CNN/ORC

Huckabee: 21%
Ryan: 12%
Paul: 7%
Bush: 6%
Christie: 6%
Perry: 5%
Walker: 5%
Rubio: 5%
Cruz: 4%
Jindal: 4%
Santorum: 3%

BASED ON 383 REGISTERED REPUBLICANS AND REGISTERED INDEPENDENTS WHO SAY
THEY WILL VOTE IN THE 2016 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY -- SAMPLING ERROR: +/- 5
PERCENTAGE PTS.

5. Thinking ahead to the 2016 presidential election, if the Republican presidential primary were
held today, please tell me which of the following people you would be most likely to support.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Texas Senator Ted
Cruz, Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Kentucky
Senator Rand Paul, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Florida Senator
Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum,
or Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. (RANDOM ORDER.)


Sept. 8-11, 2014

Paul.......15%
Bush.......10%
Ryan.......10%
Christie....9%
Huckabee....9%
Perry.......7%
Rubio.......7%
Walker......7%
Cruz........6%
Jindal......3%
Santorum....3%
Pence *
Someone else (vol.) 3%
None/No one (vol.) 4%
No opinion 7%

It's the basics of the rules of power. Praise your enemy while you learn enough about them to destroy them. Know thy enemy. I won't even begin talking about the concept of 'killing them with praise'. But then again, you obviously think that all positive news coverage is a good thing. I urge you to look further into the matter.

SEPTEMBER 12--A Seattle woman has been charged with raping a man who told cops he awoke in his bed to find his attacker sexually assaulting him while she had his hands pinned down, according to a police report.

Chantae Gilman, 26, was charged this week in connection with the alleged June 2013 attack inside the 31-year-old victim’s Seattle apartment. Gilman has prior felony convictions for attempted robbery and possession of a stolen vehicle, as well as several misdemeanor convictions, according to court records.

As detailed in a probable cause affidavit prepared by a Seattle Police Department detective, the victim told cops that while he did not know Gilman, she was an acquaintance of another man who lives in his duplex. He described Gilman as “a drug user in the area.”

The man said that on the night of the attack he attended a birthday party for the neighbor whom Gilman knows. “Once arriving home he fell asleep on his bed,” Detective Roger Ishimitsu reported. “Victim slept very hard due to a long day.”

North Korea's Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced US citizen Matthew Miller to six years' hard labour for "hostile" acts, two weeks after he and two other detained Americans had pleaded for help from Washington.

Miller becomes the second American serving a hard labour prison term in the North amid accusations that Pyongyang is using them to extract political concessions from Washington.

The 24-year-old was arrested in April after he allegedly ripped up his visa at immigration and demanded asylum.

"He committed acts hostile to the (North) while entering the territory of the (North) under the guise of a tourist last April," the state-run KCNA news agency said in announcing Sunday's court ruling.

Pictures published by KCNA showed a sombre-looking Miller, dressed in a black polo neck and black trousers, sitting and standing in the courtroom dock, flanked by two uniformed guards.

A photo of the evidence table showed what appeared to be Miller's ripped-up visa, as well as his US passport, a tablet computer and a smartphone.

Ann Coulter is a top level witch. She's also a troll. This is what she does it's just her thing to stoke up controversy at any opportunity

There is also positive movement in the corridors of power here in the US. This morning in Washington we had a highly productive meeting with Senator Rand Paul, who has been taking huge steps forward in building bipartisan support for sensible, humane drug policies. Later, we enjoyed a livestreamed debate on why it is Time to Rethink Global Drug Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Online, masses of people have been getting in touch to pledge their support.

The Secret to Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy: His Father
If you want a real insight into how Rand Paul truly views the world, check out his dad’s record in Congress during the Cold War.

W. James Antle III


Rand Paul is struggling to demonstrate that a presidential candidate can be skeptical of military adventures while still being tough on foreign enemies when necessary. And so far, all he is getting for his trouble is charges of flip-flopping.

Is there any recent precedent for a reluctant but strong warrior in Republican politics? Paul has been citing Ronald Reagan, but there is another, and perhaps more surprising, model: Ron Paul, the Kentucky senator’s own father.

This may seem counterintuitive. While the elder Paul’s two Republican presidential campaigns put noninterventionism back on the political map, his rhetoric is often a textbook example of how not to sell such foreign-policy ideas to the wider GOP base.

Ron Paul’s first stints as a Republican congressman from Texas were during the 1970s and ‘80s, however. As a libertarian-leaning lawmaker, he frequently disagreed with his GOP colleagues on foreign policy back then too. But, unlike some more militant libertarian thinkers, Ron Paul never dismissed the threat of communism during the Cold War.

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In 3 years 12.5 BTC will be produced every 10 minutes. At 10K each, that's $18,000,000 that the market needs to absorb everyday to maintain that price. I really can't see that personally.