I could watch these two onstage together forever. Hillary Clinton Speeches & Events This rally just happened, and I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole video yet, so let’s watch together.
Christopher Frizzelle
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Hillary Says Hell No to Yet Another Debate with Bernie
“Another debate? With Bernie? Hosted by Fox News? Uh… I’m good.” a katz / Shutterstock.com “Hell no” is not an actual quote. Nor is “I’m good.” The actual statement from camp Clinton, just released, says: We have declined Fox News’ invitation to participate in a debate in California. As we have said previously, we plan […]
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Um, Budweiser Is Changing Its Name to “America” This Summer
And they’re changing their tagline—”King of Beers”—to “E Pluribus Unum.” Courtesy of Anheuser Busch As Anheuser-Busch explains: America’s No. 1 full-flavored lager is taking its longstanding tradition of patriotic packaging even further this summer by replacing “Budweiser” with “America” on the front of its 12-oz. cans and bottles. The brand is also modifying Budweiser’s iconic […]
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Ted Cruz Announces Fellow Fetus Fetishist Carly Fiorina as His Pick for VP
Actual quote: “Planned Parenthood is aborting fetuses alive to harvest their brains and other body parts. That is a fact.” Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com It’s pretty strange that Ted Cruz—someone who is not in first place and doesn’t have a hope of amassing enough delegates by the convention—is already announcing his pick for vice president, […]
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Tim Egan Encourages Republicans to Vote for Hillary Clinton
From his latest New York Times column: The Republican Party, under Trump, is headed for a combustive breakup. Ronald Reagan envisioned a shining city on a hill. Trump represents nothing more than a thug with money. Can the man who shouts “I’d like to punch him in face!” and “Knock the crap out of them!” […]
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I Am Happy It’s Going to Be Hillary and Not Bernie Going Against Trump in the General Election
She’s widely expected to do well tonight. a katz / Shutterstock.com Look, I like Bernie, Bernie’s great on many issues. If he weren’t up against a way more qualified candidate in the Democratic race and if the Democratic nominee wasn’t going to have to run against Trump, I’d be all for Bernie. But he takes […]
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Oh Look, There’s an Ad in Yesterday’s New York Times About What a Bad, Bad Man Dan Savage Is
This was on the editorial page yesterday. The Catholic League took out an ad in the New York Times yesterday that you can read here on the Catholic League’s website if the text above is too small for you. Hilariously, this is not the ad the Catholic League wanted to run. The ad the Catholic […]
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Did You See the Editorial About Guns on the Cover of the New York Times on Saturday?
I can’t think of the last time the New York Times ran an editorial on A1. It took up the left two columns on the cover of Saturday’s paper. Here’s what it said: All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California… But motives do not matter to […]
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Islamic State Has Killed at Least 30 Gays by Stoning, Firing Squad, Beheading, and Pushing Men from Tall Buildings
Turkey opened its border to fleeing Syrians in 2014. This photo of Turkish soldiers at the border was taken in September 2014. Syrian gays have reportedly fled into Turkey and elsewhere. fpolat69 / Shutterstock.com In horrifying news: The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head […]
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Donald Trump’s Toxic Comments on Women, Race, and Climate Change
“Oh my god, David, how could you say that about my hair?” Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, is not the kind of writer who goes around calling people jackasses, so his commentary yesterday on Donald Trump was something to behold. The personal brand is, depending on your […]
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Conversations with My Mom About Gay Conversion Therapy
TREKANDSHOOT/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Before we go there: I love my mom. My mom is different now than she used to be. And the world is different. Imagine being the parent of a newborn boy in 1980. The year he turns 1, they discover AIDS. Couple years later, they discover what causes it (the French beat us to […]
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Washington Redskins Will Have to Find Some Other Minority to Disparage
Dean Betoncelj / Shutterstock This crap is offensive, says the US Patent and Trademark Office. “In Landmark Decision, U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark for Redskins Football Team.” That’s the headline up at Think Progress, where the story broke this morning. The plaintiff’s lawyer says, “We presented a wide variety of evidence—including dictionary definitions and other […]