Blog Heap o'Links for February 2016

The well-known American chanteuse Madonna may be banned from the Philippines for draping herself in the country’s flag at a show in Manila last week. It is against Philippine law to use the national flag as an article of clothing. Violators may receive up to a year in jail.

In other news, a female police officer was shot and killed in Prince William County, Virginia, while answering a call about a domestic dispute during her first day on the job. Two of her fellow officers were seriously wounded. The suspected perpetrator had already killed his wife before police arrived at his house.…

…Today is a leap day. Leap days occur in years that are divisible by 4. It is added to Feb because under the old Roman calendar February was the last month of the year and they added days to the calendar during that month. …

…Planned Parenthood… promising to spend a seven-figure sum to aid Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Michigan, Virginia, and Texas.… will use videos, digital ads, phone banks, and in-home mailers in support of Clinton.…

Thousands of contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign in January violated federal campaign finance laws, election regulators said on Thursday.… contributions from foreign nationals… unregistered political committees… donors who exceeded the $2,700 per-election limit.…

Republicans woo “sagebrush rebels” in Nevada…
Newt Gingrich to Fox News: You created Trump…

The Belgian government is planning to establish “refugee” quotas for cities and towns. Belgian municipalities that fail to take in their designated allotments will be fined €75 per migrant per day.

In other news, two Christian women in Pakistan were abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and then married off to their Muslim kidnappers.…

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says that his government is bracing for chaos when the next wave of “refugees” arrive. Sweden is preparing a new backup plan, but the EU is not cooperating — making future chaos that much more likely.

In other news, Chris Christie, a former presidential candidate and current governor of New Jersey, has endorsed Donald Trump for president.…

A newly sworn-in police officer was shot dead only a few hours into her shift with a US police department in Virginia during a domestic violence call. Ashley Guindon, 28, was killed while two other officers were injured after responding to a call on Saturday evening relating to a "verbal argument" in Woodbridge.…suspect also shot and killed his wife… was arrested on murder and other charges…

…Trump had previously denounced Duke during a Q&A at a rally on Friday, and in another interview in August.

But Tapper insisted he do it on national television.

“I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists,” Trump responded, pleading ignorance. “So I don’t know. I don’t know — did he endorse me, or what’s going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists.”…

While on the “State of the Union,” Trump says he just can’t denounce the KKK’s support for him until he does more “research.”…

Sunday… at least five members of Hamas’ military wing were injured when a tunnel they were in collapsed underneath the Gaza Strip… fifth time in recent weeks that a tunnel built by Islamist forces in the Gaza Strip crumbled.…

Dozens of police officers in riot gear faced off against an angry crowd in downtown Salt Lake City late Saturday night, after police shot a black teenager who was attacking a man with a broomstick near a homeless shelter.…

Perhaps this is the reason: Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, who in 2011 invested $300 million in the social network, now owns 34.9 million shares of Twitter’s common stock, making him the second largest shareholder…

What’s more damaging to the ability to share politically incorrect news than “shadow bans” and shutting down accounts of right-wing bloggers? How about banning a blogger’s URL so nobody can share links to thought criminal bloggers’ posts on social media?

The counter-jihad blog BareNakedIslam has apparently been URL banned by Twitter…

A bakery owned by a Christian family in Longview, Texas is being deluged with threats and hate mail after the owners declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage.… The bakery won’t make any tobacco- or alcohol-related cakes, for example, and no “risqué” cakes of any kind.… does not mean that they will not serve gay customers, but merely that they will not make a cake celebrating a ceremony they believe is sinful.…

A Newton woman is facing a federal charge after authorities said she is suspected of giving Cedric Ford the two weapons he used to shoot 17 people in Hesston on Thursday.

Sarah Jo Hopkins, 28, is the mother of Ford’s 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son…

According to the affidavit, Hopkins said during an interview with law enforcement Friday that she:
▪ Was in a relationship with Ford and lived with him in Newton for period of time
▪ Bought both weapons at A Pawn Shop…
▪ Moved out of their home in July 2015 but left the guns with Ford
▪ Retrieved the guns from the house with help of Newton Police less than a month later “because she had purchased the weapons and they belonged to her”
▪ Gave the guns back to Ford later that month “because Ford had threatened her.…"

Rick Tyler, who was the communications director for Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign before being fired four days ago, has joined MSNBC as a political contributor.…

Melissa Harris-Perry has made the bold decision to boycott her own program.… Sadly, nobody else will notice.…

Silly girl rolling around her dog bed.…

The California Highway patrol spent four hours trying to capture a runaway unicorn.…

…The officers, reportedly under orders from the administration, did nothing to prevent the protesters from obstructing access to the auditorium. Let me repeat: a state-run institution apparently told state-paid police officers to allow protesters to violate the free speech and free assembly rights of conservatives and those who wish to hear them. In the United States.

By the time we arrived, hundreds of students had mobbed virtually every entrance and exit. And all hell was breaking loose…

Those who wanted to hear me speak were blocked completely. A line eventually formed outside a secret back entrance, where students were sneaked in three and four at a time – a smuggling ring of free speech.…

Several of the nearly two-dozen veterans charitable organizations that were promised donations by Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump have yet to receive any money nearly a month after Trump first made the pledge, the FOX Business Network has learned.… at least three, and possibly more, of the 22 charities haven’t received any money yet, according to interviews conducted by FOX Business. Meanwhile, seven of the 22 charities told FOX Business they have received checks totaling $650,000, while the remaining organizations either declined to say whether or not they received the money or didn’t return repeated calls for comment.…

1. Trump is humble, and he’s not too proud to admit it. …

During History’s Pivotal Moments, Ted Cruz Has Always Been There for the Second Amendment… if he were to gain the nomination, we just don’t know where Trump would be on the Second Amendment.… Gun Owners of America urges you, in the strongest possible terms, to support Ted Cruz for president.

A new report offers some startling statistics on the devastation wrought by Muslims on the Christian population in Nigeria, with 11,500 Christians killed, a million displaced and 13,000 churches destroyed or shut down in the last 15 years. …

A SCHOOLBOY was hauled out of class and interrogated by detectives after politically correct teachers reported him to the POLICE for visiting the UKIP website.… The 15-year-old went online earlier this week to research immigration following a classroom discussion on the subject,…

OTTAWA… All publicly funded institutions – which includes Christian hospitals and nursing homes – must be forced to provide assisted suicide and euthanasia, according to recommendations of the federal parliamentary committee in its report released today. …

The top admiral in charge of U.S. military operations in Asia says Washington should drop its remaining restrictions on weapons sales to Vietnam in order to better defend against China’s military buildup in the South China Sea.…

Obama: "Scooping ice cream is tougher than it looks. Rows and rows of rock-hard ice cream can be brutal on the wrists.…"

A new study suggests that there are around 700 quintillion planets in the universe, but only one like Earth. … Astrophysicist Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University in Sweden arrived at this staggering figure … with the aid of a computer model that simulated the universe’s evolution following the Big Bang. …

Seven Taliban terrorists have been killed and two were seriously injured after they were blown up at a suicide bomber training session in a Madrassa in Afghanistan. … A senior Taliban commander was believed to have been showing several recruits on the safe way of manufacturing and handling suicide vests so they do not detonate prematurely. …

A Swiss butcher is going to jail after selling pork to Muslims for several years.

The Zurich butcher sold 3.1 tons of pork to Muslims but told them it was halal veal.…

A University of Texas dean said Thursday he’s leaving the school to pursue a different job in large part because of the new Texas law that will allow concealed firearms in public college classrooms.… University of Texas President Greg Fenves… has said allowing guns on campus will make it harder to recruit and retain top faculty and students. Steiner's departure would be the most immediate high-profile result of that prediction.…

We reported earlier this week that conservative author Ben Shapiro was banned from speaking at California State University LA by the school’s president.

The school then relented and said Shapiro could come after all. Then things got crazy.

Students who wanted to hear Shapiro speak had to be ushered quietly into the lecture hall through a back door while unhinged student activists and faculty members screamed and tried to force their way through a police barricade protecting the front door.…

Austria convened a summit yesterday in Vienna on migration via the “Balkan Route”. The other countries participating in the confab were Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz were the principal speakers. Greece was not invited. In response to the snub, Greece withdrew its ambassador from Vienna.

In other news, German media are reporting that the government expects that 3.6 million “refugees” will have entered Germany by the year 2020.…

…this isn’t a gargantuan illustrated edition, but it’s a very good one (and, for those who care, has a large selection of great pro-Israel stuff):…

Husein Kavazovic, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, has called on the authorities to do something about radical Islamic terrorism. Mr. Kavazovic issued the call after he was threatened with death by the Islamic State for opposing Islamic extremism.

