Hillary Candidate Crib Games

"In a game dubbed “Candidate’s Cribs,” Campus Reform Correspondent Cabot Phillips asked

participants to match four pictures of multi-million dollar homes to their candidate owners.
Unaware that all of the mansions had actually been owned by Clinton, each participant attempted to link other candidates such as Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to the extravagant properties.
After several rounds of the game, Phillips says the participants were shocked to learn that Clinton had lived in all four homes, which hold a total value of more than $31 million. “What, really? You’re pulling my leg,” one man said in response. Nearly every respondent reacted similarly, with some even stating that the revelation had altered their opinions on the upcoming Presidential race. “You’re changing my opinion on the election a little bit,” a woman added. The video illustrates how a large number of young Americans have fallen for Clinton’s “everyday American” rhetoric, a completely false narrative pushed by millennial-run outlets such as Buzzfeed." InfoWars

Fireworks this weekend could be from ISIS

"Another suspected member of a reportedly ISIS radicalized terror
cell was arrested in New Jersey Monday, as the metropolitan area goes on hyper-alert for the threat of an attack during the Fourth of July holiday.
As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported Monday, experts said they think the terror threats are very real, because ISIS is actively trying to radicalize people in the Tri-State Area.
Among those radicalized people, according to authorities, was Alaa Saadeh – the 23-year-old West New York, New Jersey man arrested Monday. He was believed to be part of a group interested in detonating a pressure cooker bomb at a New York landmark." CBS

Bundy & Paul meet

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) met rancher Cliven Bundy on Monday, along with several dozen supporters and land rights activists during a presidential campaign swing through Nevada.
"I think almost all land use issues and animal issues, endangered species issues, ought to be handled at the state level," Paul told the AP.
"I think that the government shouldn't interfere with state decisions, so if a state decides to have medical marijuana or something like that, it should be respected as a state decision," he added.
Bundy made headlines last year and became the face of a land rights standoff with the Bureau of Land Management, which says the rancher owes more than $1 million in grazing fees over 20 years.
"In general, I think we're in tune with each other," Bundy told the AP. "I don't think we need to ask Washington, D.C., for this land. It's our land." msn

Christie In!!!

"New Jersey Governor Chris Christie launched an uphill run for the Republican presidential

nomination on Tuesday with his trademark bluster, offering up his blunt talk and willingness to tackle tough issues as the cure for an ailing country.
"I mean what I say and I say what I mean, and that's what America needs right now," Christie told friends, family and supporters at a launch rally at his old high school in suburban Livingston, New Jersey. "Truth and hard decisions today will lead to growth and opportunity tomorrow." msn

Puerto Rico on verge of collapse

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says it has no plans to bail out Puerto Rico from its debt

crisis. Puerto Rico's governor is warning the island can't pay its $72 billion public debt, raising serious concerns about Puerto Rico's economy...." WorldNews

Kasich on Gay Marriage

"But on Face the Nation today, likely GOP candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich told John

Dickerson, “I believe in traditional marriage, but the Supreme Court has ruled, it’s the law of the land, and we’ll abide by it.”
He implored people to just “take a deep breath,” and said there are plenty of other issues conservatives should be more focused on, like jobs, national defense, and “healing the division between races.”
Dickerson told him he sounds like he’s trying to avoid the question, but Kasich insisted, “I do believe in traditional marriage, but the court has ruled, and it’s time to move on.”" MEDIAite

Paul Camp behind Ad attack on BUSH?

".....an online ad attacking Jeb "Bailout" Bush. It is…strange.

The video, is framed as an infomercial, with an exuberant, wild-bearded speaker named Max Power (perhaps borrowed from Homer Simpson, who took the same name from a hair dryer) serving as the pitchman. The ad offers a Bailout Bu$h action figure—which sadly does not actually seem to be for

sale, probably because it appears to be a different action figure with an image of Bush's face pasted on—as Power shouts about how Jeb worked for Lehman Brothers right before the crash and supported the Troubled Asset Relief Program. "This offer guarantees a presidential candidate cannot win a single primary state, let alone the general election," a voice-over says at the end of the ad as Power bathes in a tub of money.

Per the Washington Times, America's Liberty is spending in the five figures to run the ad online in early primary states, though it is also clearly running in DC, since I encountered it when it popped up before a music video on YouTube.

