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• “She understands this is a dangerous world”: Ted Cruz taps Carly Fiorina as VP pick

  27-04-2016 23:56 via salon.com
  
  In a much hyped announcement during a really in Indiana Wednesday, Ted Cruz announced the “superbly skilled, superbly gifted” Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate.
  Fiorina, you’ll remember, ran for the GOP nomination from May 2015 until February, when she suspended her campaign after weak showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. She first endorsed Cruz in March, saying she’s “horrified by Donald Trump.”
  “Where we are right now, nobody is g
  
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• Why most self-help plans don’t work: “You can’t just cut and paste a few things happy people do and hope that your life is going to improve”

  27-04-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  Human beings have been seeking happiness, presumably, since the dawn of time, but it’s only recently that happiness has become an industry. Between self-help books, academic studies, and the positive psychology movement, you’d think everything had been said on the matter.
  But Raj Raghunathan, a University of Texas business professor who draws from psychology and various social sciences, comes up with some fresh insights in his new book, “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren&rsquo
  
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• Watch Maine Gov. Paul LePage completely flip out at the sight of silent student protests: “Thank you, you idiots out back there with the signs”

  27-04-2016 23:04 via salon.com
  
  Poor Paul LePage. All of the radical right-wing policies he’s imposed on the state (like vetoing a life-saving overdose antidote) and the inflammatory rhetoric he’s spewed (who can ever forget about D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty) have resulted in a bit of blowback from residents in his state, and apparently Maine’s Republican Governor is now too thin-skinned to even face silent student protesters!
  Governor LePage said he will no longer attend some public events after two st
  
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• It’s OK to care about your looks: Women shouldn’t be embarrassed by — or shamed into — decisions of personal style

  27-04-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  I know this is a wild idea, but what if someone had an opinion about how women conduct themselves in the world that wasn’t totally polarizing? For instance, did you know women can make choices about their appearance that are neither automatically shallow and vain or despairingly uncaring? And if your motto is that gray hair don’t care, good for you, but that doesn’t mean everybody else has to sing the same tune.
  It’s one of those feminist arguments that routinely rolls ar
  
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• Snowden jokes “everybody at NSA just stopped working” to watch new trailer for Oliver Stone film

  27-04-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  The official trailer for the upcoming film “Snowden” was released on Wednesday.
  The film tells the dramatic story of whistleblower Edward Snowden, a former private contractor for the National Security Agency, or NSA, who worked with journalists to expose the U.S. government’s global surveillance programs.
  “There’s something going on inside the government that’s really wrong and I can’t ignore it,” says the fictional Snowden in the film.
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• Trump’s foreign policy nonsense: An incoherent mess that closely tracks the GOP mainstream

  27-04-2016 21:28 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump today completed one of the presidential rites of passage – he gave The Big Foreign Policy Speech. Because he’s Trump, expectations were set abysmally low and, because he’s Trump, he still failed to clear them. The speech was notably un-Trumplike in that it was pre-prepared and delivered with the assistance of a teleprompter, but it also somehow managed to retain the incoherence and inconsistency that are the hallmarks of Trumpian discourse.
  The whole thing was plag
  
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• Scientology tell-all interview coming: Ron Miscavige, father of church leader David, to appear on “20/20″ Friday

  27-04-2016 21:28 via salon.com
  
  In an exclusive tell-all interview with ABC’s “20/20″, Ron Miscavige — father of the Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige — will reveal “his son’s journey within Scientology starting when the family joined in 1970, and then his ultimate rise to current leader of the Church,” according to a press release.
  The elder Miscavige, who left the Church after 40 years in 2012 and is promoting his forthcoming memoir, “Ruthless: Scientology, My
  
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• Ted Cruz’s #NeverTrump Hail Mary: Carly Fiorina to be announced as running mate

  27-04-2016 20:20 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz is expected to name failed presidential candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate, reports ABC New Hampshire affiliate WMUR.
  Ted Cruz’s last major announcement came only on Sunday evening, when he unveiled the formation of a new anti-Donald Trump alliance between himself and his rival John Kasich, which was quickly dismissed by many in the media and has already proven to be either a complete bust or a deflective ploy because despite their ta
  
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• Journalist resigns after being barred from writing about Las Vegas newspaper’s right-wing billionaire owner Sheldon Adelson

  27-04-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  
  A prominent columnist resigned after being told he can’t write about the influential right-wing billionaire whose family owns his newspaper.
  John L. Smith, a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, released a letter on Tuesday announcing his resignation.
  “In Las Vegas, a quintessential company town, it’s the blowhard billionaires and their political toadies who are worth punching,” he wrote in the letter. “And if you don’t have the freedom to call the comm
  