In other news, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, acknowledged that he has a dispute with Austria over the latter’s new policy of capping the number of migrants that enter the country. Meanwhile Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega Nord, says that neither the European Commission nor Mr. Juncker are welcome in Italy. …

Work and family meant no debate for me. Anyway, I’m sick of a debate format that has candidates snarling like dogs at each other and at the moderators without actually providing useful information. In this post, I hope to provide some useful information.…

…Today will be cut short because I have a doctor's appointment early this morning. Also, I am going to do something a little different with the "day in history" thing. I am going to use the same one from last year and you will see why.…

Donald Trump is going after the media, threatening to sue publications for writing negatively about him.…

One of the things I’m gonna do, and this is only gonna make it tougher for me, and I’ve never said this before, but one of the things I’m gonna do if I win … is I’m gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws.

So that when the New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post … writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money, instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.

Thursday at CNN’s Republican presidential debate… hoping for response time Carson begged, “Can someone attack me, please”…

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) explains why he’s endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), telling Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon Cruz consistently fought to stop amnesty during his freshman Senate term.…

...Trump… holding a campaign event in Oklahoma City on Friday… cover photo of his official Facebook event page had "[strong]Oak[/strong]lahoma City." …graphic has since been removed… new graphic now just reads, "Oklahoma, OK."

…Trump and Sarah Palin held a campaign event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in January… media badges read "[strong]Tusla,[/strong] Oklahoma…

…Despite Twitter’s shady dealings, conservatives should not leave twitter for several reasons. …if conservatives leave, nobody will be around to expose Twitter’s duplicity. …if conservatives abandon Twitter, it just cedes the territory to liberals, again. …using Twitter frankly doesn’t make Twitter or its shareholders any money. …quitting Twitter just won’t work. …quitting Twitter is something the liberal, social justice warrior, safe spacers would do.…

…What we have this morning is no longer the Venezuela story you thought you understood.

Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.

People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street.…

Wednesday morning, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, dismissed the remaining charge against former Gov. Rick Perry. …indicted in 2014 by a Travis County grand jury for abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant… The coercion charge had been tossed out by the Third Court of Appeals in Austin last year on First Amendment grounds, and this dismissal now puts the rest of the case to an end.… It’s a victory, but a bittersweet one, coming months after Perry suspended his presidential campaign. This has been a tough year for any candidate to get traction against Donald Trump, but pending criminal charges made it even more difficult for Perry…

…the main reason I'd discourage feeding cats "people food" is that there are a number of foods that are toxic to cats.…

A Krystal restaurant in Alabama has come under fire after it was alleged that its staff refused to service a local police officer.… …officer’s wife… posted about the incident to Facebook… post has gone viral with many people slamming the company…

A 14-year-old girl carrying two knives went on a stabbing rampage in a Toronto high school, wounding eight people. The alleged suspected perpetrator is now in custody. Victims were apparently selected at random, and no motive has been established, but the attacker reportedly wore a long black coat, and was known to change her first name frequently.

In other news, the Slovenian parliament has approved the use of army troops to supplement the border police and help protect the country’s borders.…

The Finnish movement “Soldiers of Odin” has spread to Norway, where a group by that name is now patrolling the streets to protect native Norwegians against immigrant violence.

In other Norwegian news, Prime Minister Erna Solberg warns that Norway will have to abandon international law if the political order in Sweden collapses. Any mass influx of refugees across the border from Sweden will cause Norway to withdraw from the Schengen Agreement and the Geneva Convention, and all migrants coming from Sweden will be deported without being allowed to apply for asylum.…

…No matter how careful I think I am entering data over the year, I always discover so many mistakes when it’s time to make the report for her. Sigh. Anyway, it’s round-up time…

… On this day in 1836 Samuel Colt was granted a patent for the Colt revolver. The ironic thing about that was he made a rifle first before his first revolver.…

…I think I do think twitter owes me something: a clear set of rules with even enforcement. Transparency would be a bonus (but I’m not going to get my hopes up).… Basically I’ll I’m asking from twitter is for the terms of the contract under which we operate. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so.…

…It’s only been a few weeks since Twitter announced it would ask a panel full of left-wing nutjobs to police their social media platform and shut down supposed “bullying…” I’ve started seeing people say that minor accounts were being banned… Breitbart’s @Nero lost his “verified” blue checkmark status… Stacy McCain… isn’t allowed anymore.… I guess it’s back to the only refuge from conservative free speech: email chainmails and tincans linked together through strings.…

…The TPP… is the bizarre, mostly-secret trade agreement which our current anti-capitalist president is ramming through. …we just want to focus on one seemingly teeny-tiny element which was recently changed (and which the Obama administration is no doubt hoping will fly under the radar). …in a nutshell the TPP will allegedly extend "copyright protection" for things like online content by allowing the government to bring charges against anyone suspected of copyright infringement even if the "copying" (like a simple link to a news story) does no harm to the copyright owner and, indeed, may even be encouraged by the copyright owner. …

Controversial Hollywood director Spike Lee…

Over the weekend, reports surfaced of recently unearthed Apollo 10 audio that picked up some strange sounds over the far side of the moon. The alien sounds were almost like music, according to sites covering the declassified recordings. It would be a great story if any of it was true. NASA quickly debunked every aspect of the reports in a Tumblr post Monday. As for the audio being new, they have been publicly available since 1973, according to the space agency.…

…Large denomination physical cash is going to be outlawed if central bankers have their way. The push toward a fully digitized monetary system─where every transaction will be recorded, scrutinized, controlled, and taxed─is being sold to the public as some miracle elixir to cure the world of criminal behavior.…

…Many who stand against the fight for religious freedom today do so in the name of “tolerance,” yet they boldly flaunt their intolerance for all ideas and all people they find intolerable. At every turn, we see them on our campuses, in our courts, and in our culture, masked in angry red faces, shouting: “You must agree with us! You must believe everything we believe! You must watch! You must celebrate! You must applaud!” No dissent is permitted. No diversity is allowed. Unquestioned and unchallenged power is their goal. As David Horowitz warned, these modern day Jacobins believe in little more than “the rule of the gang:” You must submit or you will be silenced.

The question we all face today is clear: do we want to be controlled by such ideological fascism or do we want to fight for intellectual freedom?…

…The news something was wrong came just days after Sally and Brandon Bailey found out they were expecting twins. “Paige was growing significantly more than Ella was,” Sally said. … The girls had something called 'Twin to Twin Transfusion Sequence.' “Vessels from twin A, if you will, are very close to vessels from twin B…” "It's one of those things where one day they can be perfectly fine and the next day, if you don't do surgery within hours, then they die,” Sally said.… The answer was a risky, in-utero surgery where doctors use a laser to seal off the vessels. …“Literally, people all over the world started praying over our girls and slowly things started getting better,” Sally said.…

Two suspects were fatally shot less than 24 hours apart last week while breaking into two separate homes in Tulsa.…

…On this day in 1917 U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter Hines Page, was given the Zimmermann Telegram. This telegram was instrumental in getting the US into WWI.…

[Trump tweets:] I hear the Rickets family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide.

…Trump said, “He will lie about anything. Now I’ve met much tougher people than Ted Cruz. He’s like a baby compared to some of the people I have to do. He’s like a little baby — soft, week little baby by comparison. But for lying he is the best I’ve ever seen. He’s the best.”…

This biker was on a routine ride to meet up with his father… Brandon Turnbow noticed a truck stopped on the side of the road and it’s driver beating a little, white and tan terrier-mix. He watched the man throw the dog into the air and drive off.…

…On this day in 1455 the Gutenberg Bible was published; the first book printed with movable type.…

…The Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) was passed in 1979 to protect artifacts and archaeological sites. The BLM is one agency that is responsible enforcing the this act. Despite this the BLM has destroyed animal habitats, acres of Biological Soil Crust, acres of timber, and hundreds of archaeological sites and artifacts under the guises of land management.…

Western states should legally permit immigrant communities to surgically “nick” young girls’ vaginas as an alternative to genital mutilation, a pair of US gynaecologists argued in a hotly-challenged paper Tuesday.…

Happy Birthday, President Washington! Although much has changed since your time, we still have free speech, which I’m celebrating today with this illustrated round-up (and many thanks to Caped Crusader and Earl Aagaard for their contributions)…

A Hindu priest in Bangladesh was attacked and beheaded in his home, which is also the Hindu temple. Two other victims were reportedly wounded. Although the group responsible for the attack is not known, officials are certain that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, 3,000 protesters gathered to protest the establishment of a refugee center near Kranja in Slovenia, fifteen miles north of the capital Ljubljana.…

A 12-year-old migrant boy in a Swedish asylum center was repeatedly raped by two full-grown men who had lied about their age — they said they were 15 — and were assigned to share a room with the unfortunate boy. Grown “refugee” men who pretend to be children are becoming increasingly common in Europe, since children get better benefits and are less likely to be deported than adult migrants.

