After Paul Ryan Attacked Trump, He Immediately Fired Back in a Way Ryan NEVER Expected

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A day after House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared to call out Donald Trump for “ugliness” on the campaign trail, the GOP front-runner’s campaign announced that its first Wisconsin rally will be held in Ryan’s hometown.

The Trump rally is slated for Tuesday afternoon in Janesville in southern Wisconsin.

In a speech to congressional interns Wednesday, Ryan said, “When passions flair, ugliness is sometimes inevitable, but we shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm.”

“If someone has a bad idea, we tell them why our idea is better. We don’t insult them into agreeing with us,” he added.

Ryan’s remarks came a day after Trump threatened Sen. Ted Cruz’s wife via Twitter in response to an ad run by a pro-Cruz super PAC, which included a suggestive modeling picture of the billionaire businessman’s wife . . .

The three remaining candidates face off in the April 5 Wisconsin primary with 42 delegates up for grabs. The most recent polling has the race neck-and-neck with Cruz at 36 percent, Trump at 35 and Gov. John Kasich at 19 percent. (Read more from “After Paul Ryan Attacked Trump, He Immediately Fired Back in a Way Ryan NEVER Expected” HERE)

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Obama Admin Engaged in Secret Talks to Pay Iran Nearly $2 Billion

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The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

The administration’s disclosure came in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), who was seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a “ransom payment” for Iran’s release that month of several U.S. hostages.

The administration’s official response to Pompeo was sent earlier this week, just days after a Free Beacon report detailing a months-long State Department effort to stall the lawmaker’s inquiry.

“We apologize for the delay in responding,” Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs, states in the letter’s opening.

Obama administration officials first began talks to settle a number of outstanding legal claims leveled against the United States by Iran in 2014. The administration predicts that more taxpayer-funded payments are likely to be granted to the Islamic Republic in the future, according to the letter. (Read more from “Obama Admin Engaged in Secret Talks to Pay Iran Nearly $2 Billion” HERE)

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This Is Scott Walker’s Prediction If a Contested Convention Happens

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By Jessie Opoien. If the Republican Party finds itself with an open convention in July, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes the nominee may not be Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or John Kasich.

“I think if it’s an open convention, it’s very likely it would be someone who’s not currently running,” Walker told reporters Thursday. “I mean, who knows. The one thing I qualify — it’s like the qualifications you see on those ads you see for car dealerships. I think any of us who comment on this election have to qualify that almost every prediction’s been off, so it’s hard to predict anything.”

The governor, who ended his own presidential campaign in September, has yet to endorse a candidate. He plans to decide whether to endorse within the next few days, he said.

Walker spoke to a few reporters in Madison after signing into law a bipartisan bill creating a dietetic internship program in the state’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

“I think it might be one of the days where the weather trumps Trump,” he joked, adding that that was probably “wishful thinking.” (Read more from “This Is Scott Walker’s Prediction If a Contested Convention Happens” HERE)

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Ryan: No Mention of Trump but Warns of ‘Ugliness’ in Politics

By Deirdre Walsh. Without mentioning Donald Trump by name, House Speaker Paul Ryan repeatedly warned Wednesday the presidential race is dividing the country and urged GOP candidates to offer solutions instead of campaigning on the politics of fear.

“We shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm,” the Wisconsin Republican said in a bluntly worded address about the “state of politics” to an audience made up mostly of congressional interns but aimed squarely at the adults in his party who are running for the White House in a campaign marked by name calling and profanity.

Recounting his early days working on Capitol Hill as a young staffer, Ryan said: “It did not used to be this bad and it does not have to be this way.” (Read more from “Ryan: No Mention of Trump but Warns of ‘Ugliness’ in Politics” HERE)

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The Coming Trump Landslide

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Republican insiders say he can’t win . . .

He’s also dangerous, they say. He is “divisive.” He is alienating U.S. allies and encouraging U.S. enemies, the naysayers claim . . .

May I, as a Ted Cruz supporter, just step in here for a minute and explain why Donald Trump, as Republican nominee for president, will win a landslide election victory over Hillary and actually be a welcome alternative to the kind of leadership America has experienced for the last 27 years?

I don’t care what the national polls say now about a matchup between Trump and Clinton. I am old enough to remember vividly what the polls between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter looked like in 1980 at this point in the presidential campaign. They suggested Reagan had no chance to win. He trailed Carter in the polls by double digits. He went on to carry 44 states that year, including New York and California – 49 states four years later.

That is very close to what I expect Trump to do to Hillary if he becomes the nominee. (Read more from “The Coming Trump Landslide” HERE)

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Scientists Create Ultra-Simplified Bacteria but Discover Life Is Still Mind-Boggling Complex

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By Malcolm Ritter. Scientists have deleted nearly half the genes of a microbe, creating a . . . bacterium [that] has a smaller genetic code than does any natural free-living counterpart, with 531,000 DNA building blocks containing 473 genes. (Humans have more than 3 billion building blocks and more than 20,000 genes).

But even this stripped-down organism is full of mystery. Scientists say they have little to no idea what a third of its genes actually do.

“We’re showing how complex life is, even in the simplest of organisms,” researcher J. Craig Venter told reporters. “These findings are very humbling.” (Read more from “Scientists Create Ultra-Simplified Bacteria but Discover Life Is Still Mind-Boggling Complex” HERE)

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Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form yet, Not Sure What It Is

By Eric Roston. For years, DNA and computer operating systems served as cliches for each other: DNA is the “operating software” of living cells in the same way that system software is the “DNA” of a computer.