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America's Liberty has close connections to the Paul camp. The super-PAC's founder and president is John Tate, who worked as Ron Paul's presidential campaign manager in 2012 and currently also serves as president of Campaign for Liberty, a longtime Ron Paul organization." MotherJones

Cruz on Reforming SCOTUS

"Ted Cruz said he will push for an amendment to the American Constitution to allow high court

justices to be voted out during elections every eight years.
In a scathing opinion article published in the National Review on the same day, Cruz said the Supreme Court subjected the US to "some of the darkest 24 hours in the nation's history" after its rulings legalising President Barack Obama's key healthcare reform initiative called "Obamacare," and gay marriages nationwide.

"Both decisions were judicial activism, plain and simple. Both were lawless," the conservative Republican Senator from Texas said in the editorial.

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The Republican senator also asserted that these rulings are "but symptoms of the disease of liberal judicial activism that has infected our judiciary."
"The decisions have deformed our constitutional order and have debased our culture," he said.
To cure this supposed "disease" in the high court, Cruz said he will advocate constitutional changes to make Supreme Court magistrates face retention elections every eight years.
At present, high court justices are given a lifetime tenure, but they may opt to retire.
"A remedy is needed that will restore health to the sick man in our constitutional system. Rendering the justices directly accountable to the people would provide such a remedy," he said.
Cruz is proposing that Supreme Court justices be required to secure the vote of majority of American voters and a majority of voters in at least half of the states in elections to be held every eight years." ChristianityToday

Paul on Gay Marriage ruling

"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is ending his silence over the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision,

calling for the government to get out of the marriage game for good.
The libertarian-leaning presidential hopeful walks a fine line in a new column in Time magazine between his support of traditional marriage and his calls for limited government by arguing that the government shouldn’t be licensing marriage in the first place.
“The government should not prevent people from making contracts but that does not mean that the government must confer a special imprimatur upon a new definition of marriage,” he writes.
Paul warns that the Supreme Court could “involve the police power of the state in churches, schools, church hospitals” if those religious institutions don’t comply with the court’s recent decision." TheHill

SCOTUS strikes down Obama EPA regulation

"June 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday invalidated a key Obama administration

environmental regulation aimed at limiting emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants mainly from coal-fired power plants.
The court ruled in a 5-4 decision, with its five conservative justices in the majority, that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should have weighed the cost of compliance in deciding whether to regulate the pollutants." msn

Greece Crises

"Banks in Greece and the country's stock exchange will be shut all week in a sign of the deepening financial crisis.

The drastic move comes after people rushed to withdraw their cash amid panic ahead of the referendum on bailout terms." SkyNews

Texas stands up with backbone

"County clerks in Texas who object to gay marriage can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite last week's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to allow same-sex marriage, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Sunday.

Paxton said in a statement that hundreds of public officials in Texas were seeking guidance on how to implement what he called a lawless and flawed decision by an "activist" court.

The state's attorney general said that while the Supreme Court justices had "fabricated" a new constitutional right, they did not diminish, overrule, or call into question the First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion." msn

Hillary- post Charleston activities

"In the wake of the Charleston massacre, Hillary has been very busy…denouncing America as

‘racist,’ and insisting that white Americans need to question their “own assumptions and privilege.” She then flew to St. Louis in a private jet, for a $2,700 per-person fundraiser at the home of an Anheuser-Busch heiress." TammyBruce

Beck on Gay Marriage

"Glenn Beck said Friday that the Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples have the right to get married anywhere in the United States “is going to change everything.”
Beck has repeatedly said he believes the government should have no hand in marriage, and if a

church wants to marry a gay couple, it should have the right to do so. But he also doesn’t believe a church should be forced to marry a gay couple, or that people of faith should be forced to be involved in gay weddings.
Beck expressed particular concern for the churches that say “I’m going to read the Bible as it’s written” and opt not to perform gay weddings. If nothing else, he said, they could be compared to the Westboro Baptist Church and lose their tax-exempt status.
“Just so you know, the family has been officially and will now be officially redesigned. It has to be defined differently,” Beck added. “The term ‘mom and dad’ in the traditional family is over. Now you’re parent one and parent two.”
Beck said the fundamental transformation of America that President Barack Obama promised the nation “is here,” and “we are no longer a country that is following the Constitution of the United States of America.”
“Things are going to happen, like somebody is going to sue a church. ‘You have to now marry me.’  It’s going to open up the floodgates.” GlennBeck