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• Journalist resigns after barred from writing about Las Vegas newspaper’s right-wing billionaire owner Sheldon Adelson

  27-04-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  
  A prominent columnist resigned after being told he can't write about the influential right-wing billionaire whose family owns his newspaper.John L. Smith, a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, released a letter on Tuesday announcing his resignation."In Las Vegas, a quintessential company town, it’s the blowhard billionaires and their political toadies who are worth punching," he wrote in the letter. "And if you don’t have the freedom to call the community’s heavyweights
  
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• “A serial child molester”: Judge sentences Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, 2 years probation in sex abuse case

  27-04-2016 19:17 via salon.com
  
  Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison followed by at least two years probation on charges of structuring withdrawals to the total amount of over $900,000 in order to pay out hush money to victims of his sexual abuse at Yorkville (Illinois) High School wrestling coach.Hastert, 74, will also have to attend sex offender counseling and is forbidden from contacting the victims, according to the Washington Post.The 15-month sentence is "above what even prosecuto
  
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• Sci-fi’s Tea Party trolls go to war: Battle over prestigious Hugo Awards heats up

  27-04-2016 18:58 via salon.com
  
  The biggest award in science fiction and fantasy has been taken over by two groups that could destroy a tradition they claim to be trying to save. The Hugo Awards, which in theory is a populist award given by fans, as opposed to the Nebula Award given by writers, has been jacked for the second year in a row by two conservative groups, the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies, and the genre’s annual gathering – WorldCon, this year in Kansas City, Missouri – could become very ugly.T
  
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• “I have to confess my children generally had an impact on me”: President Obama credits Sasha and Malia for his final stance on same-sex marriage

  27-04-2016 18:46 via salon.com
  
  President Obama recently stated that his daughters helped shift his views on marriage equality. However, over the years Obama developed a reputation for changing his views and flip-flopping on the issue. Watch our video to see his changing stances and his final decision to support the Supreme Court decision to make same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. Continue Reading...
  
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• “Crooked Hillary Clinton,” “Little Marco,” “Indian call center workers”: Here are 5 of the most racist and tasteless Donald Trump impressions

  27-04-2016 18:32 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump is arguably a good businessman and admittedly is doing well in his presidential campaign but he is lousy at impressions.
  The Republican frontrunner can't stay away from racist and sexist impressions and not only are they offensive, he also does them badly. Take a look at our collection of his worst impressions.
  Donald Trump is arguably a good businessman and admittedly is doing well in his presidential campaign but he is lousy at impressions.
  The Republican frontrunner can't stay aw
  
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• Please, FBI — you’re our last hope: The Democratic Party’s future rests upon your probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails

  27-04-2016 18:30 via salon.com
  
  To the Honorable James B. Comey, Jr. and all the good people at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,The majority of the Democratic Party does not believe there is an ongoing FBI criminal investigation regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails. They believe, as the former Secretary of State has told them, that your work is merely a “security review,” or as one Democratic strategist call it, “another BS scandal.” Your work, thus far, has been relegated to yet another &l
  
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• Women pull out their #womancards to show Donald Trump after his latest sexist attack on Hillary Clinton

  27-04-2016 18:15 via salon.com
  
  Who is excited for a months long general election campaign with Donald Trump attacking Hillary Clinton for the shrillness of her speeches and her genitalia, because that is what is ahead.Trump previewed his general election strategy against the likely Democratic nominee on Tuesday, telling a crowd of supporters at Trump Tower that "if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she would get five percent of the vote.""I think the only card she has is the woman's card," Trump said, insisting t
  
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• Tucker Carlson warns GOP elite: You give “the finger” to the most vile elements of your base “at your peril”

  27-04-2016 18:13 via salon.com
  
  Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson appeared on America's Newsroom on Wednesday to speak to host Martha MacCallum about what would happen if -- as even House Speaker Paul Ryan is refusing to rule out -- the Republican Party does not accept Donald Trump as its nominee this summer in Cleveland.
  Carlson singled out RedState for attacking Trump's voters as "diseased" and "probably on Oxycontin" or "secretly liberal," but insisted that such talk is inherently counterproductive."He is on track to rece
  
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• It won’t be so easy for Hillary: Why Clinton will have to do much more to win over Bernie supporters

