All Hat No Cattle: Sanders floats top tax rate of over 50 percent

Sanders floats top tax rate of over 50 percent
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential candidate, says he would support raising the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans to over 50 percent.

Hillary Clinton has joined Instagram. Meanwhile, her Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders joined telegram. - Seth Myers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

North Korea Is Worried About U.S. Anthrax
North Korea accused the United States of targeting it with anthrax and asked the United Nations Security Council to investigate Washington's "biological warfare schemes" after a live anthrax sample was sent to a U.S. base in South Korea.

"Jeb Bush is taking his presidential campaign on a tour of Europe. He's telling Europeans, 'I like you guys because you're comfortable having the same family in charge for centuries.'" –Conan O"Brien

Women shouldn't be ashamed of having sex -- unless they've had sex with Jeb Bush.- Dan Savage

Republican Shenanigans

I feel like getting rid of the Iowa Straw Poll is just another way the GOP is trying to pretend Michele Bachmann never happened.- LOLGOP

Okie Senator Tells Pope To Mind His Own Business
Washington’s notorious snowball-thrower was at it again – even on a June day with forecast highs of 92 degrees – as the Senate’s most powerful environmental leader delivered a pep talk to activists who deny the science behind climate change....His message – that “God is still up there” and that Pope Francis should mind his own business – sent a clear signal to his fellow conservatives: climate sceptics have a loyal – and newly powerful – friend in Congress.

Texas to Convert Abortion Clinics to Gun Stores. - Andy Borowitz

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Thanks, Obama. Really!
Capping a weeklong defense of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama sat down with a cancer-surviving "Extra" anchor who thanked the president for saving his life.

Republican Women Begin The Hillary Attack. Correction, They Never Stopped.
Despite her gender, the Democratic frontrunner has come in for harsh attacks from women of the opposing party.
On Thursday night in Washington, Carly Fiorina, the only woman running for the Republican nomination, delivered the keynote address at a red-meat-themed event: the “Bourbon and BBQ Bash” held by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit that celebrates limited government and free markets. The tagline for the dinner read “Liberty served smooth and smokin’.”

Elections. How we remind America that being rich doesn't make you smart. - LOLGOP

Gotta meet the GOP strategist who said, "Last time we weren't anti-woman or anti-gay enough. And more Bush!"- LOLGOP

Business/Tech News

...and so every nite while ur fast asleep the Iphone Fairy softly slips in and re-tangles your headphones.- John Fugelsang

Conservatives Fighting. Life Is Good.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes once reportedly called James Murdoch a "fucking dope," and has a long history of feuding with Lachlan Murdoch. Today, it was reported that they are taking over Fox News' parent company

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist was asked about female scientists, and he said, "Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry." His funeral is Saturday.- Conan O'Brien