7 terms redefined in age of Obama

"Following the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh argued many words and phrases have been “totally redefined” in the “age of Obama.”
Among them, according to Limbaugh, are “marriage,” “taxes,” “gross domestic product,” “employed,” “recession,” “full-time job” and “recovery.”" TheBlaze

SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling

"In a historic development for gay rights and the institution of marriage, the Supreme Court has ruled

that same-sex couples have the constitutional right to marry.
Specifically, the 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges declares that the 14th Amendment requires all states to perform same-sex marriages and recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

 February CBS News poll showed that 60 percent of Americans said it should be legal for same-sex couples to marry. More than half, 56 percent, said same-sex marriage should be left up to the states." CBS

Rubio responds to SCOTUS Obamacare ruling

"Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio slammed the Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to uphold Obamacare subsidies.

The Supreme Court held that the law authorized federal tax credits for eligible Americans living not only in states with their own exchanges but in the 34 states with federal exchanges, a major win for the Obama administration.

"I disagree with the court's ruling and believe they have once again erred in trying to correct the

mistakes made by President Obama and Congress in forcing Obamacare on the American people," Rubio told CNN.

"Despite the court's decision, Obamacare is still a bad law that is having a negative impact on our country and on millions of Americans," Rubio continued. "I remain committed to repealing this bad law and replacing it with my consumer-centered plan that puts patients and families back in control of their health care decisions. We need Consumer Care, not Obamacare."

Thursday's 6-3 ruling is the second time in three years that the court has ruled to uphold Obamacare, Obama's signature domestic achievement." CNN

ISIS Hits 3 Continents

1) FRANCE- A decapitated head, along with a flag in Arabic, has been

found following an attack on a factory in southeast France Friday in which an assailant also rammed a car into the premises, triggering an explosion.

French Interior Minister Bernard said one suspect, named as Yassin Sahli, had been arrested, and police were holding other suspected accomplices.

AFP reported that the decapitated man was the attacker's employer.

Sahli had been under surveillance from 2006 to 2008 on suspicion of having become radicalized.

2) TUNISIA- Gunmen killed at least 37 people, including foreign tourists, spraying them with bullets

at a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, "A terrorist infiltrated the buildings from the back before opening fire on the residents of the hotel, including foreigners and Tunisians," Aroui said.
3) KUWAIT - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Kuwait on Friday, killing at least 25 people and injuring scores of

others, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency KUNA.

Huckabee op-ed piece

"I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square," said Catholic Cardinal Francis George. Cardinal George passed away in April, but the alarm he sounded on religious liberty rings true today.

Just as the Supreme Court ignored the plain language of the Affordable Care Act to deliver a victory to the Obama administration today, many expect the Supreme Court to abuse its power once again in the Obergefell v. Hodges same-sex marriage case.

If the Court creates a national right to same-sex marriage that doesn't exist in our Constitution, it will hijack the democratic process, subvert the will of Americans in more than 30 states who voted to protect traditional marriage, and trample on America's most fundamental right - religious liberty.
Can the Supreme Court "decide" this? They cannot. Under our Constitution, we have three, co-equal branches of government. The courts can interpret law but

cannot create it. If they declare something "unconstitutional," it still requires congressional funding and executive branch enforcement. The Supreme Court is not the "Supreme Branch," and it is certainly not the Supreme Being. If they can unilaterally make law, and just do whatever they want, then we have judicial tyranny.
 Our next president must fight judicial tyranny and return power to the people. Sadly, several Republican candidates for president have suggested the courts have the final say on marriage and that a court ruling is "the law of the land." USA Today

Trump to sue Univision

"Donald Trump intends to sue Univision for breach of contract and defamation after the media

company announced it would renege on a five-year contract for broadcast rights to the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, his lawyer said Thursday.
The announcement comes hours after Trump told the On Media blog that Univision was defaulting on an "iron-clad" $13.5 million contract, which he said it had no right to terminate.
"We intend to pursue all legal rights and remedies available to Mr. Trump pursuant to the terms of the license agreement as well as a defamation case against Univision," Michael Cohen, Trump's executive vice president and special counsel, said. "I am at this moment finalizing the retainer agreement with outside counsel."
Univision spokesperson Monica Talan said her organization would not comment beyond its initial statement. In that statement, released Thursday morning, Univision said it would "not be airing the Miss USA pageant on July 12th or working on any other projects tied to the Trump Organization" because of the real estate mogul's remarks about Mexican immigrants.
Trump, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, said in a speech earlier this month that he would build a wall to stop Mexico from dumping "rapists" and criminals on U.S. soil. On Wednesday, Trump issued a statement accusing the media of trying "to distort my comments regarding Mexico and its great people," adding that he has "many successful business relationships with Mexican companies and employ, and am close friends with, many Mexican people," and that he has "tremendous respect for the leaders of Mexico." Politico

IRS Erased backup tapes amid SCANDAL

 "IRS employees erased computer backup tapes a month after officials

discovered that thousands of emails related to the tax agency's tea party scandal had been lost, according to government investigators." yahoo

Haley for VP?

