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We were at 30,000ft on Trump's private jet flying to Every time the commentariat say he has gone too far, he proves he has found a direct link to the dark heart of the American psyche. As Iowa citizens vote tomorrow in the first ballot to determine the Republican candidate for the White House, many are asking: who really is Donald Trump? Is he a regular guy who speaks the truth as he sees it, or just a bigmouth who appears to think he is the star of a reality TV show? I think I have a unique perspective. Trump...

Actually, Trump's comb-over is a marvel of hair engineering- a complex, lattice-like affair involving advanced design/materials consisting of multiple alternate layers of hair planks and lacquer... kind of like how they make a fiberglass boat,  no wonder it's durability is legendary.  Hey, the guy builds skyscrapers for a living-- probably had one of his engineers do the CAD/CAM model so they could test the structural rigidity: Basically, he's just trying to maintain the same hairstyle he sported from the 1980s (most people stick with a certain look after some point) back when The Donald still had a more full head of...

Is "The Donald" in for the long hall, or is he going to "Pull Out" at the last minute -- like he has done so many times before? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/16/donald-trump-us-presidential-race I don't think he has demonstrated that he is in for the long haul. Therefore I have taken the liberty to give him the handle of Trumpus Interruptus! I confess that I was excited (as was his collective base) when he announced in 2012 that he was considering a run for the republican nomination for President of the United States. I was thus willing to overlook the fact that he was...

"People who think he's a joke and a fool need to be careful because by the end of the campaign, the joke may be on them." That's how Joe Scarborough summed up the surprisingly respectful analysis of Donald Trump's candidacy on today's Morning Joe. Introducing the segment, Scarborough suggested that if Trump sticks to a Perot-like populist message, he could get 15% of the primary vote. When Joe turned to Steve Schmidt, this NewsBuster expected the former McCain campaign manager and establishment Republican to dump on Trump. But to the contrary, Schmidt agreed heartily with Joe and went on to...

Are you not eagerly anticipating Donald Trump’s announcement about whether he will run for president? This is a serious question, despite all the mockery that is aimed at the real estate mogul. Skepticism about his potential candidacy is understandable, but the tone towards Trump would likely change dramatically were he to announce his candidacy. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/05/taking_trump_seriously.html#ixzz3b2uFIVjj Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

The search for beauty has turned mighty ugly in the aftermath of the Miss USA 2012 pageant. First, Miss Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin, claimed the Sunday outcome was rigged and gave up her state crown in protest. Then, pageant officials said Monnin -- who failed to make the top 15 -- had really quit because she opposed competing against transgender contestants, who were allowed into the pageant for the first time this year. Enter Donald Trump, the co-owner of the Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageant, who denied Monnin's allegations and took a not-so-veiled stab at her appearance during an interview...

THINKING HARD ABOUT RUDY I've never voted for Rudy Giuliani in my life. But I'm thinking hard about it now. In both cases, I surprise myself. The rest of America may know Rudy as "America's Mayor" for his ceremonial performance post-9/11, but for New Yorkers who lived through the Dinkins years, Rudy Giuliani is more than a guy who stands tall when the skyscrapers fall. By the late '90s, people were beginning to say that New York City was ungovernable: Remember the court-driven interest group spending, the disorder, the bums taking over the parks and the playgrounds and the street...

Orwellian euphemism is nothing new in the realm of contemporary American political discourse. Choice, translated by the left, refers to the chopping up of unborn children. Peaceful patriotism permits the trashing of our troops. Just now in a shocking scandal for adjectives everywhere, verbal authorities have booked articulate for bearing concealed racial overtones. We shouldn't, but we do get acclimated to this kind of rank pseudo-intellectualism after a while. What is jarring is to hear linguistic engineering of mind-bending magnitude coming not from the left, but from conservative commentators themselves. Monday night on Hannity and Colmes, RINO Rudi announced his...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani apparently knows his pro-abortion position isn't going to play well in the heartland of America. Just over a week after an internal strategy memo leaked out acknowledging that fact, the mayor appointed a pro-life former congressman to help head his Iowa campaign. Giuliani tapped pro-life former Rep. Jim Nussle to be a leader on his presidential exploratory committee. Nussle had a 100 percent pro-life voting record during his last two years in Congress, according to the National Right to Life Committee. He lost a bid to become Iowa governor...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Raising money for local Republicans even as he ponders his own political future, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Monday that Republicans must increasingly be "a big party" that accepts divergent views. Giuliani said that broad-brush themes, like limited government, ought to define the Republican Party — not hot-button social issues like abortion and gay rights. "The major thing that we organize around as Republicans is government that puts more reliance on people than government," Giuliani said. "They (Democrats) tend to think of government solutions as most of the answers." Giuliani was in Iowa...

