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. First, there's no doubt that the MSM-Debate folks were trying to screw Dr. Ben Carson at Wednesday's GOP Debate III in Colorado .... just like the MSM and "Willard" Romney did Herman Cain in 2012 (et al). It's not "fair", but it's "blood sport politics" (just ask Sarah Palin). Accordingly, Dr. Ben Carson's campaign staff effectively POLITICALLED KILLED their boss for NOT being pro-active about the question of Mannatech. Somebody on Dr. Ben Carson's staff should be FIRED. Period. It's a "legal fact" that once money or "renumeration" trades hands, the two parties involved have an "association". That's what...

How did they do last night? The big loser was CNBC and the media, of course, but I'm talking about the candidates. BTW, "Who do you think won the debate?" is not the same thing as "Who do you like the most?" What I think: Excellent: Cruz (1st place), Rubio (2nd place), Christie (3rd place) Good to very good (alphabetical order): Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Trump Poor (alphabetical order): Bush, Kasich Regardless of performance and standing, these people should leave the stage: Bush, Carson, Graham, Huckabee, Jindal, Kasich, Pataki, Paul, Santorum What say you?

Paul Ryan - Wisconsin John Boehner - Ohio Dennis Hastert - Illinois And of course we have Kevin McCarthy from California and Sally McMorris-Hyphen from Washington. Only Steve Scalise is from a Republican state, and they'll protect him from removal with their runoff procedure. An insulated leadership, free from the pressures of removal from power by conservatives. They've protected themselves from another Eric Cantor event happening.

Mrs. Clinton: Why Should anyone trust a proven Liar such as yourself in the nation's highest office? Mrs. Clinton: How is your socialist national agenda Different from Mr. Obama's socialist national agenda? Please be specific and explain why that agenda wouldn't be an unmitigated disaster as it has every time in the past. Mrs. Clinton: If you don't have to obey the rule of law, please explain why anyone else has to? Mrs. Clinton: What is the point of Intergalactic Background Checks if not for registration and Confiscation? Mr. Sanders: Please cite a Real World example (i.e. Not a small...

My Comcast package does not support CNBC live feed .... is there another ?

Donald Trump loves polls and he has not spent a lot of $ on his campaign. Trump should just create his own polling company. Publish their methodologies. Make it an open and understandable process. Been saying for a long time the downfall of Tea Party was they failed to create their own polling institution as well as failed to forthrightly deal with voting discrepancies. It's too much to ask Trump, mid campaign, to deal with the latter, but he can do the former. These Establishment polls need to be examined and their methodologies outed. Sick of being lied to. Other...

I posted this in another thread but I would like to know (besides the obvious reason of (R) cowardice) why this plan wouldn't work? 1.) The House passes a budget that defunds amnesty, defunds PP, defunds the Iran deal, defunds Obamacare. 2.) The Senate attempts to vote on it. 3.) The Democrats filibuster. 4.) The deadline passes. 5.) The government shuts down. 6.) The Republicans "change the rules of the Senate" so that budget bills cannot be filibustered after the government is shut down. 7.) The Senate passes the budget. 8.) Obama vetoes the budget. 9.) The Republicans take to...

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Hey all! I've been inactive for a while but now I need your help. You see, back in 2007 I watched an interview with then candidate Obama wherein he actually discussed what he deemed his great strength as a candidate in the context of answering a question about if people who vote for him will end up being disappointed in a President Obama. I remember the conversation with reasonable clarity BUT I do not remember who the interview was with, what channel ... though I'm pretty sure that it had to be before the election. Here is why this is...

The GOPe is running a bluff on conservatives, "Vote for Paul Ryan or else!" Here are the facts: 1. The Chamber of Commerce already has $100 million raised to target tea party Republicans. They are your enemy and going along with Ryan won't change this. 2. ALL Republicans are going to face the wave of anti-establishment sentiment in the country. Every ad I see is, "Joe Republican stood up to Obama..." That's the focus group tested phrase, "...stood up to Obama." Giving Obama everything he wants isn't standing up! 3. The GOPe has the most to lose. They are in...

The Progressive Movement: A Synopsis All productive discourse must begin on a point of agreement in order to have meaningful results. Conservatives are not in agreement regarding the Progressive Movement. The Progressive Movement arose around the beginning of the 20th century. Socialist support gave the movement a bad name and they began to call themselves Liberals. However, as of late, bolstered by the open Socialist support they have returned to calling themselves Progressives. The socialist support makes it nearly impossible to distinguish between Democrats, Socialist, and Socialist Democrat. I will share my opinion about the origin and agenda of the...

