FLASHBACK: Obama Insulted Nancy Reagan on Day One

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President Barack Obama’s decision to skip Nancy Reagan’s funeral in California on Friday in favor of attending the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Texas is not the first time Obama has insulted the former First Lady.

On Nov. 7, 2008, at his very first press conference after winning the election, President-elect Obama cracked a nasty joke at Nancy Reagan’s expense, referring to stories that she consulted an astrologer in the White House.

Obama was answering a question from a journalist who had asked him whether he had spoken to any of his predecessors. Obama’s flippant, contemptuous response is recorded in the transcript of the event:

QUESTION: Thank you for asking. Here’s my question. I’m wondering what you’re doing to get ready. Have you spoke to any living ex-presidents, what books you might be reading?…

OBAMA: … In terms of speaking to former presidents, I have spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton — I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.

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Bread Lines for Bernie

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After Bernie Sanders visited the Marxist Sandanista regime in Nicaragua on a propaganda tour, he argued that the bread lines in major cities were a good thing. “American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing!”

The bread lines had been caused by the radical regime’s socialist agricultural policies of land seizures from farmers. Those farmers who refused to be drawn into Soviet-style communal farms rebelled, along with Indian and Creole racial minorities, and became the core of the Contras, the heroic resistance fighters whose mass murders at the hands of Sandinista terrorists were cheered by American leftists.

What had been productive farmland vanished into a warren of newly invented government agencies run by leftist university graduates with no agricultural background obsessed with seizing land, but with no idea of how to run it. The remaining farmers were forced into grinding poverty by a government purchasing monopoly while the profits went not to their farms, but to the political class of the Sandanistas who lived in luxury while farmers fled and city workers waited on bread lines.

Think of them as the Bernie Bros of Nicaragua. Except they wore khaki fatigues, not pajamas. And instead of angrily tweeting, they marched their victims into churches and set them on fire. (Read more from “Bread Lines for Bernie” HERE)

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Trump Just Scored a Shock Endorsement That May Silence Those Calling Him Racist

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By Jack Davis. The brother of legendary civil rights activist Medgar Evers has two messages for America. One is that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is “the best candidate.” The other is that those obsessed with the past and the Ku Klux Klan have to “stop living in the past.”

“I believe in him first of all because he’s a businessman. I think jobs are badly needed in Mississippi,” said Charles Evers, 93, whose brother was gunned down in 1963. Evers, a former leader in the NAACP, became a Republican and supported Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In an interview on National Public Radio, Evers said Trump would be a unifier.

“I think he’s the best candidate,” Evers said on NPR. “Number one, he’s independent. Number two, he speaks on what he thinks and not what some other politician may tell them. I like him as a person. He’s a self-made man, and he doesn’t have to take donations from Charles Evers, other people. Once he get elected, he won’t owe me a thing.” (Read more from “Trump Just Scored a Shock Endorsement That May Silence Those Calling Him Racist” HERE)

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Hillary Clinton Pledges to Never Let Donald Trump Become President

By Liz Kreutz. Hillary Clinton took direct aim at Donald Trump during a rally in Detroit tonight, vowing to never let the Republican front-runner become president as she continued to shift her focus away from Bernie Sanders and toward the GOP field.

“Because of the kind of campaign that the Republicans have been running, led by their front-runner, we have a lot of people who have been attacked, right?” Clinton asked the crowd of roughly 850 people at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

The reference to Trump prompted loud “boos” from her supporters, which seemed to fire up Clinton. “I mean, you got to say this about him, he is an equal opportunity attacker,” she said about her possible future opponent in the general election. “He’s attacked Mexicans, he’s attacked people with disabilities, he’s attacked women, he has attacked Muslims. He’s just gone after everybody.”

She added: “We will not let a person like that ever become president of the United States.” (Read more from “Hillary Clinton Pledges to Never Let Donald Trump Become President” HERE)

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Paul Ryan Speaks With Trump and Cruz — Here’s What the Speaker Discussed With Them

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House Speaker Paul Ryan has had conversations with Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the speaker’s office said Monday.

“Speaker Ryan has now had phone calls with Donald Trump and Senator Cruz to explain House Republicans’ plan to present a bold conservative policy agenda this year,” press secretary AshLee Strong said in a statement provided to TheBlaze.

