix the Climate, or be Overwhelmed by African Climate Migrants: Eric Worrall

Media

FBI Video of LaVoy Finicum Shooting – and Why CTH Is Reluctant to Engage: Treehouse
NAACP leader uses F-word to apologize for using T-word after N-word meeting: Olaf Ekberg
Fox Makes It Easy for Amnesty: KausFiles (2015)

Video: Hillary Clinton is finally confronted with her classified data non-disclosure agreement: Jazz Shaw
ABC Touts Hillary Dismissing E-Mail Scandal; NBC Promotes 'Exclusive Look' at Hillary App: Curtis Houck
Koch network spent nearly $400M in 2015 (and still have less influence than the Times or Post): Jonathan Swan

World

Obama To Visit Maryland Mosque Tied to Muslim Extremists, FEMA Grants & State Dept: Creeping
Children Burned Alive But Rest Assured Obama Will Ignore Them: Sara Noble
‘Tsunami of money’ from Saudi Arabia funding 24,000 madrassas in Pakistan: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Got Entropy? Moar Cryptography and Security Hints for Beginners: Stop Shouting!
License Plate Readers in Texas Are Now Also Debt Collectors: Yael Grauer
Computer Criminal Faces 35 Years in Prison for Passing U.S. Military Data to Islamic State: David Bisson

Cornucopia

Men and Women are fundamentally different: Darleen Click
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon: C&S
Why This Female Cannot Support Donald Trump: Susan Brown

Image: Internecine Politics – Fox News Debate Executive’s Daughter Is Marco Rubio Press Secretary
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QOTD:


Sunday, January 31, 2016

Does ISIS Have Nukes?

By Baron Bodissey

The following video and text don’t supply an answer to that question.

The author of the text (which is in German) is purportedly a former member of the Islamic State who wants to warn the West that ISIS possesses four nuclear devices, and plans to use them against the United States, Russia, France, and Germany. What he says may well be a hoax, or more specifically, deliberately planted disinformation to achieve particular political ends. I can think of several Great Powers who would find it useful to disseminate the fiction that ISIS is ready to use nuclear weapons.

However, it could also be true. If it is, you may be sure that the intelligence services of Russia and the major Western powers are well aware of it. As the ISIS defector points out, the West has moles inside the highest levels of the Caliphate.

The Most Important Sound-Bite of the Day...

...from the talking heads at FNC:


And doesn't that really say it all? The establishment wants Amnesty for illegals. Donald Trump supports "touchback Amnesty" for all 20+ million illegal aliens in the U.S. today (as he and his son have stated here, here and here). Vote accordingly.

Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

Larwyn’s Linx: The Left’s Manufactured Muslim Crisis

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Nation

The Left's Manufactured Muslim Crisis: Daniel Greenfield
A Political Realignment 10 Years in the Making: Salena Zito
Obama Will Speak at a Mosque Where an Imam Condoned Suicide Bombings: Brian Carey

Largest Tea Party Group Endorses Cruz: CR
Ted Cruz Goes Beast Mode At Iowa Presser, Blasting Trump and Rubio: AmPower
The Question That Will Determine the Iowa Caucuses: Steve Deace

Did Josh Earnest open up a can of trouble with Hillary email comments?: Thomas Lifson
Bill Clinton’s voice frail, hand quivers during attacks on Sanders: Olak Ekberg
Sanders to receive Secret Service protection: Bradford Richardson

Marcomentum: Erick Erickson
Trump’s Lead Begins to Slip: MB
Cruz Fighting For His Life in Iowa: Michael Warren

Economy

Chart Of The Day: $17 Trillion In Student Debt By 2030: Tyler Durden
China: The Golden Chains Weaken: StrategyPage

Scandal Central

‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying: Paul Sperry
Hillary Clinton’s email defense just hit a major bump in the road: Chris Cillizza
Four Sid Blumenthal Emails In Latest Clinton Release Are COMPLETELY Classified: Chuck Ross

Media

The Media Fix: The Z Man
The Trump-Fox feud as seen by the left: Paul Mirengoff
Donald Trump doubles down on eminent domain after Cruz ad: Scoop

Socialism ruins Venezuela – WaPo blames “bad luck”: Darleen Click
Liberals Visit Refugee Camp to Film Truth about Refugees, and That’s Just What They Get: Lindsey Bruce
Sarah Palin's PAC burning through cash: Dave Levinthal

The New York Times Is Dumber Than I Thought: Jeffrey Carter
The power of newspaper endorsements: Don Surber
Michael Reagan: My Father Would Be 'Absolutely Appalled' By Trump as GOP Nominee: Max

