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ed Cruz will grab an upset win over Donald Trump in Arizona's presidential primary election on Tuesday, as he's the "only candidate with any kind of organization out here," a close confidant of Sen. John McCain predicts. "They have him positioned to spring the upset," Kurt Davis, a GOP operative in Arizona, told The Hill. "They just have to deliver."

“I needed to know that he could listen to other people, that he could change his opinions, and that some of the more outlandish things that he’s said, that he didn’t really believe those things,” Carson told The Hill.

"You can cast a vote on Super Tuesday for Marco Rubio or John Kasich, who have no mathematical path to the nomination at this point. Frankly, they're serving as nothing more than spoilers... You can fall pray to the media hype of "the Duper." Or, you can vote to set America back on a constitutional course by voting for Ted Cruz. I choose the latter and I hope you will too."

While their embeds in the field may never have specifically reported that Carson was out, the network's live coverage - which included star anchor and face of CNN Anderson Cooper - not only operated on the assumption that Carson was withdrawing, but actually included speculation of where his voters would go after Carson left the race. Cooper even said Carson's stated reason - that he was going to Florida to get fresh clothes - for not going directly to New Hampshire like the other candidates "has got to be the weirdest explanation I've heard." One of Cooper's panelists then suggested...

Lastly, the sudden embrace of Trump by GOP establishment members in an attempt to knock out their real nemesis, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has got to force Trump voters to take pause. The GOP gambit is to knock off Cruz in Iowa because his voters go disproportionately to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Trump's voters, on the other hand, tend to go to Cruz. So, beating Cruz would boost the establishment's favored alternative, and in classic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" fashion, they are pumping up Trump.

Old saying is follow what politicians do, not what they do. In the span of one week, Trump has turned a 180 on his entire campaign strategy. He was basically Cruz's BFF for 6 months. He wouldn't attack. He was praising him everywhere he went. His entire self-admitted strategy caught on tape with donors was to shower him with love. In the course of one week, Trump's gone to attacking Cruz bitterly on twitter, to attacking him to reporters and interviewers, to attacking him at his rallies. When will his negative ads start running? Confident campaigns do not do such...

I shall show that the Constitution contemplates two types of Citizen: those that acquire their citizenship at birth and those who acquire their Citizenship at a later time. The first are referred to in the Constitution as 'natural born' and the second is a class of citizen not specifically named but implied and are those we consider 'naturalized citizens.' The word 'citizen' including derivative forms appears only eleven times in the Constitution. We shall look at each instance and derive what is possible from each usage and instance. By the end, I hope to have exhaustively shown that within...

Governor Greg Abbott endorses an Article V Convention of States:

I remember the spring of 2013 like it was yesterday. It was one of the busiest times of my career. Republicans were working overtime to codify Obama’s open borders agenda into law, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was the ring leader of the effort. The voice of the people was not being heard and we were subjected to fallacious talking points on a daily basis. ... Rubio is now suggesting that Cruz also supported amnesty because at the time of the Gang of 8 debate, Cruz introduced an amendment stripping the provision providing a path to citizenship from the bill....

There are two methods to propose amendments to the Constitution. Congress is in a perpetual “convention” with the power to propose amendments to the Constitution. The reality, however, is that Congress will never propose an amendment that reduces the power of Washington. That is why the Founders developed a second method to propose amendments. The Founders knew the federal government might one day become drunk with the abuses of power. The most important check to this power is the Article V provision that gives the states the ability to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the...

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“I had to shake my head yesterday when one of the wealthiest men I suppose has ever run for the presidency of the United States, the son of a multimillionaire, Mitt Romney, he said, 'I know what it’s like to worry about whether you’re going to get fired,'” Perry said at Mama Penn restaurant in Anderson, S.C. “I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips, whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out, because his company Bain Capital with all the jobs that they killed, I’m sure he was worried that he’d...

For the first time all year, Arizona Senator John McCain finds himself on top with support from 17% of Likely Republican Primary Voters.

Text of Schiavo court ruling Order of Judge James D. Whittemore, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TAMPA DIVISION THERESA MARIE SCHINDLER SCHIAVO, Incapacitated ex rel, ROBERT SCHINDLER and MARY SCHINDLER, her Parents and Next Friends, Plaintiffs, vs. Case No. 8:05-CV-530-T-27TBM MICHAEL SCHIAVO, JUDGE GEORGE W. GREER and THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST, INC. Defendants. ORDER BEFORE THE COURT is Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt. 2). In their motion. Plaintiffs seek an order directing Defendants to Schiavo and Hospice to transport Theresa Schiavo to Morton Plant...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis SA's experimental obesity drug helped patients shed three times as much weight as those on a placebo, but patients gained some of that weight back in the second year, according to a study released on Tuesday. The drug, called Acomplia, takes a novel approach by tinkering with the same biological switch in the brain that makes people hungry when they smoke marijuana, possibly by blocking cravings. ...... About 32 percent of the overweight and obese patients taking the drug in the trial lost a tenth of their body weight after two years. Eleven percent of...

A leading ruling Uri Party member says South Korea would be better off if Democrat John Kerry is the next U.S. president insofar as dealing with volatile Korean Peninsula issues is concerned. In an interview with The Korea Herald, the National Assembly's Defense Committee Chairman Yoo Jay-kun was extremely candid in discussing his views on U.S. policy, an upcoming parliamentary vote on extending the South Korean troop presence in Iraq, and other pending issues.

(FindLaw) -- So far, the prosecution's case against Scott Peterson, in his ongoing California murder trial, has been unimpressive. The prosecution's opening was unconvincing -- relying heavily on weak circumstantial evidence that could have an innocent interpretation.

Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The situation on the Korean Peninsula is deteriorating so rapidly that an armed clash may break out quite contrary to the desire of the DPRK for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue. In this regard the Korean Central News Agency is authorized to release a report today. The report says: While clamoring for the "peaceful settlement" and "multilateral talks," the United States is stepping up the DPRK-targeted war preparations in full swing. This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense is making a final examination of what it calls a...

CAMP CASEY, South Korea (Army News Service, Nov. 21, 2002) -- The court-martial of the tracked vehicle driver charged with two counts of negligent homicide in the deaths of two Korean girls began today at Camp Casey. ... The government then called its first witness. Staff Sgt. Michael A. Murray, also of he 44th Engineer Bn., and track commander of the vehicle immediately in front of Walker's in the convoy, said that he motioned to the AVLM to stop prior to the accident. "I turned around and saw the AVLM make a beeline toward the girls," Murray told the courtroom....

I don't now how many others hears CNN Moneyline Anchor Lou Dobbs' introduction of a telephone segment with their correspondent Kamal Hyder in Khandahar, Afghanistan earlier today. Dobbs introduced Hyder by explaining that there would be no video with the interview because Khandahar was under attack at the moment and use of the satellite uplink could draw an attack by "enemy missiles". Lou, what "enemy missiles" were you referring to? Or is this a new measure of CNN's "objectivity". Or maybe it was just a very telling slip-of-the-tongue, in which case an apology should be forthcoming. And Lou, "objectivity" means ...