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Celebrate Holy Week by flogging your bankers — just as Jesus did

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015 Jon Ponder

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Lindsey’s Iowa Whimsy

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

Lindsey Graham’s a GOP-er from down in South Carolina,
But he sees a clear path forward in white-bread Iowa,
And in all fairness,
The question of his gayness,
Likely won’t come up as long as he steers clear of homophobic Indiana.

Dr. Democrat: Don’t Be Fooled by Phony Hillary Email Scandal

March 30, 2015March 31, 2015 Dr. Democrat

doctordemocrat2 Dear Dr. Democrat:

In light of this CNN story, which Republican or tea partier do you think will be our next president? Because it damn sure won’t be a Democrat.

Discouraged in Destin

Dear Discouraged:

Don’t be!

Honestly, truly, sincerely, this is nothing. Less than nothing.

Karl Rove wiped 22 million emails in the middle of the U.S. Attorney scandal and the Valerie Plame criminal investigation. Nothing happened to him — in fact, it was barely even a scandal at the time. This is all smoke and mirrors by the GOP. I’ll admit it’s working, but there’s absolutely no “there” there.

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Republicans Say Obama Is a Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Putin

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

34%

Of Republicans called President Obama an imminent threat to the United States, versus 25% who ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin and 23% who viewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assed as that dangerous, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Fiorina Almost Certain to Run for President

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

90%

The likelihood that Carly Fiorina will enter the GOP presidential race, “with her announcement coming in April or May,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Huckabee Claims His Support Goes Beyond Evangelicals

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

My base is really beyond just evangelicals. I think the untold secret is a lot of the support that I have, and that I anticipate I will have, is from the working-class, blue-collar people who grew up a lot like I did – not blue-blood, but blue-collar.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by The Hill, brushing off the challenge to his base in the GOP presidential race from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Republicans Continue to Pound Clinton, Ignore Bush, Over Emails

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

Even Nixon didn’t destroy the tapes.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by The Hill, blasting Hillary Clinton for wiping her private email server and permanently deleting all emails.

Rand Paul Clarifies the Bill of Rights for Us

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by David Brody, speaking at a private prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Arizona Lawmaker Wants to Force Americans to Attend Church

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

Probably we should be debating a bill requiring every American to attend a church of their choice on Sunday to see if we can get back to having a moral rebirth.

— Arizona state State Sen. Sylvia Allen (R), raising the possibility of requiring church attendance for every American, the Arizona Republic reports. Allen added that she wished things were more like they were in the 1950s: “People prayed, people went to church. I remember on Sundays the stores were closed. The biggest thing is religion was kicked out of our public places, out of our schools.”

Walker Says Obama Is Not a Leader

March 30, 2015 Buck Banks

The unfortunate reality is this is what happens when you put someone in office who’s never led before. This president, unfortunately, having been a senator, a state senator, a community organizer, never led anything, and so he’s never been in a position to make those sorts of judgments.

Month: March 2015

Celebrate Holy Week by flogging your bankers — just as Jesus did

Lindsey’s Iowa Whimsy

Dr. Democrat: Don’t Be Fooled by Phony Hillary Email Scandal

Republicans Say Obama Is a Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Putin

34%

Of Republicans called President Obama an imminent threat to the United States, versus 25% who ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin and 23% who viewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assed as that dangerous, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Fiorina Almost Certain to Run for President

90%

The likelihood that Carly Fiorina will enter the GOP presidential race, “with her announcement coming in April or May,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Huckabee Claims His Support Goes Beyond Evangelicals

My base is really beyond just evangelicals. I think the untold secret is a lot of the support that I have, and that I anticipate I will have, is from the working-class, blue-collar people who grew up a lot like I did – not blue-blood, but blue-collar.

— Mike Huckabee, quoted by The Hill, brushing off the challenge to his base in the GOP presidential race from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Republicans Continue to Pound Clinton, Ignore Bush, Over Emails

Even Nixon didn’t destroy the tapes.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by The Hill, blasting Hillary Clinton for wiping her private email server and permanently deleting all emails.

Rand Paul Clarifies the Bill of Rights for Us

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by David Brody, speaking at a private prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Arizona Lawmaker Wants to Force Americans to Attend Church

Probably we should be debating a bill requiring every American to attend a church of their choice on Sunday to see if we can get back to having a moral rebirth.

Walker Says Obama Is Not a Leader

The unfortunate reality is this is what happens when you put someone in office who’s never led before. This president, unfortunately, having been a senator, a state senator, a community organizer, never led anything, and so he’s never been in a position to make those sorts of judgments.

— Gov. Scott Walker (R), quoted by Bloomberg.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), on Benny Johnson’s podcast.

— Pew Research

— Tom Nichols

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42%

A new Gallup poll finds 42% of young men saying religion is very important to them, up sharply from 28% in 2022-2023. By contrast, during this period, young women’s attachment to religion has held steady at about 30%.

+50%

US business adoption of AI crosses 50% for the first time in March, according to Ramp AI Index; Anthropic goes from 7% to 30% market share year-over-year, nearly equal to OpenAI (35%).

4%

72%

A new Yale Youth Poll finds 57% of all voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s job performance as president, including 68% of voters aged 18-22 and 72% of voters aged 23-29. Compared to the fall 2025 poll, Trump has lost the most ground with women under 35 and men under 30.

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