  27-04-2016 17:24 via salon.com
  
  After winning multiple state primaries on Tuesday, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton vowed to “unify” the party come November, and applauded her opponent Sen. Bernie Sander and his supporters for “challenging us to get money out of our politics” and battling income inequality. “There’s much more that unites us than divides us,” declared the former Secretary of State, who is clearly thinking about how to appeal to S
  
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• #NeverTrump is a total failure: Donald Trump set to smash record for most popular GOP candidate in modern history

  27-04-2016 17:18 via salon.com
  
  Despite rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich's late coming "collusion," the #NeverTrump movement has proven to be quite impotent in actually stopping Donald Trump.While Trump exceeded expectations as he swept all five primary contests on Tuesday on his seemingly unstoppable march to clinching the Republican presidential nomination, his detractors continued to peddle false hope that he will be defeated before the general election match-up even as he is now poised to become the most winningest Rep
  
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• Bernie’s new mission: Democrats can stop worrying about Sanders tearing the party apart on his way out

  27-04-2016 17:12 via salon.com
  
  As the Democratic race for president has narrowed, the conversation has turned increasingly to questions about tone and style. What kind of campaign will Sanders run once it's clear he has no path to the nomination? Will he become more or less aggressive? Can he stay focused on the issues? Party insiders have worried publicly about a budding tension between the two candidates. After months of tough campaigning, a little acrimony is expected – there's nothing unusual or alarming about
  
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• A viral video won’t stop abuse: If these “mean tweets” at female sports writers are “shocking,” you haven’t been paying attention

  27-04-2016 17:03 via salon.com
  
  The things that anonymous trolls say to women — like say, women in sports reporting — are horrible, disgusting, threatening, and sometimes just plain perplexing. But if you're a woman or have had any real conversations with women, it's hard to understand how you could call them "shocking." What's so shocking about an all too common experience?Earlier this week, sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro shared a video on Not Just Sports' YouTube channel, featuring a group of rea
  
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• Democrats, this is why you need to fear Hillary Clinton: The NY Times is absolutely right — she’s a bigger hawk than the Republicans

  27-04-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is even more of a war hawk than her Republican counterparts, the U.S. newspaper of record says in a new report."How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk," a long-form article published this week in the New York Times Magazine, details how Clinton’s hyper-hawkish "foreign-policy instincts are bred in the bone," based on what one of her aides calls "a textbook view of American exceptionalism."Clinton's extreme belligerence "will likely set her apart
  
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• Paul Ryan refuses to acknowledge Trump’s inevitability: “The one thing we can predict is it’s all unpredictable”

  27-04-2016 16:51 via salon.com
  
  On MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan discussed the current state of the Republican presidential primary in a manner that supporters of current front-runner Donald Trump are likely to find alarming.
  He spoke openly of "unifying" the party "no matter who our nominee is," noting that "the agenda -- economic growth, patient-centered health care, moving people from welfare to work and fighting poverty, fixing our national security and restoring the Constitution and self-governmen
  
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• “Purple Haze,” “so poor, so black,” “fettuccine,”: Watch Wolf Blitzer’s most idiotic and offensive television moments

  27-04-2016 16:44 via salon.com
  
  CNN's lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer shocked viewers last week when he confused Prince's hit song "Purple Rain" with Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" on live television as he memorialized Prince in the wake of his tragic death.
  The slip of tongue was so egregious that Salon writer Jack Mirkinson called it a "cruel twist of fate for Prince’s first CNN obituary to come from someone as ill-suited for the task" and viewers took to Twitter to express their disbelief — and for many, outrag
  
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• “We will not play the role of spoiler”: Jane Sanders smacks down Donald Trump’s suggestion that Bernie run third-party

  27-04-2016 15:46 via salon.com
  
  As the Democratic primary winds down, Bernie Sanders has received a lot of unsolicited advice on what he should do with his candidacy in the likely event he doesn't secure the nomination. Some, genuine appeals to consider third-party bids, like Jill Stein's suggestion for a unity Green Party ticket, while others are more like nefarious trolling from the likes of Donald Trump."Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats,” Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday, citing overwhelming sup
  
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• Donald Trump tells Fox News he would consider female vice presidential candidate “to counter Clinton’s gender”

  27-04-2016 15:19 via salon.com
  
  On Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, Donald Trump reiterated a point he made during his victory speech Tuesday -- that Hillary Clinton wouldn't even be a viable candidate if she were a man -- but added a new wrinkle, saying that he would consider selecting a female running mate to counter Clinton's gender.After delivering a mostly "presidential" victory speech last night, Trump briefly veered off-script and talked about his likely opponent in the general election. "I think the only card [Clin
  