"South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is attracting widespread praise for leading the bipartisan effort to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.
Haley’s swift response has put her back in the national spotlight, stoking speculation that she could be the vice presidential nominee on the GOP’s 2016 presidential ticket. The 43-year-old governor saved her party from divisive bickering and damaging headlines that could have lingered for months." TheHill

Jim Webb on Confederate Flag Controversy

"Webb has weighed in on his Facebook page, writing that "[t]his is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War." He calls for "mutual respect" and says the flag shouldn't be used "as a political symbol that divides us," but does not take any clear stance on the flag publicly displayed on the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse." MotherJones

TPA Passes Senate

With a 60-38 vote, the Senate adopted the law giving President Obama the power to “fast-track” talks on free-trade pacts such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after months of fierce debate in both houses of the Congress.

"Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), as the measure is called, means that Congress will only get to vote up or down on the treaties in question once they are finalized by the White House, without the

ability to offer amendments.
Obama has faced strong opposition from his own Democratic Party, with prominent lawmakers such as Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the House breaking ranks to speak and vote against the measure.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers that usually oppose Obama at every turn by and large backed the president on the issue, though with some notable exceptions. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, voted against closing the debate on TAP on Tuesday." InfoWars

Jindal In!!!

"Bobby Jindal, the nation’s first Indian-American governor, entered the 2016 GOP presidential nomination race Wednesday, casting himself as an outsider and a turnaround artist, while vowing to pursue a bold conservative agenda that will challenge the status quo in Washington.

The two-term Louisiana governor and former congressman said he has had success cutting the size and scope of the state government and could do the same on the national level." WashingtonTimes

Bush on Social Security

"Jeb Bush thinks the next president will need to privatize Social Security, he said at a town hall

meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday – acknowledging that his brother attempted to do so and failed. It’s a position sure to be attacked by both Republicans and Democrats.

Bush has previously said he would support raising the retirement age to get Social Security benefits, a common position among Republicans. And he backed a partial privatization that House Republicans have proposed that would allow people to choose private accounts." msn

Nikki Haley on S.C. Confederate Flag

S.C. governor calls for removing Confederate flag from Capitol grounds

Trump Surges in N.H., Taking 2nd Place in Poll

Trump Surges in Popularity in N.H., Taking Second Place in Suffolk Poll

       "The poll of 500 likely GOP presidential primary voters found 14% back Mr. Bush.

Mr. Trump is right behind at 11%. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio come next, with 8% and 7%, respectively. The poll tested 19 GOP candidates – a rare survey that included ultra-longshots like Mark Everson and former Govs. Bob Ehrlich and Jim Gilmore."

Positives for Rubio

Like Bush, Rubio scored high in many polling areas: He polled in fourth place at 7 percent behind Bush, Trump and Walker; he was the second choice behind Bush for the upcoming televised debates; he trailed only Bush for second-choice votes among all the candidates; and he had the highest favorable/unfavorable rating of all of the candidates  61 percent favorable – 14 percent unfavorable), topping Bush’s 58 percent favorable – 26 percent unfavorable.

Kasich to be dogged by Obamacare

"Kasich says he is no fan of the president’s health care law. But he fought his own party to

implement one of its core components and is now gearing up to face GOP primary voters who want to rip the health law to shreds. His decision two years ago to embrace Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid to provide health coverage to low-income adults — a move that offered bipartisan cover to the White House during a tumultuous period — is likely to dog him in Iowa and New Hampshire." Politico

Cruz on S.C. Shooting being Politicized

"Ted Cruz, ..weighed in on the Charleston shooting and said we should all come together, denounce the crime Roof committed and pray for the victims’ families. He described Roof’s actions as “horrifying” and “the face of evil.”

“It is a shame that there are some in politics that want to use this tragedy to divide us. I think that’s wrong. But I also think there’s a qualitative difference between that and protecting the Bill of Rights– protecting the constitutional rights to keep and bear arms of law-abiding citizens, which is all together different and unconnected from a horrific murder committed by a sick and deranged individual."

