Watch: Bernie Sanders Gives Blunt Answer When Asked If He Will Raise Taxes

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By Jon Street. Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders gave a very blunt answer Monday night when asked at the CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, if he would raise taxes if elected president.

CNN anchor and town hall moderator Chris Cuomo had asked Sanders if he would raise taxes to help pay for his “Medicare for all” program, also commonly referred to as a single-payer program.

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Sanders: ‘We Will Raise Taxes, Yes We Will’

By Jonathan Easley. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders may have provided Hillary Clinton with campaign advertisement fodder at Monday night’s Democratic presidential forum in Iowa, acknowledging that his healthcare plan will require raising taxes . . .

“We will raise taxes, yes we will,” Sanders declared, calling criticim of his plan “disingenuous.”

But Clinton allies were already taking to Twitter to hammer Sanders for the remarks.

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‘Young Ted Cruz’ Video Goes Viral

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What were Ted Cruz’s aspirations in high school? Well, the presidential candidate told classmates they were for power and fortune, mixed with a little bit of world domination. The YouTube user who uploaded the viral video “Young Ted Cruz” tells Yahoo News that the clip was part of a senior class video from the Texas senator’s high school in Houston.

When asked what his aspirations were, young Mr. Cruz joked to camera, “Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?” Cruz then joked that he was hoping to perhaps star in a teen film, like “Malibu Bikini Beach Shop.” The lighthearted response continued as Cruz deadpanned that his aspirations were to “take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything. Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff” . . .

In the original video shared with Yahoo News, Cruz’s father is asked if it is crazy to think his son will rule the world one day: “I hope not,” he replies while chuckling. (Read more from “‘Young Ted Cruz’ Video Goes Viral” HERE)

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Watch: Former Secretary of Defense Just Announced Another Terrifying Thing About Hillary’s Email Scandal… It’s Even Worse Than We Thought

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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says, “I think the odds are pretty high” countries like Iran, China, and Russia hacked Hillary Clinton’s email server.

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, the former CIA director said “the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day.”

Hewitt asked Gates, “[A]re you surprised by the news that continues to come out about the former Secretary of State’s server and the fact that the intelligence community’s inspector general has said there was a lot of very highly classified information on her server?”

“Yeah, that’s a concern for me,” Gates said. “I never used email when I was head of CIA or head of the Department of Defense. As I used to joke, I didn’t want to have some chief of station overseas email me and say he was going to do something if I didn’t get back to him in three hours, and I would get back from a five hour hearing to discover I was two hours too late. I preferred dealing with people face to face and putting a signature on a piece of paper on matters of real national security and importance.” (Read more from “Former Secretary of Defense Just Announced Another Terrifying Thing About Hillary’s Email Scandal… It’s Even Worse Than We Thought” HERE)

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Hillary Clinton: I Don’t Understand What Establishment Means [+video]

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Hillary Clinton, the candidate of the Democratic Party establishment, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Thursday that she doesn’t understand what that expression even means, but she appeared to accuse challenger Bernie Sanders of being part of it because of his long career in Washington.

Blitzer outlined the charges from the Sanders campaign that Clinton was part of the establishment, as evidenced by her endorsements from groups like Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign . . .

Clinton went on to further defend the Human Rights Campaign as well for its lead in the battle for same-sex marriage equality and lauded them as two of the most progressive organizations in the country whose endorsements she was proud to have.

“But are you the establishment?” Blitzer asked.

“I just don’t understand what that means,” Clinton said. “He’s been in Congress, he’s been elected to office a lot longer than I have. I was in the Senate for eight wonderful years representing New York. He’s been in the Congress for 25, and so I’ll let your viewers make their own judgment.” (Read more from “Hillary Clinton: I Don’t Understand What Establishment Means” HERE)

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Watch: Actress Stacey Dash Just Shut Down Oscars Boycott by Pointing out One Thing

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Controversial Fox News Channel contributor Stacey Dash weighed in on the brewing controversy surrounding this year’s Academy Award nominations.

With a dearth of black actors up for prominent recognition, actor Jada Pinkett-Smith and director Spike Lee have announced they will be boycotting the Oscars. While Dash acknowledged that the issue being raised is worthy of discussion, she noted one inconvenient fact regarding the timing of this trend.

“What I find astonishing,” she told Fox & Friends cohost Steve Doocy, “is we’ve had a black president in office for the past eight years who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood, yet there aren’t many roles for people of color.”

Criticizing what she portrayed as a hypocritical ideology, Dash pointed out that there are corresponding awards ceremonies with a very blatant racial discrimination against white entertainers.

“I think it’s ludicrous,” she said of the boycott, “because we have to make up our minds. Either we have integration or segregation. And if we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards – where you’re only awarded if you’re black.” (Read more from “Watch: Actress Stacey Dash Just Shut Down Oscars Boycott by Pointing out One Thing” HERE)

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Trump: Christianity ‘Under Siege’ [+video]

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By Jordain Carney. GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump touted his faith at Liberty University on Monday, telling the conservative college that Christians have to ban together because their religion “is under siege.”

“We’re going to protect Christianity,” he said. “If you look at what’s going on throughout the world…Christianity is under siege.”

