The results are still coming in, but last night’s primary was a clear Clinton win. New Jersey and California were not as close as come polls predicted. In California, with 96% of the votes in, H. Clinton has 55.9% of the vote (1,848,922 votes, 324 delegates) to Sanders’ 43.1% (1,424,167 votes, 189 delegates). New Jersey was a blowout, with Clinton getting over 63% … Read More
Lord Gets Served
For nearly a 20 minutes Tuesday night, CNN political commentator and Donald Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord tried to defend the presumptive GOP nominee’s racist rant against a federal judge. It didn’t go well at all. Instead, seven other panelists raked Lord over the coals. Asked whether he would denounce what Trump said as racism, Lord said, “It wasn’t racism. He is calling attention … Read More
Breaking: Trump Issues Statement On Trump U
Interestingly, he reiterates much of what he says before, although he blames the media for “misconstruing” his earlier comments. It is hard to tell what exactly he is saying was “misconstrued.” But more importantly, I believe, is the last paragraph, where he says he will no longer answer questions or talk about the Trump U case. Hmmmmm. We’ll see. The … Read More
Florida AG Gets $ From Trump And Drops Case Against Trump U
This story has been around for a day or two, and needs more scrutiny: WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida’s attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates The new disclosure from Attorney General Pam Bondi’s spokesman to The Associated Press … Read More
The Last Super Tuesday 2016
That’s an anti-Trump ad that, in any other year, would kill the candidate it targets. Just thought I would throw it out there. So here we are. Another Super Tuesday. Important on the Dem side if only because it should put away Bernie (or conversely, propel him as a viable alternative). 694 Democratic delegates up for grabs in New Jersey, California, … Read More
The Letter To Her Attacker
On January 18, 2015, at about 1 a.m., two male Stanford graduate students were riding their bikes through campus when they spotted a man on top of a woman near a dumpster. The woman did not appear to be moving. The students approached the man, who fled, leaving the woman, unconscious and partially naked, on the ground. One of the … Read More
Trump Openly Defies His Own Advisors
This is fascinating and unprecedented: During a Monday conference call with supporters, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee overruled a directive sent out by his own campaign. An embattled Donald Trump urgently rallied his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on a federal judge’s Mexican ancestry during a conference call on Monday in which he ordered them to question the … Read More
RIP Muhammad Ali
Ali’s life was so brassy and daring, so filled with wonders and adventure and so enlarged by the magic of his personality and the play of his mind, that no one remotely like him has ever been seen on the sporting scene. Although Parkinson’s had silenced the Champ for decades, those of us who experienced him in his heyday will … Read More
Sometimes…. You Just Lose
I don’t mind if Bernie Sanders wants to stay in the primary race until the Dem Convention, but he’s (or rather, his supporters have) got to stop with the “rigged system” bullshit. Why? This… I try not to tweet about US election stuff, but amid the discussions about primary rules, I found this interesting: pic.twitter.com/plnlTQEOc3 — Dina D. Pomeranz (@dinapomeranz) … Read More
The GOP/RNC Response To Hillary’s Trump-Blasting Speech? Nada
Any other election year, if the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee gave a speech blasting the foreign policy — and the temperament to run foreign policy — of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, you would see talking points memos and pundits flood the media outlets in a severe backlash. Trump responded with a tweet. And the rest of the GOP? Nothing. … Read More
Cooper Files Response To DOJ Complaint
News-Observer: Gov. Pat McCrory announced Thursday that his office and four outside attorneys would represent North Carolina in the federal government’s challenge of House Bill 2, hours after making a political issue of a court document filed in the case by his Democratic challenger. An exchange of political volleys Thursday started when the Republican governor portrayed Attorney General Roy Cooper … Read More
Hillary Is Fighting Today
Imagine if he had not just his Twitter account at his disposal when he’s angry, but America’s entire arsenal. https://t.co/e7M2CV3sj6 — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 2, 2016 And its already getting good reviews…. Well said. This speech is probably the best we’ve seen from HRC in months. https://t.co/IULHyWI18z — Steve Benen (@stevebenen) June 2, 2016 Mother Jones sums it up: … Read More
Too Big To Fail Banks Being Pressured
Great news: Federal Reserve officials strongly signaled they will toughen big-bank capital requirements even more than they have since the 2008 crisis, a move that will add to the pressure on the largest U.S. banks to consider shrinking. Fed governors Daniel Tarullo and Jerome Powell, in separate public comments on Thursday, said the Fed would require eight of the largest U.S. … Read More
No, Greta Van Susteran Is Not The “Smart” One At Fox News
Why did they wait until NOW to release these? pics taken in 2015 and we pay their salaries in tax dollars https://t.co/hhXxrfsWEr — Greta Van Susteren (@greta) June 1, 2016 The last paragraph of the article she links to: Though the encounter took place more than 10 months ago, New Horizons is still beaming flyby data home, and likely won’t … Read More
Always Be Closing
This isn’t illegal, but many of the documents released in the civil lawsuit against Trump University show the high-pressure sales pressure put on unsuspecting prospective “students”. Below are pages from the so-called “playbook” used by Trump University recruiters. The playbook instructed employees on how to get attendees to a free “Trump” seminar to cough up $35,000 to attend the full “university” … Read More