He also criticized Obama for using tragedies to target law-abiding citizens instead of the criminals who commit these heinous acts. In fact, in 2010, the Obama administration only prosecuted 44 of roughly 50,000 felons and fugitives trying to buy guns. Cruz said that’s absolutely unacceptable, and I think everyone can agree on that." ChicksOnTheRight

Taliban attack Afghan Parliament

"The parliament building in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked by the Taliban on Monday, killing at least one woman, one child and injuring at least 40 civilians.
The attack began with a large suicide car bomb explosion outside the parliament compound gates. Six gunmen then entered the compound and attempted to enter the parliament building, but were held off by security forces." UPI

Trump on Michael Savage Radio

"Trump tells Savage – 'Will not run on 3rd party'"
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Liberal Salon.com EXPOSED as being politicizing hypocrites

AP Photo Lines Pistol Up with Senator, 2016 Candidate Ted Cruz’s Brain

Guess the Political Party: AP Photo Lines Pistol Up with Senator, 2016 Candidate Ted Cruz’s Brain

"That puts him in proximity with guns and gun posters, as seen in this picture from Associated Press photog Charlie Neibergall, more often than Democrats.
Still, imagine a similar situation–a U.S. Senator campaigning for President–and instead of a pro-2nd Amendment event, it’s a pro-gun control event. Imagine this Senator is standing in front of a giant poster of a pistol–one meant to demonize the weapon rather than promote it.
Imagine that this same AP photographer, instead of shifting a foot to the left or the right, framed a picture with the Senator’s nose almost touching the barrel, as a closer crop makes clear.
Imagine that this photographer, even though he took a few shots with this silly setup, took many more without it. Imagine that his editor–unnamed and insulated from public backlash–chose not one but two but three of those photos to distribute to AP’s clients.
Imagine this scenario–and how would the world respond if the name on those photos read:
Bernie Sanders?
Hillary Clinton?
Even excluding 2016 candidates, what about:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)?

Gabrielle Giffords?

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

, again, is a Republican, and of course his feelings won’t get hurt. He’s a big boy.
But imagine the outcry were he a Democrat. How many think pieces about violent imagery and responsible reporting would we see? How many more if he were a woman?
Keep this in mind for the 2016 campaign. This is the playing field." Breitbart

Perry on Confederate Flag

"The Confederate flag, Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Saturday, “clearly … divides people.”
The former Texas governor was speaking in the context of Wednesday’s racially motivated mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C.—a tragedy that has rekindled debate about whether it is appropriate for Southern states to still fly the Confederate emblem." RCP

Kasich on Pope's Encyclical

 "I asked Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) if he agreed with Pope Francis that climate change is a moral issue requiring action. Kasich agreed that taking care of the planet is good. He disagreed with the Pope's conclusions, and made a strange implication: "The environment was given to us by the Lord, and it needs to be taken care of. And it shouldn’t be worshipped — that’s called ‘pantheism’…" RCP

Liberals Call for Disarming All White People

Charleston Shooting: Liberals Call for Disarming All White People

"Let's just take away the white people's guns"

"Liberals reacted to the tragic shooting at an Episcopal Church in Charleston last night by

calling for an immediate gun ban in order to disarm all white people.

Police are still on the hunt for a 21-year-old slender, clean shaven white suspect who opened fire on a bible study group at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing nine people before fleeing the scene.

The incident is already being exploited by liberals to push their twin agendas of gun control and racial division, with many advocating that a total gun ban targeting only white people be immediately enacted.

Comedian Rohan Joshi, who has 395,000 Twitter followers, reacted to the shooting by calling for the NRA to be designated a terror organization and for hateful “crazy white people” to be disarmed."

InfoWars

3 Increase their postive ratings

"Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee have each earned more support from GOP

primary voters since launching presidential campaigns last month, a new poll finds.
Republicans’ support for one of those candidates has risen since a similar sampling in April, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey released on Sunday.
It said that Fiorina saw the biggest jump in GOP primary voters’ backing.
The former Hewlett-Packard CEO now has 31 percent of Republicans saying they would support her, up from 17 percent in April, it said.
It added that those results are roughly even with the 29 percent who would not back Fiorina’s candidacy.
Carson, the poll said, now commands 50 percent approval from positive voters.
That number, it added, is up from 41 percent in April for the retired neurosurgeon.
The survey additionally saw Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, nabbing 65 percent of positive voter support in June.
He is thus up 13 points from a similar poll in April, it said, where he earned 52 percent instead.
All three Oval Office candidates formally launched their runs in May, just after the previous Wall Street Journal/NBC News sampling.
Their latest sampling found bad news for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), another 2016 contender.
Paul now receives 49 percent support from potential voters, a 10-point drop since April.
He previously received 59 percent backing during a similar sampling taken that month." NBC

Trump's Religion

"Donald Trump, ....

