Civil Rights campaigner Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was the target of an FBI surveillance operation, after his 1963 ‘I have a dream’ speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He was targeted because of his race and common sense. The authorities used unregulated secret surveillance to monitor Martin Luther King Jr. while justifying their actions in the name of security and the hunt for evil-doing communists in America.

Judging from the unbiased mainstream liberal media, Hillary Clinton won the Democratic debate last night thanks to her "formidable" performance "combined with her intelligence." The puke-worthy gushfest from Slate.com can de read here, but is summarized best as follows:

The National Journal is a little more "balanced" -

And here's the critical moment - in our opinion...

With the lifting of Iran sanctions, the Tenge has crashed 5% to record lows at 377/USD (extending the currencies collapse since the USD-peg was scrapped in August).

Furthermore, as Eurasianet's Joanna Lillis reports oil production is entering a new year of decline this year in Kazakhstan - a dismal omen for a country so heavily reliant on energy exports.

Incredible photo shows city reflected in the night sky over Finland by light pillars. A Finnish woman, Mia Heikkiläv, captured the image of street lights glimmering in the night skies of the City of Kauttua/Eura. Ice crystals reflected an exact reversed map of her town, in a process known as the light pillar phenomenon. AOL Travel reports: She gave details about the sighting on Spaceweather.com, writing: “Light pillars were visible in the sky, then more images appeared above.

I’ve been trying to find the most interesting thing somebody said about Donald Trump’s pathetic pandering to conservative Evangelicals at Liberty University today, and it turns out the best piece was written by Matthew Lee Anderson a few days ago. In it, Anderson — himself a conservative Evangelical — lets his co-religionists have it for supporting Trump or Cruz. Excerpts: