Ted Cruz Announces for President, Already Naysayers Demand Birth Certificate Because “He’s Canadian”

Ted CruBy Joshua M. Patton. In 2013 there was a somewhat-funny story about how Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz discovered he was a Canadian citizen and then immediately renounced his Canadian citizenship, because: ‘Murica.

He has since released his birth certificate, perhaps hoping to stave off the citizenship questions orbiting his nascent campaign for President.

Ted Cruz’s mother was an American which makes Ted Cruz an American, meaning he can run for President all he likes. However, because politics are funny like that, Cruz finds himself in the same boat as President Obama, in that some people think he’s not eligible to be President*.

As you can see in the video above, the ladies of The View had a little fun at Cruz’s expense. Rosie Perez seemed to think it would be “a huge issue” because of the birther movement. Since his likely voters probably consist of those who still think President Obama is a Kenyan-born secret-Muslim, it is unclear if this reverse-birtherism is actually a boon for his campaign or one of his opponents. (Read more from “People Called for Ted Cruz’s Birth Certificate Because He’s Canadian” HERE)


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Ted Cruz Enlists Christians for White House Bid

By Gary Robertson/Thomson. Casting himself as the leader of a grassroots army, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz made an explicit appeal to Christian conservatives on Monday as he became the first major figure to jump into the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

Cruz’s unyielding tactics in Washington have made him a hero to many on the Tea Party right and a thorn in the side of the Republican establishment. Seeking to break into the front ranks of candidates, Cruz solicited the support of born-again Christians who play a major role in states with early nominating contests.

Speaking at Liberty University, a Christian school founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell, Cruz discussed his Baptist faith in personal terms and urged religious conservatives who have sat out recent elections to get off the sidelines.

“Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values,” he said. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Parents Pull Child from School over Transgender Bathroom Choice [+video]

transgenderBy Glen Beeby. Two Boise parents said they pulled their student from school at South Junior High after another student, who is transgender, was allowed to use the girls bathroom.

Pauline Adams and Jacob Smith were upset when they found out from their daughter last week that a transgender student was allowed to choose the bathroom [the boy dressing as a girl] preferred.

The student was born a boy, but identifies and dresses as a girl.

Smith said he doesn’t feel it’s appropriate for kids to be able to choose at that age.

“We would not allow our child to share a restroom simultaneously at home so why would we be OK with it at school,” Smith said. (Read more from “Parents Pull Child from School over Transgender Bathroom Choice [+video]” HERE)

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Woman Raised by Lesbian Couple: ‘I Ached Every Day for a Dad’

By Michael W. Chapman. Heather Barwick, who was raised by her mother and her mother’s lesbian partner, wrote in an essay this week that same-sex “marriage” is not the same as normal marriage between a man and a woman, that the traditional family is best, and that while growing up she “ached every day for a dad.”


Barwick, who is 31 now, married, and has four children, said that “same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not.”

“A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting,” wrote Barwick in her essay for The Federalist website. “My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad. I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.”

“I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man,” said Barwick. “Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy. It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father, for a man, in a community that says that men are unnecessary.” (Read more from this story HERE)

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Economist: Half of Ferguson’s Young Black Men Are ‘Missing’ [+video]

black signNearly 50 percent of the young black men in Ferguson, Missouri have gone “missing” from their communities thanks to prison, premature death, and other social dysfunctions, according to an analysis by economist Stephen Bronars for Forbes.

Ferguson is currently being vilified after a federal report slammed the city’s police department for violating blacks’ civil rights and employing only four black officers on a force of more than 50. Now, however, an economist has published a stark analysis of the demographics in Ferguson, revealing that one reason the town infamous for Michael Brown’s death has so few black police is that half of its young men have disappeared from society altogether.

According to Ferguson’s federal census data, Bronars notes, there are 1,182 black women in Ferguson between the ages of 25 and 34. In comparison, however, there are only 577 black men within the same age range. The gap is smaller but still vast in other age ranges; black men are about 40 percent below the numbers they should have for the 20-24 and 35-54 age ranges.

There are peripheral factors, Bronars says, that play a small role in creating the gap. Black men in the military aren’t counted in Ferguson’s census data, and a marginally higher number of them have died for one reason or another.