1. He's a Presbyterian.

"First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, is where I went to church," he told Christian Broadcasting Network in 2012. Trump has also been a member of Marble Collegiate Church, a Reformed Church in America congregation and once the pulpit of Norman Vincent Peale, author of the mega-best-seller "The Power of Positive Thinking."
Bonus faith fact: Trump's paternal grandmother's maiden name was "Christ."

2. One religion Trump seems to think is not so wonderful is

Islam.

In the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election, Trump told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that there is a "Muslim problem." "I don't notice Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center,"

3. He collects Bibles.

In the same 2012 CBN interview, Trump said fans often send him Bibles and he keeps every one of them "in a very nice place."

4. He goes to church "when I can."

"Always on Christmas. Always on Easter. Always when there's a major occasion," Trump said in 2012. Then he added: "I'm a Sunday church person."

5. Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump Kushner, converted to Judaism.

"Not only do I have Jewish grandchildren I have a Jewish daughter and I am very honored by that," he told The Jewish Voice." Charisma

South Carolina Massacre

"...massacre suspect CAPTURED:

Gunman who 'shot nine people dead' at historic South Carolina black church after telling them 'you're taking over our country' is taken into custody by cops

• Dylann Roof opened fire at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina around 9pm on Wednesday, killing nine people - three male victims and six females
• He fled from the scene but was caught in Shelby, North Carolina on Thursday morning after a member of the public called cops with a report of suspicious activity
• It has emerged that Roof had entered the church around an hour before the shooting and had joined the bible study group before suddenly opening fire 
• He let one woman escape so she could tell the world what happened while a child survived by playing dead

It has been suggested that the shooting was timed to coincide with two large political rallies in the city, as just hours before Rev Pinckney met with Hillary Clinton as part of her presidential campaign and Jeb Bush was also due to visit Charleston today but his appearance has now been canceled. 

In a statement, the Bush campaign said: 'Governor Bush's thoughts and prayers are with individuals and families affected by this tragedy.' 

Meanwhile Hillary Clinton tweeted: 'Heartbreaking news from Charleston - my thoughts and prayers are with you all.'   

Following the massacre, officers also investigated a possible bomb threat but several hours later gave the all-clear. 

Shona Holmes, a bystander in the aftermath of the shooting, added: 'It's just hurtful to think that someone would come in and shoot people in a church. If you're not safe in church, where are you safe?'" TheTelegraph

Rush Drummer Disses Rand Paul

"In the Seventies, Peart rankled the rock press with an affinity for libertarian hero Ayn Rand — he

cited her “genius” in liner notes, and critics promptly labeled Rush fascists. Rush’s breakthrough mini-rock opera, 1976’s 2112, is, in part, a riff on Rand’s sci-fi novel Anthem.

… Rush’s earlier musical take on Rand, 1975’s unimaginatively titled “Anthem,” is more problematic [than 2112], railing against the kind of generosity that Peart now routinely practices: “Begging hands and bleeding hearts will/Only cry out for more.” And “The Trees,” an allegorical power ballad about maples dooming a forest by agitating for “equal rights” with lofty oaks, was strident enough to convince a young Rand Paul that he had finally found a right-wing rock band.

Peart outgrew his Ayn Rand phase years ago, and now describes himself as a “bleeding-heart libertarian,” citing his trips to Africa as transformative. He claims to stand by the message of “The Trees,” but other than that, his bleeding-heart side seems dominant. Peart just became a U.S. citizen, and he is unlikely to vote for Rand Paul, or any Republican. Peart says that it’s “very obvious” that Paul “hates women and brown people” — and Rush sent a cease-and-desist order to get Paul to stop quoting “The Trees” in his speeches.

