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Donald Trump has emerged the likely GOP nominee, because on the great forces transforming America—globalization and immigration—establishment Republican leaders have turned a blind eye to the legitimate complaints of less-educated, often-rural white males who are amassing to Donald Trump. The internet, jet travel and efficient ocean transportation make the production of goods and services a worldwide phenomenon, but put ordinary American workers in direct competition with the most poorly paid and exploited souls on the planet. President Obama can beat his breast about inequality and sign all the executive orders he likes to mandate higher wages for workers without globally...

A group of rabbis is planning to boycott Donald Trump’s speech next week before a leading pro-Israel advocacy group, a sign of growing unease among many Jewish leaders about the populist campaign being waged by the Republican presidential front-runner. About 40 rabbis have said that they plan to participate in the protest of Trump’s appearance Monday at the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, according to an organizer. The planned demonstration comes as members of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a group of major GOP donors, is expected to debate how to deal with Trump during its annual...

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Thursday accused the House and Senate Republican leadership of “moral cowardice” for failing to stand up to GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. a speech on GOP policies and Trump’s success, the Nevada Democrat said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have tried to have it both ways. They intend to support the eventual nominee, Reid said, but assail Trump for his call to bar Muslims from the United States and his slow disavowal of support from white supremacist groups. “Giving Trump a slap on the wrist each time...

Rose is back! Formerly the Rose half of the Quinn & Rose Morning Show, she is back on the air and ready for the fight! Catch her on Pittsburgh's 1250 AM The Answer WPGP, from 8AM to 10AM Monday through Friday or via live stream at www.am1250theanswer.com, where you can also get the podcasts. Join us for real no-nonsense conservative talk with a passion that only Rose can deliver! Grab a cup of joe and lets discuss Rose's latest show. Lots of good guests and and a round table discussion on Fridays!!

German diplomatic missions and a school in Turkey were closed on Thursday after receiving a terror threat, the Foreign Ministry announced, less than a week after a suicide car bomb attack in the Turkish capital. The Foreign Ministry said the closures were a “precautionary measure” and called on all Germans currently in Turkey to take particular care when in public, broadcaster NTV reports. The email sent to German citizens described a “terror threat that could not be conclusively verified.” …

As President Obama gears up for his presidential visit to Cuba this weekend – the first in 80 years – scientists are pondering the future of Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. One idea is the creation of a transnational conservation area, or peace park.

The central state of Hesse is overhauling their constitution, making sure to get rid of one thing in particular that no other state has: the death penalty. In the wake of the Second World War, Germany wrote a new Constitution with reforms intended to shake off its violent Nazi past, including to clearly define where the country newly stood on the death penalty. “Capital punishment is abolished,” states Article 102 simply, with no further explanation. The Constitution, or Grundgesetz, was signed in 1949, but just three years before, the state of Hesse apparently had its own ideas about capital punishment....

Emerson College Poll New York – Donald Trump 64%, Ted Cruz 12%, John Kasich 1%… Posted on March 17, 2016 by sundance Emerson College releases a poll today of New York voters (pdf article here). As a generally intelligent person might expect, candidate Donald Trump crushes second place Ted Cruz by 52 points. Trump earns 64% support, Cruz 12%, Kasich barely 1%.

“Most of my friends were graduating that year,” writes Barack Obama in Dreams from My Father. “Hasan off to work with his family in London, Regina on her way to Andalusia to study Spanish Gypsies.”

HONOLULU (AP) — A 29-year-old student was taken to a hospital with serious injuries after an explosion at a University of Hawaii laboratory, officials said Thursday. The woman suffered burns on her face and serious injuries to her arm, said Shayne Enright, a spokeswoman for Honolulu Emergency Medical Services. She was taken to The Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition after the explosion early Wednesday evening. No one else was hurt. Honolulu Fire Department Capt. David Jenkins said responding firefighters were told the woman was mixing gases when the blast happened. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. Firefighters...

his month’s conventional wisdom: The current Republican presidential campaign shows the GOP to be hopelessly split. Maybe that’s true, but the real split Donald Trump spotlights is the severe one within broad evangelicalism. After Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972, influential film critic Pauline Kael said, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon.” Many evangelical leaders are in the same position regarding Trump voters, but it’s not hard to figure out why millions support him. They feel smooth talkers have lied to them. They’re tired of theorists who spin untethered, abstract...