The problem with the comparison, as shown by research two decades in the making, is how much biologists still don’t know about DNA, or genomes. That’s an especially problematic development, given the industry sprouting up around genetic manipulation.

Genomics pioneer Craig Venter and more than 20 colleagues engineered a living microbe with a genome simpler than any seen in nature. In other words, they created a life form whose relative simplicity and modular design make it a platform that one day may be as easily manipulated as, say, software. Setting aside fears of Blade Runner replicants running amok, the breakthrough revealed on Thursday in the journal Science may hold promise for a new era in medicine, industry, and energy. (Read more from “Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form yet, Not Sure What It Is” HERE)

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Graham: Kasich Is Better Candidate Than Cruz — but Can’t Win

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Sen. Lindsey Graham said John Kasich is the best Republican presidential candidate but that he can’t win the nomination, which is why the South Carolina Republican is backing Ted Cruz.

“I think John Kasich would be the best nominee, but he doesn’t have a chance,” Graham said during an appearance Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“John Kasich’s problem is he is an insider in an outsider year and nobody seems to want to buy that,” he added.

Graham signaled his support for Cruz last week, when news emerged he would be hosting a fundraiser for him. This comes after harsh comments Graham made about his Senate colleague, including while running against the Texas senator in his own White house bid.

Graham has argued that while he has differences with Cruz (joking the runner-up in delegates was his “15th choice” in the race), he’s the best-positioned Republican other than Donald Trump. (Read more from “Graham: Kasich Is Better Candidate Than Cruz — but Can’t Win” HERE)

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You’ll Never Believe What Ted Cruz Just Called Donald Trump

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Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a “sniveling coward” and told him to leave his wife “the hell alone” on Thursday after Trump retweeted an unflattering photo of his spouse, Heidi Cruz.

“It’s not easy to tick me off. I don’t get angry often,” Cruz told reporters while campaigning in Wisconsin. “But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that’ll do it every time. Donald you are a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”

“Our spouses and our children are off bounds,” Cruz warned. “It is not acceptable for a big loud New York bully to attack my wife.”

The Texas senator said Trump is scared by “strong women” and that “real men don’t try to bully women” . . .

The rivalry between the two got increasingly personal this week after an anti-Trump super PAC made an ad featuring a photo shoot of Melania Trump from 2000 with the meme caption: “meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.” (Read more from “You’ll Never Believe What Ted Cruz Just Called Donald Trump” HERE)

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Whoopi Goldberg to Ben Carson: Why Support ‘Racist’ Trump? ‘That’s How Hitler Got In’

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Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson defended his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump against co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s charges of racism and sexism.

Whoopi Goldberg asked, “Sir, I hate to ask this question, but you have aligned yourself with a man who has bashed women, made countless racist remarks, and you’re Ben Carson. Why would you — why would you align yourself with that is this this?”

Carson answered, “Well, you know, you have to look at the good and the bad. There’s no perfect person.”

Goldberg said, “No, I know that.”

Carson continued, “But you look at when Donald Trump first went down to Palm Beach area and a lot of the clubs down there would not accept Jews and Blacks. He insisted on Jews and Blacks and helped to break that open. So, has he said some things that I wouldn’t say or that you wouldn’t say? Of course.” (Read more from “Whoopi Goldberg to Ben Carson: Why Support ‘Racist’ Trump? ‘That’s How Hitler Got In'” HERE)

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Thousands Pledge to Get Arrested in D.C. Protests Next Month

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The leaders of Democracy Spring, a coalition of far-left groups plotting a mass civil disobedience movement to begin next month, told Breitbart News they have already confirmed 2,912 protesters who pledged specifically to risk arrest.

Those protesters signed an option on the coalition’s website explicitly stating, “I pledge to be one among thousands who will risk arrest to save democracy in DC between April 11 – 16.”

Other pledge options for protests include:

*I pledge to come to Washington DC to support the sit in through legal protest but cannot risk arrest.

*I want to join the march from Philadelphia to Washington DC, sometime between April 2 – 11.

*I want to volunteer to help organize this campaign.

Kai Newkirk, Democracy Spring’s campaign director, explained that his team called each of the 2,912 protesters pledging to risk arrest and spent about twenty minutes on the phone expounding on the movement’s goals as well as helping to coordinate travel and logistics. (Read more from “Thousands Pledge to Get Arrested in D.C. Protests Next Month” HERE)

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Prop Pistol May Cost New Jersey Actor 10 Years Behind Bars

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New Jersey’s bizarre gun laws have struck again. An actor who used a pellet gun while filming a movie now faces 10 years behind bars on felony possession of a firearm charges.

Carlo Goias, whose screen name is Carlo Bellario, was recently filming “Vendetta Games” when he was arrested in a residential neighborhood for having an Airsoft gun. The Toms River resident was holding a plastic toy outside a vehicle during a chase scene, which prompted some 9-1-1 calls. He was then forced to spend four days in jail while trying to raise $10,000 bail.

“I was shooting a movie – I wasn’t committing a crime intentionally,” Goias told the Associated Press on Wednesday. “Robert De Niro doesn’t ask Marty Scorsese if he has gun permits. We’re actors. That’s for the production company to worry about.”

Goias rejected a plea deal offer Tuesday that would have resulted in less than one year in prison. Prosecutors said prior convictions for theft and burglary could result in a 10-year sentence.

“I pretended to shoot out the window; they were going to dub in the sound later,” Goias said. “We get back, and within a couple of minutes we’re surrounded by cop cars.” (Read more from “Prop Pistol May Cost New Jersey Actor 10 Years Behind Bars” HERE)

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