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I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no? Why can’t there be a…
Glenn Beck opened his radio show today going off on “what the hell has happened to Matt Drudge.” The conservative radio host was spurred on this morning by Drudge Photoshopping Rubio as a midget after he didn’t win a single state last night: Beck said ever since Drudge started “hanging out with Alex Jones,” he’s…
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on Donald Trump’s bizarre victory press conference in Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday. As Colbert noted, “Trump’s victory speech had a little bit of product placement.” “Trump gave his victory speech next to a pyramid of raw steak,” Colbert said, referring to the Bush Brothers steak Trump tried to…
This week, Donald Trump won primaries in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii, and then proceeded to give perhaps the strangest victory speech in the history of American presidential races. Trump had assembled a pile of meat, wines, a pyramid of bottled water, and one magazine to make a point that he is a successful businessman. You…
At tonight’s Democratic debate on Univision, moderator Karen Tumulty asked both candidates—point blank—whether or not they believed that noted racist Donald Trump was, in fact, a racist. The candidates’ collective response: Welllll……. More specifically, Hillary began her answer by declaring that, should she be nominated, there will be plenty of time “to talk about [Trump]….
At The Washington Post/Univision debate in Miami, Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton panned Donald Trump, vowed to reform immigration and sparred over their respective records. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) Please make these debates stop. I’m not having fun any more. Please let me out of this deep well. And stop giving me…
“I’m going to skip your funeral to eat BBQ tacos,” Obama thought to himself while this photo was taken (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post/Getty Images) Obama does not give a fuck anymore, according to a White House briefing, and certainly doesn’t care about Nancy Reagan’s funeral. Instead, NBC News reports, he’ll be headed to…
Husted, however, insisted that there had been no change in the law. “The secretary of state has decided to disenfranchise people who are 17 but will be 18 by the day of the general election,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told reporters in Detroit Tuesday afternoon. “Those people have been allowed to vote under the…
At a debate hosted by The Washington Post and Univision, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and fellow candidate Bernie Sanders said they would differ from President Obama in their plans for deporting immigrants who entered the country illegally. (The Washington Post) A campaign full of pledges — to be loyal to Donald Trump, to support the…
NewsInc Container /NewsInc Container WASHINGTON — Under Virginia’s current laws, children as young as 12 or 13 can be married off. But legislation moving through the Virginia General Assembly would put an end to that. NewsInc Container /NewsInc Container Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing to protect children by raising the legal…