Apparently Aladdin and Princess Jasmine are terrorist masterminds, who knew? 30% of Republican primary voters nationally say they support bombing Agrabah. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin. #NotTheOnion — PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) December 18, 2015 I’m gonna go ahead and bet that factoring in Democrats that we end up with that fabulous TWENTY-SEVEN PERCENT of all …
Dispatches From Bevinstan
The Kaiser Family Foundation discovers the problem with Kentucky and Medicaid expansion here now that Matt Bevin has taken office. Majorities of Democrats (89%), Independents (75%), and even Republicans (54%) want to keep the state’s Medicaid expansion as is. Of the people who voted for Matt Bevin last month, 50% want him to cut Medicaid. My …
Sow The Trump, Reap The Whirltrump
The Trump campaign, not racist or anything, just number one with white supremacists as Team WIN THE MORNING accidentally commits journalism to tell us. The Ku Klux Klan is using Donald Trump as a talking point in its outreach efforts. Stormfront, the most prominent American white supremacist website, is upgrading its servers in part to cope …
Pussyfooting Around
The Powerthirst Party has to get its two-minute hate on, and nobody does it better than Stu Varney’s bad cop/insane cop routine on FOX. STUART VARNEY (HOST): Let’s get right to the president’s speech last night on terrorism, and bring in Lt. Col. Ralph Peters. Alright, Ralph, I have a question for you. I know …
Jobapalooza Open Thread
Another good month for JORBS, plus 211K on payrolls for November, plus 35K upward revisions to September and October, unemployment rate remains at 5.0%, labor force participation rate unchanged at 62.5%, black unemployment at 9.4% (down from 11.0% this time last year), the U-6 at 9.9%. 68 straight months of JORBS from President Malcolm The …
Post-Racial America Update, Alabama Edition
So it turns out that even Southern state cops have their limits when it comes to racism, and that the systematic planting of evidence by cops on black men in Dothan, Alabama for the last couple of decades has finally become too much to bear. Members of a narcotics investigation squad for the police department …
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Skip The Middle, Go Straight To The Top
The grift is on and in glorious prime-time, kids. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump threatened Monday that he may not attend CNN’s next debate unless the network forks over $5 million, which the real estate mogul said would go to charity. Trump pulled the stunt once before, demanding that CNN donate the proceeds from its …