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• Twitter lets Ted Cruz know his latest gaffe probably just lost him the state of Indiana

  27-04-2016 14:30 via salon.com
  
  At a post-primary reassurance party for Indiana supporters after his resounding losses Tuesday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz attempted to bond with his Hoosier State supporters by speaking to them in a language they understand: basketball.He wanted to pay tribute to the scene in the classic 1986 comeback film "Hoosiers" in which Gene Hackman implores his team to keep fighting. Unfortunately, Cruz has apparently never seen the film, or watched a basketball game:https://twitter.com/DavidMacAnally/status
  
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• Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld: If you want to leave the U.S. for Canada if racist Trump is elected, “you’re the real bigot”

  27-04-2016 14:09 via salon.com
  
  On Fox News' The Five Tuesday, co-host Greg Gutfeld tied his own shoes together and declared himself in possession of a Gordian knot -- not literally, of course, but with his "rebuttal" of those liberals who have declared they will move to Canada if Donald Trump is elected president in November.
  In a move barely even worthy of the high school debater he essentially is, Gutfeld attempted to "flip the script" on those who would rather not have an openly racist president by claiming that they, in f
  
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• “Even Jay Z was forgiven by track 11″: Trevor Noah ties together Beyonce, voting rights and “Lemonade”

  27-04-2016 14:05 via salon.com
  
  "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah last night touched on Virginia's Gov. Terry McAuliffe's new law allowing ex-convicts who've served their time to vote in elections, run for office, and serve on a jury."Voting and jury duty," Noah said. "Some bittersweet news for an ex-con.""You can argue that voting restrictions on felons have their place," he continued. "When you commit a crime, you do give up certain right for a period of time. Much like when you order sushi from a strip club, for a certain perio
  
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• The growing shadow of Donald Trump: The scariest thing about him is that he just keeps getting more popular

  27-04-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  When everyone woke up on Tuesday morning, the expectation was that Donald Trump was going to sweep the primaries that day. The RCP average had him winning Pennsylvania by 22 points, Maryland by 21, Connecticut by 27, Rhode Island by 29 and Delaware by 37. He actually did better than that in Pennsylvania, Rhode island and Maryland, but anyone looking at those polls had to know it was going to be a Trump blowout. Nonetheless, the talking heads put on a good show and at least pretended to
  
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• It’s going to be Hillary and Elizabeth Warren! Seth Meyers mocks the inane media veepstakes

  27-04-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  "Late Night" host Seth Meyers last night took a "Closer Look" at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's respective prospects for running mates.Clinton shrugged off a question on the matter from a CNN reporter over the weekend, saying she's "just working hard to win on" yesterday's Super Tuesday in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic."In Hillary's defense, it's not like her VP pick is really gonna matter," Meyers said, "because I get the sense she's gonna be doing everything."It's not just the big tw
  
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• Fox News’ Brit Hume weeps for the GOP’s “terrible dilemma”: The RNC can’t win without Trump’s voters, can’t win with Trump

  27-04-2016 13:51 via salon.com
  
  The regret being felt by members of the Republican elite over the possibility of having Donald Trump represent their party in the general election is becoming increasingly palpable -- especially at the one institution as responsible as any other for the Trump phenomenon: Fox News.
  After Trump swept the GOP primaries Tuesday night, Brit Hume lamented that the party is facing a "terrible dilemma" at the convention in Cleveland this summer.The Republican National Committee can "urge [delegates] one
  
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• “I do not want to share a bathroom with anyone”: Stephen Colbert just won the debate over North Carolina rest rooms

  27-04-2016 13:36 via salon.com
  
  During his monologue last night, "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert weighed in on the debate over transgender bathroom use.North Carolina recently passed House Bill 2 (the "bathroom bill") expressly restricting individuals from using public restrooms that don't correspond to their biological gender. The state has since seen widespread protests.Meanwhile, Target said it welcomes "transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender
  
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• We just took a giant leap toward November: Hillary delivers knockout blow, while Trump’s dominance can only be smothered by a brokered convention

  27-04-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
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• I pretended to be a Trump supporter on Russian TV

  27-04-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
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• Carly Fiorina for Cruz VP? The former tech CEO would be a disastrous running mate

  27-04-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz’s odds of capturing the nomination aren’t especially strong (and they weren’t helped by last night’s thoroughly dominating performance by Donald Trump in five state primaries) but he’s plowing ahead nonetheless with the work of a candidate in the late stages of a presidential primary. That means looking ahead to the general election and narrowing down options for what will ultimately be the most consequential decision of any campaign: who will be the r
  