April 19, 2006 -- BLUE BELL, Pa. - Rudy Giuliani took a few swipes at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday while campaigning for a Republican senator. In a speech on behalf of Sen. Rick Santorum, Giuliani recalled that for most of his mayoralty, there was one Republican and one Democratic senator representing New York. MO< "[For] one year, I had Hillary," he mock-complained, drawing laughter. After a pause, he continued: "There's that book that just came out . . . [it] points out that one thing that Hillary and I do have in common: We're both Yankee fans. I became...

Rudy Giuliani better hope that a new documentary on his mayoralty, "Giuliani Time," never makes it to cineplexes in Iowa, New Hampshire and other presidential battlegrounds. The two-hour film, which debuts May 12, casts Giuliani not as the hero of 9/11 - the role that won him acclaim as America's Mayor - but rather as the iron-fisted ruler of a city where children went hungry, the poor were forgotten and many city cops were racists. In short, "Giuliani Time" seeks to do for Giuliani what Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" did for President Bush - namely, shine an unsparing light on...

Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK October 03, 2003, 17:25 BST Tell us your opinion A deal with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies would allow the operating system to directly control hardware. It also raises concerns over who controls the software in PCs Microsoft has expanded its relationship with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies in a deal designed to more closely integrate the basic building blocks of the PC with the Windows operating system. The relationship, announced this week, is designed to make PCs simpler and more reliable, the companies said. The move is likely to put...

(EX-Iraqi ambassador Mohammed) Al-Douri was the first senior Iraqi official to acknowledge that the war was lost after U.S. troops overran Baghdad on April 9. He has not returned to Baghdad, contrary to orders issued to all Iraqi ambassadors last month, and is believed to be in the United Arab Emirates. The BBC said the interview took place in the Gulf. Asked if Saddam's regime deserved to be toppled, al-Douri said: "Not by you, but by the Iraqi people." Former Iraqi Ambassador Says Saddam Deserved Defeat, AP. Gee, BBC and Mr. al-Douri, why didn't we think of that? We could...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers raided a dozen buildings in Saddam Hussein's hometown Friday, killing one Iraqi and detaining about 20. U.S. officials also announced the capture in Baghdad of one of Saddam's most trusted aides. The aide, Mizban Khadr Hadi, was a member of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council and had been an adviser to Saddam since the early 1980s. Captured Thursday, Hadi was ranked No. 41 on the U.S. most-wanted list of 55 regime leaders. Even with President Bush declaring an end to "major combat operations," the raid in Tikrit was the latest of many signs that daunting...

DOHA, Qatar - Mohammed al-Douri, who as Iraq's U.N. ambassador vigorously defended Saddam Hussein's regime until he acknowledged its fall, said in an interview Thursday that Iraq should now have a democratic government. "The situation in the region has changed. Democracy is the way to go," al-Douri said in an live interview with Dubai-based al-Arabiya television. Before any new government can be set up or win support of the people, however, the former envoy to the United Nations said U.S. forces would first have to leave Iraq. "This should not be done while the occupation forces are still there, otherwise...

<p>UNITED NATIONS  — Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, in his last day at the United Nations, said he could no longer work in the United States while it was "destroying, ravaging and killing" his countrymen.</p> <p>"I don't think there is a possibility for me to work as I want from a country that is militarily invading Iraq," Al-Douri said in an interview with the Dubai-based Al Arabiya satellite channel.</p>

UNITED NATIONS -- Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, the first Iraqi official to concede defeat in the war, said he is leaving his post because he doesn't want to work under a U.S.-backed transitional government. "I am leaving because I don't think there is a possibility for me to work as I want from a country that is militarily invading Iraq, destroying, ravaging and killing," Al-Douri told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite channel in an interviews broadcast Friday. Al-Douri said pressure from the U.S. would stop him from working "with full freedom" at the U.N. He did not say what kind...

<p>His boss has disappeared, his country is under new ownership and his job status is deeply uncertain. So Mohammed Al-Douri, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, went solo yesterday.</p> <p>Saddam Hussein's former mouthpiece met privately with Secretary-General Kofi Annan and several Arab diplomats in a bid to figure out his country's international standing - and his own.</p>