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Friday, February 26, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Latinos and Trump
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Poll: 8 in 10 Hispanics don’t like Trump
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has endeared himself to supporters with harsh rhetoric on immigration, but he may have alienated even more Hispanic voters as a result...
If you don't trust the government to do background checks but think it can round up millions easy, you just hate Mexicans.- LOLGOP
The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam
- Saudi jets to arrive in Turkey to strike IS: Ankara
- US, China agree on UN North Korea resolution
- French president suggests Argentina help with Syrian crisis
The Cuban government recently returned a missing U.S. missile that was sent to Europe for training, but was accidentally shipped to Cuba. So the good news is that the missile was returned to America. But the bad news is THAT CAN HAPPEN!- Jimmy Fallon
Ex-Mexican Prez To Trump: 'I'm Not Going To Pay For That F*cking Wall'
Vincente Fox told Fusion's Jorge Ramos that Trump should pay for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the Republican's marquee foreign policy plan, because "he's got the money."
"Democracy cannot take us to crazy people," Fox responded when asked if he was afraid that Trump would win the election.
Republican Shenanigans
- Sarah Palin uses bogus quote to compare bullying Trump to pacifist Gandhi
- Poll: Trump leads Rubio in Florida by double digits
- Romney prods Trump: 'Show voters your back taxes'
- Tennessee governor endorses Rubio in Republican presidential bid
- Cruz, Rubio prep for brutal debate night
- Federal food stamp fraud charges could topple Warren Jeffs’ polygamous Utah sect
- New Hampshire GOP Rep.: ‘The Pope Is The Anti-Christ’
At a rally in Las Vegas last night Donald Trump told supporters he’d like to punch protesters in the face. Though he looks more like the kind of guy who would stroke a white cat while somebody else punched you in the face. - Seth Myers
Rubio Endorsed By Texas Paper
Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) has won the endorsement of a major Texas newspaper days ahead of the state’s presidential primary.
The San Antonio Express-News editorial” lauded Rubio’s comparative experience over Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and bashed his rivals as “boorish, angry and divisive.
Yesterday, a group of more than 20 unions released a statement supporting Hillary Clinton for president, including the Bricklayers Union. Then Donald Trump was like, “Et tu, wall builders?”- Jimmy Fallon
Well, Of Course, Ted Cruz Is Blocking Flint's Aid
Ted Cruz is standing in the way of a bipartisan Senate bill to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Flint, Mich., and other communities that need to upgrade their drinking water infrastructure.
Rock The Voter News
- Sanders overtakes Clinton in Wisconsin: poll
- Poll: Clinton more than doubles Sanders in biggest Super Tuesday state
Abortion Is Legal, But Access, Not So Much.
Abortion providers across the US are closing at a record pace, according to data analysis from Bloomberg Businessweek, and the closures are not limited to the conservative states
NASA said this week it has received a record high number of 18,000 applications for their astronaut training program. NASA said it shows a growing interest in space exploration. Then people said, “Nah, we just wanna get off the planet before this election.”- Jimmy Fallon
Business/Tech News
- Oil slides on new Cushing builds, global growth worry
- Apple: Court order violates 1st Amendment
- J&J must pay $72 million for cancer death linked to talcum powder: lawyers
- 45% of Americans pay no federal income tax
Well, Bob, since you hate Unions so much I'm sure you won't mind working through the weekend, right?- John Fugelsang
Halliburton Cuts Jobs Due To Low Oil Prices
The shrinking of the oil industry picked up speed this week after Halliburton Co. announced it's cutting another 5,000 workers, or 8 percent of its remaining global workforce, to survive a lengthening crude market downturn
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Trump Wins Nevada
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Trump: ‘I Love the Poorly Educated’
After his Nevada caucus win, presidential candidate Donald Trump, said: “We won the evangelicals, we won with young, we won with old, we won with highly educated, we won with poorly educated! I love the poorly educated.
"Trump says what we think." - people who don't think. - John Fugelsang
The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam
- Corker sees no lifting of Cuba embargo under Obama
- Cuba gives well-known dissidents permission to travel
- U.S.' Kerry calls Russia's Lavrov to discuss Syria; teams to meet soon
- Obama sounds cautious note about pending Syrian cease-fire
- Russia gives a gift of 10,000 automatic rifles to Afghanistan
- President's last-ditch Gitmo plan falls flat
U.S. officials say that ISIS is facing a severe strain on its cash supply. ISIS blames it on poor oversight, economic sanctions, and betting all their money on the Carolina Panthers.- Conan O'Brien
Trump/Scott 2016?
