According to Upshot via The New York Times, Democrats now have a 57% chance if keeping power in the Senate.
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Last week was a busy week for the crazy Republicans trying to take over the government. They had a march on Washington, did you know? Well that’s what I’m here for. To bring your attention to the 30 million people they expected to show up to overthrow the government.
We have pictures of the riots. Here they are:
I now know why I never liked The wheel of Fortune. On Monday, host Pat Sajak pointed out the reason. Pat Sajak is a non believer in Global Warming.
Apparently the Republican nonsense has overpowered the Wheel of Fortune star, prompting him to use his twitter account to call environmentalists “unpatriotic” and even “racists.”
“I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends,” Sajak tweeted without context. “Good night.”
This is hardly the first time that the TV host has taken it upon himself to comment on the environment on Twitter. Earlier this week, he wrote,
“Help…climate changing…must send money to lots of places…a lot of money…hurry…time is short…not kidding…” and “Very hot weather: ‘We’re all going to die!’ Very cold weather: ‘There’s a difference between climate & weather, moron!’”
While Sajak has kept his political views off of his Vanna White-assisted show, he has reportedly been a frequent financial contributor to the Republican Party and conservative candidates. The game show star has given a reported $10,000 to political causes.
This Columbia University graduation became a real tear-jerker when a U.S. Army Captain, stationed in Afghanistan, surprised his daughter as she walked across the stage Monday.
“After I saw him, I couldn’t stop crying,” graduate Ruby Robinson told the Daily News Tuesday.
“I was definitely surprised,” the 22-year-old computer science major added. “It was an amazing rush of emotions.”
Her father, Army Capt. Keith Robinson, dressed in army fatigues and carrying a bouquet of flowers, was the first person she saw after she shook hands with University President Lee Bollinger.
“Congratulations, young lady,” the 25-year Army veteran said to his daughter as they hugged on the ceremonial stage.
Ruby burst into tears as she clutched her father, who kissed her on the forehead.
Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative hero who swore up and down that he was an innocent man falsely accused and arrested because he spoke out against the Obama administration, went to court today and pled guilty!
Dinesh D’Souza told a federal judge on Tuesday that he “deeply” regretted violating a federal campaign finance law, and that he knew that what he did had been wrong, during a hearing in which the conservative author pleaded guilty to making more than $10,000 of contributions in the names of others.
“I knew that making a campaign contribution in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids,” D’Souza told U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan, according to The New York Times. “I deeply regret my conduct.”
“Are you pleading guilty to this crime because you are in fact guilty of it?” Berman asked in response.
“Yes, your honor,” D’Souza said.
Prosecutors in January accused D’Souza of using straw donors to contribute $20,000 to the campaign of Wendy Long, a Republican attorney and old friend of D’Souza’s who in 2012 lost to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). In addition to the one count of making more than $10,000 of contributions in the names of others, D’Souza was charged with one count of causing false statements. According to Reuters, the false statements charge is expected to be dismissed at D’Souza’s sentencing.
Sarah palin thinks… ( okay, just let that phrase digest for a second…), now back to what I was saying. Sarah Palin thinks that because her halfterm governing skills were questioned, and others had questions about her grandson, she thinks that the entire political career of the former Secretary of State and the lies about her health should be questioned as well.
On her Facebook page, Palin wrote;
“Hey! Hillary’s brain is off-limits! Leave her health records alone! Democrats are right – scouring records of a female candidate is just politics of personal destruction, and for the media to engage in it would be unfair, unethical, and absolutely UNPRECEDENTED. You can’t probe a woman like that because, well, it’s a war on women!
Bunch of sexist, big meanies engaging in something heretofore unheard of, for shame.”
As proof that this isn’t the first time a (potential) female candidate’s health records have been mined for scandal, Palin posted links from POLITCO, Salon and elsewhere about the conspiracy theories surrounding her son Trig. During the 2008 election, rumors swirled that Palin’s youngest, who has Down syndrome, was actually Bristol Palin’s son…
So, just to be clear, Palin is still mad that liberals tried to “scour” her medical records in 2008. But instead of being angry with Rove and other conservatives for doing the same thing to Hillary Clinton, she’s fed up with Democrats for not recognizing the irony?
The nerve of this halfterm quitter from Alaska!
I thought the Supreme Court said that racism was over. Maybe the memo hasn’t made its way to the Starlings of the world yet.
N.H. — Town officials confirmed Monday that the 82-year-old police commissioner who was heard publicly calling President Obama the n-word — sparking nationwide outrage — has tendered his resignation.
Robert Copeland, 82, the vice chairman of Wolfeboro’s three-member police commission, turned in his resignation to the head of the police commission late Sunday night, town officials confirmed.
His resignation comes as several of New Hampshire’s most prominent politicians — including Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R) and Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Gov. Maggie Hassan — had called for Copeland’s ouster.
“Commissioner Copeland’s reprehensible comments dishonor law enforcement officials across our state who work hard to ensure that all citizens are treated fairly, and the remarks do not represent the values of New Hampshire residents,” said William Hinkle, a spokesman for New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan. “Governor Hassan believes that he should listen to the people of Wolfeboro and New Hampshire and apologize and step down in order to restore confidence in the Commission.”
We all know Ted Cruz is crazy. There was that time when he stood on the senate floor and spoke for almost 21 hours about… among other things… green eggs and ham.
