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With help from Latino voters, Bernie Sanders hits the Nevada jackpot
From ABC News: Sen. Bernie Sanders ran competitively in unaccustomed support groups amid the Nevada Democratic caucuses while sweeping the table among Latino, young and very liberal voters, leaving his competitors wrestling inconclusively over the sharply...
Sanders Campaign’s New Tactics to Attract Latino Voters
CAMPAIGN CHRONICLES in The New Yorker: On President’s Day, Daniel Parra met a group of friends at Eldorado High School, in East Las Vegas. The Bernie Sanders campaign was holding a soccer tournament there that a...
Taibbi: The Bloomberg Myth Explodes on Live TV
Taibbi in the Rolling Stone: What a catastrophe Wednesday night was for Mike Bloomberg. The New York plutocrat was kicked in the teeth by Elizabeth Warren in the first minutes — she denounced him as a Trump-like...
CNN: What drives Amy Klobuchar’s disdain for Pete Buttigieg
From CNN: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar first publicly vented her chief frustration with Pete Buttigieg nine months ago in a parking lot in Cresco, Iowa. He is benefiting from male privilege and wouldn’t be treated the same if...
5 Key Questions Raised by the Democrats’ Nevada Debate
From The Intelligencer: At last night’s debate, every candidate not named Bernie Sanders refused to endorse the principle that whoever wins the most delegates before the Democratic convention should automatically be the Democratic nominee, even if...
Finally, Someone Debunks the Malarkey that Sanders “has a ceiling”
From The Bulwark: Lesson Two: The Lanes Are A Figment of Your Imagination Lanes? Where we are going we don’t have lanes. Sure, there are certain candidates whose support bases overlap more than others....
It’s a Post-Sexism, Post-Racism World Now — Does the DEMpire Know it’s Banishing their Go-To Weapons Against GOP Candidates?
The DEMpire’s hall pass to Bloomberg on his past regarding women and race — which have been handed out enthusiastically by the Party and media DEMpire — has made this a post-sexism and post-racism...
DEMpire’s Fear and Loathing of their Base
From the American Spectator: ‘Today, I’m reflecting on the three years we’ve spent preparing for this moment, the changes we’ve made to make sure we are ready.’ That was Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic...
The Millions of Non-voters who Intend to Vote in 2020
From the Miami Herald: Tens of millions of people who have chosen not to vote in recent U.S. elections could be headed to the polls this November in a massive wave that would change...
Buttigieg: Bloomberg should drop out to stop ‘insurmountable’ Sanders lead
From the Washington Examiner: Pete Buttigieg’s campaign called on Michael Bloomberg to drop out of the Democratic presidential race following his rough debate performance, flipping the Bloomberg’s campaign argument about the threat of Bernie...
Cillizza: Stopping Bernie Sanders just got a lot harder
From Cillizza at CNN: “Bernie Sanders in all likelihood is the nominee, unless it gets taken away from him at the convention,” predicted David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Thursday morning on...
Nevada Democratic debate was the greatest debate in human history
Podhoretz in The New York Post: Bloomberg saying he was too rich to release his returns because he can’t do Turbo Tax like all of you losers. And then there was Elizabeth Warren, desperately...
5,400 in California Alone are Under Voluntary Home Quarantine for Possible Infection of the Chinese Wuhan Virus — 100s More in the Other States
From the Wall Street Journal: Public-health officials in the U.S. are striving to keep tabs on thousands of Americans who have quarantined themselves at home after returning from mainland China to curtail the new coronavirus,...
Yglesias: Mike Bloomberg is a disaster, He’s bad at politics and running scared from his own record
Yglesias in Vox: What we saw on the debate stage in Nevada Wednesday night is a reality New Yorkers have long been aware of: the man is a wooden charisma vacuum with no natural talent for campaigning…. In...
Unions Fight Among Themselves about Support for Medicare for All
From Politico: On one side of the divide are more liberal unions likethe American Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Union, which argue that leaving health benefits to the government could free...
40 Portable Incinerators Brought to Wuhan
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Democrats’ Bernie Sanders problem: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t
Scott Jennings in USA Today: What’s worse: choosing a socialist for your party’s presidential nominee, or taking the nomination away from one at a contested convention? And there are these excellent observations too: His small-dollar...
Lil Boosie: Goes Full Goat Head
Lil Boosie is in the bottom video. Watch that one. This isn’t the first time that Lil Boosie had some controversial statements that went against the grain in “politically correct” media culture… pic.twitter.com/3ojF1M79et —...
Woods: “Hillary Clinton has a solid chance at being the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee in a brokered convention”
Last week, conservative actor James Woods offered up one theory about the debacle in Iowa. “Just for giggles, imagine this: the #IowaCaucuses were not a snafu, but an engineered ‘cluster muck’ to keep the...
The West Can’t Quarantine a Ham Sandwich, and that’s OK — they don’t work anyway
When I called the Chinese efforts to quarantine the Wuhan virus a “cute notion,” I meant that quarantining it is simply not possible — even if you engage in an orgy of totalitarian people...
Checking the Accuracy of My Predictions About the Democratic Presidential Nomination — they’re still holding
March 4, 2019, and again on January 30, 2020: Sanders wins Dem nomination. Highly likely. December 19th, 2019: Warren’s campaign is over. Check. January 6, 2020: Sanders wins Iowa and New Hampshire. Check. January...
So, it Turns Out the Hall Pass the DEMpire Gave to Bloomberg on Sexism and Racism has Expired
When the Daily Show’s piece on Bloomberg’s stop and frisk makes you cringe because of video and audio of Bloomberg himself talking, it’s not a good day at the Bloomberg campaign. I’ve watched The...
11,000 Attend Sanders Rally in Colorado
From the Denver Post: “We’re going to end a corrupt political system in which billionaires buy elections,” Sanders said. “Democracy, to me, means one person, one vote. Not Bloomberg or anybody else spending hundreds...
Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
From the Daily Mail: Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market. A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says...
Politico: Bernie breaks out of the pack
From Politico: The dim prospects of anyone beating Sanders in Nevada were laid bare last week, when the state’s powerful Culinary Workers Union elected not to endorse in the presidential primary. Despite its criticism...
USA TODAY/Ipsos poll: Sanders outranks other Dems – and Trump – on values, empathy
From USA Today: the USA TODAY/Ipsos poll, conducted Wednesday through Thursday, shows Sanders has a clear advantage over the incumbent president. In the survey, 40% of voters said they admired Sanders’ character, well above the...
AOC Kicks of Her Re-election campaign
AOC from the New York Post: “We have some really ambitious goals,” she said. “Last election cycle, in the primary as we know, the turnout was quite low … this year, we want to...
“The Bernie Sanders movement is a strict church.”
Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: But the forces currently amplifying today’s anti-establishment fervor—the explosion of media, the democratization of fundraising, the abundance of viable candidates, and the advantage of niche products in crowded marketplaces—aren’t going away,...
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP): “It’s already been well established that UAP are real”
From Popular Mechanics: “This wasn’t focused on whether or not [UAP] are real. It’s already been well established that UAP are real by a preponderance of evidence. Some classified and some proprietary [that] I...
This Flu Season’s Weird Second Spike
From Live Science: “We may well have, for the second year in a row — unprecedented — a double-barreled influenza season,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, told WebMD.
Lancet: 82% of Infected have Mild Symptoms — of 41 Chinese Virus Hospitalized Patients, 15% Died, Seven Still Hospitalized
WSJ on Lancet findings on the Wuhan Virus: Most people who are infected may become only mildly ill, data suggest. Of 17,000 cases in China, 82% had mild symptoms, 15% were severely ill, and...