World

Mysterious sniper is killing IS-leaders in Libya: SPEISA
Germany's "Rapefugee" Crisis: Stephen Brown
200 Masked Men In Stockholm Station Target And Beat Migrants After Migrant Youth Gangs Wreak Havoc: WZ

Davos Diatribe: Taki Theodoracopulos
The Lure of Fantasy Islam: Dr. Stephen M. Kirby
Hamas Continues Terror-Tunneling into Israel: Matzav

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

'Exoatmospheric kill vehicle' designed to smash nuclear missiles heading for US tested over California: DailyMail
MIT Wins Hyperloop Competition, and Elon Musk Makes a Cameo: Andrew J. Hawkins
13 Useful Productivity Apps for 2016: Sig Ueland

Cornucopia

Welcome To New York, The New Turd World: MOTUS
An Update On My Physical Condition: DTG
Proof Hillary would be Obama’s Third Term: LI

Image: Welcome To New York, The New Turd World
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QOTD: "The greatest obstacle to defeating Islamic terrorism is still the left.

The left helped create Islamic terrorism; its immigration policies import terrorism while its civil rights arm obstructs efforts to prevent it and its anti-war rallies attack any effort to fight it. In America, in Europe and in Israel, and around the world, to get at Islamic terrorists, you have to go through the left.

When a Muslim terrorist comes to America, it’s the left that agitates to admit him. Before he kills, it’s the left that fights to protect him from the FBI. Afterward, leftists offer to be his lawyers. The left creates the crisis and then it fights against any effort to deal with it except through surrender and appeasement." --Daniei Greenfield

Saturday, January 30, 2016

LAST NIGHT'S STATE DEPARTMENT EMAIL DUMP: The Most Damning for Hillary Yet

Hey, remember all of that cool media outcry over Valerie Plame?

On the heels of yesterday’s bombshell that Hillary Clinton’s secret email server contained nearly two-dozen emails with ‘TOP SECRET’ information, the State Department released its most heavily classified batch of emails to date. A few key points about last night’s dump:

• Of the roughly 900 emails released, 243 were classified, bringing the total number of emails containing classified information to 1,583.

• Of the 243 classified emails, 11 were classified as SECERT, more than double the number from all of the previous releases combined.

• Of the 243 classified emails, 9 were classified for containing information related to “intelligence activities (including covert action), intelligence sources or methods, or cryptology.”

• Of the 243 classified emails, 128 were classified for containing “foreign government information,” which is considered “ born classified” and the “most important category of national security information” State Department officials encounter.

With a classification rate of nearly 27 percent, this was the most highly classified batch of emails yet, despite the fact the State Department only produced 10 percent of the emails it was required to under court order. And given the State Department’s claim that many of the emails they withheld were still being reviewed by other agencies as well as the steep increase in the number of emails classified as ‘SECRET,’ it appears Hillary Clinton’s email woes are only going to get worse. Indeed, many redactions in last night’s production had to do with information from several intelligence agencies including the CIA. No wonder Clinton’s friends in the State Department are trying to delay further releases until she’s cleared the early nominating contests.

Here are some of the most eye-popping emails from last night’s release below, which include classified conversations about embassy security in Egypt and a memo classified as ‘SECRET’ from John Kerry:

TRUMP'S FALTERING LEAD: The Meltdown Begins

I wonder what Mr. Trump will call Iowans if he loses the Caucuses on Monday?
Trump’s Lead Shrinks As Attacks On Cruz Appear To Backfire — Poll

"Cruz alone has proven that he has the courage and the competence to lead an American restoration."

By Caroline Glick

Under President Barack Obama, the United States has been fundamentally transformed. From the land of the free and the home of the brave, seven years into the Obama presidency, America acts like the land of the overregulated and the home of the risk averse.

In the Middle East, the new America is treacherous, and pathetic. It is despised by its allies and scorned by its enemies.

Consider the state of America’s relations with Saudi Arabia.

BUT DEMOCRATS CAN'T FIND ANYTHING TO CUT: Billions in Taxpayer Money Blown on Fraudulent "Research"

By Ethan Barton

National Science Foundation officials award $7 billion in grants annually based on funding proposals the agency’s watchdog estimates have hundreds of examples of plagiarism and “falsified or fabricated data.”

Larwyn’s Linx: Grow Up!