The biggest causes of the disappearing black men are representative of crippling social dysfunctions in Ferguson. Hundreds of men from the city are in prison, while others fall through the cracks of census data due to problems like homelessness and crippling substance abuse. (Read more from “Economist: Half of Ferguson’s Young Black Men Are ‘Missing’ [+video]” HERE)

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Obama Signals to Hamas and Hezbollah that it’s ‘Open Season’ on Israel [+videos]

Obama wrist bandBy Alex Griswold. Fox News host and former White House press secretary Dana Perino said on “The Kelly File” that the Obama administration is signaling to terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah that it is “open season on Israel” with its comments that their support for the Jewish nation at the United Nations was in jeopardy.

“There was [a] troubling report tonight, I think out of a senior administration official,” Perino said, “someone floating a little bit of a trial balloon out there to say there might be some problems now that the United States has with Israel, and that might actually leak into conversations at the United Nations Security Council, in which Europe has not been supportive of Israel.”

(Read more from “Obama Signals To Hamas And Hezbollah That It’s ‘Open Season’ On Israel [+video]” HERE)

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‘A Historic Mistake’: Rubio Rips Obama Over Treatment Of Israel, Netanyahu


By Al Weaver. In a fiery floor speech Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio ripped the Obama administration for its treatment of Israel in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection victory Tuesday.

In his speech, Rubio, a potential 2016 GOP candidate, said President Barack Obama has made a “historic and tragic mistake” by standing against the Israelis while actively “embolden[ing] their enemies.” The Florida Senator’s speech also comes in the midst of peace talks between the U.S. and Iran, which Netanyahu has strongly ridiculed.

(Read more from this story HERE)

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Confirmed: Iran Endorses Nuclear EMP Attack on United States [+video]

Photo Credit: Washington Examiner

Photo Credit: Washington Examiner

By Paul Bedard. Suspected for years of plotting to dismantle the U.S. electric grid, American officials have confirmed that Iranian military brass have endorsed a nuclear electromagnetic pulse explosion that would attack the country’s power system.

American defense experts made the discovery while translating a secret Iranian military handbook, raising new concerns about Tehran’s recent nuclear talks with the administration.

The issue of a nuclear EMP attack was raised in the final hours of this week’s elections in Israel when U.S. authority Peter Vincent Pry penned a column for Arutz Sheva warning of Iran’s threat to free nations.

“Iranian military documents describe such a scenario — including a recently translated Iranian military textbook that endorses nuclear EMP attack against the United States,” he wrote.

A knowledgable source said that the textbook discusses an EMP attack on America in 20 different places. (Read more from “Iran Endorses Nuclear EMP Attack on United States [+video]” HERE)

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EMP, Extremely Dangerous

By Dan Eden. As usual, viewzone gave me a writing assignment about something of which I knew very little — this time it was something called the electromagnetic pulse, or “EMP” weapon. As usual, what I learned from my research scared the hell out of me.


When I first sat down to write this story, America had no real enemy capable of using an EMP weapon. That’s a good thing because, as you will learn, this is far more dangerous and potentially more lethal than a nuclear bomb. We have known that the Russians have EMP weapons because of their published (an sometimes not) research with the technology. And now, of course, we can include China . . .

A declassified intelligence report, obtained by the private National Security Archive, provides details on China’s EMP weapons and plans for their use. Annual Pentagon reports on China’s military in the past made only passing references to the arms. (Read more from this story HERE)

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After Terminator Arm, DARPA Now Wants Implantable Hard Drive for the Brain [+video]

TerminatorAn experimental Pentagon program has already developed two types of a highly advanced, Terminator-like prosthetic arm.

What’s more, a quadriplegic woman with sensors implanted onto her brain controlled one of the robotic limbs to grab a cup, shake hands and eat a chocolate bar. She even flew an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter simulator using just her thoughts.

Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to expand on that cutting-edge work to build other potential breakthrough medical technologies, including a pacemaker-sized device that might someday improve the memory of troops who suffered a traumatic brain injury. Think of it as a hard drive of sorts for the brain.

“We know we need a next-generation device that doesn’t exist today,” said Justin Sanchez, a program manager in DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office in Arlington, Virginia. “That’s what these new programs are all about — not only understanding the brain and these conditions, but building the hardware that enables us to address those issues. You need both. (Read more from “After Terminator Arm, DARPA Wants Implantable Hard Drive for the Brain [+video]” HERE)

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Secret Service Wants a Fake White House to Help Protect the Real One [+video]

Stung by accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the Secret Service wants to spend $8 million to build another White House in Beltsville, Md.

