Watch: How to Pay For Food From McDonalds With ‘Love’

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[As advertised during the Super Bowl,] McDonald’s is gearing up for a new promotion that will have you lovin’ it even more.

From February 2 through Valentine’s Day, participating locations will allow certain customers chosen at random to pay with lovin’ – that includes selfies, highfives, hugs and just about anything else you can think of without crossing any inappropriate lines.

A spokeswoman explained, “We want to thank our customers for making our day and hopefully they will make someone else’s as well – that’s what Lovin’ is all about.”

(Read more about the payment of love for food from McDonalds HERE)

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Georgia Man Accused of Killing Five Found in Mississippi

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A Georgia man accused of murdering five people, including his wife and other family members, was taken into custody Monday night in Mississippi, authorities said.

Thomas Jesse Lee, 26, of Troup County, Ga., was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the five bodies were discovered in their suburban home in LaGrange, Ga. on Saturday. He was taken into custody in Tupelo, Miss., Troup County Sheriff James Woodruff announced Monday night.

Troup County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Stewart Smith told FoxNews.com that Lee traveled to a church in Alcorn County in northeast Mississippi, where he sought assistance because he was out of money. The church, not knowing who he was, purchased a bus ticket for him to go to Alabama, near where his family lives, Smith said.

Soon after, a pastor heard about the manhunt for Lee from media reports, and contacted authorities, who took him into custody at a bus station in Tupelo . . .

He faces five counts of murder when he’s extradited to Troup County, Smith said, adding that authorities were anxious to speak with him to determine why he allegedly killed his family members. (Read more about the Georgia man HERE)

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After a Mid-Air Crash in Alaska, the Pilots Miraculously Survive

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Photo Credit: Fox News By Associated Press. The Alaska Department of Public Safety says officials have found two separate wreckage sites in the Mat-Su Valley after responding to reports that a single-engine plane collided with another aircraft.

A statement issued Saturday afternoon says pilots of both planes were found alive. One had serious injuries while the other pilot was moderately injured.

One airplane has been determined to be an Alaska Wildlife Trooper fixed-wing aircraft. (Read read more about the crash in Alaska HERE)

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String of Earthquakes Hit Alaska Islands

By Lauren Rosenthal. The Pribilof Islands aren’t usually prone to shaking. But more than a dozen earthquakes have been recorded in between St. Paul and St. George since Friday afternoon.

Michael West, the director of the Alaska Earthquake Information Center, describes the activity as a “swarm.”

“That is, a cluster of earthquakes that are responding to some stress in the earth that appears to be releasing itself kind of incrementally,” West says.

Most of the earthquakes have been around magnitude 4.0, although five of them exceeded 5.0M.

Residents in St. Paul and St. George have been feeling the effects. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Disgusting Twitter ‘Trolls’ Make Account Mocking Boy With Cancer

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The mother of a 23-month-old Leeds toddler battling rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma has blasted Twitter trolls who used her son’s photograph to accompany “disgusting” tweets.

Brave Riley Hoult is undergoing chemotherapy at Leeds General Infirmary after being diagnosed with the illness at the end of November.

Riley’s mother Sophie, 20, of Middleton, is sharing her son’s cancer fight story with thousands of people on Facebook and at Twitter account @RileysJourney_ in a bid to raise awareness of neuroblastoma.

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She was devastated to discover a Twitter account @funny_cancer had been set up using Riley’s image as the account’s profile picture.

Messages tweeted from the rogue ‘Cancer is Funny’ account, which stated it was based in Leeds, included: ‘people with cancer deserve to die’ and ‘cancer is funny because people die.’ (Read more about the people mocking the boy with cancer HERE)

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Patriot’s Coach Wears “Don’t Tread on Me” Shirt into Super Bowl; Supporters Called Racist

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Photo Credit: Boston HeraldIn images that have gone viral on Twitter, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is shown wearing a red t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Don’t Tread on Me” into the Super Bowl today. His shirt included an image from the famed Revolutionary War Gadsden flag, a mainstay of the modern Tea Party movement.

