[Update – Full Poll Data Added] The very first public poll of Oregon voters ( Poll pdf added ) shows Donald Trump with a substantial lead over Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
Political followers will note, Oregon was one of the states Ted Cruz said he would concede to John Kasich (New Mexico the other) if Kasich pulled out of Indiana as part of their collective Stop Trump strategy.  However, Team Kasich is now calling Cruz a liar as part of that agreement doesn’t seem to fit with their actual campaign discussions.

[Via OPB.Org] […] The poll by the Portland-based Hoffman Research Group shows 43 percent support Trump. Twenty-six percent favor Cruz and 17 percent back John Kasich. It is the first public poll of the Republican presidential race in Oregon this year.  (more…)

We initially discussed this back on December 9th 2015, when our research revealed the relationship between Syed Rizwan Farook (shooter), his brother Syed Raheel Farook, and two Russian sisters Tatiana and Mariya Chernyk. – Full Backstory Here – It appears the FBI has now arrested the trio due to the sham ‘marriage-for-green-cards’ arrangement.

(Via USA Today) Three people linked to the couple whose December shooting rampage in San Bernardino left 14 people dead were arrested Thursday on conspiracy, marriage fraud and other charges.
The three include Syed Raheel Farook, the brother of Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife Tashfeen Malik also wounded 22 people before both died in a shootout with police.
Raheel Farook, 31, his wife Tatiana Farook, 31, and a woman named Mariya Chernynk were named in a five-count indictment issued this week by a federal grand jury. Chernykh, 26, is married to Enrique Marquez, Jr., who has been awaiting trial since December on charges of conspiring with Rizwan Farook in 2011 and 2012 to provide material support to terrorists. (more…)

Candidate Donald Trump is holding a rally today in Evansville, Indiana at the Old National Events Plaza. The event is scheduled to begin at 12:00pm CDT.
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Just watch.  You’re worth it:

“America First” is the headline given to today’s Donald Trump foreign policy speech as delivered.  However, many pundits are automatically assigning that reference position to the prior non-interventionist approach held prior to WWII.  This projection is factually false.
“America First” is simply that, a view, a perspective, a filtering prism of consideration for the U.S. role in the world by first thinking strategically about our own national interests.

There’s big business, big money, and big economic globalist influence swirling around all matters of modern U.S. foreign policy.
Few people, and almost no-one in the world of corporate media punditry, really take the conversation high enough to grasp the ultimate ends of any military aspect to foreign policy.  Candidate Donald Trump is the first leader in our lifetime to grasp how economic interests have merged with, and infiltrated the engagement policies of, the U.S. military.
Secondly, the same corporate media who are entwined in the economics of globalization, have been selling a false narrative about Secretary Hillary Clinton.  According to the media Secretary Clinton’s strength is ‘foreign policy’; this is pure professional gaslighting.
Hillary Clinton is more vulnerable on her failed tenure as America’s top diplomat than any other aspect of her presidential bid. (more…)

Better bolt down the chairs because Trump’s bringing company with him to a rally in Indianapolis.   Donald Trump is holding a rally tonight at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum with special guest Coach Bobby Knight. The event is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm Eastern time.
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1 – Alternate Live Stream #2

A Wall Street Globalist By Any Other Name is Still A Wall Street Globalist

According to numerous national media reports, Senator Ted Cruz is moments away from announcing Carly Fiorina as his running mate.The transparency of intent is brutally obvious.
Cruz is desperate; all current indications coming out of Indiana do not look well for his ongoing ‘hail-Mary’ chances.  The Kasich/Cruz deal to split up states in a futile effort to block Donald Trump is backfiring.  Ted Cruz “authenticity” and “likability” continue to plummet.  The more Ted talks, the less people like him.   He needs a reset, fast.
Enter Carly Fiorina, the consummate DC cocktail class republican.  A failed corporate CEO who was jettisoned from the private sector for her inept and inadequate skills as a company officer – never to be hired again by any company.  Fiorina’s only hope at retention of influence and affluence was a shift to the public sector.
We have done some earlier extensive research on Ms. Fiorina which is reposted and outlined below, including “Globalist Carly Fiorina” in her own words.

Team Cruz has always been aligned within the GOPe road-map.  The addition of Carly Fiorina, the splitter candidate, to be his running mate is stunningly solid evidence therein. Here’s why: (more…)

Candidate Donald Trump announced he has accepted an invitation from The National Interest Magazine, and its parent institution, The Center for the National Interest, to address the organization at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.  – Wednesday, April 27 at 12:00 p.m.
The speech is widely touted as an address on foreign policy for candidate Donald Trump:
Live Stream Link – Alternate Live Stream #1