“For a person of my sensibility, you’re only left with the Democratic party,” says Peart, who also calls George W. Bush “an instrument of evil.”" TheFederalist

Chafee's Religion

"Lincoln Chafee, the Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat who served as both governor and senator of Rhode Island, announced he is in the running. Here are five faith facts about this very dark horse (who used to horseshoe for a living).
1. He’s Episcopalian.
Chafee was raised in the church and his positions on many of the issues largely mirror that of many Episcopalians, one of the more liberal Christian denominations. Chafee supports marriage equality, embryonic stem-cell research, and reproductive choice for women, and he opposes the death penalty. Fun fact: In the 2004 election, he did not vote for his party’s candidate, George W. Bush, but wrote in George H.W. Bush, a fellow Episcopalian.

Chafee graduated from Brown University, the first Ivy League college to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its motto is “In God we hope.”
2. He believes in church-state separation.
Chafee skipped church on the day of his inauguration as governor of Rhode Island out of respect for the separation of church and state, a spokesman told the Providence Journal at the time. The decision did not sit well with the state’s top Catholic, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, who blasted Chafee in print, saying, “A little spiritual humility would go a long way in restoring the confidence and the moral quality of our community.”
3. He likes atheists — or at least one atheist.
When Rhode Island high schooler Jessica Ahlquist sought to remove a prayer banner from her

Cranston, RI, school, Chafee said he supported a federal court that ruled in her favor. In 2014, he gave a boost to the state’s humanists when he declared May 1, usually the National Day of Prayer, Rhode Island’s “Day of Reason.” His proclamation said reason has “proven to offer hope for human survival upon Earth by cultivating intelligent, moral, and ethical interaction among people.”
4. He probably says “Happy holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.”

While serving as Rhode Island’s governor, he twice referred to the Statehouse’s annual fir as a “holiday tree.” “I’m representing all of Rhode Island,” he said in 2011. “I have to be respectful of everyone.”5. He may be the most close-mouthed candidate on his personal religious views.There is very little he has said on the record about religion, God, prayer, or his own personal faith — a contrast to candidate Hillary Clinton, a Methodist, who has said she prays daily and sometimes carries a Bible in her purse." CRUX

Bush's Religion

"Here are five faith facts about the third Bush to look toward the Oval Office.
1. Like many Americans, he comes from a religiously mixed family.

His great-grandfather was a Catholic. His father, George H.W. Bush, was raised Episcopalian, and mother, Barbara, grew up Presbyterian. His brother George W. is an evangelical who drew voters with his narrative about giving up his partying ways after a talk with Billy Graham.

Jeb Bush married his wife, Columba, a Catholic, at the University of Texas’ Catholic student center

when he was just 21 years old in 1974.
He joined the Catholic Church in a ceremony at the Easter vigil in 1995, finding wisdom and solace in it a year after a brutal campaign and humbling defeat in his first run to be Florida’s governor, according to The Washington Post. This winter, Bush told a New York Times reporter, “I loved the absolute nature of the Catholic Church. It resonated with me.”
2. Faith infuses his governing choices.
Jeb Bush has long been more overt than his father or brother about campaigning and governing on a religion-based moral agenda. “It’s not an imposition of faith. It’s who you are,” he told The Florida Catholic in 2007.
Whether he’s talking about the unborn or the terminally ill, Bush told Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, his “deeply held belief” is that “the most vulnerable in our society need to be protected. They need to have legal rights. And as a society, we need to recognize their value and their worth.”

As Florida governor, he pushed laws to limit abortion and offered state funding to crisis pregnancy centers that counseled against it, he told Daly in an April 13 radio interview. Bush tried unsuccessfully to block the effort by Terri Schiavo’s husband to disconnect the artificial food and hydration that kept his irreparably brain-damaged wife alive. Bush also opposes physician-assisted dying, now legal in five states.

3. But he’s not 100 percent in line with Catholic teaching on all points.
Bush is in accord with the Catholic bishops on pushing for immigration reform, according to The New York Times, which tracked Bush to his Coral Gables, Fla., church one Sunday in March and photographed him exchanging the sign of peace. But he doesn’t heed Catholic teaching on one matter of life and death. Like 59 percent of white Catholics in a Pew Research Center survey, he supports the death penalty. Florida executed 21 prisoners during his two terms as governor, 1999-2007, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
4) The ‘warp speed’ of social change mystifies Bush.
He is uneasy as a Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage looms. He told Christian Broadcasting Network chief political correspondent David Brody he could not fathom the “warp speed” of changing public views on this. “Irrespective of the Supreme Court ruling … we need to be stalwart supporters of traditional marriage.”
5) He’s kissed the evangelical ring.
A radio host in Iowa told the Washington Examiner: Voters there are “not necessarily looking for the nice guy, or the guy who says ‘Jesus’ the most.” They want a conservative champion of religious freedom.”
And that’s the bell Bush rang in his commencement speech at Liberty University, the conservative college in Lynchburg, Va. founded by Jerry Falwell.
Bush accused liberals of seeking to undermine religious freedom. According to Reuters, he said “fashionable opinion” has a problem with Christians, and the only proper response is “a forthright defense” of the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
“Federal authorities are demanding obedience, in complete disregard of religious conscience,” he said. “In a free society, the answer is no.” CRUX