In other news, the Italian birth rate in 2015 was the lowest annual rate that has been recorded since the unification of Italy in 1861.…

A suicide attack on a market in northeastern Cameroon killed nineteen people. A pair of female suicide bombers carried out the attack, which wounded an undetermined number of people. No group has claimed responsibility for the deed, but the Islamic activists of Boko Haram are the primary suspects.

In other news, the Greek government says that it wants other European countries to keep their borders open to migrants, or it will refuse to sign off to an accord designed to help keep Britain in the EU.…

On this day in 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty was made in which Spain agreed to sell Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars ($78M today) and the settlement of the boundary between the US and New Spain (Mexico). The $5M was not to be paid to Spain but was to be used to pay American citizens' legal claims against Spain.…

…Rubio and his campaign team have intensified and broadened their Alinskyite tactics, now focusing on the ultimate personal smear -- that Ted Cruz is a serial liar. Even in this, Rubio is not original. Of course, Donald Trump has been calling his opponents liars as an almost Tourette's-like response against anyone who reminds him of his past but recent support for leftists and leftist causes, some of whom and which he still embraces. But Rubio's smears are part of a more deliberative and unrelenting propaganda campaign. They are now at the core of his campaign effort to dislodge Cruz and clear the field against Trump. …

Iraqi authorities have recovered radioactive material that was stolen last November… near a gas station in the southern town of Zubair…

While orbiting the moon in 1969, the Apollo 10 team heard 'weird music'… on the far side of the moon… couldn't have come from Earth… Recordings… declassified in 2008… will be played on Science Channel's NASA's Unexplained Files this month…

A lock of John Lennon’s hair that was cut as he prepared for a movie role has sold at auction for $35,000.…

…On this day in 1885 the newly completed Washington Monument was dedicated.…

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There is no sense of normalcy in the world for me when a committed old communist and a reality TV star are the leading contenders in America’s upcoming presidential election. My round-up addresses some of the craziness, as well as lots of other stuff.…

…On this day in 1792 the Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, was signed by United States President George Washington.…

…The video below was released last night on Facebook by former Clinton Secretary of Labor and noted liberal Robert Reich.

Reich’s argument is that Cruz actually believes his conservatism. Reich is right on a big picture basis, even if he exaggerates or distorts a couple of Cruz’s positions. Trump, by contrast, is someone Reich feels will make deals and has no ideological foundation so while he’s a bully, there’s actually less to fear.

Basically, Reich is telling liberals to be afraid, very afraid of Ted Cruz.…

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Jurors at the trial of the third jihadi accused of helping plan an attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas were shown evidence Thursday found in the aftermath of the gunfire, including two ISIS flags.

Other items recovered from the scene of the May 3 attack in Garland, Texas, included three assault rifles, three pistols, bulletproof vests, a large supply of ammunition and a book titled, “Fortress of the Muslim.”

But the most significant piece of information to come out of the trial today was the name of the Texas hero who saved hundreds of lives: Garland Officer Gregory Stevens.…

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT filed a motion this morning asking a federal court to compel Apple to help the FBI hack into an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects.… Apple responded on Friday evening saying the FBI changed the password to Farook’s phone and then forgot it.… Apple could have recovered information from the iPhone had the iCloud password not been reset,…

…A reporter asked [Mark] Levin, “What do you make of Marco Rubio not being on the schedule?”

“This is a conservative convention. First he said he was coming. Then he didn’t come. So the voters can draw their own conclusions from that,” he answered.…

“Maybe he had a meeting with the Ripon society or something. Or LULAC [League of United Latin American Citizens], or La Raza.

“It was pretty damn rude of Rubio, quite frankly. It is up to him to do what he wants to do, but … we had several thousand people to hear what he wanted to say,…”

Sen. Marco Rubio canceled his scheduled appearance at the Conservative Review Conference in South Carolina five minutes before he was slated to go on stage.

Conservative Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) harshly criticized Rubio on his amnesty positions right before the Florida senator was supposed to go on stage.…

Rubio’s campaign offered an explanation. “FYI – Because of a delay in today’s schedule, Marco is unable to make the event below tonight.…

…The real reason the war on cash is gearing up now is political: Politicians and central bankers fear that holders of currency could undermine their brave new monetary world of negative interest rates.… Negative rates are a tax on deposits with banks, with the goal of prodding depositors to remove their cash and spend it to increase economic demand. But that goal will be undermined if citizens hoard cash. And hoarding cash is easier if you can take your deposits out in large-denomination bills you can stick in a safe.…

…After the uproar from pundits, religious leaders and Christians who believe in state borders, the Vatican tried desperately tried to clarify the pope’s remarks today. Rev. Federico Lombardi told Vatican radio on Friday the comments were “in no way a personal attack” on Donald Trump. … The remarks by Pope Francis were in response to a direct question on Donald Trump, were directed at Trump and were an attack on Donald Trump. This Vatican is not being honest.…

The discovery of yet another period of interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals is adding to the growing sense that sexual encounters among different ancient human species were commonplace throughout their history. …

…over the past several years, discoveries have begun to yield some tantalizing clues about the end of the Ediacaran. Evidence gathered from the Namibian reefs and other sites suggests that earlier theories were overly simplistic — that the Cambrian explosion actually emerged out of a complex interplay between small environmental changes that triggered major evolutionary developments.

Some scientists now think that a small, perhaps temporary, increase in oxygen suddenly crossed an ecological threshold, enabling the emergence of predators. The rise of carnivory would have set off an evolutionary arms race that led to the burst of complex body types and behaviours that fill the oceans today.…

But last year, a major study1 of ancient sea-floor sediments challenged that view.… oxygen could already have been abundant enough “for a long, long time before”.… The gradual emergence of predators, driven by a small rise in oxygen, would have meant trouble for Ediacaran animals that lacked obvious defences.…

Our legal team, the AFLC, has taken on the case of the Oklahoma gun range that was targeted in a jihad sting by designated terror group CAIR. On February 17, 2016, Raja’ee Fatihah, a board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Oklahoma, with the assistance of CAIR legal counsel and the ACLU, sued Chad (a disabled Iraqi war veteran) and Nicole Neal, the owners of the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gun Range, which is located in Oktaha, Oklahoma.…

…alleges that he was not permitted to use the Neal’s firing range because he was Muslim… But the facts will prove otherwise…

A car bomb that exploded in Ankara, killing 28 people, and a bomb that exploded at a Turkish cultural center in Stockholm (causing no injuries) may both be the work of Kurdish separatists, reacting to Turkey’s ongoing military offensive against the Kurds in both Turkey and Syria.

Meanwhile, European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has written to the Austrian interior minister, warning her that Austria’s decision to cap the number of migrants entering the country is forbidden under EU regulations and international law. …

… On this day in 1807 former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr was arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert. He was later acquitted…

Ted Cruz at the Conservative Review Convention, 2/18/2016. It shows a fantastic speech from the senator, and a fired up, conservative crowd. …

…The owner of a Columbus, Ohio restaurant targeted last week in a machete attack — which the FBI is investigating as terror — says he will be closing the store and moving back to Israel, local media is reporting.

Hany Baransi, who has operated stores in the Columbus area for years, including the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, is saying that he lives in fear after the attack…

The store reopened on Monday with many from the community crowding the restaurant and even some of the victims returning to show their support…

…South Korean officials warned that Kim Jong Un asked his military officials and intelligence agents to boost preparations for launching terror attacks in South Korea…

Pope Francis attacked Republican front-runner Donald Trump Thursday as “not a Christian.” "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian.…"

Trump’s response: "…really not a nice thing to say. If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president…"

Ben Carson joined Sen. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush in defending Trump…

…It is intricately made with polished green stone and is thought to have adorned a very important woman or child on only special occasions. Yet this is no modern-day fashion accessory and is instead believed to be the oldest stone bracelet in the world, dating to as long ago as 40,000 years.

Unearthed in the Altai region of Siberia in 2008, after detailed analysis Russian experts now accept its remarkable age as correct.