She added, “He will have similar calls with Senator Rubio and Governor Kasich soon.” (Read more from “Paul Ryan Speaks With Trump and Cruz — Here’s What the Speaker Discussed With Them” HERE)

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SHE THINKS AMERICANS ARE VERY, VERY STUPID: Hillary Continues Shrieking Her ‘No Classified Emails’ Lies

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During Monday’s Fox News town hall, Hillary Clinton repeated her outrageous claims that her private email server contained no classified material. Perhaps she could inform the FBI, the State Department, and various Inspectors General, which have designated more than 2,000 emails as classified, including 104 sent by Clinton herself, and 22 with a TOP SECRET designation.

During the town hall, Secretary Clinton faced a series of withering questions about her private email server. Among them was a quote from last year, in which Clinton claimed her private server contained no classified material.

On March 10, 2015, Secretary Clinton held a press conference at the United Nations in which she claimed that her private server contained no classified material.

CLINTON: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.

Clinton reiterated that outrageously false claim again today. But just last week, it was revealed Clinton’s email contained more than 2,000 classified emails, including 104 emails authored and sent by Clinton herself.

How stupid does Clinton think Americans are?

The answer, it would seem, very.

In fact, the American people have known for months that her private server contained classified material. With her willingness to tell baldface lies, it’s no wonder majorities of voters in primary states say they wouldn’t trust Clinton as far as they could throw her. (For more from the author of “SHE THINKS AMERICANS ARE VERY, VERY STUPID: Hillary Continues Shrieking Her ‘No Classified Emails’ Lies” please click HERE)

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Advisers for This GOP Candidate Are Reportedly Urging Him to End His Campaign

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By B. Christopher Agee. Though the Florida senator has put much of his primary election stock in a strong home-state finish, CNN is reporting that some advisers within the Marco Rubio camp are urging the third-place candidate to drop out of the race prior to the March 15 Florida primary. The reports come just days after Rubio won his second primary, picking up all of Puerto Rico’s 23 delegates.

Quoting an unnamed campaign source, CNN reported that Rubio remains optimistic of his chances in the Sunshine State election even if some on his staff are starting to worry.

“He doesn’t want to get killed in his home state,” said the insider, suggesting a loss in Florida could “hurt his political future.”

Contradicting the network’s claims, however, was Rubio communications director Alex Conant, who appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room to call the story “fiction” and “100 percent false.”

Conant explained to host Wolf Blitzer that he “was sitting in a senior staff meeting planning out next week’s schedule” when he saw CNN’s claim. (Read more from “Advisers for This GOP Candidate Are Reportedly Urging Him to End His Campaign” HERE)

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Some Rubio Advisers Say Get out Before Florida

By Jamie Gangel and Tal Kopan. A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say.

Rubio himself is “bullish” on his odds of winning the critical primary, despite some advisers who are less hopeful and believe a loss there would damage him politically in both the short- and long-term.

Publicly, the campaign is maintaining they are still a contender in this race, touting a Sunday win in Puerto Rico’s primary that delivered Rubio 23 delegates. But privately, the campaign is having a debate about whether he should remain in the mix — even for his home state of Florida’s primary. (Read more from “Some Rubio Advisers Say Get out Before Florida” HERE)

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Are Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Natural Born Citizens? Judge to Hear Case

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A case challenging the eligibility of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio to run for president will be heard in Broward County court at 11 a.m. Friday.

The crux of the case: the meaning of the phrase “natural born citizen” and how it applies to the two Republican senators. Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban immigrants who became citizens a few years later. Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban-born father and American mother, who moved to Texas when Cruz was four.

“These two candidates are naturalized U.S. citizens, or at the very least, simply fail to comply with the common law Supreme Court established definition of natural born citizen,” wrote Michael Voeltz in his court complaint.

Voeltz, a Broward Republican and inventory manager at a car dealership who is representing himself, wants the candidates’ names withdrawn from the Florida March 15 primary ballot.