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Nation

Grow Up!: Thomas Sowell
In Praise of Trump: George Mano
Why I’m Endorsing Ted Cruz For President: John Hawkins

2011: Pentagon Ripped Hillary's "March to War" Against Libya: Jerome R. Corsi
Another Scummy Fundraiser for Hillary: Althouse
No-Trump Debate Ratings Better Than Last With-Trump One: John McCormack

Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right: Tucker Carlson
You Wreckers: The Z Man
In the Iowa Caucuses, Look for Results That Surprise You: Charlie Cook

Welcome to the West! A FAQ For Immigrants: Brian Sack
Sen. Ted Cruz's Immigration-Reduction Report Card: NUSA
Twisted Logic: Feral Irishman

Here’s Why Sleazy Iowa Gov. Branstad Opposes Ted Cruz: Brian Sikma
How Convenient: More Granny Clinton Emails to be Hidden Until After NH Primary: JWF
It’s Official: Put a Fork in Kasich’s Candidacy: Stuart Rothenberg

Scandal Central

White House: Hillary will get away with email scandal, based on what they know: Carmine Sabia
Another Friday night Hillary Email Dump – minus the 22 Top Secret ones: LI
Issa: FBI wants to indict Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin: Joe Newby

Report: DOJ, FBI “SUPER PISSED OFF” at Obama White House Over Clinton Investigation: GWP
Authorities arrest more than 50 members of MS-13 gang in Boston area: Fox
Airplane mechanic reportedly suspected of planting bomb that brought down Russian plane: Fox

Climate & Energy

300 scientists send letter to Congress accusing NOAA of cooking the books on climate change: Rick Moran

Media

Ted Cruz is a Losing, Damn Awful, Vicious, Unlikable, Calculated Person. Because DC Says So.: Erick Erickson
AACONS Interviews Michelle Malkin and Kevin D. Williamson: LI
NBC’s Holt ‘Winced’ at HRC Called ‘Dishonest,’ Worries If She Gets Her ‘Feelings Hurt?’: Brent Baker

World

Iran Now Flying Drones Directly Over U.S. Navy Vessels As Obama Golfs: Caleb Howe
GITMO: Now a Muslim Resort: Sara Noble
Israel Working With West Africa to Deter The Spread of Islamic State: Ryan Healy

A World Where Muslim Pedophiles Roam Freely: Zumwalt
The Great European Unraveling: Stuart Schneiderman
European far-right, nationalist parties meet in Milan - restore national sovereignty : Colleen Barry

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why does Sweden have more boys than girls?: BBC
Zika: Texas confirms a second case has been found in state: DailyMail
Facebook bows to Obama, banning private gun sales: Douglas Ernst

Cornucopia

Tyranny, Defiance, and the Death of LaVoy Finicum: Pro Libertate
Mourning: Christian Mercenary
Even Famous Blondes Can’t Lie to the FBI: MOTUS

Image: Hillary Clinton in damage control over latest email revelation
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QOTD:

Bonus QOTD: "[Trump] is another Huey Long. You are either for him or against him. No middle ground. And he will mercilessly attack his enemies, and those he perceives as enemies. Trump is tapping into the anger felt by the middle class, poor and working man – just as Huey Long did in the 1920′s and 1930′s. Washington Insiders, the elite and wealthy, and those who stood in Huey’s way eerily parallels what Trump is doing today. “Every Man A King” is a great fantasy, until totalitarian reality hits you like a brick (or a jackboot). Beware the populist." --'wdmann'

Friday, January 29, 2016

RUH ROH: Hillary Emails "Too Damaging" To National Security To Release

By Sean Hannity

Bad news for Hillary Clinton as new revelations further undercut the former Secretary of State's claims that she never received or sent classified emails stored on her home-brew email server.

Fox News's Catherine Herridge is reporting that intelligence officials will not be releasing some of Hillary Clinton's emails because doing so would be "too damaging" to national security.

THUNDER OVER IOWA: More Than 500 Faith And Cultural Conservative Leaders Endorse... Ted Cruz

By Conservative HQ

Led by such well known faith and cultural conservative leaders as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Bob VanderPlaats of the Family Leader, Pastor Joseph Brown, Vicki Crawford, Dr. James Dobson, Rabbi Yaakov Rosenblatt, Gary Bauer, Reverend CL Bryant, Brian Brown of The National Organization For Marriage, CHQ’s Richard A. Viguerie and Bishop E.W. Jackson, over 500 faith and cultural conservative leaders have endorsed Senator Ted Cruz for President in advance of the Iowa Caucuses. 

In endorsing Ted Cruz for President Tony Perkins spoke for many faith leaders and cultural conservatives when he said, "I trust Ted to fight to pull America out of the political and cultural tailspin that President Obama’s policies have put us in. This is no normal election; this election is about the very survival of our Constitution and our republic.” 