In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Joseph P. Clancy, the director of the Secret Service, on Tuesday urged lawmakers to give him money to build a detailed replica of the White House to aid in training officers and agents to protect the real thing. Beltsville, about 20 miles from the real White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is the location of a 500-acre Secret Service training site in the verdant terrain of southern Maryland.

“Right now, we train on a parking lot, basically,” Mr. Clancy said. “We put up a makeshift fence and walk off the distance between the fence at the White House and the actual house itself. We don’t have the bushes, we don’t have the fountains, we don’t get a realistic look at the White House.”

Mr. Clancy added, “It’s important to have a true replica of what the White House is so we can do a better job of this integrated training between our uniform division officers, our agents and our tactical teams.”

The proposed replica would provide what Mr. Clancy described in prepared testimony as a “more realistic environment, conducive to scenario-based training exercises,” for instructing those who must protect the president’s home. It would mimic the facade of the White House residence, the East and West Wings, guard booths, and the surrounding grounds and roads. (Read more from “Secret Service Wants a Fake White House to Help Protect the Real One” HERE)

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Watch: It Was a Mass Murder in America the Media Didn’t Report, Now There’s a Director to Tell the Story

“Gosnell,” the movie about mass murderer and abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, will be directed by international film and television star Nick Searcy.

The announcement was made Wednesday on the documentary film’s Indiegogo site. Last year, the project set a movie crowd-funding record. Searcy is the latest in a line of well-known individuals involved in the movie.

John Sullivan, the co-director of Dinesh D’Souza’s two documentaries, “2016: Obama’s America” and “America: Imagine the World Without Her,” has signed on as executive producer. The script is being written by Andrew Klavan, who best known as the author of the novel True Crime, which was turned into a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

“Gosnell” is being produced by Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinney and Magdalena Segieda, who also created the documentary “FrackNation,” in response to the anti-hydraulic drilling film “Gasland.”

Searcy, well known for his role as Art Mullen on the recently-concluded FX show “Justified,” as well as his roles in movies such as “Moneyball,” “Castaway,” and “Fried Green Tomatoes,” is also a very outspoken political conservative. (Read more from “Watch: It Was a Mass Murder in America the Media Didn’t Report, Now There’s a Director to Tell the Story” HERE)

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Watch: Groups Set up Fake New York City Gun Shop, Shame Would-Be Gun Buyers

Photo Credit: TownHall Two gun control organizations set up a faux gun store in Manhattan’s Lower East Side stocked with hidden cameras and guns that were illegal under state and city law for the purpose of gun violence education.

The front, simply named “The Gun Shop” specifically had window advertisements aimed at first time gun buyers. Once inside the space, shoppers were confronted with mannequins dressed in tactical gear, a gun counter and a wall of firearms ranging from military surplus SKS rifles to submachine guns. Those interested in items were told that the gun in question had a unique and interesting history that included violence.

“Collectors love this one,” said the bearded gun store attendant, holding an AR-15 prop gun to a shopper in a video released by the organizations. “Adam Lanza’s mom had this in her collection too. Until he took this and several other guns and killed her, then went down to Sandy Hook and killed six teachers and 20 innocent children.”

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence set up the store front for two days while States United to Prevent Gun Violence – who made news earlier this month with a public service announcement featuring celebrities such as Snoop Dogg for the ImUnloading campaign, directed at 401K investments containing firearms stocks – was responsible for the video.

“The people who came in were actually seriously considering buying a gun,” New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Executive Director Leah Gunn Barrett told the Washington Post. “We thought that showing the guns and their histories and getting people to think twice about owning a firearm would be an instructive thing to experience.” (Read more from “Watch: Groups Set up Fake New York City Gun Shop, Shame Would-Be Gun Buyers” HERE)

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HIDDEN CAMERA: Cross-Dressing at Planet Fitness

This week was a big week for controversy. Starbucks went full racist, Hillary deleted emails, but even more strangely, a man-turned-woman (kind of) decided to use the ladies changing room at Planet Fitness. That’s not the controversial part. One woman, noticing a man in the ladies room, complained. She was kicked out of the gym for being “judgmental.” A national dialogue ensued.

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