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Rev. Al Sharpton and Others will Hold a Hunger Strike Until Loretta Lynch is Confirmed

Eric Holder, the current Attorney General, has already said he wants to leave the post, and over 160 days ago, the president nominated his successor. But Republicans, branded “the party of NO,” apparently see political benefits in refusing to confirm the new Attorney General, so Sharpton along with female civil-rights leaders are trying to put pressure on Senate leader Mitch McConnell with a hunger strike.

“As long as the Senate refuses to take fifteen minutes to confirm someone for Attorney General that they have already confirmed twice for U.S. Attorney,” National Action Network and its allies “will do everything in our power to draw attention to this completely unfair and unnecessary delay to vote to confirm Loretta Lynch,” Sharpton, who founded NAN, said in a statement Wednesday.

The group’s executive director, Janaye Ingram, added: “We stand with Loretta Lynch and are so in support of this cause that we are willing to sacrifice our daily meals to impress upon the U.S. Senate that it’s time to call a vote.”

The hunger strike is part of a broader public pressure campaign for Republican leaders to quickly hold a confirmation vote for Lynch, who has been stuck in a nomination purgatory ever since she cleared the Judiciary Committee in late February. Lynch, the current U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, would be the first black woman to serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official.

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Republican Peter King on Supporting Ted Cruz – “I will jump off that bridge when we come to it”

Republican Representative Peter King does not hide he feelings well, especially when it comes to his fellow Republican, Senator Ted Cruz.

Earlier this week, King went on CNN to discuss, among other things, Senator Cruz and his wish to be the next Republican presidential nominee. Asked by Wolf Blitzer if he can support Cruz for president, King replied, “I hope that day never comes. I will jump off that bridge when we come to it.”

“You’re leaving open that possibility after you said what you said?” Blitzer asked.

“It’d be very difficult,” King responded. “Maybe he can go on the road to Damascus, he can have a complete conversion. But the way it is right now, it’d be very difficult to support Ted Cruz.”

King appeared on Blitzer’s show after releasing a statement calling the Texas Tea Party favorite a “carnival barker.” Cruz announced early Monday morning that he was officially entering the 2016 presidential race.

“Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn’t carry out an intelligent debate,” King said. “He oversimplifies, he exaggerates.”

King also accused Cruz of leading the GOP “off the cliff” in 2013 for inciting the federal government shutdown. At the time, King blamed Cruz and his “acolytes” for the shutdown, saying it was “madness” for the party to follow his lead.

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Who Toppled the Tombstone of Hillary Clinton’s Deceased Father?

Their hate for the newly announced Democratic presidential candidate has no boundaries.

Vandals in Pennsylvania reportedly toppled the tombstone of Hillary Clinton’s late father, police said Tuesday night.

Employees at the Washburn Street Cemetery, in Scranton, Pa., told the Scranton Times-Tribune that the gravestone of Hugh Rodham, the deceased father of the newly minted 2016 candidate, had been overturned in recent days, in a vulgar incident that authorities suspect is vandalism.

“I’m not sure how else it would have fallen over,” Scranton Police Chief Carl Graziano said.

Rodham died in 1993 at the age of 82.

Authorities have since righted the fallen tombstone, cemetery caretaker Paul McGloin told the Times-Tribune.

“I hope this had nothing to do with politics because that’s just wrong,” McGloin told the paper.

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Republican Waterboy Marco Rubio Anncounces he’s Running for President

He only sipped water 3 times during his announcement. And he chose a small paper cup neatly positioned on the podium over the bottle of Poland Springs hidden off to the left. But when it was all over, Marco Rubio, the first term Republican Senator from Florida, officially tossed his hat into the race for president in 2016 joining the likes of fellow Republicans Rand Paul and Ted Cruz!

Rubio painted himself as the future, the only one capable of taking America forward. He talked about jobs, saying that the way to prepare for the jobs of the future is through education and re-education. Kinda like what Barack Obama has said since he began his run for President back in 20085. When talking about Hillary Clinton – who made her announcement 24 hrs before, Rubio called her a leader from “yesterday” determined to take America “back to yesterday.” Rubio then said, “yesterday is over” – a line sounding as if it came straight out of Sarah Palin’s mouth – to great applause from his audience.

And yes, his platform for running for president includes a total “repeal of Obamacare,” you know, taking away healthcare from tens of millions of Americans. This too, got the audience members rejoicing! Rubio also promises to do away with any nuclear deal made with Iran, thus allowing the middle eastern nation to continue their quick progress to getting a nuclear weapon.

With his announcement, the occupants in the clown car increase by one.

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Hillary Clinton Makes it Official – “I’m running for President” – Video

After all the fuss and speculation, and all the torment and accusations from those on the right, Hillary Clinton made it official today with her announcement that she is indeed running for President in 2016! The former First Lady and Secretary of State made the official announcement via a video shared on her Twitter account and posted on YouTube.

“I’m running for president,” she said in the video, posted around 3pm on Sunday.

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Man Accuses his Wife of Sleeping with The Entire Wu-Tang Clan – Video

This episode of Divorce Court features a couple who decided to bring their dispute and make it public for the world to see, and the accusation that the woman slept with the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

“She gave Wu some tang,” he said. She denied his claim, but admitted that she had an “amazing” night in a hotel with the group after an event.

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Rev. Al Sharpton Calls for Confirmation Hearing For Loretta Lynch

Senate Republicans need to stop playing politics with this nomination and do what is demanded of them by the Constitution. People are speaking out all over the nation about this issue and on Saturday, the Reverend Al Sharpton lend his voice to the rising calls for a Loretta Lynch confirmation hearing.

At the National Action Network’s annual convention Saturday in New York City, a crowd chanted “call the vote,” 1010 WINS’ Roger Stern reported.