New York senator Chuck Schumer said some Senate Republicans have agreed to meet supreme court nominee despite leadership wanting to hold off on hearings . . . Chuck Schumer, senator for New York, said in response to a question from the Guardian: “We are seeing cracks on the Republican side. "About five or six members have agreed already to meet with the nominee and I think what happened is they saw how stellar the nominee was and they realised how bad it would be not to ... They're feeling the heat and we believe we’ll see many more cracks over...

Attention Utah Trump Supporters - Donald will hold an event at the Utah State Fairpark (the State Fairgrounds) Friday at 9:00 PM. ... and ex-governor just endorsed Kasich, so looks like Cruz is not the golden child for the LDS church. This puts Utah's 40 delegates into play. Can I get an "amen"???

By international and historical standards, political violence is exceedingly rare in the United States. The last serious outburst was 1968 with its bloody Democratic-convention riots. By that standard, 2016 is, as yet, tame. It may not remain so. The political thuggery that shut down a Donald Trump rally in Chicago last week may just be a harbinger. It would be nice, therefore, if we could think straight about cause and effect. The immediate conventional wisdom was to blame the disturbance on the “toxic environment” created by Trump. Nonsense. This was an act of deliberate sabotage created by a totalitarian left...

Buoyed by a string of decisive primary wins this past Tuesday, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold a commanding lead in New York State, where a victory in the April 19 primary could effectively seal the presidential nomination for both candidates. With Marco Rubio out of the race, Trump leads his closest rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, by 52 points (64% to 12%). Rubio received 4% of the vote before suspending his campaign. Ohio Governor John Kasich earned just 1%, getting no bounce from his recent home-field victory in the Buckeye State. In a hypothetical, two-man matchup between Trump...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday he still maintains a “path toward victory” in his Democratic presidential bid against Hillary Clinton, rejecting suggestions that she has all but sewn up the party’s nomination. “I don’t believe they have an insurmountable lead,” Sanders said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Arizona, where he was campaigning. “Secretary Clinton has done phenomenally well in the Deep South and in Florida. That’s where she has gotten the lion’s share of votes. And I congratulate her for that. But we’re out of the Deep South now.”Sanders said in the interview he would...

Only one Republican candidate has a record of doing exactly what he says he's going to do. In an earlier time, this was widely understood as integrity, the unimpeachable surety for pledges made on the campaign trail. And, only one Republican candidate passionately, genuinely, and faithfully, pursues the golden precepts of constitutional liberty which are the only safeguards of our pursuit of happiness within the judicious bounds of the civil society. Ted Cruz is a champion of economic, social, and religious liberty such as has not been seen since the Reagan revolution. While his emphasis on religious liberty and unabashed...

A Florida man has been convicted of attempting to assassinate a federal judge. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville reports in a news release that jurors convicted 27-year-old Aaron Richardson of attempted murder and multiple other counts Thursday. His sentencing date has not been scheduled. Richardson, a Jacksonville resident, was arrested in June 2013, several days after authorities say he fired a stolen rifle at Judge Timothy Corrigan’s home, missing the judge by inches. …

(Video)ITIN numbers create a massive loophole with big time cash results from IRS to illegal workers. These workers can cash out as much as $29,000 and they feel they've earned it, and we just let it happen! Vote with your head! IF YOU ARE A TAXPAYER, TAKE THE TIME TO VIEW THIS VIDEO! So you think Trump's plan to send them back is crazy??? You have to see this, so outrageous. Incredible and absolutely insane. Heads need to roll. The IRS will put you in jail if you fail to pay the taxes that support this fraud. This, without a...

He is dying, Q-tip elbows poking through a baggy shirt. Friends visit, spooning him ice cream and playing music. His daughters are around as well, stopping in after school, too young to process the grim scene. And there, carefully placed in the closet, out of view in the room his ex-wife has set up, is the Stradivarius. Philip Johnson’s fingers are no longer strong enough to play any violin, never mind one so unforgiving. So he keeps the Strad in a plastic crate. The instrument is the only thing he has of value. It is also his biggest secret. When...