The presser before the town hall:

The Town Hall Meeting: (more…)

...”Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of national law a citizen of the united states. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers, credited to the Government of the United States; but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to which persons are, or are not, citizens of the United States. This has long been a great issue in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country”…
~ Senator Jacob Howard (Author of the 14th Amendment citizenship clause)

Note: not a single voter supported Lindsey Graham, not one.
NORTH CAROLINA – Trump’s 8 point gain gives him the biggest momentum in the state over the last month. The other two candidates with upward momentum are Carson and Cruz. Carson’s gone from 9% to 14% as people’s first choice. […] Cruz has gone from 6% a month ago to his 10% standing now.

The losers in North Carolina over the last month are Walker, Huckabee, Paul, and Christie. Walker’s dropped 6 points from 12% last month to now 6%. His 51% favorability rating remains unchanged, but voters just seem to be finding others of their options to be more compelling. (more…)

Zain Endeavors was registered 11 days before Abedin left her post as Clinton’s deputy chief of staff to work instead as a consultant for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a consulting firm with deep ties to the Clintons.

A CNN review of public records shows that Zain Endeavors shares Abedin’s home address. And it also shares a name with Abedin’s son, Jordan Zain Weiner, suggesting the company could have been registered for her. Zain Endeavors LLC is registered with the New York Department of State. (more…)

When no-one was paying attention a road map was created to elect Jeb Bush – LEARN MORE HERE –  “Tripwires”:

♦ This is why the RNC/GOPe machine hid their changes to campaign finance inside the December 2014 Continuing Resolution (CROmnibus) budget bill when no-one was paying attention.

♦ This is also why the RNC/GOPe machine changed the rules of the primary calender, when no-one was paying attention.  “States holding their primaries between March 1 and March 14 will have their delegates doled out proportionately with election results, a change that will likely stymie a movement candidate. States that have primaries on or after March 15 will be winner-take-all states”. (link)

♦ Another RNC rule change requires that a candidate must win a majority of delegates in eight or more states before his or her name may be presented for nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention. (link)

♦ This is why the RNC/GOPe machine constructed Super-PACs to prop up unelectable, but necessary, candidates.  This is why we have 18 candidates, 11 of which are fully controlled by the GOPe apparatus.

We watched, tracked, and researched them as they constructed the scheme. We have spent a great deal of time, effort, and energy to get a deep in the weeds understanding what they were putting together.  Then we began trying to find a way to:

#1) Expose this road map (election scheme).
#2) Find a way to defeat it.

It is critical to remember. (more…)

Steyn discusses the insufferable nonsense of Republicans claiming that Donald Trump’s border security and immigration proposal is “not workable”. Gives examples to deconstruct the nonsense. Video prompted to @1:15 (Good Watch)
https://youtu.be/mfhtcxtAAZI?t=1m15s

Beyond the previous examples of DC’s chattering class punditry: George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Stephen Hayes, Dana Perino, Charles Lane, Bill Kristol et al, and their on-air splodey head moments -which are continuing with the speed of an interstate covered in bubble wrap- we now have the paid GOP consultant class joining them.

GOP political consultant Rick Wilson has been in a highly visible war of words with Breitbart.com over the website’s editorial support for GOP candidate Donald Trump.
Wilson said on CNN that approximately 25% of Republicans were “low information voters”, a disparaging statement in line with the recent proclamations of FOX’s George Will.   Breitbart.Com along with a few other conservative sites, wrote a response suggesting that antagonizing such voters is not how the GOP would win elections. (more…)

3 Sources say an effort was made to wipe Clinton's hard drive. FBI is optimistic it can recover some data. -@REspositoNBC @PeteWilliamsNBC

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) August 18, 2015

As unbelievable as this seems apparently Hillary Clinton was not prepared for the most transparently obvious question that would be asked?

(Via NBC) The FBI may be able to recover at least some data from Hillary Clinton’s private email server even though there was an attempt to wipe it, two sources with direct knowledge of the process told NBC News on Tuesday. (more…)

In as much as the latest CNN-ORC Poll reflects the same overall national trend of support, Trump the biggest winner, it also reflects a profoundly changing landscape for Jeb Bush as the biggest loser.  Jeb Bush sinks to 35/57 favorable rating among registered voters in the poll.

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Donald Trump has proposed an ambitious plan to protect the Southern U.S. border, and deal with the illegal alien crisis. One of the attack approaches of the plan’s detractors is to state there’s no visible payment mechanism. Let’s look at one aspect.

On Page #3 the plan outlines:

Triple the number of ICE officers.
As the President of the ICE Officers’ Council explained in Congressional testimony: “Only approximately 5,000 officers and agents within ICE perform the lion’s share of ICE’s immigration mission…Compare that to the Los Angeles Police Department at approximately 10,000 officers. Approximately 5,000 officers in ICE cover 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, and are attempting to enforce immigration law against 11 million illegal aliens already in the interior of the United States. Since 9-11, the U.S. Border Patrol has tripled in size, while ICE’s immigration enforcement arm, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), has remained at relatively the same size.” This will be funded by accepting the recommendation of the Inspector General for Tax Administration and eliminating tax credit payments to illegal immigrants.  (link)

Putting aside the IG tax credit payment funding mechanism for a moment; a recent study by the Border Patrol (DHS) Inspector General, the issue of wasted money on the Border Drone program was highlighted. (more…)