The U.S. Constitution states that a presidential candidate must be a “natural born citizen.” Voeltz argues that the definition of “natural born citizens” refers to those born in the U.S. whose parents are U.S. citizens. (Read more from “Are Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Natural Born Citizens? Judge to Hear Case” HERE)

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Thanks to the Republican Civil War, Every Scenario Ends With Hillary Clinton Winning the Election

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What is the worst possible outcome for the presidential election of 2016? Assuming that an election will actually take place, that is an easy question to answer – Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next president of the United States. She is truly evil in every sense of the word, and the implications of what four (or eight) years of Hillary would mean for our nation are almost too terrible to imagine. That is why it is so depressing watching what is happening to the Republican Party right now. The civil war in the Republican Party is ripping it to shreds, and as a result of all this warfare every plausible scenario for what will happen the rest of the way ends with Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election.

According to the Associated Press, here is how the Republican delegate count stands as of right now…

Donald Trump: 384

Ted Cruz: 300

Marco Rubio: 151

John Kasich: 37

Ted Cruz looks like he is within shooting distance of Trump, but that is an illusion. The early part of the schedule was full of states where Cruz was expected to do well, but now the map is going to work very much against him.

At this point, the only candidate that looks like he may be able to accumulate 1,237 delegates before the convention is Trump, and that is far from guaranteed. So far, Trump has won approximately 44 percent of the delegates during the caucuses and primaries. By the time it is all said and done, he will need to have slightly more than 60 percent of all the delegates awarded during the caucuses and primaries to guarantee himself the nomination before the Republican convention. That is because there are hundreds of delegates that are not awarded during the caucuses and the primaries, and almost all of those delegates are members of the Republican establishment.

Trump can still get there by racking up large delegate totals in winner-take-all states such as California, but it will be a challenge. The entire Republican Party establishment, Fox News, Glenn Beck and a significant number of other prominent conservative voices have all declared war on Trump. In fact, there are super PACs that are going to spend tens of millions of dollars doing nothing but trying to destroy Trump.

If the Republican Party actually wanted to beat Hillary Clinton in November, they should be rallying around Trump and trying to help him, because he would definitely need a lot of help to win the general election.

According to Real Clear Politics, the latest three polls all have Trump losing to Clinton by at least 5 points. In key states such as Michigan, the numbers are quite a bit more dismal. Over the next few months, those numbers are likely to get even worse as Trump is savagely assaulted by the Republican establishment and relentlessly bombarded by tens of millions of dollars of negative attack ads. Meanwhile, Clinton is cruising along virtually unscathed.

Of course in a just world Hillary Clinton would have already been arrested and put in prison. There is no possible way that she should be running for president of the United States. Unfortunately, we live in a deeply corrupt society, and this is the way that things work.

If by some miracle he does survive to become the nominee, a significantly weakened Trump would then have to face the full power of the Clinton political machine. It is estimated that a billion dollars could be spent on the Democratic side this time around, and Trump does not have the resources to match that. Normally big Republican donors rally around the nominee, but in this case the big money is fighting like crazy to defeat Trump. In a general election matchup, it really would be David vs. Goliath, and Trump would not be Goliath.

If Donald Trump does not accumulate 1,237 delegates before the convention, then we would be headed for what is known as a “brokered convention“. The rules are very complicated, but the key thing to remember is that the delegates are only bound for the first vote. After that, they can vote for whoever they want.

And it is very important to note that the campaigns don’t pick their delegates. Becoming a delegate is a long and tedious process in most states, and most of them are party loyalists.

In the end, a “brokered convention” would almost certainly result in an establishment candidate being chosen as the nominee. Needless to say, the names “Trump” and “Cruz” would not be on that list.

Have you noticed that Mitt Romney has started to put himself out there lately? His verbal attacks on Trump have been absolutely scathing, and he told Fox News that he would not say no if he was “drafted” to become the nominee at the Republican convention…

Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and the Republicans’ 2012 presidential nominee, repeated remarks from last week, telling “Fox News Sunday” that he wouldn’t launch an eleventh-hour campaign for president. But he declined to reject being “drafted” at the GOP convention in July to be the party’s general election candidate.

“It would be absurd to say that if I were drafted I’d say no,” Romney said.

Behind the scenes, much more is going on. In fact, CNN is reporting that Romney’s team is actively working on a plan to steal the nomination from Trump at the convention…

Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney’s inner circle says.

The 2012 GOP nominee’s advisers are examining what a fight at the convention might look like and what rules might need revising.

“It sounds like the plan is to lock the convention,” said the source.

If Romney does emerge as the nominee, does anyone actually believe that he will defeat Clinton?

