If an immigrant is here illegally, but hasn’t committed a crime, Rubio says they’re the good kind; keepers.   The “Illegal Non-Criminal” oxymoron aliens.

WASHINGTON DC – Sen. Marco Rubio says people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally but haven’t committed any major crimes could be allowed to stay.

In an interview airing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the Florida contender for the Republican presidential nomination said felons shouldn’t be allowed to stay, but those who commit lesser crimes could still qualify. In this interview, he didn’t specify whether those allowed to stay would ever be able to become citizens. (more…)

[…]  We are aware of reports that American citizens are missing in Iraq,” US State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

“We are working with the full cooperation of the Iraqi authorities to locate and recover the individuals,” Kirby added, without providing details about their number or the circumstances of their disappearance. (link)

(Independent) Three Americans have been kidnapped by militants in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.

According to Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, well-informed sources in Baghdad have confirmed that the kidnapping took place in the south of the city on Sunday.

The US State Department confirmed it was aware of the reports, and said it was working with Iraqi authorities to locate and recover the missing Americans.  The identities of the kidnap victims or the militias have not yet been confirmed.

The reported kidnapping comes at a time of increased tensions between the predominantly Shia militias of southern Iraq and US-backed Saudi Arabia, following the latter’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. (link)

We have previously outlined the approach the Karl Rove/Lee Atwater GOPe types will use to take down Ted Cruz. –HERE–  Democrats would also use a similar approach if they ever had the need.  Senator Cruz personifies their ideal opponent. 

Most of Ted Cruz supporters are severely religious, and/or they are part of the financial enterprises surrounding religion.  As a direct consequence both elements are intensely committed to avoid vetting him.  This head-in-sand approach presents a serious issue – when they don’t confront the problems they’re set up for catastrophic failure.

The approach of “proselytizing as an electoral strategy” will bring money from intensely religious followers – but it can never win a broad based election. The following article from 2013 highlights how the GOPe will bring down Cruz as soon as his usefulness is expired.

[2013 – TEXAS] In a sermon last year at an Irving, Texas, megachurch that helped elect Ted Cruz to the United States Senate, Cruz’ father Rafael Cruz indicated that his son was among the evangelical Christians who are anointed as “kings” to take control of all sectors of society, an agenda commonly referred to as the “Seven Mountains” mandate, and “bring the spoils of war to the priests”, thus helping to bring about a prophesied “great transfer of wealth”, from the “wicked” to righteous gentile believers.

[video, below: excerpts from Rafael Cruz sermon, and from the July 2013 anointing of Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz] (more…)

Candidate Donald Trump begins to frame the argument against John Boehner’s personal attorney, Ted Cruz, by pointing out Cruz’s dishonesty.

The issues Donald Trump brings up around the Goldman Sachs and Citibank unreported loans will eventually lead to the general electorate understanding what lies at the heart of all Cruz’s irreconcilable political policy, votes and flip-flops.

Notice how all of the Cruz advocates are pushing the undisclosed loan terms as “equity loans” against assets; this is a factually false but necessary assertion. Candidate loans for federal election campaigns without collateral (essentially signature loans) are illegal, and forbidden by campaign finance rules and laws. (more…)

This video was taken in Charleston South Carolina on the morning of the GOP debate.  Along with RNC head Reince Priebus, Fox’s Dana Perino and all of the National Republican Party Leadership were in attendance.  Holland Redfield, an RNC committeeman who represents the Virgin Islands is speaking:

This was the RNC meeting/convention in South Carolina prior to the debate later in the day.   The membership from this entire group apparatus is who comprised the audience.

Do the audience responses evident in the debate broadcast make more sense now?

Here’s an article from Politico: CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Republican National committeeman delivered a call-to-arms against Donald Trump during a closed-door GOP meeting on Thursday, urging his colleagues to take a forceful stand against those who he said are destroying the party’s brand. (more…)

The headline reflects the moment my previous support for Ted Cruz (2011/2012), which evolved to concern about Senator Ted Cruz (2013/2014), turned to admitting Ted Cruz was a phoney.

The date was Saturday, July 19th, 2014 – I remember it vividly because I noted in my journal “last straw in providing Cruz any benefit of doubt – done“.

The week leading up to that weekend DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson appeared before an emergency congressional committee and stated he needed $4,000,000,000 (billion) in emergency appropriations to deal with the enormous “humanitarian crisis at the border“.

We knew that claim was fake because we had been tracking border apprehension reports and comparing them to the expressed narrative from the White House.

There wasn’t a mass influx of unaccompanied alien children (UAC’s), there was a predictable and intentionally constructed swarm of illegal alien “families“. (more…)

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 †

Proving the old axiom “history repeats itself”, here’s an old video from the 2011/2012 Presidential Campaign Season.

Against the current years’ events (some visible today) of Glenn Beck attacking candidate Donald Trump, it’s interesting to hear Andrew Breitbart describing Beck doing the same thing against candidate Newt Gingrich in 2011.

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