The Washington Post reports: The Republican National Committee has ended a debate partnership with National Review after the venerable conservative magazine devoted its new issue to a “symposium” of reasons why voters should reject Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “We expected this was coming,” the magazine’s publisher Jack Fowler wrote in a blog post late Thursday night, just 90 minutes after …

JMG reader Tim points us to this delightful “country EDM” remix of Sarah Palin’s endorsement word salad for Donald Trump. You’ll like this, yes you will.

Via the Washington Post: As Hillary Clinton closes in on the final days of campaigning in Iowa, she launched a new broadside against her principal Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), over his inability to advance a single-payer health-care plan throughout his decades in Congress. “Senator Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years,” Clinton said at a rally at …

Todd Starnes would like you to know that just because Tony Perkins picked out a bible verse for Donald Trump doesn’t mean that Perkins is endorsing Trump. And by the way, Trump obviously doesn’t love White Jesus since he needed Perkins’ help in the first place.

Speaking on CNN today, Donald Trump blamed hate group leader Tony Perkins for his now-famous “Two Corinthians” flub at at Liberty University.  Trump: “Tony Perkins wrote that out for me. He knew I was going to Liberty, and he has a great respect for Liberty, and he is a very, very good guy. And he wrote out the number ‘Two’ Corinthians, which I could show you …

CNN reports: Donald Trump holds a commanding lead in Iowa as Sen. Bernie Sanders takes control of the Democratic race in the critical first-in-the-nation voting state, according to a new CNN/ORC poll released Thursday. Trump leads Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is in second place in the GOP race, among likely Republican caucus-goers, 37% to 26%. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, …

The suit was filed today by former state Sen. David Fowler, who is now the head of the Family Action Council of Tennessee. The Tennessean reports: A group of Williamson County residents, including three ministers, is asking Williamson County Clerk Elaine Anderson to stop issuing all marriage licenses until a lawsuit filed on Thursday is settled. The legal action comes …

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest this afternoon addressed Sarah Palin’s claim that her son has PTSD because Obama doesn’t respect the military. Via The Hill: “I don’t know if the president saw the remarks. I can tell you that the reaction of some people is to make light of the rhetoric that we see on the campaign trail, particularly …

Italy’s The Local reports: In a move branded “indecent” by Italy’s biggest gay rights group, Catholic senators from Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party have tabled [put forth] an amendment to draft legislation legalizing same sex unions which would require gay couples to prove they had not used a surrogate. If they cannot, the partner who is not the biological …

And yes, the parents are furious. The Guardian reports: Carly Fiorina has been accused of “ambushing” a group of children, after she ushered pre-schoolers, who were on a field trip to a botanical garden, into an anti-abortion rally in Des Moines. On Wednesday, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive embarked on a day of campaigning across Iowa, in an attempt to …

This from the guy who fought in Fidel Castro’s revolution. Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: The elder Cruz alleged in an interview on the Sirius XM program “Breitbart News Daily” this morning that public schools are brainwashing children into communism as a result of the work of education reformer John Dewey. While he did correctly identify Dewey as …

Of all people you’d expect to be in the Trump/Palin corner it would be raving xenophobe Pam Geller. Not by a longshot and mostly because of that time Trump was mean to her. She writes for Breitbart: Ted Cruz stood with us after we were attacked by jihadis at our American Freedom Defense Initiative free speech event in Garland, Texas …

A veterans group is angry that Sarah Palin has turned PTSD into a “political chew toy.” NBC News reports: Don’t blame President Obama for the PTSD that Sarah Palin claims her oldest son is battling. That was the message Wednesday from the head of a New York City-based veteran’s organization that has fought for years to get Iraq and Afghanistan …

It wouldn’t have seemed possible a few days ago, but Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump has even further inflamed the civil war across Teabagistan. Coming out against Palin have been major right wingers like radio shrieker Michael Savage and conspiracy nudnik Glenn Beck, who this morning was target of Donald Trump’s latest whining on Twitter. We love it.

Set to a 50 year-old Simon & Garfunkel song, Bernie Sanders’ new campaign ad aims squarely at the heartland. Via Politico: The ad features the Simon and Garfunkel staple playing over footage of quotidian scenes of Americana: windmills blowing across a wintry landscape, tugboats sitting on a dock, farmers at work, city-dwellers in cafés, a father and daughter walking through …

Now and forever and again and again. Playbill reports: Grizabella is headed for the Heaviside layer once more! Broadway’s The Shubert Organization and Nederlander Organization are teaming up to produce the long-rumored revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/T.S. Eliot musical Cats this summer. The onetime longest-running show in Broadway history has booked the Neil Simon Theatre, with previews beginning July …

This certainly doesn’t bode well for the coming blizzard. The Washington Post reports: “Horrible.” “Pathetic.” “Painful.” “Unbelievable.” “One inch of snow did this.” From every corner of the region and into the wee hours of the morning, from every highway and byway, motorists vented their anger and frustration that they were still out there — at 1 a.m., then 2 …

Via Business Insider: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R) campaign released a video on Wednesday showing the apparently apocalyptic world in which Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee. Bush’s video flashes forward to November 8, 2016, and features newscasts declaring that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the presidential race. “DONALD TRUMP CONCEDES DEFEAT WITH TWITTER POST,” …

This was awesome. Via Mediaite: “God, I have missed you! It’s like a magical eagle made a wish on a flag pin and it came to life,” Colbert exclaimed. “While Trump, admittedly, has given me so much material to make jokes about, nobody compares to the original ‘material girl.’” Colbert admitted that there were so many things that he could …

Squee! Via Digital Spy: The only thing bigger than the news Pet Shop Boys have a brand new album out later this year, is the actual dance anthem they are leading it with. The British duo have released Inner Sanctum as the first taster from their upcoming album Super, which will be released on April 1. In true PSB style, …