Since there are so many Republican candidates, sometime ago (before Perry and Walker dropped out of the race), I started grouping the Magnificent Seventeen into categories to see if that made predicting the eventual winner any easier. There were three natural groups:
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I did not see the film Zero Dark Thirty (2012) about the mission that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, an action that many of president Obama’s supporters hailed as the finest moment of his presidency, showing his toughness in the face of Republican charges that Democrats are wimps. In fact, in the 2012 election, vice president Joe Biden adopted the slogan that thanks to president Obama, “General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead.”
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Ben Carson is under fire for saying that he “absolutely would not agree” with electing a Muslim as president. In the time-honored tradition of politicians confronted with their own words, he tries to make out that it did not mean what it clearly meant. It is the old reliable “taken out of context” ploy.
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The pest who will not go away Kim Davis is back in the news because she is being sued again by couples for altering the marriage licenses issued by her county. They have asked the federal judge to hold her once again in contempt for not following his order to refrain from interfering with the license issuing process.
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The rapid fall of Scott Walker was something to behold. Of course, you would not expect an arrogant person like him to accept the fact that his demise was due to a combination of being an incompetent debater, a lousy campaigner, and having a smarmy and odious personality. No, of course not.
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David Atkins examines the case of Minnesota Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. He thought, and I agreed, that Walker was the most dangerous candidate among all the Republicans, because he combined a good chance of winning the presidency (as a result of big money and establishment and rabid base support) with having a record that promised he would be truly vicious in his policies.
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We have only one life. There is no afterlife to make up for the slings and arrows of misfortune that we experience in this life and so we should try and give people every opportunity to be happy and not deprive them of the chance to seize happiness wherever they may find it simply because they violate some socially constructed norm.
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It turns out that Volkswagen has gone to great lengths to deceive emissions tests on its diesel vehicles in order to enable the engines to get better performance when it was being driven under normal conditions.
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The rugby World Cup is currently underway in England and, fresh from the ‘scandal’ where Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was criticized for only standing but not also singing the words of the national anthem, he was castigated for missing England’s opening game against Fiji, citing unspecified “pre-existing commitments”. The media sneered as to what could possibly be more important than cheering your team in a World Cup rugby match.
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Not content with trying to whitewash her awful record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, the new favorite of the anti-Trump forces in the Republican party, brazenly lied during the Republican debate last Wednesday, as this graphic shows.
