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• “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes”: Melissa Harris-Perry walks off MSNBC show

  26-02-2016 23:42 via salon.com
  
  Melissa Harris-Perry is refusing to appear this weekend on the MSNBC show she hosts, according to The New York Times. In a letter to colleagues, Harris-Perry cited frustrations that show had been repeatedly pre-empted by election coverage of "relative novices and certified liars" in recent weeks.“Here is the reality: Our show was taken — without comment or discussion or notice — in the midst of an election season,” she wrote in the letter. “After four years of
  
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• “He was so scared, like a little frightened puppy”: The 10 most bizarre moments from Trump’s Fort Worth rally

  26-02-2016 23:06 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump's rally in Fort Worth on Friday may have been most surreal performance to date. Trump's speech included a Marco Rubio impression, insults to Jeff Bezos and Mitt Romney, and a shout out to a fan's "big, beautiful beard."Here are the 10 most bizarre, over the top moments:1. On Marco Rubio: "He's a nervous basketcase. You had to see him backstage. He was putting on makeup with a trowel. I will not say that he was trying to cover up his ears. I will not say that. He was j
  
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• Popular right-wing news site proposes executing Guantánamo detainees, which would be quite illegal

  26-02-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  "Why not shoot them?" asks prominent right-wing magazine National Review, in an article proposing that the U.S. government execute Guantánamo detainees instead of transferring them.President Obama issued a new plan this week for closing the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay. In lieu of spending time and energy working on transferring the remaining 91 detainees, National Review proposes that it would be both legal and moral for the government to simply kill them and get it over with.The
  
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• The deeply misleading poll that supposedly “proves” Sanders is unelectable

  26-02-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  I'm as shocked as anyone to discover that so many Americans are rallying around a self-described democratic socialist candidate for president this year. And I am a socialist. I've always been convinced that the left could win on the issues, whether it be investing in education or ending foreign wars, but I always thought that we were nowhere close to winning a large number of people over to subscribing to a broader ideological framework to advance these policies — i.e., socialism
  
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• “We’re gonna have people suing you like you’ve never been sued before”: Trump threatens NYT, WaPo and the First Amendment

  26-02-2016 21:39 via salon.com
  
  Trump swiftly squelched any notion of a post-debate, pre-Super Tuesday Rubio surge by flying in Chris Christie to Fort Worth, Texas on Friday where the governor not only endorsed the Donald, but stood stage left during the most theatrical campaign rally in history.Sure, substantive debate might not be Trump's strong suit, but after Friday's media spectacle, it's clear he more than makes up for it with an unmatched canniness for headline domination.After accepting Christie's endorsement
  
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• “We do not need reality TV in the Oval Office right now”: A look back at Chris Christie’s greatest slams against his new BFF, Donald Trump

  26-02-2016 21:29 via salon.com
  
  Not exactly a Friday afternoon news dump, but in certainly a surprise announcement meant to overtake rather than hide beneath the news cycle, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump in Texas today.“There is no one who is better prepared to provide America with the strong leadership it leads,” Christie said of his one-time rival on Friday. Of course, Christie wasn't always singing the Donald's praises. Here are just a few of Christie's choice words reserved for the R
  
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• We tried to figure out what the hell Ben Carson is talking about: His weirdest statements, including the “fruit salad of life,” explained

  26-02-2016 21:13 via salon.com
  
  In an attempt to unravel Ben Carson's strangest statements, Salon dove deeper into the mind of Carson than anyone really should. Here's our best effort to explain what the GOP presidential contender really meant:1. On choosing a Supreme Court nominee: "The fruit salad of their life is what I would look at."This is a clear case of Dr. Carson getting a bad rap from an inept mainstream media with no sense of historical context. We imagine that in Carson's mind, he was simply adopting
  
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• Get ready for the most tense — and essential — Oscars night ever

  26-02-2016 20:33 via salon.com
  
  Some predictions say this will be among the least watched Oscars ever; viewership has been falling in general, and in year of less racially diverse nominations, TV audiences tend to be down. But this could also be the tensest, most unhinged, most contentious Oscars ever. Which would also make it far more entertaining than the usual clubby Hollywood event. Some of the evening is at least slightly predictable, some of it remains a mystery. Could it become an Oscars with a record-low audience
  