Of course not. Trump’s millions of supporters will be absolutely infuriated, and many of them would absolutely refuse to cast a vote for Romney in the general election.

In the end, it would be the same result – a victory for Hillary Clinton.

The next few weeks are going to be very interesting. If Trump wins Florida and Ohio, there is going to be a lot of pressure on Marco Rubio and John Kasich to get out of the race, and the path to 1,237 delegates would appear to be clear.

However, Mitt Romney could attempt to derail the Trump bandwagon by jumping in the race after March 15th. Romney’s goal would be to capture enough delegates in winner-take-all states such as California to keep Trump from getting to the magic number of 1,237. If Romney could do that, he knows that he would likely come out of a brokered convention as the nominee.

But no matter what happens on the Republican side from this point forward, it is going to take a miracle of epic proportions to keep Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency. Every plausible scenario ends with her in the White House, and that is a truly horrible thing to imagine. (For more from the author of “Thanks to the Republican Civil War, Every Scenario Ends With Hillary Clinton Winning the Election” please click HERE)

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Trump Counters GOP Establishment: Releases ‘Corrupt Marco’ Ad in Florida

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At least FOUR Establishment Republican PACs are spending millions of dollars to run anti-Trump ads in Florida this week in the runup of the Republican primary next Tuesday.

This afternoon Trump responded to the establishment smears.

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Record Immigration Will Buoy Hillary

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Last October, I analyzed how record immigration is creating a permanent Democrat majority. Today, my friend Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, published an insightful breakdown of immigration numbers from the most recent Census data, which further portends electoral doom for conservatives.

Immigration, like most other things in life, is good in moderation. That has always been our guiding principle, even during the most expansionist periods of our history — a point I plan to elaborate on further in my upcoming book. What is happening today however, the mass influx of immigrants predominantly from third world countries, is something we’ve never seen in our nation’s history.

As a way of quantifying the magnitude of this great wave of immigration, Camarota tallied the Census data of the immigrant population and their American-born children under the age of 18. Focusing just on the raw number of immigrants often overlooks the broader effect of mass migration, especially resulting from immigrants with high birth rates. He found that there are now 61 million immigrants living in America, including those minor children. Camarota’s best estimate is that 15.7 million of them are illegal immigrants and minor children born in the U.S. to at least one illegal immigrant parent.

This is unprecedented in our history. As late as 1970, just 13.5 million immigrants (including their minor children) were living here, representing just 6.6% of the population. Now immigrants and their children comprise 19% of our population.

Moreover, in some individual states, that number is much higher. Here are the states where the foreign born and their minor children comprise more than 20% of their respective population:

California – 37.4%

New Jersey – 30.4%

Nevada – 28.2%

New York – 27.5%

Florida – 25.3%

Texas – 25%

Connecticut – 24.4%

Maryland – 22.3%

Hawaii – 21.8%

Arizona – 21.3%

Massachusetts – 21%

Rhode Island – 20.8%

Illinois – 20.3%

Washington – 20.3%

Think about it: there are 14 states where more than one in five individual residents is either an immigrant or a minor child of an immigrant. More than one in three Californians fit this description! As I noted in my October analysis, this volume of immigration, particularly from the third world, is so precipitous there is no way for many of these people to assimilate into our political values. This is why so many of these states have turned hopelessly blue. It’s also why so many former red states are becoming purple or even light blue.

In states like Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia, immigrants and their minor children have grown by 3,000% since 1970! Virginia’s immigrant family population has grown by 1,150%. Is there any wonder it’s so hard to win these states?

Unfortunately for conservatives, the trajectory is set to explode. By 2065, immigrants and their children will comprise 36% of the entire U.S. population.

Here is what Thomas Jefferson warned in 1780 with regards to mass migration:

They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. [Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 9]

Declaring love and admiration for immigrants in an abstract sense is not public policy. Of course we welcome immigrants. We always have. But how many and over what period of time? The devil is in the details, and in this case the details are the devil our founders warned about 230 years ago.

The Democrats understand exactly what they are doing. This is why someone as unappealing and corrupt as Hillary Clinton can still remain competitive in a general election. Unfortunately, the other party is merely an exercise in self-immolation. (For more from the author of “Record Immigration Will Buoy Hillary” please click HERE)

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