Trump pointed to targeting of Christians by terrorist groups in Syria and urged Christians to work together to use their “power” within the United States to enact change.

He added that “I’m a Protestant. I’m very proud of it, Presbyterian to be exact. …[but] bad things are happening, very bad things are happening.”

The speech comes on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Trump dedicated what he called a record-breaking crowd to the late civil rights leader. (Read more from “Trump: Christianity ‘Under Siege'” HERE)

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Donald Trump Misquotes Bible in Liberty Speech

By Jeremy Diamond. Donald Trump pitched himself Monday to Christian students at Liberty University as a politically incorrect protector of Christianity, tailoring his classic stump speech to the evangelical audience with mixed success . . .

But Trump, who has eagerly targeted evangelicals — a key voting bloc in the first caucus state of Iowa — in his quest for the presidency, tripped over himself Monday as he attempted to quote from the Bible to connect with the crowd of students at one of the most prominent Christian universities in the country, and the largest in the world.

“Two Corinthians, 3:17, that’s the whole ballgame,” Trump said, drawing laughter from the crowd of students at Liberty University who knew Trump was attempting to refer to “Second Corinthians.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Misquotes Bible in Liberty Speech” HERE)

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Cruz: We Will Accept Refugees as Long As… [+video]

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“If I’m elected president, we will not let in refugees from countries controlled by ISIS or Al Qaida,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said at Thursday’s night’s debate in South Carolina.

Although Cruz was the first candidate to be asked about refugees, all of the candidates weighed in, and their responses are included below.

Cruz said he understands why Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslim immigrants “until we can figure out what’s going on,” as Trump put it.

“You know, I understand why Donald made the comments he did, and I understand why Americans are feeling frustrated and scared and angry when we have a president who refuses to acknowledge the threat we face and even worse, who acts as an apologist for radical Islamic terrorism” . . .

“If I’m elected president, we will not let in refugees from countries controlled by ISIS or Al Qaida. When it comes to ISIS, we will not weaken them, we will not degrade them, we will utterly and completely destroy ISIS,” Cruz concluded. (Read more from “Cruz: We Will Accept Refugees as Long As…” HERE)

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Rhode Island City Official Resigns After Having a Man Dress up in DRAG [+video]

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A senior services official in Rhode Island has resigned over a bizarre ‘Mrs Doubtfire’-inspired PR stunt involving a middle-aged man disguised as an old lady.

Sue Stenhouse, director of senior services in the City of Cranston, organized a news conference last Tuesday to announce the launch of the Snow Angels program, which encourages local teenagers to help elderly residents during the cold winter months by shoveling driveways and pathways.

The event was attended by the mayor of Cranston, a group of beaming high school students armed with colorful shovels, and what at first glance appeared to be an elderly woman with a name tag that read ‘Cranston Senior Home Resident.’

It has since emerged that the ruddy-cheeked, curly-haired lady wearing pink lipstick and matching clip-on earrings was, in fact, a male van driver by the name David Roberts.

The station WJAR-TV, which aired the original press conference last week, uncovered the ruse in reports this week. (Read more from “Rhode Island City Official Resigns After Having a Man Dress up in DRAG” HERE)

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Watch: Trump Admits Greatest Weakness With 3 Honest Words That Will Shock You

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has, some might say, been bluntness personified when he comments upon the weaknesses of others. On Monday night, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon asked Trump to turn the focus on himself and share with America his greatest weakness.

“I never forget,” Trump replied.

He then critiqued himself dispassionately.

“When, you know, it is sort of interesting, I’ve said it, I’m too nice too long, and when…if somebody takes advantage of a situation, I become too bad for too long, so I think I maybe have to have a little bit of a shorter memory wouldn’t be so bad,” he said.

Later in the interview, he gave an example of when he has reaped an advantage from the kind of behavior he cited as a weakness. He was discussing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, when he made an observation.

“She came out with a little bit of a statement about me, and I came out with a very big statement about her and Bill,” Trump said, getting a laugh. “And she stopped talking about me all of a sudden.” (Read more from “Watch: Trump Admits Greatest Weakness With 3 Honest Words That Will Shock You” HERE)

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Watch: After Obama Seemingly Takes a Jab at Him in SOTU Speech, Ted Cruz Responds — and Doesn’t Mince Words

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Credit – Getty ImagesRepublican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz responded Tuesday night to an apparent jab President Barack Obama took at him in his final State of the Union address.

In his speech, Obama said the answer to defeating the Islamic State would not merely be “tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians. That may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn’t pass muster on the world stage.”

The reference to carpet bombing appeared to be a slight jab at Cruz. The Texas senator had previously attracted attention for saying at campaign events he would “utterly destroy” the Islamic State and “carpet bomb them into oblivion” . . .

“In the speech, I think we all agree that the president essentially called you out…what was your response to that?” [“NBC Nightly News” reporter] asked.

“Well listen, I will apologize to nobody for my commitment to kill the terrorists,” Cruz replied. “And in this speech President Obama once again refused to even say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ — much less demonstrate any clarity, any vision, any plan to destroy them.” (Read more from “After Obama Seemingly Takes a Jab at Him in SOTU Speech, Ted Cruz Responds — and Doesn’t Mince Words” HERE)

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