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Fumbling with the buttons to find a good song while driving has been linked to increased risk of crashes, but is listening to that song risky? It depends on the music, says a report.
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CONROE, Texas — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, born in Calgary in 1970, said Monday he would give up any claim he might have to Canadian citizenship.
In a written statement, Cruz said he did not realize he was eligible for dual citizenship until The Dallas Morning News reported that his birth in Canada made him eligible for citizenship there.Â
“Assuming that is true, then sure, I will renounce any Canadian citizenship,†Cruz said. “Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American.â€
Questions have been raised about Cruz’s eligibility to become president of the United States. Under the U.S. Constitution, only “natural born†Americans are eligible. Cruz’s father was Cuban at the time of his birth, but his mother was born in the United States and was a citizen when he was born. That made Cruz automatically eligible for U.S. citizenship — and hence makes him a natural-born American, he says.
“Because my mother was a U.S. citizen, born in Delaware, I was a U.S. citizen by birth,†Cruz said in the statement.
Cruz, who embarked on a two-week swing of Texas on Monday while Congress is in recess, says he is focused on being a senator. But his recent trip to Iowa, which holds the first presidential caucus, and his planned jaunt Friday to New Hampshire, which traditionally holds the first primary, has fueled speculation that he will launch a bid for the White House in 2016.
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When he was campaigning, Maine’s tea-party Governor Paul LePage declared, “You’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’ ” While he did generate headlines for comparing the IRS to the Gestapo and uttering a crude Vaseline-related insult, he hasn’t really followed through with the Obama jabs – until now. Two Republican lawmakers say LePage complained at a fundraiser last week that Obama could have been the best president ever if he had highlighted his biracial heritage – but he hasn’t done that because he hates white people. “Yeah, he said it,” one lawmaker told the Portland Press Herald. “It was one little thing from a speech, but I think most people there thought it was totally inappropriate.” And a few people agreed that our half-white president hates white people, apparently.
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Up until just a few moments ago, Ted Cruz was the worst thing a Texan could be —Canadian.
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In his three decades as baseball’s most prominent agent, Scott Boras has faced no shortage of competition. He’s now facing a threat from Jay Z, the 43-year-old rapper turned entrepreneur and nascent sports agent.
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Reformed Protestantism was born in Zurich in 1522, when a few brave believers defied a church ban on eating meat during Lent. Barton Swaim reviews D.G. Hart’s “Calvinism: A History.”
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The living pay homage to the dead by burning paper versions of money and other items. But the value of fake bucks is escalating, creating ‘inflation’ in the ghostly underworld.
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The New Jersey governor will sign a bill barring therapists from trying to make gay minors straight.
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