New pictures show this ancient piece of jewellery in its full glory with scientists concluding it was made by our prehistoric human ancestors, the Denisovans, and shows them to have been far more advanced than ever realised.…

…Denisovans… were known as homo altaiensis, an extinct species of humans genetically distinct from Neanderthals and modern humans… not clear yet how the Denisovans could have made the bracelet with such skill.…

Denisovans… dated back as early as 600,000 years ago…

I was going to apologize for a small round-up, only to realize that, thanks in large part to Caped Crusader, I have a wonderful collection of cartoons and political posters …

Donald Trump says that his pledge to the Republican Party not to run as anything but a Republican is now null and void, given the RNC’s packing of debate audiences with Republican donors and other party favorites. This announcement appears to clear the way for Mr. Trump to run as an independent.

In other news, a man has been arrested in Scotland for posting insulting messages on Facebook about Syrian refugees being resettled on the Scottish island of Bute.…

…Two days after Donald Trump claimed that he “lost hundreds of friends” at the World Trade Center as a result of the 9/11 attack, his campaign continued to ignore a Daily Beast request that he name even one.

With silence comes the possibility that Trump told the most reprehensible lie of the campaign, just a few breaths from when he called both Sen. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush liars.…

Iraq is searching for "highly dangerous" radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State.

The material, stored in a protective case the size of a laptop computer, went missing in November from a storage facility near the southern city of Basra belonging to U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford…

Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens wounded in Turkey's capital Ankara on Wednesday when a car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and other government buildings. …

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the shootings of at least eight vehicles, including six Walmart trucks, on an Oklahoma highway… the teens were questioned and arrested after a man told authorities his son and a friend has been out hunting during the time some of the shots were reported…

Two previously unseen poems by The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien have been discovered in a school magazine in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. …Tolkien is believed to have written the poems while he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon as Oxford University. Published in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire… first poem…is an early version of a poem Tolkien would late publish as part of the 1962 collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. …second poem, “Noel,” is a Christmas poem full of fantasy imagery.…

For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. …55 Cancri e is revealed to have a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapour. …consists mainly of hydrogen and helium.…

Pope Francis stepped back from a crowd during a handshaking event and scolded them for touching him and pulling his sleeves.

The Pope, who was visiting the town of Morelia, Mexico, looks visibly upset in the video shown below as he tells the crowd in Spanish, “Don’t be selfish. Don’t be selfish.” …

Just as President Barack Obama is planning to send Congress his plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison this year, leaders of the military say it will not transfer any detainees to the U.S., unless the law prohibiting such transfers is changed.

Lt. General William Mayville Jr., the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said as much in a letter to Congress last week…

Why Americans Detest Politicians…

Two more suspects in the Paris terror massacres have been identified as having passed through Greece into Europe with the migrants. The two are “Frenchmen” of Algerian and Pakistani origin, and posed as Syrian refugees when they entered Greece using stolen Syrian passports provided by the Islamic State.

In other news, Austria has decided to set up border controls at twelve crossings on its southern border with Italy.…

…At a campaign event in Bluffton, South Carolina Wednesday morning, Trump was slamming the George W. Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq when he casually mentioned that there are “secret papers” that might show that “the Saudis” were actually responsible for the attacks on 9/11…

Washington County Sheriff's deputies received more reports of Walmart trucks hit by bullets late Monday on Highway 75.

Undersheriff Steve Johnson says several trucks arrived at the Walmart distribution center near Ochelata early Tuesday with bullet holes.

He says they are working with the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, but it appears the trucks were struck by bullets as they headed north on Highway 75 between 106th Street North and Highway 20 in Tulsa County.… A Walmart spokesperson said the company doesn’t believe their trucks were targeted because a passenger car and a Swift trucking rig were also struck.

In total, 13 bullets hit five vehicles Sunday night.…

Indiana State House and Senate leadership was remarkably effective at protecting the status quo this year. They killed 11 bills that would have blocked unconstitutional power without so much as a debate or a vote, and gutted another promising bill by changing its intent to something completely different than originally introduced.…

You just have to love the Duke of Wellington… "so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains…"

…Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a “fool…” for believing in human equality…for believing in parents’ rights… for believing in God… for believing in the meaning of words… for believing in human freedom… for believing in marriage… Antonin Scalia was an obedient, humble, and “foolish” follower of Christ.…

It’s hard to believe, but five years have passed since the bluebird of bitterness was hatched.…

Monsignor Georges Abou Khazen, the Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo, says that the “moderate” Syrian “rebels” supported by the United States and the EU have been bombarding civilians and committing other atrocities in their pushback against the Assad regime in Syria. He maintains that there is no significant difference between these groups and the Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front.

In other news, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says that Greece has failed in its duty to intercept migrants arriving in the Schengen area, and that another line of defense is necessary in Macedonia and Bulgaria along their respective borders with Greece.…

…Donald retweeted this: … Dan Scavino "He [Cruz] is, without a doubt, one of the most dishonest people in DC." -Tom Coburn.

…Coburn went ballistic, calling the quote an “absolute fabrication.…”

Scavino is the “social media” director for Donald Trump.…

Hundreds came to see Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Republican candidate for President of the United States, as he unveiled his national defense strategy aboard the USS Yorktown Tuesday morning. … “Rebuild our military so it will be feared by our enemies and trusted by our allies,” he said. He highlighted Ronald Reagan’s philosophy of peace through strength. “When your adversaries understand your strength, suddenly their appetite for conflict diminishes markedly…”

…The vacancy created on the Supreme Court makes painfully clear the huge stakes involved when we choose a President of the United States… we can only make our choices among those actually available, and Senator Cruz is the one who comes to mind when depth and steadfastness come to mind.…

…He said that he is only willing to reopen his restaurant once his staff assures him that they are ready. “Even though I am hurting financially badly, if this time is needed for the well-being of my employees, I am okay with that,” he stressed. “God will provide for us.”

When asked whether he would consider removing the Israeli flag seen from his restaurant’s entryway as a precaution, Baransi swiftly rejected the idea.

“Actually I have another flag, and I am going to get a bigger flag, and I am going to get a Star of David necklace and put it on my chest, and I am going to get a tattoo,” he declared. “Honest to God, I am not kidding. They don’t scare me. We are Israelis. We are Israelis. We are resilient, we fight back.”

“We are used to these bastards,” he added. “We are used to these kinds of attacks, that they hate us just for what we are. They don’t know us, they don’t know anything about us, and they do that. You know, I don’t care if I was an Arab or not, because I am an Israeli, and if you don’t like Israelis you don’t like me.”…

…Crucifixion is the most painful death ever invented by man and is where we get our term “excruciating.” …

Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the EDL and one of the current leaders of PEGIDA UK, was attacked and knocked unconscious in Luton. He is currently recovering, and is said to be “OK”. No further details are available at this point.

In other news, according to an analysis of 29 separate studies, there is a pay gap between lesbians and heterosexual women, with the latter earning significantly less than the former for the same type of job.…

…As a congresswoman in 2012, Bachmann heroically sounded the alarm regarding Shrillary’s sinister sidekick’s multiple connections to the fountainhead of all Islamic terror organizations, the Muslim Brotherhood. Bachmann was sanctimoniously shouted down by a RINO eager to make a pageant of his preference for political correctness over national security, namely the insufferable John McCain — with support from Lindsey Graham, John Boehner, and alarmingly, Marco Rubio. …

…Trump’s for-gainst it pivot on Iraq from 2000 to 2004 is a 180° performed very much like those of many prominent Democrats during that period…

Trump: “[Ted Cruz is] a liar… Now, he’ll apologize. But I don’t want the apology after the election. I want it before. And if he doesn’t I am going to bring a lawsuit because in my opinion based on what I’ve learned over the last few days from very top lawyers. He doesn’t even have the right to serve as president or even run as president. He was born in Canada."

• Venerable feminist icons want to guilt women into voting for Hillary Clinton.
• Bernie’s Adventures on a Stalinist Kibbutz

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz says that as soon as Austria has admitted its quota of 37,000 “refugees”, Macedonia must close its borders to any further migrants. Austria will send troops to FYROM to facilitate this process.

In other news, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warns that Europe must be prepared for future mass-scale Islamic terror attacks, which he says are a certainty.…

A Somali immigrant named Mohamed Barry entered a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio and began slashing at patrons with a machete, wounding four of them, one of them critically. He reportedly thought the restaurant was Jewish-owned, when it was in fact owned by an Israeli Arab Christian. After being vigorously resisted by customers and staff, the assailant fled. When he was stopped by police shortly afterwards, he lunged at the officers with a knife and a machete, and was shot to death. The incident had a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

In other news, three Pakistani “refugees” were arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old male compatriot at an asylum shelter where they all resided in Vicenza, Italy. …

During the trial of a culture-enricher in Hannover, Germany, a court heard that the alleged perpetrator cried “Allahu akhbar!” as he brutally raped a 25-year-old student. In possibly unrelated news, a culture-enriching prisoner cried “Allahu akhbar!” as he attacked a guard with the metal seat of a stool in a prison in Washington State. The guard suffered brain damage, and is still recovering from his injuries.