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• When celebrity endorsements go bad: How Bernie super-fan Tim Robbins became a cautionary tale

  27-04-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  On Monday, actor Tim Robbins had a bit of a social media meltdown.Robbins had tweeted a chart that claimed to show exit polls favoring Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary wildly diverged from reported election results that greatly favored Hillary Clinton. Thus, according to the entrails of the disemboweled turkey that the creator of this chart must be reading, Sanders has actually won more primaries and delegates than he is getting credit for.When Twitter users pushed back on Robbins by not
  
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• Bill Clinton’s shameful legacy on immigration: “Terrible” laws he signed “rip apart” families and authorize unjust detention, Human Rights Watch says

  27-04-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  Clinton-era immigration laws "have subjected hundreds of thousands of people to arbitrary detention, fast-track deportations and family separation," Human Rights Watch says in a new report.The rights group says two 1996 immigration laws signed by President Bill Clinton have created a system in which refugees and migrants face detention and fast-track deportation without adequate consideration from U.S. authorities.Human Rights Watch is calling on the U.S. Congress to repeal provisions in th
  
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• They’re all like David Brooks: The mainstream media will never understand middle America

  27-04-2016 10:15 via salon.com
  
  To their everlasting discredit, most of the MSM Big Feet, which is what the late journalist Richard Ben Cramer labeled the self-important, pontificating political reporters and pundits who dominate our press, got it all wrong about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.That is no small thing when you consider those two are the big stories this campaign season. It’s like a weatherman missing a Category Five hurricane. Of course, if a weatherman had blown that call, he probably would be fired. Wit
  
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• A symbol of our steep decline: Donald Trump has unwittingly exposed America for what it’s become

  27-04-2016 10:00 via salon.com
  
  "Low-energy Jeb." "Little Marco." "Lyin’ Ted." "Crooked Hillary." Give Donald Trump credit. He has a memorable way with insults. His have a way of etching themselves on the brain. And they’ve garnered media coverage, analysis, and commentary almost beyond imagining.  Memorable as they might be, however, they won’t be what last of Trump’s 2016 election run.  That’s surely reserved for a single slogan that will sum up his candidacy when it’s all over (
  
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• Hillary Clinton surges toward nomination with at least 3 more primary wins

  27-04-2016 03:30 via salon.com
  
   Hillary Clinton added at least three more states to her victory column Tuesday night, strengthening what's rapidly becoming an all-but-unstoppable march to the Democratic presidential nomination.The Democratic front-runner expanded her sizable delegate lead with wins in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. But Bernie Sanders stopped her from sweeping the night with a win in Rhode Island. The primary in Connecticut remained too close to call.Already, Clinton can lose every remaining primary
  
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• Donald Trump sweeps primaries: Billionaire pockets another five states

  27-04-2016 02:49 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump rolled up victories in five more states on Tuesday, giving the Republican front-runner fresh momentum in his push for the nomination even if his pathway has little room for error.The New York billionaire scored wins in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island - all five states that held GOP primary contests on Tuesday."This is really something special. It's a movement," Trump said on Fox News before polls closed.Anticipating a big night for Trump, chief rival T
  
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• The Donald Trump jokes are on us now: This public humiliation should have tanked his politics career — but it only fueled his fire

  27-04-2016 01:00 via salon.com
  
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• Hollywood’s nanny-cheating cliché hits home: “There’s something so damn interesting and damn depressing about men being attracted to much younger and naive women”

  27-04-2016 00:59 via salon.com
  
  Lauren Weedman has never enjoyed the perks of major movie stardom. On the contrary, the 47-year-old Indiana native has built a career one character at a time, from Horny Patty on the HBO comedy "Hung" to Doris on the short-lived (but much loved) "Looking."But two years ago, Weedman suffered the ultimate Hollywood betrayal when she discovered that her husband was carrying on an affair with their young son’s twenty-something babysitter.Weedman would be the first one to tell you that the tabl
  
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• Humor and the Holocaust? Documentary explores the boundaries of comedy and tragedy

  27-04-2016 00:58 via salon.com
  
  Is it inappropriate to joke about the Holocaust? Is it acceptable to make fun of slavery? Can we find humor in topics like cancer and AIDS? Is it too soon to crack wise about 9/11? These are some of the questions raised by “The Last Laugh,” director Ferne Pearlstein’s thoughtful, provocative, and yes, funny documentary about Holocaust humor that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last week.Pearlstein, who co-wrote the film with her husband, Robert Edwards, makes her case by
  
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