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08.19.15 | 9:03 pm
Sanders

Worth watching this impromptu (5:38 minutes) Q&A with Bernie Sanders. Immediately after the jump. Sums the whole thing up pretty nicely – both in terms of substance and the guy himself.

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08.19.15 | 8:10 pm
The Trump Wall. It’ll Be Beautiful

All three cable news network are taking a live feed of Donald Trump’s townhall meeting in New Hampshire where he’s currently taking questions from voters. And I must say, it’s masterful.

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08.19.15 | 5:10 pm
More Outreach!

Not even sure what to say about this. Obama plays golf with Stephen Curry, and that makes you uncomfortable somehow? Here’s GOP bigwig Al Cardenas today being all warm and fuzzy about it:

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08.19.15 | 4:11 pm
Primer

What is “birthright citizenship” and why is it so important? Read this.

08.19.15 | 3:37 pm
Now Officially Off-the-Rails

Castellated southern border wall not enough? The oneupsmanship continues. Ben Carson says he’d consider using drone strikes to secure the southern border.

08.19.15 | 2:55 pm
Root Causes

Missouri legislature moves to crack down on sexual harassment of interns by getting them to cover up a little more and dress respectably.

08.19.15 | 1:20 pm
The Story of ‘Murica

Armed “patriot” guarding “Muslim-free” gun store accidentally shoots himself.

08.19.15 | 11:34 am
Act Two of the Trump Epic

We’ve gone far enough now with the Trump political phenomenon to know that it is no mere or momentary matter of name recognition which has placed him as the top contender for the Republican nomination, as bizarre an eventuality as that might appear. He now leads all national polls and all polls in the key early primary and caucus states – and by significant margins. We’ve also witnessed key GOP stakeholder Fox News try to derail Trump’s campaign and fail miserably at it. Lots of top Republicans jumped on that bum-rush Trump bandwagon only to be damaged in turn when it collapsed. We’re now in a categorically different phase. Trump is now defining the GOP policy agenda. And that makes him far more than a top candidate or even a nominee.

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08.19.15 | 11:20 am
No Citizenship For You!

Trump taking it to a new level. No legal change is required to deny birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants, he told Bill O’Reilly last night. By his reading of the law, those children are not now and never have been citizens.

“I don’t think they have American citizenship and if you speak to some very, very good lawyers — and I know some will disagree — but many of them agree with me, you’re going to find they do not have American citizenship,” Trump said.

08.19.15 | 11:05 am
What Donald Hath Wrought

An immigration lawyer busts up some of the myths of birthright citizenship.