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Category: 2016 Elections
John Schindler: BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk – The Observer
I can confirm that the FoxNews report, which lacks any specifics about exactly what was compromised, is accurate. And what was actually in those Top Secret emails found on Hillary’s “unclassified” personal bathroom server...
Place your bets!
Today is the Caucus. Choose your win, place, and, if appropriate, show in the comments.
Voter Violations
You better not shout, you better not pout, you better go out and vote or we’re telling all your neighbors. Ted Cruz is coming to town.
Colorado’s Single-Payer Ballot Initiative
Colorado will have state single-payer health insurance on the ballot this November. After reading through the initiative, my conclusion is that this is an experiment that no state can undertake…
Walking The Plank To The GOP Nomination
No matter what happens on Monday, this is how I will always remember 2015.
Trump and Cruz Battle for Evangelical Hearts | Boston Review
…[T]he polls are not so hard to make sense of if we recognize that evangelicals are motivated by more than emulating the virtues of Christ. Many, if not most, are also motivated by fighting...
John Schindler: Why Hillary’s EmailGate Matters | Observer
“Of course the SVR got it all,” explained a high-ranking former KGB officer to me about EmailGate (the SVR is the post-Soviet successor to the KGB’s foreign intelligence arm). “I don’t know if we’re...
Trumpless in Iowa: OT Live Tweeting List and Open Thread
Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver…
What Would a Trump Victory Tell Us About the Republican Party?
If Trump is the nominee, we will have learned something about American politics. But what?
Greg Sargent: Can Bernie Sanders’s ‘revolution’ break the GOP? – The Washington Post
American Horizon | Bernie SandersWatch this video on YouTube To win back the House, given the current distribution of seats, Wasserman calculates that even if Dems hold all their seats and win a number...
Joan Walsh: Why I’m Supporting Hillary Clinton, With Joy and Without Apologies | The Nation
I support her, enthusiastically, this time around. I stand with a lot of women who feel the same way, including my daughter, and we won’t be erased.
Robert Gates: Republicans’ grasp of national security is at a child’s level | The Guardian – h/t @AkhiPill
An ex-CIA director who first joined the White House under Richard Nixon, Gates joked that if frontrunner Donald Trump wins the presidency, he would emigrate to Canada. He condemned the media for failing to...
The Establishment’s “Anti-Establishment” Candidates
Both Trump and Cruz are “the establishment” in this country.
The Big Sort in the Democratic Party
The problems of coalition building. Do Democratic voters not live and talk to each other?
Full Text Of Sarah Palin’s Trump Endorsement Speech – BuzzFeed News
From: So, Uh, Here’s The Full Text Of Sarah Palin’s Bizarre Trump Speech – BuzzFeed News
The Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders and Reparations
Sanders’s anti-racist moderation points to a candidate who is not merely against reparations, but one who doesn’t actually understand the argument. To briefly restate it, from 1619 until at least the late 1960s, American institutions, businesses, associations, and governments—federal, state and local—repeatedly plundered black communities. Their methods included everything from land-theft, to red-lining, to disenfranchisement, to convict-lease labor, to lynching, to enslavement, to the vending of children. So large was this plunder that America, as we know it today, is simply unimaginable without it. Its great universities were founded on it. Its early economy was built by it. Its suburbs were financed by it. Its deadliest war was the result of it.
From: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders and Reparations – The Atlantic
Donald Trump Is Really Unpopular With General Election Voters
We’ve got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year– Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating — but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His...