Perkins added a key consideration in the minds of many faith-first voters; Ted Cruz’s record of keeping his promises

Larwyn’s Linx: How the FBI Could Force DOJ to Prosecute Hillary Clinton

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Nation

How the FBI Could Force DOJ to Prosecute Hillary Clinton: Jim Geraghty
The Issue of Trump: Bill Whittle
IRS’s new ethics chief once ordered that records be illegally destroyed: Unyielding

Vote Cruz in Iowa as if the Republic Depends on It: David Limbaugh
What If Trump Doesn’t Win?: Scott Rasmussen
…and attack Ted Cruz comes with a huge long term price: DTG

Ted Cruz kills it when asked about not being endorsed by the establishment: Scoop
Donald Trump: The lobbyists' dream come true: Timothy P. Carney
Is Trump Killing the Iowa Caucuses?: Ron Fournier

Candidate Trump Exposing a Sordid and Corrupt Political Media Scheme: Treehouse
Huckabee and Santorum End Their Campaigns and Kneel Before Zod: Erick Erickson
'They are burning money': Donors unhappy with Jeb Bush's lavish spending: Insider

Economy

48.9% of Union Members Worked for Government in 2015: CNS
Trump -- debt creator and bailout-backer: Exam
Details and Analysis of Senator Bernie Sanders’s Tax Plan: Tax Foundation

Scandal Central

Trump’s "Pro-Vet" Website Gives Heavily to the Clintons: Chuck Ross
The Death Of Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum: Herschel Smith
An Open Letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Governor Kate Brown: Stop Shouting

Why Hillary’s EmailGate Matters: John R. Schindler
Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare: Hint -- it's not Bernie Sanders: Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation not letting up: Julian Hattem

Media

MoveOn video slamming 'Bernie's skeptics' reaches 3.3M in ONE DAY: Paul Bedard
Everyone Laughed At The Debate When Ted Cruz Said This...: John Hawkins
Trump “I will be tough …” [Darleen Click]: ProWis

Former Mizzou president pens scathing tell-all letter: Chris Nuelle
Dems tell C-SPAN they're voting for Trump: Curt Mills
Surprise: Muslim YouTube Questioner at GOP Debate a Sanders Supporter: ProgsToday

World

Iran Shows the U.S. Who’s in Charge: Robert Spencer
If You Complain About Refugees, Dutch Cops Will Come to Your House: Daniel Greenfield
COEXIST: Cologne carnival hands out leaflets telling migrants not to rape women: DailyMail

Where's the Coverage? Israeli Women Being Murdered by Terrorists: CAMERA
Sweden to Deport 80,000 Refugees: Alexa Lardieri
Iran Claims to Have Chased Off US Missile Cruiser: Daniel Greenfield

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Report: 7-Year-Old Children Mining Cobalt for Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung Products: Kit O'Connell
How to Discover a Galaxy with a Telephoto Lens: Patchen Barss
Are we thinking about artificial intelligence all wrong?: Troy K. Schneider

Cornucopia

Submission Thy Name is Islam: MOTUS
Mansion prices hit new highs in super-rich enclaves: Robert Frank
Levin: Here's why Trump is skipping tonight’s debate: Scop

Image: Are we thinking about artificial intelligence all wrong?
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QOTD: "As Secretary of State, Ms. Clinton had access to a wide array of government-supplied communications systems, ranging from lightly encrypted to deeply so, at varying levels of classification, all intended to protect our nation’s secrets. She chose not to use them, and it’s not Hillary Clinton who’s paying the price for that.

All this angers Americans with experience in our military and intelligence services who understand what Ms. Clinton and her staff did—and that they would be held to far harsher standards for attempting anything similar. They know that brave Americans have given their lives protecting Top Secret Codeword information. They know that in every American embassy around the world, our diplomatic outposts that worked for Hillary Clinton, Marine guards have standing orders to fight to the death to protect the classified information that’s inside those embassies. That Hillary Clinton gave similar information away, by choice, is something she needs to explain if she expects to be our next Commander-in-Chief." --John R. Schindler

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Ted Cruz needs an issue if he wants to win – and this is it

By Craig Shirley

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) would be wise to avoid the mistake Ronald Reagan made early in his 1976 insurgent campaign to supplant President Gerald Ford as the Republican presidential nominee. Cruz needs a crystallizing justification — a signature issue.

Reagan only found one mid-way through his 1976 race, but he was able to use it to carry him to victory in 1980. Reagan’s populist call to hold on to the Panama Canal — “We built it! We paid for it! It’s ours! And we’re gonna keep it!” — resounded with voters in 1976. Cruz has an equally populist issue that could prove as successful: campaigning against the U.S. Supreme Court’s eminent-domain ruling.

EX-FBI OFFICIAL: Hillary Indictment Will Come During the Heat of the General Election

By Christian Datoc

Six months after the FBI began their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, sources believe that an indictment might fall during the “the heat of the general election campaign.”

Former FBI assistant director Ron Hosko told The Hill that he doesn’t “know that there’s any magical cutoff date,” and that the protracted length of the probe is not unusual for such investigations.