No text from article. Carson is just 2.5 points behind Trump in the overall polling - why? Carson is doing something right even in light of Trump being in the headlines the most, almost 2 to 1 over Carson. Who are the people that are following him? Secular Conservatives? Christian conservatives? Liberal RINO's? Libertarians? What has he been doing to get such a following? If you believe Trump will be the nominee because of the polls, you have got to believe that Carson is a threat to Trumps achievement. I have an idea why he is high in the polls...

Regardless of who may be right or wrong on the current Trump/Bush keeping America safe debate, the bottom line is whose policies would you rather have in place going forward and which will keep America safer? Trump's deport and secure the border policy or Bush's amnesty and open borders?

The American media has been providing evidence since 2013, that the so-called Free Syrian Army and The Al-Nusra Front, are one and the same organization. Here is a Washington Times article from 2013: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/30/al-nusra-front-free-syrian-army-seize-border-cross/ Al-Nusra Front, as the Washington Times makes clear, is the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda Have Al Qaeda now become the "moderates"? The so-called Syrian moderates belong to a movement that has killed more Americans than ISIS (Remember 911?) ISIS used to be the Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda, before they re-organized themselves into a new movement - ISIL/ISIS Both the Al-Nusra Front and ISIS want...

In 1991, Russia had one of the lowest birth rates in the world. The population of Russia reduced every single year from 1991 to 2011, because of an ageing population. Vladimir Putin began to address the problem in 1997, by paying mothers who had more than one child $11,000. The government also gave people the opportunity to win prize money, cars, refrigerators, etc., if they had babies. Putin also gave families days off work to help increase birth rates and take care of young children. Finally, the heavy investment in the future of Russians began to bring results. In the...

VANITY Sanders email line (scripted) shows he's nothing more than part of the Clinton shell game. Have someone even older than her and more to the left run to make her appear vigorous and moderate. Sanders is leading Hillary in some of the northeast states, but she'll wipe him off the map in the south. None of the candidates laid a glove on Hillary. Contrast this with the constant bomb tossing Trump gets as the front runner in the GOP race. Hillary had also been supplied with the questions in advance. She started answering the first one immediately after it...

This video is of a NBC Nightly News report on Cecile Richards testifying to Congress on Planned Parenthood recently. It's a textbook case of secular-humanist media bias, so a good one to take a close look at: As Lester Holt introduces the report, there are some distant, hazy shots of pro-life activists holding signs. Holt's introduction focuses on the day's hearing almost entirely, barely mentioning what the whole matter was even about. He says the hearing was “contentious,” with Cecile Richards “offering a spirited defense,” just before Kelly O'Donnell's report begins. But with Holt's introduction completely devoted to the “contentious”...

Every day brings us closer to what I'm convinced will be a VERY UGLY time in what remains of America, the IDEA! The "progressives" (aka "communists") will continue pushing until they provoke a reaction from those who still remember what freedom was. As was the case in 1775, the flash point will almost certainly be a thrust to seize private firearms and related items. It is then that we will see what their plans are for those MILLIONS OF ROUNDS of ammunition and thousands of weapons now in the hands of previously UNARMED bureaucracies. Oh, did I mention that millions...

America's power is being tested to a greater extent, than in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961. Russia is attacking the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist organization, the Free Syrian Army, which is a so-called ally of America. China indicated that it will join the military strikes against the anti-Assad forces, because China considers Assad as an ally: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100915-774990-china-joining-russia-to-humiliate-us-weakened-by-obama.htm China is now ready to fight to defend its unilateral control of the Spratley Islands in the South China Sea. Does America have enough military power to defeat a combined force of Russia and China?

 In the unlikely event that the President were ever impeached, what would Senator Mitch McConnell's position be regarding arbitrary restrictions on the scope of prosecution?  On Sunday, November 24, 1963, my sister and I were watching TV in our pajamas. Our Mom was standing behind us, watching too. We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get shot by Jack Ruby on live TV. We listened to various news stories through the years for explanations of those memorable events. As a teenager I listened to a "Boston Conspiracy Conference" carried live for several days in the 1970s on KPFK, socialist radio in Los Angeles. I...