Now that the establishment war on Donald Trump is fully out in the open, Matt Taibbi expects the debate tonight to be a setup with the three moderators, but especially Hugh Hewitt, chosen so as to guarantee that they will arouse Trump’s ire. He says that the goal will be to get Trump to do something that will dent Trump’s popularity with his supporters but that the effort will backfire.
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A side issue in the Kim Davis saga is that she is described as being an Apostolic Christian, one of the many splinter groups in Christianity that differ over matters of obscure doctrine and practice. I had not heard of this group before but this article explains who they are and what they stand for.
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A 14-year old high school freshman in Irving, Texas who likes to invent things made a clock and took it to his high school to show it to his new teachers, hoping that they would be impressed by his abilities. Oh, they were impressed all right. The Dallas Morning News describes what happened.
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I will not be watching the second Republican debate tonight. It is on cable TV like the last one and to watch it would require me to go to a friend’s place and I simply can’t be bothered. I made the effort for the first one just to see what this mass audition would look like and now the novelty is gone.
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Janis Joplin’s psychedelic Porsche is being sold for $400,000. Maybe she got it from one of her friends.
The famous psychedelic Porsche convertible driven by late singing legend Janis Joplin is going up for sale.
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On his show Last Week Tonight, he runs through a list of school subjects and distills what he feels is their essence, all that you will need to know or will remember.
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Linguist Stephen Pinker has compiled a list of 58 words and phrases that he claims are commonly misused, frequently because those words are very close in spelling to other words and people confuse them. As someone who writes a lot, I was naturally curious as to how many of those errors I was committing.
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With all the focus on Kim Davis and her crusade to stop same-sex marriage in her county, we should not overlook the fact that similar strategies are being used by other regions in the US.
In North Carolina, 32 of the state’s 672 magistrates have excused themselves from marrying couples altogether, once a duty of the office, to avoid marrying same-sex couples. Magistrates opted out as early as June, when a new religious objection law was passed. The law allows magistrates to refuse to perform a marriage, but once they do so they are then barred for performing any other marriage for six months.
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A lesbian couple applied for a marriage license today at the Rowan County clerk’s office in Morehead, Kentucky, the first same-sex couple to do so since clerk Kim Davis returned to work. CNN covered what happened before and when they went into the office.