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If you live by the pen, you die by the pen. Everything put in place by executive order can be undone by executive order.
– Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in a Washington Post interview about how he’d spend his first 100 days as president if he won, pledging to roll back more than just the president’s controversial orders related to immigration.
$125 million
Amount the secretive funders behind America’s conservative movement directed over three years to groups spreading disinformation about climate science and committed to wrecking Barack Obama’s climate change plan, according to an analysis of tax records, reports The Guardian. “The anonymous cash flow came from two secretive organizations – the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund – that have been called the ‘Dark Money ATM‘ of the conservative movement.”
I’ve got a lot of friends. We’ll have a rotating first lady.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by the Daily Mail, on how the unmarried presidential candidate will handle the job of First Lady.
$100,000,000
Amount the super PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush is likely to NOT collect by the end of June, despite widespread expectations that the group would hit that record-breaking sum, the Washington Post reports. “The exact size of the war chest is closely held, but two individuals familiar with internal discussions believe the total that the Right to Rise super PAC will report in mid-July could be substantially lower than the nine figures that senior Republicans have anticipated.”
As far as God’s concerned, He knows the end from the beginning and He sees a little baby and that little baby could grow up to be Adolf Hitler, he could grow up to be Joseph Stalin, he could grow up to be some serial killer, or he could grow up to die of a hideous disease. God sees all of that, and for that life to be terminated while he’s a baby, he’s going to be with God forever in Heaven so it isn’t a bad thing.
— Pat Robertson, on the “700 Club,” explaining to a woman whose friend’s 3-year-old died why God took the baby and why it was a good thing, reported by Mediaite.