In other news, the precipitous drop in stock market prices has driven investors to buy precious metals. The prices of gold and silver are seeing a sudden increase as a result.…

Last night, Trump really went after Jeb Bush by absolutely bashing George W. Bush and his decision to go into the Iraq War. He started screeching, “they LIED!!” like a Code Pink protester… It’s pretty amazing how quickly el Trumpo can change his mind in the span of just 12 hours. And what’s more incredible – it’s with the SAME guy asking the EXACT same question!!! …

…Trump is not just a liberal posing as a Republican. He is a moonbat posing as an American.

While Bush 43 was taking the fight to the terrorists and American troops were in harm’s way, the Donald was yelping about impeachment. When the Tea Party reached full steam, he was praising Obama and denouncing America for being racist. Now he’s back to echoing Michael Moore propaganda regarding the Iraq War and 9/11.

Anyone with right-of-center politics who supports Donald Trump has been duped. The guy is a talented salesman. But now the mask is off, so there is no excuse not to acknowledge the mistake.…

[Oklahoma] Sens. Jim Inhofe and James Lankford introduced legislation Friday to give regional Veterans Affairs networks more authority to remove top hospital staff members. just days after the chief of staff at the VA hospital in Muskogee was removed by VA headquarters… after a review by the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Veterans Integrated Services Network. …Inhofe said he trusts the Rocky Mountain service network, which includes Oklahoma, and wants the regional networks to take action without needing headquarters approval.…

… an IDF lookout position spotted two Palestinians hurling rocks near the security fence north of Jenin, near Arake village. A unit deployed to the area came under fire. It crossed the security fence to the Palestinian side and fired on two terrorists, one armed with an automatic rifle and the second with a knife, army sources said. Both terrorists were shot dead in the incident.…

…two Baton Rouge [LA] Police Officers were shot early Saturday morning… one of the officers was responding to a disturbance call about a damage to property disturbance… officer and the suspect, identified by his Godsister as 22- year-old Calvin Smith, got into a verbal exchange before the suspect fled the scene… During the chase, a second officer arrived… chase ended in front of [perp's] residence… where [he] exited the vehicle and fired several shots at the officers using a large caliber semi-automatic assault rifle. …Both of the officers received gunshot wounds during the shooting but managed to return fire hitting the suspect.…one officer received a gunshot wound to the ribs… listed in stable condition. …second officer received a graze wound to the back of the head and is also listed in stable condition. …[Perp] was taken to a nearby hospital where he is listed in critical condition. …has a history of mental illness and had been staying in a mental health facility in Shreveport until a week before Christmas. …attempted to commit suicide in the past.…

A Harford County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed inside an Abingdon, Maryland, Panera Bread restaurant on February 10 … a gun-free zone. … A second deputy was then shot and killed in a related shootout at a secondary location. …

With all of the bizarre rabid hatred for Ted Cruz, one would think that his sworn enemies would be able to find something bad about him that was actually true. In the latest anti-Ted smear piece at the Conservative Treehouse, a video featured by our friend “sundance” lies, lies, lies about Ted Cruz.… taking Ted Cruz’s words out of context and presenting them as flip flops. … Ted Cruz’s consistent statements into inconsistent statements. …

There are a lot of homages on Twitter from people who knew him well, but one of the best ones is from someone I trust to be honest about this story. It’s very short, but I think it sums up the character of Antonin Scalia. …

…He told a story about a small dinner he attended in England. His hosts raised their classes and said “God save the queen.”

He asked his hosts what the equivalent statement would be in the United States. They responded, “God save the President.”

Justice Scalia said, “no, God save the Constitution.…”

Some of Justice Antonin Scalia’s decisions I agreed with and some I disagreed with. But I’ve never once doubted the sincerity of his beliefs.

Now that he is gone from this earth, I can tell a story I’ve held inside for many years, a scene that touched me deeply and profoundly. I cannot think of him without remembering this moment.…

…Antonin Scalia was one of the most consequential justices on the Supreme Court in at least a generation, not for what he did necessarily but for standing up for and not abrogating his pledge to the Constitution; something that tragically too many of his colleagues at all levels of the Judiciary have not. … If Mitch McConnell allows President Obama to pick a justice to fill the vacancy, he will doubtless choose a fellow ideological traveler who will trash the Constitution or twist it for political expediency to legislate from the bench…

…When I saw the news my stomach dropped. This is not only a tragedy for his family and friends, it is a tragic loss for our country.

This nation is balancing on a slender thread of Liberty. And one of our fiercest defenders is lost. When a warrior falls while holding the line, it is up to us to ensure that the line holds.

It shouldn’t be this way. The fate of our great nation should not be at risk from the death of one man. But this is the sad fact. If we lose the Supreme Court, the damage to our Republic may be irreparable.…

We have lost a great man and a great Justice.…

…Sen. Ted Cruz… following the tragic death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, pledged to honor his name by asking his followers to help prevent Barack Obama from nominating his replacement to the nation’s highest court.

Justice Scalia, one of the court’s most steady Constitutional voices for decades, passed away at his West Texas ranch on Saturday. The 79-year-old died of natural causes, according to reports. …

When Leonard Nimoy died, he hadn’t spoken to William Shatner in five years. Nimoy shut him out after Shatner filmed him without permission for a documentary he was making about the captains of the Starship Enterprise.

“I thought he was kidding;” Shatner writes in his new book, “Leonard.” “It was such a small thing.…”

Thursday night, Mohammad Barry injured four at an Israeli-owned restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. According to witnesses, Barry began stabbing patrons with a machete, going booth by booth.

Barry fled the scene but police were able to locate him. When Barry lunged at police wielding a knife and machete, police opened fire, killing him.

The FBI is now investigating, but they’re not saying why. No reports indicate whether or not the counterterrorism unit is involved. …

…teen thief… Brooklyn… charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon in the Craigslist robbery gone wrong. …pulled out a gun… allegedly stole the Jordan Retro 8 sneakers and walked away. …managed to make it only about 100 yards with the shoes when the driver made a U-turn, stepped on the gas… teenager was pinned against the fence and his right arm was severed "completely…" robbery victim… charged… with attempted murder.…

Not only didn’t a car thief in Milwaukee make off with a stolen vehicle, he ended up losing his pants when he picked the wrong dude to mess with. Oh, and he also got knocked out cold, embarrassed on social media, and arrested for his efforts. …

Vic: No news this morning. Slept too late.

It’s so nice to have Caped Crusader back. I found a few of these wonderful political cartoons and social commentaries on my own, but most are from him…

Hillary Clinton is a reprehensible human being. …After watching, and re-watching, the footage of her disgraceful and incredibly dishonest debate performance wherein, when questioned about classified information on her private email server, she replied, “We’ve got this absurd situation of retroactive classification,” I thought, “Is this a sick joke?” …I’m embarrassed to have supported her protective detail as a young Secret Service agent during her New York Senate run. …

In four days, five officers were killed in the line of duty in shootings around the country, more than doubling the number of officers who have died by gunfire so far this year…

Venezuela’s opposition legislature has declared a “nutritional emergency,” proclaiming that the country simply does not have enough food to feed its population. The move comes after years of socialist rationing and shortages that forced millions to wait on lines lasting as long as six hours for a pint of milk, a bag of flour, or carton of cooking oil.…

Sometime before his death in a US drone strike in June 2015, Nasir al Wuhayshi recorded an insider’s account of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. As the aide-de-camp to Osama bin Laden prior to the hijackings, Wuhayshi was well-placed to know such details. And al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Wuhayshi led until his demise, has now published a version of his “untold story.”…

Communist sympathizer Jane Fonda.…

The Independent newspaper, a standard bearer for Britain’s left-wing media establishment for 29 years, has announced that it will close its print section and go “online only” from March 2016.…

Legislation permanently banning taxes on Internet services is headed for President Obama’s desk.

The Senate voted 75-20 Thursday afternoon to approve a conference bill on customs and border policy that includes the ban, the last step needed before it is signed by the president.…

…The researchers said they detected gravitational waves coming from two black holes – extraordinarily dense objects whose existence also was foreseen by Einstein – that orbited one another, spiraled inward and smashed together. They said the waves were the product of a collision between two black holes 30 times as massive as the Sun, located 1.3 billion light years from Earth.…

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore has announced he’s dropping out of the presidential race, after being the only candidate not to make the cut for Saturday’s GOP debate.…

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is set to lead a pro-Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) super Political Action Committee (PAC) called “Keep the Promise to Veterans.”

