Ted Cruz's Iowa Mailers Are More Fraudulent Than Everyone Thinks  —  Ted Cruz's Presidential campaign prides itself on being data-centric and on integrating insights from political science into its tactics.  In 2008, academics at Yale published an influential paper showing …

Franklin Pierce-Herald Poll: Rivals need Iowa win to catch Trump, Sanders in N.H.  —  GOP presidential challengers Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Democrat Hillary Clinton desperately need breakthroughs in Iowa tomorrow to overcome expanding leads held by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire …

Ohio Seminary Student Arrested at San Diego Airport, Allegedly Sought Sex With Infants  —  WARNING: This article contains descriptions of an alleged crime whose details may be disturbing to some readers.  —  A 23-year-old Ohio man was arrested by federal agents in San Diego on Friday …

‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hillary, State Dept. are lying  —  The State Department is lying when it says it didn't know until it was too late that Hillary Clinton was improperly using personal e-mails and a private server to conduct official business — because it never set …

Donald Trump Field Organizer Accuses Campaign of Sex Discrimination  —  DAVENPORT, Iowa — A former paid organizer for Donald J. Trump who was fired this month has accused his presidential campaign of sex discrimination.  —  Elizabeth Mae Davidson, 26, who was the Trump campaign's field organizer …

OMG: NAACP leader uses F-word to apologize for using T-word after N-word meeting  —  The NAACP's mission of political correctness and equality careened off the rails this week when a local president complimented a TV reporters breasts during an interview.  —  Don Harris, the president …

WTH?  Band Sings Racist, America-Hating Song at Bernie Sanders Iowa Rally (VIDEO)  —  This is the kind of music they play at a Bernie Sanders Socialist rally.  —  Vampire Weekend, the uber popular band, played before Bernie Sanders spoke last night at the University of Iowa — making the rally really more of a concert with a speech.

Trader exposes sexist horrors of the Wall Street ‘frat house’  —  When Maureen Sherry resigned from Bear Stearns after 10 years, she was given a going-away party, a sizable check — and a nondisclosure agreement.  —  “The legal department gave me this document to sign,” she says …

Sanders raised $20 million in January  —  The Bernie Sanders campaign said it raised $20 million this month from a record-setting legion of small donors.  —  More than 770,000 people gave to the Vermont senator's bid in January, with online contributions averaging just $27, the campaign said.

First on CNN: Main Cruz super PACs struggled to raise money in fall and winter  —  (CNN)The main super PACs supporting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign only raised a few million dollars in the second half of 2015, a modest sum that far trails the huge checks they collected in the opening days of the campaign.

Clinton Iowa Volunteers Train When To Push Backers To O'Malley — To Block Bernie  —  The three candidates in Iowa in October.  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign for president is instructing its Iowa caucus leaders to — in certain cases — throw support to former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley …

Clinton: Sanders' health care plan ‘will never, ever come to pass’  —  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Hillary Clinton on Friday cast Bernie Sanders' plan for single-payer health insurance as an “idea that will never, ever come to pass.”  —  The swipe builds on Clinton's repeated rhetoric …