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• Delusional David Brooks: His blind spot for Republican nihilism has become pathological

  26-02-2016 19:50 via salon.com
  
  “Over the past generation we have seen the rise of a group of people who are against politics. These groups — best exemplified by the Tea Party but not exclusive to the right — want to elect people who have no political experience.” – David BrooksTitled “The Governing Cancer of Our Time,” David Brooks’ latest New York Times column is a conspicuously incomplete lament on the state of American politics. Among other things, Brooks complains about the
  
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• It is illegal to sell dildos in Texas and dogs can’t drink beer in Maine: Here are 8 truly bizarre U.S. laws

  26-02-2016 19:01 via salon.com
  
  Have you ever wondered about the weirdest ways to get arrested? Fortunately for you, in the U.S., there are plenty.Take a look. Have you ever wondered about the weirdest ways to get arrested? Fortunately for you, in the U.S., there are plenty.Take a look. Continue Reading...
  
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• Chris Christie gets his revenge: In a final slam on Marco Rubio, endorses Donald Trump

  26-02-2016 19:01 via salon.com
  
  Just when you thought this week was going to be worthless, Chris Christie — New Jersey governor, recently retired presidential candidate, jilted admirer of Bruce Springsteen — decided to save us all by endorsing Donald Trump for president. Christie was considered a contestant in the "establishment" lane in the GOP primary, so jumping ship to the "Trump" lane, so named like all things in Trump's purview after the man himself, is causing much confusion and consternation.Is he
  
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• Watch President Obama lead a Ray Charles singalong at the White House

  26-02-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  The final "In Performance at the White House" of Obama's presidency recently took place and it was a star studded event. Musicians from Yolanda Adams, Anthony Hamilton, Sam Moore, Andra Day, and Usher were a part of the celebration of American creativity. The evening culminated in a special tribute to Ray Charles during which Obama introduced Usher prefacing the performance by stating that he himself would not be singing. However, it wasn't long before Obama wa
  
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• “Donald Trump has never punched anyone in the face”: Marco Rubio’s new tough guy approach is cute but falls flat

  26-02-2016 19:00 via salon.com
  
  Jacked up from a successful showing at Thursday night's GOP debate, Marco Rubio took to network morning shows to maintain his Trump-bashing Marco-mentum.On NBC's "Today" show, Rubio repeatedly called Trump a "con artist," saying, "He has spent a career sticking it to working Americans."Rubio denied the suggestion that his strategy was to hold off on attacking Trump until this pre-Super Tuesday debate. "We are not gonna turn over the conservative movement to a con artist, who
  
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• Internet mocks U.S. military document that calls Muslim women wearing headscarves “passive terrorism”

  26-02-2016 18:52 via salon.com
  
  The hijab, or headscarf worn by some Muslim women, "contribute[s] to the idea of passive terrorism" and represents an implicit refusal to "speak against or actively resist terrorism," claims a bizarre policy paper issued by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, The Intercept reported this week.The U.S. military white paper was written by Tawfik Hamid, an author and lecturer with dubious credentials who claims to have previously been an Islamic extremist.The wearing of traditiona
  
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• Chris Christie wants to be relevant again, endorses Donald Trump

  26-02-2016 18:52 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump spent the morning teasing reporters about his "big announcement," and the showman didn't fail to deliver, as he rolled out New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at his press conference."I am proud to be here to endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States," Christie said, thereby explaining why he went to hard after Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio in the last debate he participated in."There is no one who is better prepared to provide America with the
  
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• Lindsey Graham is trying to win the Internet at the GOP’s expense — and may very well just have

  26-02-2016 18:01 via salon.com
  
  Speaking at the Washington Press Club Foundation Dinner Thursday night, Senator Lindsey Graham lit into his former opponents in the Republican primary, apologizing for the fact that they are all "batshit crazy.""Look how far you’ve come, the most dishonest person in America is a woman, who’s about to be president," he said. "How can that be? My party has gone batshit crazy!"He conjectured that if "you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody c
  
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• Paul Krugman: The GOP is delusional about who its own voters ever are

  26-02-2016 17:53 via salon.com
  
  In Friday New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman tore into the Republican Party for pretending not to understand the base it's been pandering to -- thereby allowing Donald Trump to become the presumptive favorite to win the nomination."Lack of self-awareness can be fatal," Krugman argued. But "[s]eriously, Republican political strategy has been exploiting racial antagonism, getting working-class whites to despise government because it dares to help Those People, for almost half a century.
  
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• These 5 Oscar-nominated films prove that racism is entrenched in Academy culture

  26-02-2016 17:50 via salon.com
  
  From "Pinky" — the 1949 story of a light-skinned black woman (played by a white actress) and her stereotypical "mammy" — to "The Blind Side" that plays upon to oh-so-typical Hollywood stereotype of the "white savior," the Academy Awards has a very long history of nominating racist films.
  This year zero black actors were nominated for awards, but that comes as no surprise given the racism entrenched in Academy culture.
  Watch our video for peeks at the 5 most racist Oscar-nominate
  
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• Is President Trump possible? The obvious answer is “no,” but it’d be silly to underestimate him again if he faces Hillary or Bernie

  26-02-2016 17:46 via salon.com
  
  It’s looking disastrously good out there for Donald Trump. The March 1 “Super Tuesday” primaries just a few days away, and the March 15 slew of big winner-take-all states come on hot after that, and the GOP’s pupal fascist of a frontrunner is putting up some strong poll numbers pretty much everywhere. He’s running in second place behind Ted Cruz in Texas, he’s edging out John Kasich in Ohio, and he appears to be in a commanding lead over Marco Rubio in Florida
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy is pure fantasy

  26-02-2016 17:45 via salon.com
  
  In this year's Democratic primary, surrogates for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have attacked Senator Bernie Sanders's domestic policy agenda for being unfunded or overly ambitious. For example, after signing onto a letter attacking Sanders' economic agenda -- backed by no data or modeling -- University of Chicago economist and former Obama White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Austan Goolsbee went on to suggest Sanders' agenda promises were "magic f
  
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• Cheryl Tiegs slams Ashley Graham: Self-appointed “health” expert clutching her pearls over a plus-size model on the SI Swimsuit cover

  26-02-2016 17:37 via salon.com
  
  I swear to God, you can advocate for health without being a jerk about it. Body shaming concern trolls, listen up!When Sports Illustrated unveiled its annual swimsuit issue earlier this month, it broke with tradition not only by giving readers three different covers, but three very different beautiful women. There was the traditional beachy blonde, Hailey Clauson. There was the powerhouse Ronda Roussey. And there was Ashley Graham — who last year became the first plus size model to appear
  
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• Lindsey Graham jokes about the murder of Ted Cruz and finally admits the GOP “has gone batsh*t crazy” in hilariously honest speech

  26-02-2016 17:31 via salon.com
  
  Lindsey Graham will never get his shot at wooing reporters with his comedic talents at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, but last night -- while the remaining Republican presidential candidates were fighting it out on CNN's debate stage -- Graham got the next best thing and absolutely reamed his party, his former rivals and himself in a hilariously honest speech to the Washington Press Club."This is the largest number of people I've ever talked to during a Republican debate," the lighthearte
  
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• The gun industry won: Republicans defeated the anti-gun crowd by shouting them down with temper tantrums and sheer nonsense

  26-02-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  
  This week, there were two mass shootings, one in Michigan on Saturday and another in Kansas on Thursday. The media coverage after each has fallen into a depressingly predictable pattern: First, check if the shooter was Muslim. If not, then there will be a few days of coverage turning up details of the killer's past. If there's a provocative detail — such as the Michigan shooter picking up Uber fares in between bouts of killing — coverage might extend to a week, but most of the time,
  
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• Donald Trump is basically invincible at this point: Cruz & Rubio waited way too long to fight back

  26-02-2016 17:11 via salon.com
  
  During last night's GOP debate, Marco Rubio mocked Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz attacked the billionaire for abandoning conservative orthodoxy. A whole lot of dirty laundry was aired about his business practices. There was much discussion of his tax returns and Trump said he was being audited so he couldn't release them. Rubio smugly accused Trump of repeating himself when he insisted that "getting rid of the lines" was his health care plan, and then hit him with the observation that the
  
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• 1 in 2 black gay men and 1 in 4 Latino gay men will become HIV-positive, study finds

  26-02-2016 16:53 via salon.com
  
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a recent study regarding HIV risk for key  populations throughout the United States. Overall, progress has been made, however there are still great disparities between race, risk group and geography.
  For example the likelihood of an American being diagnosed with HIV today is 1 in 99, up from 1 in 78 over a decade ago. People of color are still heavily affected and it is projected that 1 in 2 black gay men and 1 in
  
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• Three bullies in a locker room: Rubio and Cruz came out swinging, but Trump’s still king of the swirlies

  26-02-2016 15:57 via salon.com
  
  The first 2016 Republican debate without Governor Jeb Bush—who dropped out of the race shortly after the South Carolina primary—was characterized, naturally, by fewer gaffes and more yelling. There were still some head-scratching remarks, of course—Ben Carson conclude an answer with “the fruit salad of their life,” a phrase that no one knows the meaning of, and Donald Trump invented the word “bigly” to describe something large, maybe because saying &ldqu
  
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• Paul Krugman: “Wingnut welfare” blinded the GOP establishment to the unpopularity of conservatism

  26-02-2016 15:54 via salon.com
  
  In his New York Times column Friday, Paul Krugman outlined how a decades old echo chamber allowed for the rise of Donald Trump while leaving the Republican establishment impotent to fight back.Following Thursday night's ugly slugfest of a debate in Texas, Krugman writes of his amusement at watching the Republican establishment scrambling to secure a sufficiently conservative (and electable) "anti-Trump" after spending years harnessing the hate that drives Trump's candidacy for their own politica
  
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• Sorry Marco, the Drudge Report stays loyal to Trump: The Donald dominates yet another post-debate vote

  26-02-2016 15:10 via salon.com
  
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• Donald Trump had a very bad debate last night — but it might not actually matter

  26-02-2016 14:01 via salon.com
  
  If you didn't get too distracted by the strange screeching noises coming from the audience, you would have been able to hear the roars of approval from the pundits and many Republicans about Marco Rubio's performance inThursday's GOP presidential debate. Finally, Rubio was going on the attack against Donald Trump! He was mocking him! He was bringing up his shady business deals! Trump was looking rattled! It was a disaster! Even Ted Cruz-backer Glenn Beck was gushing.Here's the one problem w
  
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• Seth Meyers: Boy, would I love to watch Bernie Sanders destroy Donald Trump

  26-02-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers took a "Closer Look" at how Bernie Sanders' democratic socialism will affect his chances in a general election.Among several conservative overreactions to Sanders' policies (and appearance) was Bill O'Reilly, who said that if Bernie becomes president, "I'm going to Ireland.""I hate to break it to you, Bill, but if you think Ireland will be an oasis from the Bernie Sanders socialist nightmare, you're in for a shock," Meyers responded, noting that students pay no
  
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• “Oil for security”: Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden describes cozy U.S. relationship with Saudi dictatorship in new book

  26-02-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  "We rarely visited Egypt, or anywhere else in the Middle East, without stopping in Saudi Arabia," writes Michael Hayden, former director of both the CIA and NSA, in his new book "Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.""When we did, King Abdullah usually made time for us," Hayden adds, referring to the dictator of Saudi Arabia, the world's largest sponsor of Islamic extremism — and the site of the planet's second-largest oil reserves.Hayden, not one to mince his wo
  
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• Brian Eno: “Oscars’ swag bag is part of Israel’s cultural propaganda campaign”

  26-02-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  It has become customary for Oscar nominees to receive a "swag bag" of gifts and favors from various companies. This year, alongside the usual random bits and pieces -- a "Vampire" breast lift, a sex-toy, and a lifetime supply of Lizora skin creams -- there is an unusual contribution: A five-star luxury trip to Israel for every nominee in the main acting and directing categories. The trip is sponsored by the Israeli government.Israel is hailed as a great country for at least half its inhabitants
  
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• What Mitt Romney’s impotent attack on Trump really proves: The GOP is totally screwed

  26-02-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  The GOP has finally trotted out the big guns to stop Donald Trump.Faced with the possibility that the sentient Orange Julius could have the nomination wrapped up within a couple of weeks, the party reached deep into its bag of tricks and came up with… Mitt Romney? What, was Dan Quayle unavailable?Let us count the ways in which this move is a useless, impotent, flailing attempt by the GOP establishment to contend with a phenomenon that, after all these months, all the polls, all the f
  