But Ted Cruz did not fall far from the crazy tree. He is getting serious competition from his dad who recently told a group that the Bible specifies how they should vote.
“As a matter of fact, did you know that the Bible tells you exactly who to vote for?” Papa Cruz said. “Very, very clearly the Bible tells you who to vote for. Let me prove it to you.”
Papa cruise then began to “prove” his point by telling the story of Moses. He spoke of when Jethro – Moses’ father-in-law visited Moses and told him to select other “men” to help settle common disputes among the people, with the more serious disputes settled by Moses. Jethro’s conversation with Moses is detailed in Exodus 18. But it is verse 21 that Papa Cruz fashioned his voting message from. Jethro told Moses;
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and placesuch over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Papa Cruz somehow made the connection that Jethro’s direction to Moses is the road map for voting. These four things that Jethro mentioned to Moses now means that Americans must adopt the same four qualities when selecting the “men” who will run this country – “able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness.”
Of course, it wouldn’t be a religious gathering if Papa Cruz didn’t go after the Democrat in the White House. After telling the audience about the four Biblical qualifications for voting, Cruz said, that you should vote for able men, not “the village idiot.”
According to Papa Cruz however, his own son Ted Cruz just got disqualified from running for office. He fails miserably in at least three out of the four “qualifications.” I would fail him in all four qualifications, but I refuse to share my opinion on whether Ted fears God. Of course Ted Cruz says he does, but his actions in the policies he pursues say otherwise.
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If nothing else, the past week has shown that those on the left can be just as short-sighted and ill-advised as those on any other part of the political spectrum. That the forum for these misdeeds is the university make the issues that much more compelling.
I’ve been waging a somewhat lonely campaign to remind my senior students that college is not the place to look for job training. Oh, they might find it there, but too many of them chose the schools that they did because “they could get a good job” if they went there. Far be it from me to argue that there’s no financial reward for going to a university, and a good one at that. My point is that too many young people go off to higher education with dollar signs in their heads. My job is to remind them that they are, in fact, going to a place where the people in charge are experts in their fields and will be asking their students to complete academic work that demands rigor, attention to detail and actual academic skills. As with anything related to young people, they’ll eventually learn the lesson.
It’s too bad, though, that the universities are the ones who have gone soft. This graduation season has seen Brandeis, Rutgers and Smith cave in like an abandoned mine in the face of student protests over who would speak at graduation ceremonies. Other universities chose speakers purposely to avoid controversy. This is terrible. I understand that the students are paying for their education and believe that they should have some control over who ushers them into the working world. But to disqualify the head of the International Monetary Fund or former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misses the point of a liberal education. There people have something valuable to say. They’ve been through some of the pivotal events of the century. They’re powerful women, for heaven’s sake. They deserve to be heard. Shame on the universities who gave in.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, along comes another new concept on the campuses called “trigger warnings.” No, these have nothing to do with guns, but, rather, are a device to let students know that what they are about to read, hear, see or study might offend one or more of their sensibilities. An example:
The most vociferous criticism has focused on trigger warnings for materials that have an established place on syllabuses across the country. Among the suggestions for books that would benefit from trigger warnings are Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” (contains anti-Semitism) and Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (addresses suicide).
I can certainly understand giving students a warning for graphic violence or scenes of genocide or rape, but there is something to be said for surprise or initial reactions or confusion or disbelief when you read or hear something jarring for the first time. That’s part of learning and being aware of one’s own reactions in social or academic situations. And how does one adequately write a policy that covers every eventuality? Didn’t colleges try to do that in the 90s with speech codes? Those didn’t work out so well. I can’t see this working out well either.
Students want to be safe, but learning is not always safe. It’s supposed to be challenging, upsetting, rewarding, fun and, yes, life-altering. Blocking graduation speakers and warning students about some content but not other content is a recipe for intolerance. That’s not right.
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Erik Rush a frequent guest on your “news” channel Fox News, has said some dumb things in the past. And just when you think he couldn’t get any dumber, he goes on his radio show and insinuate that any gun reform will turn the country over to Islam. He then took it one step further, saying that one day you will wake up and realize that you’re a Muslim.
You think I’m making that up? Here is his exact quote.
Rush warned Americans, like others, may soon be “waking up and going, ‘holy crap, we’re all Muslims.’”
“They are trying to dilute, subvert and nullify our Second Amendment rights so we won’t have — we’ll have armed jihadis coming to our doors and we won’t be able to defend [ourselves],” he added.
The poll conducted by Gallup finds that despite what Republicans would have us believe, Americans are not stupid. We know which party is looking out for us and which is looking out for the Koch brothers.
Americans view the Democratic Party more favorably than the Republican Party, even though both parties have a net unfavorable rating. Democratic Party favorable ratings have held steady since last June, while Republican favorables have increased slightly from their all-time low last year. Still, if the Republicans’ current favorability ratings hold, they will be the lowest ever for either party in an election year.
The Michael Sam kiss heard around the world happened last week, but the remnants are still making people walk off their live television set! What? You haven’t walked off your television set yet?
Well Meet Amy Kushnir, a co-host of the morning show “The Broadcast.” In a recent show, the cast got into a discussion about Michael Sam and the kiss he shared with his boyfriend after being told that he was selected to play football in the NFL. After a heated back and forth with the other co-hosts of the program, Amy couldn’t take it anymore and left the set bringing an abrupt end to the discussion.
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