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The Difference Between Investing and Gambling

February 10, 2012February 12, 2012 Buck Banks

I love the fact that Sheldon put in about $10 million with Gingrich and I put in a lot less with Rick. I like to say I’m an investor and Sheldon is a casino guy.

— Santorum Super PAC financier Foster Freiss, in an interview on Bloomberg TV, poking fun at Gingrich Super PAC backer Sheldon Adelson.

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Gingrich’s Money Line Drying Up

February 10, 2012 Buck Banks

$11 million

Amount the family of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his family have donated to Newt Gingrich’s super-PAC in the past two months, according to interviews and Federal Election Commission records. The Adelsons don’t plan to deliver another big check to a Super PAC backing Gingrich’s presidential campaign, Bloomberg reports.

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Santorum Doesn’t Need to Go Neg on Romney

February 10, 2012 Buck Banks

Santorum doesn’t even need to run negatives against Romney, which is telling.

— GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, quoted by The Hill.

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Romney Doth Protest Too Much

February 10, 2012 Buck Banks

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Washington Post, attempting to convince a convention of right-wing activists that he’s one of them.

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By New Birther Standard, Romney and Santorum Are Ineligible to Be President

February 10, 2012 Jon Ponder

In desperation to deligitmize the presidency of Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, a birther in Pennsylvania named Thomas Barchfield is trying to establish a new standard of eligibility for the presidency, based on a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1875:

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Weak Leaky TV

February 10, 2012June 19, 2015 Buck Banks

We thought when he founded Wikileaks
That his fame and his fortune had peaked.
But for Julian Assange
The show must go on —
Now he’s hosting a talkie on Russian TV!

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GPS of the Resistance
Buck Banks | Sep. 1, 2026

Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.

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    “They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

    — “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

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    “Young Americans today have never witnessed Congress authorize a war, they’ve never seen a U.S. administration balance its books, they’ve never watched a well-funded and empowered state department operate, and they see only mistrust between allies. They assume the situation is normal. It is not. … The real cost of forgetting the pre-9/11 world is not a country that has changed, but one that no longer knows it could be different.”

    — Jane Haman

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    “We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

    — Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

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    470

    Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

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    $184 million

    “Iranian strikes have damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at bases across the Middle East, and caused about $184 million worth of damage at U.S. diplomatic facilities, according to a Pentagon watchdog report,” the Washington Post reports. “The inspector general’s report to Congress on Operation Epic Fury — the Trump administration’s name for the war with Iran — also details the extent of U.S. munitions shortages, in the first comprehensive public accounting of the war, which is now in its seventh month.”

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    50%

    Half (50%) of U.S. adults say they are either very concerned (23%) or somewhat concerned (27%) about the possibility that AI will cause the end of humanity, a new YouGov survey finds. Another 39% of Americans say they’re not very concerned (21%) or not at all concerned (17%) about an AI apocalypse, while 11% aren’t sure.

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    38%

    A majority of Americans ages 55 and up and a majority of Republicans of all ages support the use of Flock technologies in their communities, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted from August 28 to 31. Split by age, party, education level and gender, no other demographic group had a majority of support for the cameras. Among age groups, younger Americans were the least likely to support Flock, with only 21% of respondents aged 18 to 34 in favor of the technology.

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    31%

    About one-third (31%) of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of how the U.S. Supreme Court is handling its job, according to the latest Economist/YouGov Survey, while 53% disapprove. Almost all Democrats disapprove of the Supreme Court’s job handling (12% approve and 79% disapprove), while most Republicans approve (63% vs. 26%). Republicans who say they’re MAGA supporters overwhelmingly approve of the Supreme Court’s job handling (73% vs. 19%), while non-MAGA Republicans are more closely divided (49% vs. 36%).

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