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• Larry Wilmore: GOP didn’t care when Thurgood Marshall replaced by Clarence Thomas, “a conservative justice who doesn’t even f*cking talk”

  26-02-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  "Nightly Show" host Larry Wilmore led last night's show with his take on "the alleged non-murder of Antonin Scalia."To Mitch McConnell ("the guy who looks like if an elderly turtle mated with the white pillow that killed Antonin Scalia"), Wilmore said, "You said you'd block Obama on February 13th, only hours after Scalia's homicide. ... You made your intentions of blocking the president very clear.""One of the Republicans' bullshit lines is that they're concerned that a  conservative j
  
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• “Honestly, I see both sides of the story”: What the hell happened to “The Daily Show”?

  26-02-2016 13:54 via salon.com
  
  Trevor Noah tackled the biggest tech issue on last night's "Daily Show": Facebook's new emojis. Then, he tackled the second-biggest: Apple vs. the FBI."What's funny to me here," Noah said, "is how powerful Apple is ... that they treat the FBI just like any other customer."Noah noted the antiquity of the All Writs Act, a 1789 law which, the FBI argues, is precedent for Apple's cooperation."[The law] was actually signed by George Washington when he came into office," Noah continued. "So, this
  
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• We’re not laughing: Trump reigns in latest, unsettling GOP debate

  26-02-2016 12:45 via salon.com
  
  The 2016 Republican Party presidential primary has been a garish combination of flamboyant camp and self-conscious theater. It’s been loud and silly and rollicking. It’s also been completely unpredictable (at least to those 7.125 billion of us who are not currently Roger Stone) and weird. Very, very weird.But after Thursday night’s debate — and after the days of mass foreboding that preceded it, when American media finally realized that, yes, “Donald Trump, Republic
  
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• Hillary Clinton has a race problem — and it’s resurfacing at a dangerous time

  26-02-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  According to a Feb. 16 CNN/ORC poll, a whopping 65 percent of South Carolinian black voters are planning to support Hillary Clinton in Saturday’s primary, while only 28 percent are planning to support Bernie Sanders.The furor that broke out last night, however, may just shift the political winds.In the middle of a $500-per-person Clinton fundraising event in Charleston on Wednesday evening, a young Black Lives Matter activist stepped out in front of the f
  
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• Donald Trump loves Hispanics, but the feelings aren’t mutual: If he makes it to November, they won’t forget his toxic hate speech

  26-02-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  “The Hispanics love me.” -- Donald TrumpAfter the Nevada caucus I wrote that the Trump juggernaut was basically unstoppable. He's won a Northeastern state, a Southern state and now a Western state. For a variety of reasons, Trump has amassed a broad and deep coalition of Republican supporters. When the Super Tuesday primaries on March 1 are finished, Trump will likely have a near-insurmountable delegate lead. And even if he doesn't win as many of those states as the polls suggest, he
  
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• The media is calling Bernie’s “political revolution” dead — and completely missing the point

  26-02-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  With results in from a small handful of early primary states, the election’s early narratives can finally be parsed by the press with greater scrutiny. And right on cue, one of the central story lines on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders’ so-called “political revolution,” has received more than its fair share of scrutiny.Bernie Sanders has staked his campaign on the premise that the deck is stacked against the average American, and that only by motivating a politic
  
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• GOP falls into Obama’s trap: Vetting a Republican for the Supreme Court was crafty — and confirmed the right cares about power above country

  26-02-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Ever since Justice Antonin Scalia died, President Barack Obama has been handling the Republican freakout over filling his seat on the Supreme Court about as well as he can. While Republicans are climbing over each other to declare that they will never confirm an Obama nominee under any circumstances, Obama has mostly held back. He gave one news conference, ostensibly about other issues, where he struck exactly the right pose of chuckling paternal amusement at the Republicans' childish behav
  
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• Trump Rules in effect: The Donald fields softball questions while Hillary gets grilled

