Seth Myers has a hilarious run down of recent political events, including the secret meeting of Ted Cruz and Ben Carson in a closet. Yes, you read that right: They met in a closet. Why, you ask? What a silly question. After all that has happened in this campaign, you still think things have to make sense?
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The increasing support for the BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) movement targeted at the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands around the world has caused great concern within the Israeli government and they have launched a propaganda effort to try and discredit it, such as retaliating against those who advocate for it by going to the extent of getting sympathetic western governments to even criminalize speech in support of it.
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Now that the Republican race is down to just five people and Jeb! has gone, John Kasich seems to have cemented his position in the media as the ‘moderate’ and ‘reasonable’ candidate. It’s about time that someone exposed his aw shucks, midwestern moderate shtick for its phoniness and Samantha Bee does an excellent job in her latest episode of Full Frontal.
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So Donald Trump has handily won the Nevada caucuses, surpassing all expectations with 45.9% of the vote, exceeding even the combined total of Marco Rubio (23.9%) and Ted Cruz (21.4%). Trump currently has 81 delegates out of the 1,237 required to win on the first ballot at the convention, while Cruz and Rubio have just 17 each. Note that he handily won both South Carolina and Nevada after saying that George W. Bush did not ‘keep us safe’ because 9/11 happened on his watch, and that the war in Iraq was a mistake and that GWB lied the nation into that disaster, all unspeakable heresies that pundits felt might finally, finally, doom his candidacy.
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One can be tempted to feel sorry for Jeb Bush, especially given his ignominious exit from the Republican race. During the campaign he seemed affable and even reasonable. He seemed to be personally a nice guy who, through an unfortunate series of events, failed in his pursuit of the presidency. Using a high school metaphor, he gave the impression of being an earnest type whose run for class president was upended by the relentless taunting he received from the uncouth school bully Donald Trump.
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I have written before about how anti-choice people have been making it harder and harder for women to obtain safe, legal abortions, something they are perfectly entitled to, by shutting down clinics that provide such services using the spurious argument that they are trying to protect women’s health. In his latest episode of Last Week Tonight John Oliver explains what is going on.
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Glenn Greenwald writes about the absurd umbrage taken by two right wing law professors at Georgetown University law school when some of their colleagues demurred at the effusive praise given to the late justice Antonin Scalia by the dean of the school.
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Albert Woodfox was released from Louisiana prisons after 43 years of almost continuous solitary confinement in a six-by-nine-foot cell for a crime he denies committing.
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It was not long ago that many nations in the west made a impressive display of solidarity in favor of free speech following the massacre of the writers and cartoonists at the magazine Charlie Hebdo. There were marches and speeches celebrating the right to free speech and the need to be vigilant against attempts at censorship.
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