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Hhenderson777/WikipediaP.J. O’Rourke once called Hillary Clinton “a chowder-skull” and “a bossy little rich snoot of a goody-two-shoes.” So it surprised a lot of people when the political humorist announced that he’s voting for her. Clinton, O’Rourke said on the May 7 episode of the NPR show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, was “the second worst thing…
From political power brokers to the entire island of Manhattan, a varied cast of taunting insiders has inadvertently driven Donald Trump’s lifelong revenge march toward the White House. This is what it’s like to be one of them. McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Jul. 17, 2016, at 9:29 p.m. Tweet Tumblr Donald Trump…
The CIA has a long history of “spooking the news,” dating back to its earliest days when the legendary spymaster Allen Dulles and his top staff drank and dined regularly with the press elite of New York and Washington, and the agency boasted hundreds of U.S. and foreign journalists as paid and unpaid assets. In…
A brochure from Mike Pence’s 1988 House race, the first of two election defeats that helped shape Pence’s future political image. (Congressman Philip R. Sharp Papers/Ball State University Libraries) Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. And then, scandal. Campaign finance records from…
Another week, another police shooting in the United States. So far this year, 569 people have be killed by US police, according to The Guardian’s count. Police brutality is a horrific normality and, in more ways than one, black men being shot by police has become the modern-day equivalent of lynching. But, of course, it…
PHOENIX — Inside a cramped committee room on the cactus-dotted campus of Arizona’s Capitol, Kelsey Lundy stepped to the podium to detail new legislation and the higher costs it would impose on struggling borrowers. But Ms. Lundy is not a lawmaker, a government employee or even a statehouse intern. She is a lobbyist for one…
Story highlights Sheriff: Shooting appears to be “extremely random” Police chief: Staff’s response saved more lives The victims were an elderly female patient and a female hospital employee, who were sitting in the room, Titusville police Chief John Lau said. Moments after the shots rang out, two security guards came into the room at Parrish…
The new fundraising logo from the RNC looks… well, just see for yourself. The team surrounding presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump hasn’t exactly been lauded for its design savvy, but the RNC’s first logo for the newly minted Trump-Pence ticket might be the worst yet. A fundraising email sent Friday afternoon by the…
Mike Pence, he’s this dick. He may or may not end up being Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, once Trump The Showman has done a few more misdirec … LOOK OVER THERE! But at much of a doucher as Mike Pence is, we weren’t mad until we read this, from Buzzfeed, about his 2000…
Oh Newt. You predictable dick. In the past week or so, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has really wowed me and others with his surprisingly enlightened stance on race and police violence, leading to pieces like: http://theslot.jezebel.com/newt-178335788… http://theslot.jezebel.com/newt-178347891… It was an exhilarating time. But it’s over now. In an interview Thursday evening with Sean Hannity,…