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Sen. Ted Cruz has vowed to support GOP front-runner Donald Trump if he secures the Republican nomination -- but he has one condition. "I can give you one example where I would no longer support Donald Trump. If for example, he were to go out on Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, I would not be willing to support Donald Trump," Cruz said today at a press conference in Rockford, Illinois. Cruz’s reference is to when, back in January, Trump joked at a campaign rally in Sioux Center, Iowa, that his supporters would stand behind him even if he shot someone.

he Clinton campaign has issued a list of words and terms to the Drive-By Media in the form of a threatening e-mail to a New York Times infobabe telling them, "These are the words you cannot use to describe Mrs. Clinton." One word that's not on the list is "cankles." I guess everybody in the media is free to use the word "cankles." ... [snip]Here are the words that the Hillary Clinton campaign sent out to the New York Times reporter Amy Chozick is telling her she can't use. "Polarizing." You may not use the word "polarizing" to describe Mrs....

Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's calls for an immediate resumption of negotiations as insincere. "He talks about making painful concessions, but he has not made a single concession on the ground," Shaath said in a Saturday interview with Channel 2, adding that twenty years of negotiations with Israel has led the Western-backed Palestinian Authority nowhere. Shaath stated that the United Nations bid did not contradict negotiations and asserted that the PA would enter negotiations if Netanyahu agrees to ban all Jewish construction in Israel's disputed Samaria and Judea regions. "Netanyahu must say 'peace is more...

Here is video from today’s Obama School Speech in Philadelphia before an audience of children. This video does not use as tight a shot of Obama as most. It clearly shows TOTUS (Teleprompters Of The United States) that Obama takes with him literally everywhere – from parking lot remarks to remarks in front of school kids. A lot of what Obama said to the kids was very good. But is it not possible for this President to speak – even to children – without being dominated by his twin teleprompters? It is so ironic that many consider Obama to be...

Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: I am sorry. Surely by now you know I am sorry. I am writing these words now, and in this form, as a bookend to 13 months of Duke lacrosse coverage, my role in which started with a March 27 column that began: "Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: You know. We know you know." That was when Durham police and District Attorney Mike Nifong were describing a "wall of silence" among the men who attended the now-vaunted lacrosse party at 610 Buchanan Blvd. Nifong, now described by the state attorney general...

A Los Angeles rabbi, who gained attention by inviting Mel Gibson to attend Yom Kippur services at his synagogue to apologize for anti-Semitic statements made during a July 29 arrest for drunk driving, has been rebuffed by the publicist for the actor and director, saying the public nature of the request has been inappropriate. Rabbi David Baron, of Temple of the Arts, this week told TMZ, the entertainment-focused website that first broke the story of Gibson's DUI arrest and anti-Semitic outburst, that Gibson had officially declined an invitation to apologize before his congregation. On Aug. 1, Gibson issued a statement,...

Mel Gibson has politely turned down the chance to publicly apologise in a Los Angeles synagogue for anti-Semitic comments he made last month. The 50-year-old Braveheart star has already apologised for acting confrontationally towards police officers when he was picked up for drink-driving on California's Pacific coast highway near Malibu. Gibson blamed his 'horrific relapse' into the alcoholism which has cursed him throughout his adult life for the anti-Semitic comments he made then. Now it seems he has not intention of repeating that public apology on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, as Rabbi David Baron has suggested. Alan...

Hatin’ on Hillary: N.H. Dems lambaste Clinton By Brett Arends Boston Herald Business Columnist Monday, August 7, 2006 - Updated: 02:56 AM EST MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it. “Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.” No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified...

In Georgia, state Sen. Kasim Reed in January introduced a bill authorizing school districts to teach courses derived from The Bible and Its Influence, a textbook released last year by the Bible Literacy Project. In Tennessee, Reps. Rick Nelson and Bob Damron are sponsoring legislation that would allow postings of religious documents such as the Ten Commandments. In Virginia, Timothy Kaine rode religious campaign themes and Christian radio ads to victory in the governor's race last fall. All that would be business as usual for the GOP. But these Bible-thumping, faith-stumping pols are all Democrats—and part of their party's emerging...

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer and Ways and Means Committee Democrats Charles Rangel of New York, Sander Levin of Michigan, and John Tanner of Tennessee this morning at a news conference to discuss the latest Republican plan to privatize Social Security. Below are Pelosi's remarks: "Good morning. Before we begin on the subject of Social Security, I want to extend the condolences of the entire House Democratic Caucus, and indeed I'm sure every Member of Congress, to the families and friends of the eight Marines that were killed in and around Fallujah in the last...

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Former President Bill Clinton has said the United States should either "close down or clean up" the Guantanamo Bay prison for foreign terrorism suspects.In an interview with the Financial Times published on Monday, Clinton said American or British troops would be at much greater risk if they had a reputation for abusing people."Well, it either needs to be closed down or cleaned up," Clinton said when asked whether the camp on Cuba should close.

Arnold's retreats threaten his agenda By Harrison Sheppard Sacramento Bureau Saturday, April 30, 2005 - SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's retreat on his redistricting plan jeopardizes his entire reform agenda, as well as his plan for a special election, analysts say. Schwarzenegger had already decided to postpone pension reform until next year, then this week softened his stance on redistricting, saying it does not necessarily have to happen by 2006 as he first demanded. But political observers say another retreat could make Schwarzenegger look particularly weak even as his popularity numbers are sagging. "I don't know that he can afford...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is adopting new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday

Do you support the use of terror? I ask you because terror is a weapon of war. Terror was a weapon used in World War II, in the firebombing of Dresden; terror was a weapon described in the Iliad, when Achilleus dragged his slain enemy Hektor around the walls of the city of Troy. For as long as men have known how to make war, terror has been a weapon of war. Our current administration is preparing to make war upon the nation of Iraq. We may assume that this administration makes its preparations with the full knowledge and understanding...