According to Wikipedia, “The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the rattlesnake are the words “Dont tread on me”. The flag is named after American general and statesman Christopher Gadsden (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution.”
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Liberal Magazine: If You Rooted for the Patriots You’re Racist

By Christian Datoc. [T]he liberal media refuses to quit its slanderous campaign against the 2015 AFC Champion New England Patriots.

The most recent salvo of Pats-hate comes from noted liberal-weekly, The Nation, which decided to abandon any and all shreds of journalistic bias in favor of declaring the Seattle Seahawks as America’s chosen team. The Deflate-Gate scandal has been revealed as a smoke and mirrors effort to undermine the house that Belichick built, and at this point in the game, these last futile proclamations from the self-proclaimed “flagship of the left” are not only easy to see through, but just flat-out repetitive.

For starters, the article’s main argument is basically as follows: “The NFL is part of a changing, more socially-conscious America, and if you aren’t pulling for the Seahawks, it’s probably because you’re a racist.”

Seriously. It’s all in there. (Read more from this story HERE)

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NFL Falsified ‘Deflate Gate’

By Christian Datoc. As the Deflate-Gate case against the New England Patriots continues to fall apart, multiple “anonymous leaks” have come forward to clear the Pats’ name, and the most recent source might officially end the conversation for good.

Earlier in the week, an anonymous leak claimed that the NFL lied when it originally reported 11 of the 12 Patriots’ balls were under-inflated by 2 pounds per square inch. The leak claimed that in reality, the balls were found to be between 1-2 pounds below the league limit for PSI. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Mother Who Rejected Abortion After She was Diagnosed With Cancer, Now Cancer Free

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Photo Credit: CBS A mother of six from Bayfield, Colorado, got great news this month after living with both joy and fear.

CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh first met Heather Choate when she was pregnant and diagnosed with breast cancer. January has been a month to remember for the young mother. She’s been excited about a new baby but worried about her own health. This week the whole family could finally celebrate.

CBS4 first met Ben and his wife when Heather was pregnant with her sixth child — but it was different.

“We were 10 weeks along when we found out that I had breast cancer,” Heather said.

The Choates say they were told to end the pregnancy for Heather’s sake, but the 29-year-old mother said she’d rather die. (Read more about the mother who rejected abortion HERE)

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Tom Brady: Team Chaplain One of the Main Reasons for This Season’s Success (+video)

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Photo Credit: Ijreview By Eric Scheiner. According to ESPN.com, Jack Easterby is treated a little different than most team chaplains. “The typical team chaplain is a pastor at a local church who volunteers to host Saturday chapel for 10 or so players who attend and is compensated with cash in a collection plate. In New England, Easterby has an office — and it’s near (Coach Bill) Belichick’s. He is a classic Belichick hire: The more he can do, the more he does. He hosts Bible study, works coaches’ hours in his office counseling players and their wives, throws passes in practice to Darrelle Revis and sometimes even jumps in on scout-team drills. When he’s not listening, he’s texting. When he’s not texting, he’s writing players and coaches individual notes, recapping their personal goals and reminding them of how thankful he is to know them.”

“The Patriots, since his hire, say they are not the same, no matter what happens in Super Bowl XLIX and no matter the result of Ted Wells’ investigation into whether the team illegally deflated footballs in the AFC championship game. Owner Robert Kraft calls Easterby a ‘wonderful individual,’ and (Tom) Brady has told friends Easterby is one of the main reasons for the Patriots’ success this past year. Safety Devin McCourty calls him ‘a godsend to this team’ who has ‘helped create better men.'”