Perry will recruit veterans to the Super PAC, which will help bring attention to the issues affecting veterans in America.…

…Though I am certain there are people who support Donald Trump who know how to behave like civilized human beings, they seem to be lost in the cacophony of Trump’s more ardent fans.

Not since Barack Obama ran for President in 2008 have I witnessed such vitriol targeting those who oppose a chosen candidate.…

Four years ago, James O’Keefe released a video which showed how easy it would be for people to vote in New Hampshire using the names of deceased people. As a result of that video, New Hampshire changed its voter ID laws. Project Veritas Action revisited New Hampshire during Tuesday’s presidential primary election and again showed how easy it is to cast fraudulent votes with the new law fully in place. In this new video, multiple election officials and Bernie Sanders presidential campaign staffers offered advice to journalists using hidden cameras about how to circumvent the law.
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As this election year’s craziness continues, I keep trying to keep myself from getting upset. My mantra is that I should save my energies for things I can change, either directly or through my own small contributions. For everything else, I need to relax and watch the passing spectacle. That’s what this post is all about.…

ABINGDON, Md. (AP) — A gunman fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy inside a crowded restaurant at lunchtime Wednesday and killed another deputy in a shootout nearby, authorities and witnesses said.

The suspect was killed in the shootout …

Cruise Ship Line Prepares To Build and Launch Titanic ll

Doctors have found the Zika virus in placentas of two U.S. women who contracted the virus. They suffered miscarriages after they returned to the states.… occurred in the early stages of the pregnancy…

On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel transferred the rights to the character to Warner Bros. in 2001.…

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said of the profanity his rival Donald Trump uses on the campaign trail, “You don’t want kids hearing this stuff.”…

… On this day in 1812 Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymandered" for the first time. …

The French are raiding mosques and not liking what they are finding: hundreds of war-grade weapons and large quantities of Kalashnikov ammunition.

French interior minister Cazeneuve reported, "In 15 days we have seized one third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year." "…between 100 and 160 mosques will be closed.” …In addition, 2,235 Muslim businesses and homes have been searched. There have been 232 arrests…

The name of Jesus is not welcome in the Johnson Space Center newsletter, according to a complaint filed on behalf of a group of Christians who work for NASA.

The JSC Praise & Worship Club was directed by NASA attorneys to refrain from using the name ‘Jesus’ in club announcements that appeared in a Space Center newsletter.…

Police are crediting a vigilant gun owner with saving the life of an Upper Darby [PA] cop Friday after he saw the officer being attacked and surrounded by a large group of teens.

"There were 40 kids. If it wasn't for the good Samaritan stepping forward, he'd have been dead meat," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. "There's no doubt they would have attacked him."… "He had the gun in his hand, but he didn't point it at the kids, he just told them to back off"… kept the group of teens at bay until responding officers arrived…

…Professor Eleanor Dickey travelled around Europe to view the scraps of material that remain from ancient Latin school textbooks, or colloquia, which would have been used by young Greek speakers in the Roman empire learning Latin between the second and sixth centuries AD. The manuscripts, which Dickey has brought together and translated into English for the first time in her forthcoming book Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks in the Ancient World, lay out everyday scenarios to help their readers get to grips with life in Latin. Subjects range from visiting the public baths to arriving at school late – and dealing with a sozzled close relative.…

…Mars video
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Want to know what life is like on Mars? NASA has released an incredible 360-degree video that lets you scroll around the red planet’s surface.

The video, which was taken by a camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover, was posted to YouTube Monday by the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Related: NASA’s ‘flying saucer’ in pictures

“This view of the downwind face of ‘Namib Dune’ on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon,” explained the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The site is part of the dark-sand ‘Bagnold Dunes’ field along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.”…

A “water man” at a Pakistani high school has been fired after it was discovered that he was a Christian. His job was to bring water to students, who are Muslims, and his religious affiliation was seen as making the water unclean.

In other news, bomb threats have been made against eight Jewish schools in various parts of the UK.…

All of the posts I’ll link to pre-date today’s New Hampshire primary. This is a NH primary-free zone. You might find it refreshing. And now, to the good stuff: …

…“I have both won elections that I was supposed to lose and I’ve lost elections I was supposed to win and what that means is you never know what will happen,” Christie said in a statement. “That is both the magic and the mystery of politics – you never quite know when which is going to happen, even when you think you do.”…

…“While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them,” Fiorina said in a statement announcing her campaign suspension.…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a bar. Donald leans over, and with a smile on his face, says, “The media are really tearing you apart for that scandal.”
Hillary: “You mean my lying about Benghazi?” …

On February 21, the Houston Chronicle claimed the passage of Campus Carry in Texas could hurt education at colleges and universities and quoted M.D. Anderson’s Julie Penne saying it could hurt “cancer research” as well.…

If you seek to understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches. But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the media’s summary of them. When you do, you realize how often what Obama says is morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.

The most recent example was his speech last week at a mosque in Baltimore. In addition to reassuring Muslim Americans that they are as American as Americans of every other faith — – a point that any president, Republican or Democrat, would and should make – President Obama spoke a lot of nonsense, some of it dangerous.…

• Blue space rock slammed into the ground at college in south India
• Bus driver, 40, injured by flying debris, and died on his way to hospital
• Scientists examined stone and crater, but have yet to determine origin
• Could be from outer space, a passing airplane or man-made satellite…

After the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) sent out a series of angry tweets during the Super Bowl, attacking with special animus a Doritos commercial for “humanizing the fetus,” the abortion group received a taste of its own medicine as a flurry of tweets on the group’s own account taunted NARAL while defending Frito-Lay.… “Humanizing”? Is it a lobster?…

The largest Islamic school in Australia may end up closing after losing its $20 million state subsidy. The government withdrew the school’s funding after it failed to disclose exactly what it used the money for, which is required by law.

In other news, during last year’s terror attack in Copenhagen, the Islamic terrorist had a Koran with him at the time of the murders, bookmarked to a chapter on how to deal with infidels. There’s no word on why the Danish police took almost a year to reveal this information. …

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/7/2016In Austria, the Interior Ministry official responsible for Immigration Police, Crisis Management and Civil Protection wrote a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Vice President Kristalina Georgieva insisting that the EC pay member states’ expenses associated with housing migrants. Part of the letter was published in the Austrian daily Kurier.

In other news, a Pentecostal Christian pastor in India was arrested on charges of practicing black magic.…

…I'm sorry, no news this morning.…

…We’re going to have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire, that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire. And, you can tell them to go (blank) themselves.

Trump never used the word f*ck in this speech.…

…Trump: She just said a terrible thing. You know what she said? Shout it out because I don’t want to…

Crowd member: Pussy!

Trump: I never expect to hear that from you again. She said – I never expect to hear that from you again – She said he’s a p*ssy. (crowd roars) That’s terrible terrible. That’s terrible!…

A Chicago teenager has been arrested and accused of torturing an animal after he posted a video on Facebook showing him allegedly pouring boiling water on a cat.… “His fur is singed and he has burns on him… He’s got scabbing, but he’s very friendly and he’s in great spirits.”…

A drunk Wisconsin couple was caught by police allegedly allowing the woman’s nine-year-old daughter to drive them home in their pickup truck to avoid getting stopped for drunk driving. …

…After leaving my 15 year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack.… Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.…

… @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses … -NARAL

…On this day in 1865 Delaware voters rejected the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,…

… Cruz was hit from all sides when a staffer used a CNN report that Dr Carson might leave the race.

Cruz did not pull a Hillary, claiming ignorance while throwing the staffer under the bus. Cruz took full responsibility and apologized. Do not take Cruz’s apology lightly folks. …

…Stumping for his wife in New Hampshire, serial sexual harasser and accused rapist William Jefferson Clinton is attacking Bernie Sanders’ supporters for being sexist.…

…Cruz's team explicitly cited CNN's reporting in its emails. Carson himself has sent emails blaming CNN. Cruz correctly pointed out what happened on CNN, as you can see from the transcript above. And while CNN reporters tweeted that Carson wasn’t dropping out, as did Carson staffers, CNN did not report on air that Carson was staying in the race until later in the evening.…

…If Carson wants to talk about the depths of deception and dishonesty he should “start looking at the man in the mirror.”…

…The celebrity admitted laughingly to having “a fling” with her at the time and acknowledged her election “would be a great advancement for LGBT and Women rights in America” she added.

…To strengthen national security, enhance the value of citizenship, and stop illegal immigration, we must take three steps:

• First, secure the border, once and for all. No other reform is meaningful if we do not fix our porous southern border.