Sharpton said given the use of deadly force by police around the nation in recent months, including the recent death of a black motorist in South Carolina, there needs to be a confirmation vote on Lynch.

“We call on today, Mitch McConnell head of the Senate, to give America a fair prosecutor to look at these cases,” Sharpton said.

President Obama appointed Lynch 5 months ago and she has waited longer for a confirmation vote than any other attorney general nominee in recent history, Stern reported.

Lynch is the top federal prosecutor for New York’s Eastern District, which includes Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island. She also held the position under President Bill Clinton.

If confirmed by the Senate, Lynch would be the first African-American woman to hold the position.

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Republicans Have Loretta Lynch on Hold… For No Apparent Reason Whatsoever

The reason may not be apparent, but deep down, the thought of the first black female attorney general must make some Republicans quiver in their skin. It has already been 154 days and according to Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, there is still no plans to confirm Lynch as the Attorney General of the United States.

McConnell and Senate Republicans explain that the reason for the hold up is Democrats. They want Democrats to vote on an abortion clause in a human trafficking bill. Not sure what the connection is between the Attorney General of the United States and an abortion clause, but, Republicans love talking about abortions. So that is the reason Loretta Lynch has waited longer for the attorney general confirmation than any other attorney general in recent history!

President Obama’s nomination of Loretta Lynch to become the country’s first African-American woman attorney general is a historic pick. Her confirmation, however, is now taking on new historical relevance as her wait for a confirmation vote by the full Senate drags into its sixth month.

The period between the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote to confirm and the full Senate vote — which in Lynch’s case has not been scheduled — has lasted longer for her than for any attorney general nominee in recent history. By the time the Senate returns from Easter recess on Monday, it’ll have been longer than the eight previous nominees for the job — combined.

Lynch, currently the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, cleared the committee February 26 by a vote of 12-8, with Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona joining Democrats in sending the nomination to the full Senate.

Obama nominated Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder on November 8, after Holder had announced plans to leave the post weeks earlier.

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Hillary Clinton to Announce Her Candidacy for President This Weekend

Some reports say the announcement will come at noon on Saturday via a tweet on Twitter,  but CNN is reporting that Sunday will be the big day when the former Secretary of State will make a video announcement.

Clinton has already filmed her campaign video, a person close to the campaign said, which outlines the central themes of her second bid for the White House. The message is intended to send a signal to Democrats that she intends to aggressively fight for the party’s presidential nomination.

A new epilogue of her book, “Hard Choices,” an excerpt of which was released Friday to the Huffington Post, offers a glimpse into why she is embarking on another presidential campaign. She writes about her new granddaughter, Charlotte, and calls for equal opportunity for her generation.

“Becoming a grandmother has made me think deeply about the responsibility we all share as stewards of the world we inherit and will one day pass on,” Clinton, 68, writes in the epilogue. “Rather than make me want to slow down, it has spurred me to speed up.”

The decision will sweep aside more than a year of speculation about her political aspirations and allow her to start making her case to voters.

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Democrat Lincoln Chafee Wants to be President – Slams Hillary Clinton – Video

Democrat Lincoln Chafee has decided to maybe cast his hat into the ring for the 2016 presidential run and in the process, the former democratic governor of Rhode Island has something to say about Hillary Clinton, the number one Democrat vying for the top spot.

In an online video posted earlier today, Chafee – who was once an Independent and a Republican  – praised President Obama, saying the president has lead admirably. But his words for Mrs Clinton were… well, not too nice.

“I would argue that the decision to invade Iraq has destabilized the Middle East,” Chafee says in a second video. “As a senator I voted against the war authorization.”

He added that he believes the war with Iraq was “one of the worst decisions in United States history.”

Clinton, a senator at the time, voted to authorize military action against Iraq, a vote she says she got wrong.

Chafee also stressed international affairs during his announcement video, saying he’s “alarmed about the international instability, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. I don’t like where this is going.”

He said moving forward the United States “will need fresh ideas and the most skillful diplomacy in dealing with this ever changing world.” 

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T-Mobile is No Longer a Member of ALEC

T-Mobile just made the wisest decision yet.

The telecommunications company T-Mobile has decided to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), making it the latest in a long series of corporate giants to depart the conservative organization.

“T-Mobile is affiliated with many public policy organizations and we regularly evaluate these affiliations and associations based on our priorities,” the company said Wednesday in a statement provided to National Journal. “In line with this practice, in 2015 we decided not to renew our membership with ALEC.”

T-Mobile did not offer an explanation for why it decided to leave the ALEC. A number of organizations, in leaving, have griped about the organization’s position on climate change. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, for instance, said that ALEC is “literally lying” that there’s any question about climate change.

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GoFundMe Shuts Down Donation Page for Police Who Shot Unarmed Man in Back

And once again, it has already started. Even with the video showing that the officer lied in his report on what happened in South Carolina, even with that video evidence showing a man being gunned down like an animal as, even with that video available for all to see, the supporters of the police who pulled the trigger are making themselves known with a GoFundMe page to raise money for the officer who shot the man in his back. But according to this report, that page was shut down by GoFundMe.

A fundraising page dedicated to South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was shut down by GoFundMe on Wednesday.

Slager was charged with the murder of 50-year-old Walter Scott after video surfaced of him shooting at the unarmed man eight times. GoFundMe’s public relations manager, Kelsea Little, told The Huffington Post that the page’s removal was “due to a violation of our terms and conditions.”

However, Little said GoFundMe was unable to discuss the details of the campaign with anyone other than the organizer because of “privacy concerns.”

One source of outside financial support for the Slager family will be North Charleston. In a press conference Wednesday, Mayor Keith Summey confirmed that the town would continue to pay for the medical insurance of the officer’s wife, who is eight months pregnant, until the birth of the child.

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