Month: November 2015
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Republican Primary Rules Favor Centrists
Why Republicans nominate moderates for president and not other offices.
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A Photo for Friday
“Amarillo” 10/17/15 Pike Road, AL
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Christie, Huckabee Relegated To Undercard In November 10th Republican Debate
The debate stages for both the undercard and main debate next Tuesday will look different from what we’ve become used to.
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Bernie Sanders Wants To End The Federal Marijuana Ban, Conservatives Should Support Him
Senator Bernie Sanders wants to let states decide how to regulate marijuana, or to not regulate it at all if they choose. Intellectually honest conservatives should support his effort.
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Louisiana’s GOP Lt. Gov. Endorses Democratic Candidate For Governor Over David Vitter
Well this could be a game changer.
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Tuesday’s Elections Helped Solidify Republican Control Of America’s State Legislatures
Forget about Congress, the real story going forward is likely to be Republican dominance of state legislatures nationwide.
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Ben Carson Releases Rap Music Based Campaign Ad
Like Donald Trump, Ben Carson is debuting a radio ad this week, but his is a bit more, well, unconventional for a Republican: Ben Carson is stepping up his rap game — sort of. In an appeal to younger black voters in urban markets, the Republican presidential candidate will run a 60-second ad featuring the…
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Donald Trump Hits Radio Airwaves In Early Primary States With Ads
Donald Trump is going up on the air with ads for the first time in the campaign, but so far at least they’re just radio ads that will run in several early primary states: Donald Trump pitches himself as someone who “learned the values of hard work, determination and faith at an early age” in…
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George H.W. Bush Highly Critical Of Rumsfeld And Cheney In New Book
In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.
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Trump And Carson Lead, Bush Sinking, Christie In Debate Trouble In Latest GOP Polls
Fluctuations continue, but the Republican Presidential field appears to be sorting itself out as we near the beginning of a new phase of the campaign.
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Democrats Failed To Capture Virginia’s Senate, In Part Because Of The Politics Of Gun Control
Virginia Democrats tried to capture control of the Virginia State Senate by, in part, emphasizing gun control issues. The fact that they failed is instructive.
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Jon Stewart Signs New Deal With HBO
Mere months after leaving The Daily Show, Jon Stewart signed a deal that will have in back in television at least in a limited capacity: Three months after retiring as host of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart has signed a production deal with the premium cable channel HBO, the channel announced on Tuesday. As part of the…
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Houston Voters Reject Anti-Discrimination Ordinance
Houston voters rejected a broad anti-discrimination law largely due to a campaign that focused almost exclusively on concerns about transgender rights.
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Leaders Of China And Taiwan To Meet For First Time In 66 Years
For the first time since Chang Kai-Shek escaped across the Taiwan Strait, the leaders of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China will meet this weekend.
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Marijuana Legalization Loses In Ohio, But The Battle For Legalization Continues Forward
A controversial marijuana legalization initiative that even many pro-legalization advocates opposed, lost in Ohio last night. But the nationwide momentum in favor of legalization will likely not be abated.
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Ben Carson’s Sham Campaign Has Him Tied With Hillary Clinton
The juxtaposition of two headlines at memeorandum is amusing.
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Republicans Trust Trump And Carson On The Economy, And Nukes, More Than Anyone Else
Republicans have apparently gone insane.
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TransCanada Asks For Delay In Keystone XL Pipeline Review
Another piece of news that all but guarantees the fate of the Keystone XL project will not be resolved before President Obama leaves office.
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Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi Who Lobbied The West In Favor Of 2003 War, Dies At 71
Ahmed Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi politician who played a crucial war in convincing the United States and other western nations to go to war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 2003, has died in Baghdad at the age of 71: Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who from exile helped persuade the United States to invade Iraq…
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The Race For The Democratic Nomination Isn’t Over Yet, But It’s Getting Close To That
More good news for Hillary Clinton, and a sign that the race for the Democratic nomination, to the extent there really is a race at this point, is close to being over.
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Both Sides Do It: Voter Suppression Edition
Today, many states and municipalities are having elections that will mostly attract Democrats.
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Three More Republican Candidates Drop Out Of Group Effort To “Fix” Debates
The effort to forge some kind of consensus independent of the RNC among the Republican candidates for President regarding debates appears to have failed. To the surprise of nobody who has been paying attention.
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Dennis Hastert’s Portrait Removed From House Of Representatives
Politico reports that one of the first notable impacts of Paul Ryan’s Speakership has been the removal of the portrait of Dennis Hastert from the group of portraits of former Speakers Of The House that are displayed in an area just off the House Floor. Hastert, you will recall, was indicted over the summer on Federal…
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Wild Swings in Republican Polling Continue
Another day, another poll.
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Donald Trump Goes Rogue, Refuses To Sign On To Group Effort To Work Out Debate Details
Donald Trump is refusing to sign a joint letter to debate organizers drafted by representatives of all the GOP campaigns. Instead, he wants to negotiate with the networks himself.
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Donald Trump Maintains Commanding Lead In New Hampshire While Rubio Inches Up
Donald Trump remains the favorite of those likely to vote in New Hampshire’s Republican Primary, but Marco Rubio is starting to inch up in the polls in the Granite State.
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Star Trek Returning To Television In 2017, But Only On Digital Streaming
Boldly going……..again?
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Lawrence Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign Most People Never Knew Existed
Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and you wouldn’t be alone in being surprised to learn he was running to begin with: Lawrence Lessing, the Harvard professor who began a late campaign for president, announced that he was ending his bid for the Democratic nomination, citing his…
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Republican Campaigns Meet In Effort To “Fix” Debates, But They Won’t Do What’s Necessary
Representatives from most of the Republican Presidential campaigns met to discuss reforms to the debate process, but none of their ideas will actually improve the quality of debates.
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Fred Thompson, Watergate Lawyer, Senator, Actor, Dies At 73
A man with one of the more unique political and personal resumes in recent memory has passed away.
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Carson and Mannatech
Semantics aside, Carson has a clear relationship with a company whose products are nothing but junk science.
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Paul Ryan’s Comments On The Likelihood Of Immigration Reform Simply Reflect Political Realty
Paul Ryan’s admission that immigration reform will not happen as long as Barack Obama is President simply reflects the reality of immigration politics in Congress.
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Ryan’s Disingenuous Dodge on Immigration
Speaker Ryan to MTP on the subject of immigration reform: “I don’t think we can trust the president on this issue,” Ryan told NBC’s Chuck Todd. “The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself. Presidents don’t write laws. Congress does.” A couple thoughts immediately spring to…
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Electoral Reform Coming to the Great White North?
Will Canada ditch FPTP?