• Second, strengthen and enforce our existing immigration laws. We must reverse President Obama’s enforcement “priorities,” which allow a large number of criminal aliens to unlawfully remain in the United States.

• Third, pursue reforms to the legal-immigration system that will prioritize the interests and well-being of Americans. As a nation built by those fleeing persecution and seeking freedom, we must once against welcome and celebrate legal immigrants while at the same time protecting American jobs and interests.

The following outlines my plan to stop illegal immigration, restore the Rule of Law, and reform our legal immigration system to protect Americans.…

…In 1963, when Sanders traveled to Israel to work on a kibbutz there were scores of American Jewish students who also volunteered. So it is rather strange that Sanders has consistently refused to tell the press about his time there and the kibbutz he worked on. When asked, he and his campaign dodged the issue.

Why would Sanders not answer such a simple question?…

Keane Schwarz is certain he knows the outcome of the vote in his precinct: He was the lone caucusgoer in Woodbury County No. 43. But the Iowa Democratic Party’s final results state that Hillary Clinton won one county delegate and Bernie Sanders received zero. …“It was really suspicious … I’m actually pretty irate about it.”…

…Donald Trump’s Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller… served as the communications director for the man who organized opposition to the bill, Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Miller recalled how throughout the Gang of Eight push, Sen. Rubio “directly deceived” immigration law enforcement and the American people.…

Dan Hicks, a longtime Bay Area music figure and the lead singer of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, passed away Saturday following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 74. Hicks' wife CT confirmed the singer-songwriter's death on his official website. "He was true blue, one of a kind, and did it all his own way always," she wrote. "To all who loved him, know that he will live forever in the words, songs, and art that he spent his life creating. He worked so hard on each and every detail – they are all pure Dan."…

Hillary Clinton supporters are asked to sign a petition to approve of “her choice” of Communist Karl Marx to be her vice president if she’s elected President of the United States. Are Hillary fans so out of touch with reality?…

…On this day in 1935 the board game Monopoly was invented.…

When I view the three top Republican candidates for president through the lens of my job as a professional trainer, it's easy to pick up the pander.…

Hillary ‘100 Percent Confident’ That FBI Email Probe Will Fizzle…

I’ve been collecting some great posters and cartoons. This utterly insane political season certainly provides inspiration for the cynic and the comic:…

…On this day in 1778 France officially recognized the United States as a separate country.…

…Favored intellectual journal of American feminists, Cosmo (the same rag that started the tampon tax nonsense) bemoaned increased birth rates in their latest exposé.

They argue that restricted funding to Texas-based Planned Parenthoods “effectively defunded” the abortion mill. As a result, few claims for contraceptive measure have been filed and more babies have been born in locals where Planned Parenthood is no more.

MORE BABIES?! THE HORROR!…

In Derry, New Hampshire last night, Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was introduced by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), two South Carolina congressional Republicans who have endorsed him.…

…Trump is not a conservative. …Trump is a pragmatist. …Viewing problems from a liberal perspective has resulted in the creation of more problems… Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought continued spending, globalism to the detriment of American interests and well-being …

…So, two days ago, Donald Trump was sputtering with rage over Ted Cruz allegedly stealing the Iowa election. He was threatening to sue. He was demanding that the Iowa caucus be redone. He was howling like a wounded beagle.

And now?

He’s always liked Ted Cruz and hasn’t ruled him out as his Vice Presidential pick.

But what about his outrage over Iowa?…

“I don’t care about that anymore.”…in my day we called it bipolar this sudden shift from manic to calm. They make movies about crazies like this…

Republican Senator Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is responding to Donald Trump, who has accused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of not having friends in the U.S. Senate…

According to the Washington Examiner:

“It makes me mad when Trump says that… Ted Cruz is my friend, so if Mr. Trump or anyone else is saying Ted Cruz doesn’t have any friends in the Senate, I can say unequivocally, that is not true. I am his friend and I don’t regard myself as alone in that either.”…

…According to Buzzfeed, the latest, radical alteration to Twitter’s user experience could come as early as next week, although the online outlet did not confirm whether the new system would be mandatory.

The news has led to the greatest backlash from Twitter’s userbase this year. #RIPTwitter has been trending internationally all day, with close to a million tweets on the hashtag. Celebrities and users from across the political spectrum are adding their voices to the online protest, and a change.org petition urging Twtter to change course is quickly gathering steam. Troublingly for Twitter, it doesn’t look like the controversy will fade anytime soon.…

Jack Elrod Jr., a Gainesville native who spent 64 years working on the nationally syndicated outdoor comic “Mark Trail,” died Wednesday. He was 91.

Elrod began his time with the comic strip alongside its creator, fellow Gainesville native Ed Dodd, in 1950 and took over the strip in 1978 before retiring in 2014. He also won numerous conservation awards from agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Dodd began the comic in 1946.…

Amidst the controversy over the possible link between the Zika virus and microcephaly in unborn babies, El Salvador’s Ministry of Health reported this week that 13 women infected with the disease had given birth to healthy babies with no signs of microcephaly. …

Muslim scum that were ordered out of Norway, for being scum, settled in Russia. They decided to go to a club and molest the native Russian women. The Russian men didn’t go quietly into the dhimmi night, like the fruitcake men in Cologne. The Russians beat the shit out of the Muslims.…

Media outlets in Venezuela are reporting that at least eleven patients nationwide have died of Guillain-Barré syndrome, though the government’s Health Ministry has yet to report any of the cases, and most appear linked to the Zika virus pandemic ravaging Latin America.… “Delaying treatment can result in profound neurologic damage including paralysis of the face, arms and legs, loss of sensation in the extremities and respiratory failure requiring intubation and admission to an intensive care unit for a prolonged period (weeks to months)…”

The appearance of the Zika virus in Mexico has kept Mexican health officials on alert after the country has seen more than 34 cases in recent weeks. In the border city of Reynosa, authorities have confirmed one case.… So far the cases that have been reported in Mexico are linked to the “importation” of the virus by people who were infected in Central and South America.…

… A primer for those who need to be reminded why Hillary should be incarcerated, not inaugurated. …One of the things I like about Ted Cruz is the long list of people who hate him… Another one for the “gun’s save lives” category…

…3 Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on …At the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, border police approached the three Muslim Arabs - two of them them twenty-years-old and one of them twenty-one-years old - with suspicion. After asking them for identification cards, the Muslim Arabs attacked - one of them opened fire, and another used a knife - wounding two female border police officers. One victim is listed as being in critical condition [who later died], the other is in serious condition.…

…What they discovered was that celebrities who had bored or annoyed looks were showing underlying levels of emotions that are not seen in people who don't have RBF.…

…The airliner that landed yesterday in Somalia with a big hole in the side was, in fact, attacked by a bomb. …one person was sucked out through the hole in the plane. …the Islamic terror bomber himself, who authorities believe was Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh. …Aside from the bomber, only two other people were injured and on one else was killed.…

A top Border Patrol agent revealed Thursday that if border agents follow the law and ask illegal aliens why they are coming to the U.S. they will be terminated. …

The tens of thousands of illegal immigrants Border Patrol intercepts each month is a fraction of the overall traffic crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the president of a union representing Border Patrol agents.

“A safe estimate from the Border Patrol agents would be that we arrest about 40 percent of what actually crosses”…

A government report leaked to the French newspaper Le Figaro says that more than 8,000 “French” Muslims have been radicalized and now support violent extremism. Hundreds of those are thought to have left France to join the jihad in Syria.

In other news, the High Court in Australia has ruled that the policy of detaining illegal immigrants in offshore migration centers does not violate the country’s constitution.…

According to Swedish state radio, around forty children have left Sweden with their parents and traveled to Syria to live in the Islamic State. Dozens of “Swedes” who joined the jihad took their wives and children with them when they made hijra to the Caliphate.

In other news, the European Central Bank is considering abolishing the €500 note, whose high value and portability is thought to facilitate corruption, organized crime, and the financing of terrorism.…

…On this day in 1789 George Washington was elected the First President of the United States under the new Constitution.…

…Judge Napolitano… on whether Trump’s claim that he has a legal case against Ted Cruz for fraud… “There’s no legal basis for that – he’s making a political observation.”…

…“I think I would choose Trump (over Cruz), which may surprise some of you,” he said.

“The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable. I don’t think he has any fixed (positions) he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far right wing policies he’d pursue if he became president,” Carter concluded.…

TEL AVIV – Three terrorists armed with a rifle, knives and an explosive device perpetuated a combined shooting and stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances leading into the Old City.