  26-02-2016 09:30 via salon.com
  
  "For now, Trump is generally considered a unicorn -- a candidate who gets away with things no one else could." Washington Post, February 22.Switching back and forth between MSNBC and CNN last Thursday night as they aired competing, hour-long interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, viewers ran the risk of whiplash. The threat lingered not just because Clinton and Trump were on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but because the tone and tenor of the two events seemed dramatica
  
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• GOP doomsday is at hand: The Donald is positioned to win yuge on Super Tuesday

  26-02-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  The Republican Party is running out of time and options to stop Donald Trump after winning as expected in Nevada’s Tuesday night caucuses, although party insiders are increasingly desperate about what to do.Trump, who was leading in Nevada polls—where he has a big Las Vegas hotel-casino—won his largest percentage yet in any of 2016’s caucuses and primaries, with 46 percent of the vote, which was almost twice as much as both Marco Rubio (24 percent) and Ted Cruz (21
  
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• GOP doomsday is at hand: The Donald is positioned to win big on Super Tuesday

  26-02-2016 09:15 via salon.com
  
  The Republican Party is running out of time and options to stop Donald Trump after winning as expected in Nevada’s Tuesday night caucuses, although party insiders are increasingly desperate about what to do.Trump, who was leading in Nevada polls—where he has a big Las Vegas hotel-casino—won his largest percentage yet in any of 2016’s caucuses and primaries, with 46 percent of the vote, which was almost twice as much as both Marco Rubio (24 percent) and Ted Cruz (21
  
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• 7 astounding conservative confessions about Donald Trump and the dismal state of the GOP

  26-02-2016 09:00 via salon.com
  
  Pass the bourbon! Yes, it’s really come to that. Not only are stalwarts of the American conservative movement apoplectic about Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the GOP, they are doing the country a remarkable favor by explicitly saying what makes their party so weak and Trump such a loser.Tonight, when GOP presidential candidates meet for yet a final debate before 15 states vote or caucus on Super Tuesday, these angst-filled voices are saying Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have their la
  
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• Photo - Going to play!

  26-02-2016 05:15
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• Going to play! https://t.co/0d7JfnZZv7

  26-02-2016 05:14 via twitter.com
  
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• “Unintelligible yelling”: CNN’s closed captioner is fed up with tonight’s GOP debate and doesn’t care who knows it

  26-02-2016 05:09 via salon.com
  
  It's an open secret that I'm legally and for all practical purposes deaf, and watch Fox News every day with the closed captioning on, so as I was covering tonight's Republican debate, I watched as I always do -- and about two hours into it, I was rewarded for my deafness as the person responsible for captioning the debate just threw his or her hands in the air and surrendered, as any rational person would do.The cover image on this story says all that needs to be said. We will link to a video to
  
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• Bill Maher on Trump’s out-of-control debate performance: “You have one hour to stop this man!”

  26-02-2016 04:45 via salon.com
  
  Bill Maher was live-tweeting tonight's GOP debate, and he had the same reaction that all thinking people did:https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703031515345588224https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703033874972971008https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703034457020715008https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703035601314979840https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703035761629593600https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703037052313440257https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/703037368635232257https:
  
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• Marco Rubio redeems himself by destroying Donald Trump and his lame Chris Christie impersonation

  26-02-2016 04:01 via salon.com
  
  Republican front-runner Donald Trump loves to find a line and hammer, hammer, hammer it until the words mean as much as your own name does after you've repeated it to yourself 100 times -- and normally that doesn't hurt him.But during tonight's debate, he wasn't repeating his own line, he was borrowing one of Chris Christie's from an earlier debate about the formerly robotic Marco Rubio's tendency to repeat himself.Rubio attacked Trump for not offering specific plans. "What is your plan?" Rubio
  
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• “If Trump hadn’t inherited $200 million, he’d be selling watches on the streets of Manhattan,” whatever demon possessed Marco Rubio claimed tonight

  26-02-2016 03:21 via salon.com
  
  Whatever demon decided to possess the body of Florida Senator Marco Rubio has wit and clever to spare, as his withering commentary on Donald Trump's Horatio Alger narrative demonstrated tonight.
  "If you hadn't inherited $200 million, you'd be selling selling watches on the streets of Manhattan," Rubio told Trump. Trump tried to counter by claiming that his father only gave him $1 million in start-up money, but Rubio's eye-roll and the audience's audible gasps clearly indicate who won that point.
  
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