(Read more about what Tom Brady said HERE)

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Seahawks Quarterback: I Became a Christian After Jesus Visited Me in a Dream (+videos)

By Michael Gryboski. Russell Wilson, a native of Richmond, Va., who quarterbacks for the Seattle Seahawks, explained in a recent video about his religious background and spiritual decision. (Read more from this story HERE).

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Mike Huckabee: Expecting a Christian to Accept Same-Sex Marriage is Like Asking a Jew to Serve Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp (+video)

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By Shiryn Ghermezian. Likely Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said on Sunday that expecting Christians to accept same-sex marriage is “like asking someone who’s Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli.”

“We don’t want to do that,” he continued, during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union. “I mean, we’re not going to do that. Or like asking a Muslim to serve up something that is offensive to him, or to have dogs in his backyard. We’re so sensitive to make sure we don’t offend certain religions, but then we act like Christians can’t have the convictions that they’ve had for 2,000 years.”

The former Arkansas governor made the comments in defense of an excerpt from his new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, in which he says he has friends and associates who are gay. Huckabee called homosexuality a “lifestyle” choice, as is drinking alcohol and using profanities. He told CNN’s Dana Bash that he remains friends with people who “have lifestyles that are not necessarily my lifestyle.” (Read more about what Huckabee said about the Christians to accept same-sex marriage HERE)

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Unbelievable: Madden NFL 2015 Precisely Predicted Patriots’ 28-24 Win Over Seahawks

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Photo Credit: REUTERS/LUCAS JACKSONIn a last minute interception, the Patriots sealed their victory in Super Bowl XLIX with a 28-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks. Incredibly, as we reported last week, the Madden NFL simulation between the two teams returned the exact same score. In the last twelve years of the simulations, Madden NFL has correctly predicted nine of the Super Bowl champions. That’s a pretty impressive accuracy rate of 75%. But the simulation has never before predicted the Super Bowl score to the point until today.


Here’s some more background on Madden NFL:

Since 2004, EA games has run a simulation of the Super Bowl using the latest game in the Madden NFL series and announced the result. The game simulations conducted by EA have correctly predicted nine of the last twelve Super Bowl winners . . . EA also releases a computer-generated description of the simulated game as if it were a summary of the real Super Bowl.

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Obama’s Drilling Ban in Alaska Definitely Not About Saving Polar Bears

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Photo Credit: Daily Caller Obama’s latest anti-fossil-fuels directive is to move off-limits to exploration and drilling some 12 million acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is one of the most oil-rich regions in the world. The area to be removed from drilling is larger than the combined land area of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Alaska’s economy is already softening because of low oil prices; now he tosses the state’s drowning economy an anchor.

Obama says his motivation is to keep this land environmentally undisturbed and to protect wildlife — as if he were a modern-day Theodore Roosevelt–style preservationist. “Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge is an incredible place — pristine, undisturbed,” Obama says. “It supports caribou and polar bears, all manner of marine life, countless species of birds and fish, and for centuries it supported many Alaska Native communities. But it’s very fragile.”

Well, no, not really. Think of a football field, and then think of placing a postcard on that field. This is roughly the size of the development footprint required to drill in these wilderness lands, compared with the entire Alaskan landmass. Thanks to horizontal drilling, the footprint from oil and gas production is getting smaller all the time. Drilling will hardly alter the majesty of the mountains or the forest lands.

[T]he impact on Alaska’s wildlife and natural beauty has been almost nonexistent. A study delivered in 2002 to the American Society of Civil Engineers found that “the ecosystems affected by the operation of TAPS and associated activity for almost 25 years are healthy.” Today the size of the caribou herd in Alaska is estimated at about 325,000 — four times the number before the pipeline was built. . .

So what’s really going on here? This latest White House move isn’t about saving polar bears. It’s about a radical climate-change agenda to stop all domestic oil and gas drilling and coal mining, wherever and whenever possible. The middle-class Americans who will lose jobs or pay more for gas at the pump are collateral damage. (Read more about the drilling ban in Alaska HERE)

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