Two female Border Guards and a civilian were wounded in the attack. One of the guards, identified as Hadar Cohen, 19, was critically wounded and later died from her injuries. The second guard, a 20-year-old, was seriously wounded.…

…Senate Joint Resolution 26, was authored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The official purpose of the bill is to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State. However, its vague language would give Obama sweeping new controls of the U.S. military and de facto martial law powers, the very power that give authority to the chief executive to suspend elections in a time of crisis.…

I… created my own website called “I Don’t Like Bernie, Because….” The following is my first post at the new website:

Isn’t Bernie a socialist? Why, yes he is…

Nearly four decades after a Cobb County store manager was shot to death, the man who killed him has been executed.

Brandon Astor Jones, 72, became the oldest man to be put to death by the state of Georgia.…

Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday…

U.S. Sen. James Lankford wants to phase out federal renewable energy production tax credits by 2031, making 2019 the last year to apply for a credit. The Oklahoma Republican offered an amendment to the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016 on the Senate floor Wednesday.…

On a tree in what's now Burma some 99 million years ago, a cousin of today's daddy longlegs… blossomed into full manhood, sporting a penis that grew to nearly half of his body length when erect.… died fully aroused, his tree-side tryst interrupted by oozing resin that entombed his body in what's now a lump of amber.…

Stan and Lois, both in their eighties, were becoming more and more forgetful. On the advice of their doctor, they began carrying small notebooks and pencils with them so they could write down things they wanted to remember.…

The world’s fattest man may have been done in by his love for energy drinks, his doctor said Tuesday. Andres Moreno, who weighed 980 pounds at his heaviest, suffered a fatal heart attack on Christmas Day…

Americans spent more on legal weed than on Cheetos and Funyuns combined last year

… Bernie is a dyed-in-the-wool grumpy old man and Donald is more a grumpy old baby in a grumpy old man’s body. … I don’t mind righteous anger. But the two of them seem less righteous and far more unhinged.…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is suspending his presidential campaign.… "I will continue to carry the torch for Liberty in the United States Senate and I look forward to earning the privilege to represent the people of Kentucky for another term.…"

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, throwing his support behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.…

Watching the votes trickle in from Iowa’s Caucus Monday night, I suggested a second-place finish for Trump would be an unenjoyable experience for us all… Less than 48 hours later, Trump had a meltdown for the history books.…

…what was lost on me and probably most people was that in actually coming in first, Ted Cruz made history by being the first American of Latino extraction to win a caucus or primary in US history.… The fact that I didn’t even realize the historic nature of Cruz’s victory at all until Mark Levin mentioned it almost in passing on his program yesterday is striking in its significance.…

Losing Iowa was Donald Trump’s “volcano’s edge.” And voters finally met the man. Okay, he isn’t so much a man as he is a crybaby.

I’ve been watching the anticipated Twitter meltdown of Donald Trump following his failure to win Iowa…

Looks like my old stomping grounds in Montana are heating up. People there are not taking Obama’s plan to force refugees on them lying down. There was a protest in Missoula, Montana at 10 a.m. this morning over that very issue. It is just one of many battles brewing out there in small town America.

Small towns in the sparsely populated parts of America are the perfect place to relocate these refugees. Especially, if your agenda includes politically terraforming the country. The West is historically conservative in their politics. Many are Republicans and Libertarians. Even the Democrats hearken back to an earlier time when they were more conservative in nature. Obama and the Democrats can’t have that. They need to have an entire country willing to submit to Marxist diktats. They need areas seeded with those who will vote Democrat and ensure that they stay in power no matter what.…

These people want to tear the system apart, so they can replace it with something truly heinous. The Obama administration will never admit that this is the plan, but can you honestly look at what is going on today and tell me it isn’t?…

The top officers in the Army and Marine Corps testified on Tuesday that they believe it is time for women to register for future military drafts, following the Pentagon’s recent decision to open all jobs in combat units to female service members. …

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday to explain why the agency plans to reduce its aerial surveillance on the Texas-Mexico border.

In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the lawmakers said the cut to a requested 3,850 hours of aerial detection and monitoring in 2016 amounts to 50 percent less coverage than recent years. …

Good stuff and lots of it. Let’s start with Hillary’s chief rival and go on from there…

Germany has opened the country’s first shelter for gay and lesbian refugees in Nuremberg. The authorities are concerned that minority-gendered asylum seekers may be under threat of violence if they are housed in shelters along with the general migrant population.

In other news, a suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded a dozen more at a police base in Kabul. Most of the casualties were reportedly civilians.…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that she expects the “refugees” from Syria and Iraq to return home once their countries are at peace again, carrying with them the skills and knowledge they have acquired during their stay in Germany. Meanwhile, the latest polls shows that her party, the CDU, has lost an additional two percent in its approval rating with voters.

In other news, the kinetic activists of Boko Haram attacked a village near Maiduguri in Nigeria, killing scores of people and burning the village to the ground. The incident had nothing to do with Islam.…

It is now officially a two-person race on the Democratic side, as Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, is suspending his campaign to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States.…

Gen. Joseph Votel: Publicity makes it harder for forces to do their jobs.

President Obama’s nominee to head U.S. Central Command recently penned a memo to Defense Secretary Ash Carter demanding that the Pentagon stop discussing the operations of elite American troops.…

…“An explosive device exploded while a number of ISIS members were transferring it from one of their headquarters in Gabba in al-Baghdadi area (90 km west of Ramadi), killing five ISIS members.”…

A suicide bomber has killed 20 people at a police headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul… At least 25 others were wounded in the blast in the west of the city… Some reports suggest most of those killed and injured were police officers.… The Taliban said they carried out the bombing - one of a string of attacks in Kabul and elsewhere in recent months.…

Germans Publish Illegal Alien Invader Swimming Pool Etiquette Guide…

Hundreds of badges, credentials, cell phones and guns belonging to Department of Homeland Security employees have been lost or stolen in recent years -- raising serious security concerns about the potential damage these missing items could do in the wrong hands.…

Signe Toly Anderson, a vocalist and original member of the Jefferson Airplane who left the band after its first record and was replaced by Grace Slick, has died. …Thursday at her home in Beaverton, Oregon… was 74 and had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Anderson, who survived cancer in her 30s, died on the same day that another Airplane member, Paul Kantner, died.…

Rep Greg Walden, Oregon 2nd District, addresses the U.S. House… [regarding] the situation in Harney County, Oregon, where a group of armed protesters have overtaken a Federal facility in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.…

“A new strategy is aiming to counter an unacceptable level of toxic commentary on our website”, an opinion piece began in yesterday’s Observer – the Sunday edition of the Guardian newspaper.

The article, written by the Observer’s “reader’s editor” Stephen Pritchard, outlines how the paper – which recently announced a massive cost cutting exercise – is going to start censoring its readers on articles about race, immigration, and Islam.…

Tommy Robinson traveled to Ireland today to meet with Peter O’Loughlin of Identity Ireland in Cork. At a press conference the two men announced that a PEGIDA Ireland chapter would be officially launched next weekend, when simultaneous PEGIDA demonstrations will be held all across Europe. Mr. Robinson, like so many Counterjihad activists from Sydney to Seattle (including at least two here at Schloss Bodissey), is of Irish stock.

In other news, Swedish vigilantes went on a rampage today against immigrant predators in Stockholm’s main railway station. Meanwhile, the National Front and other British patriotic groups were in violent confrontation with pro-immigrant leftists in Dover, where several swastikas were scrawled in blood on the sides of buses. …

“Refugees” at an asylum center in the town of Emmaboda in southeastern Sweden went on a rampage after a staff member refused a request to supply them with candy. The high-spirited youngsters broke windows and caused general mayhem, while the staff were forced to barricade themselves in a room for their own protection.

In other news, a young “British” woman who took her toddler with her to Syria and joined the Islamic State has been convicted of terrorism offenses in Birmingham after returning to England.…

…On this day in 2003 the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on reentry into the atmosphere when returning from a mission resulting in the deaths of everyone on board.

Former Governor Mike Huckabee, the 2008 Iowa GOP Caucus winner, suspended the Republican campaign tonight.

Huckabee’s campaign never quite took off this year.
Huckabee ended with 2% of the vote in Iowa on Monday.…

With a lot of the vote now in, it's Trump 24%, Rubio 23%.

The Decision Desk has the first call -- they call the GOP side for Ted Cruz.

Of course, there are still a lot of votes to be counted. Update: Fox News confirms the Decision Desk's call.…

…Guthrie asked Palin if Trump was necessarily “the godly candidate” for evangelical voters.

“I hope voters aren’t trying to find the most Christian-y godliest candidate out there because who are we to judge one another’s level of faith – our Christian quotient if you will,” she said.…