O'Malley's Religion

"Martin O’Malley, who just wrapped up his second term as Maryland governor, is loudly, proudly Catholic — even when some doctrine-devoted Church followers hiss at his socially liberal views.
Here are five faith facts about O’Malley, 52, who has announced his candidacy for president.

1. He’s Catholic-educated all the way — almost.
He attended a parish elementary school in Bethesda, Md., and Jesuit-run Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., where public service was expected of students. He then earned his undergraduate degree at the Catholic University of America in Washington, before veering off the parochial path for law school at the University of Maryland.

In 2002, while serving as mayor of Baltimore, O’Malley told Gonzaga students in a commencement address that the commitment to public service instilled at the school was a driving force in his choice to pursue politics rather than a private law practice.

He’s a pray-every-morning, church-every-Sunday (St. Francis of Assisi in Baltimore) believer who sent all four of his kids to Catholic schools. Democratic Party activist and author Jonathan Miller

called him “the rare progressive to frame his strongly felt policy positions in the language of faith.”
2. He holds positions contrary to some Church teachings.
O’Malley is for abortion and embryonic stem cell research. His website boasts that he led the push to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland.
In March, he told The Des Moines Register in an interview that he had no problem aligning this with his religion.
“I found the passage of marriage equality actually squares with the most important social teachings of my faith, which is to believe in the dignity of every person and to believe in our own responsibility to advance the common good,” he said.
3. He doesn’t think corporations should refuse contraception coverage on religious grounds.
During the battle over whether faith-based religious institutions and businesses must heed the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act — an issue still wending through the courts — O’Malley said Catholics need to calm down about it.

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In 2012, he told Candy Crowley on CNN: “There has been a little bit too much hyperventilating over this issue.”
4. He credits a Jesuit priest for shaping his identity.
He told Esquire magazine one of his role models is “a Jesuit priest by the name of Father Horace McKenna, who ran a mission out of the basement of Saint Aloysius Church. He gave his entire life to serving the poor, and he truly did see the face of God in every individual that he served.”
5. He agrees with his Church on the need for immigration reform.
As governor, O’Malley brought more than 2,200 refugee children to shelter in Maryland after the 2014 crisis over unaccompanied immigrant children getting caught illegally crossing the Southwest border. He also signed a law allowing some undocumented immigrants to be eligible for in-state college tuition.

Such actions prompted one Maryland state senator to call O’Malley “a Pope Francis Democrat.”
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Bush hit for ties to Hillary

"Jeb Bush once handed Hillary Rodham Clinton an award for “public service.” Does this disqualify him from the 2016 Republican presidential race?
At least one influential conservative group thinks it does. ForAmerica, an organization founded by the veteran Washington rightward figure L. Brent Bozell, released an ad-like video Wednesday

attacking Mr. Bush as “unelectable” due to his presence onstage with the likely Democratic nominee at a Philadelphia ceremony about 18 months ago.
“It’s bad enough that Hillary Clinton will likely use footage from this event against any Republican nominee, but if Jeb Bush is her opponent she will make him look ridiculous,” Mr. Bozell said in a statement.
Back in September 2013, the Constitution Center awarded Mrs. Clinton its Liberty Medal for her international work and efforts on behalf of women and children. At the time she was a few months retired from her post as President Obama’s secretary of State.
The ForAmerica ad juxtaposes this event with Benghazi. Its ad opens with a reminder that the ceremony took place about one year after four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya, including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Then it cuts to a clip of Bush on-stage at the National Constitution Center.
“I want to say ‘thank you’ to both Secretary Clinton and President Clinton. Thank you for your service to our country. We are united by a love of country and public service,” says Bush.
The video then says that Clinton denied requests for extra security in Benghazi, and that the attacks occurred on her watch. It cuts to a clip of her giving Jeb Bush “a special thank you.”
It ends with the words, “Hillary will use this event to blunt any criticism that Bush levels against her. Jeb Bush: Unelectable.” CSM