On Monday, Rick Scott said he wasn’t ready to endorse in Florida’s presidential primary election on March 15, but there are those who believe he might be leaning towards Donald Trump.
That speculation was sparked last month, when Scott penned an op-ed in USA Today, a column in which he wrote very favorably about the New York City billionaire real estate developer.
George W. Bush was a little confused why Jeb quit because he was losing. Because as far as George W. Bush is concerned, you still become president even when you don't get the most votes.- James Corden
Republican Shenanigans
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio Stumps For Trump In Las Vegas: Mexico Will Pay For The Wall, When We Offer To Cut Foreign Aid
- Trump Jr. defends dad’s violent fantasies: ‘There’s something special’ about wanting to punch protesters
- Coons Blasts McConnell on SCOTUS: "Advise And Consent" Doesn't Mean Covering Your Ears And Screaming, "Nah Nah"
- Roger Ailes' "Mouthpiece" Is Urging Republicans Not To Obstruct Obama's Supreme Court Pick
- Iowa Dem rips Republicans for bill that would let children carry guns: ‘We do not need a militia of toddlers’
- Chomsky: Trump’s rise fueled by same societal ‘breakdown’ that birthed Hitler
There is a way to stop Trump, but it involves persuading the fifty million dumbest voters to leave the country.- Andy Borowitz
The Vagina Regulators Are Also Pharmacists!!
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a law aimed at limiting the use of abortion-inducing drugs, overturning a lower court decision that said the measure was unconstitutional because it did not apply to other medication.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a law aimed at limiting the use of abortion-inducing drugs, overturning a lower court decision that said the measure was unconstitutional because it did not apply to other medication.
Starting with Reagan, Quayle, George W Bush, Palin and leading inexorably to Trump, the GOP has come to revere ignorance as the most important quality in a candidate. I don't understand why America's kids are loading up on student debt if the actual ideal of our society is to be as ill-informed as possible.- Andy Borowitz
If I were a zillionaire, I run ads reminding America what's at stake in the Supreme Court -- Roe, VRA, marriage, Social Security, the planet. - LOLGOP
Dirty water at Fort Myers Beach Cheryl Cagle Jones/Facebook |
Florida Is Killing Itself
Just in time for tourist season, both of Florida's coasts are being flooded by dark, polluted water that's killing ocean creatures and turning away would-be swimmers, fishermen, and other visitors.
John Kasich over the weekend said lots of women have left their kitchens to work on his campaign. Yeah, that will certainly help the upcoming election of 1956.- James Corden
Rock The Voter News
- Tina Fey: I'm not endorsing so I don't get hit up for donations
- Clinton says she faces a double standard on paid speeches
- Lines Form Ahead Of Bernie Sanders' Tulsa Campaign
Meanwhile, The Adult In D.C. Is Carrying Out His Constitutional Duty
Move quickly — but not too quickly.
That’s the strategy President Obama and his top aides appear to be adopting as they work through the process of nominating a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
You almost need a Ouija board to understand the shots Sanders and Clinton lob at each other. Trump called Cruz a "weak little baby."- LOLGOP
When asked about the possibility that Mexico might not agree to pay for his border wall, Donald Trump said, "The wall just got 10 feet higher.” People in Mexico were like, “OK, well, our tunnels are exactly the same."- Jimmy Fallon
Business/Tech News
- Oil up 3 pct as US gasoline demand trumps stockpile build
- Apple to Invoke Free Speech in FBI Case
- Donald Trump's Employees Are Picketing His Nevada Hotel
Government regulators have released a new statement saying that no hover board scooter currently on the market meets proper safety standards. The other thing hover board scooters don’t meet: women.- Seth Myers
Iran's Conservative Media Ups Reward For Author Rushdie
The fatwa issued 27 years ago by Iran's then-supreme leader calling for Salman Rushdie to be killed seems like a relic of a bygone era.
But not to a group of hard-line Iranian media organizations that announced it has raised $600,000 to add to a bounty for the death of the British novelist for writing "The Satanic Verses."
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