Polititainment
April 3, 2016
The return of Saturday Night Live brought with it a “Cold Open” featuring CNN’s take on the presidential race, this time exclusively with Donald Trump. The opening had Kate McKinnon as CNN’s At This Hour’s Kate Bouldon, who’s “got the brain for MSNBC, but the hair for Fox News, so here I am at CNN.” Cecily Jones appeared as Scottie Nell […]
April 3, 2016
A new video from Nick Cannon features him rapping about the state of the election and politics outside a polling place in “Anytown, FL.” Early on in Too Broke to Vote, Cannon makes it clear that “Nobody gets my vote,” since politicians don’t care about him and his family. He continues with “Nobody for President, That’s […]
April 3, 2016
Although he’s dropped out of the presidential race, Chris Christie has not avoided making news. As a guest on The Tonight Show, he addressed some of the latest examples for the attention. As soon as Jimmy Fallon asked him about “the big scandal that you have going on,“ Christie knew what he was referring to. Fallon explained how people saw […]
April 1, 2016
Although Stephen Colbert is clearly no fan of the National Rifle Association, his segment on the NRA’s new “firearm friendly” versions of classic fairy tales is completely true — and hilarious. As the Washington Post reported, titles such as Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun) and Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns), are advertised on the NRA’s family website. Colbert did a speed read of the first […]
March 31, 2016
Jimmy Fallon recently received a message from a conflicted fan. She was “in a pickle,” wanting to watch the 2016 election coverage, but also the new Pee-wee Herman movie on Netflix. Fallon had the perfect response. The Tonight Show team edited clips of the presidential candidates — Ted Cruz talking about his family, Donald Trump and his […]
Video
2016
April 1, 2016
Former Senior Advisor to President Obama Dan Pfeiffer summed up Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in one tweet. “Trump is both one of the best and the absolute worst presidential candidates in modern political history,” Pfeiffer tweeted on Wednesday. The billionaire reality star single-handedly defeated the rank-and-file establishment as well as self-declared outsiders and tea partiers without […]
April 1, 2016
It was an easy decision for me to place my name on the ballot as a presidential delegate in support of Marco Rubio. I was struck early during the election cycle with his aspirational message of hope and opportunity. While he will not serve as our next president, the values and policies he championed will long endure […]
March 31, 2016
Millennials are turning away from political parties, with nearly half of them describing themselves as independent. Associate Dean for Research and Professor at Tufts University, Peter Levine, explained why that may be. The irrelevance of political parties is framed as a marker of Bernie Sanders’ success. The research team at Tuft’s Tisch College estimated that young voters ages 18-30 […]
March 31, 2016
As a demographic, millennials aren’t too keen on Hillary Clinton, but young Hillary supporters are out there. Wired spoke with some of them about their “plan to prove they exist.” A common theme with these young supporters was bemoaning how miscategorized they tend to be. Nick Day and Brandon Powers, 24, were even confused for “Bernie bros” […]
March 31, 2016
A new “nightmare” poll for Republicans just dropped from Washington Post/ABC News. Donald Trump has majority unfavorable ratings among women, millennials, minorities — and even white men. While previous polls have shown Trump with a 75 percent disapproval rating among millennials, this new poll shows his ratings are only getting worse. Among voters ages 18 to […]
Policy
April 1, 2016
I’ve been around guns my entire life. It’s part of the territory that comes with being the daughter of a law enforcement officer. Ever since I was a little girl, I remember my dad bringing his 9mm Smith & Wesson with him wherever he went. I was taught to “never, under any circumstances, ever touch […]
March 31, 2016
What do women do when they find out their boyfriends own guns? These four women chose to criticize them in a video for Cosmopolitan. This is not the first time the magazine has taken a anti-gun stance. The video is titled “Couples Talk About Gun Ownership,” which is slightly misleading because most of the women featured are firmly against gun ownership […]
March 30, 2016
Bernie Sanders supporters are triggered by the growing income inequality in the U.S. It’s a very real issue, but rather than blaming the wealthy for being successful, they should realize that importing over a million poor people a year is making the problem worse. Bringing millions of individuals over the last two decades negatively has affected the […]
March 29, 2016
If you pull back from the entertainment and the salty rhetoric and just stick to policy, Donald Trump is the most libertarian candidate still running for president. Despite critics who label the billionaire a statist and a fascist — on foreign policy, the military-industrial complex, medical marijuana, auditing the Federal Reserve, and bringing back the gold standard, Trump […]
March 29, 2016
Jose Alejandro Najarro entered the U.S. illegally — what some politicians have referred to as “an act of love” — but when he got into the country, unvetted and undocumented, he began targeting underage girls. Breitbart reported in 2015 Najarro first tried to convince a 12-year-old victim to have sex with him. According to the young girl, he attempted to persuade her for […]
Media
Education
April 3, 2016
LIKE and SHARE to spread the word! #TheChalkening #Trump2016 #TeamTrump pic.twitter.com/n1KTxkhJYa— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) April 2, 2016 The best may yet to come with pro-Trump sidewalk chalk messages, as Old Row announced their contest on April 1 for the best campus chalking. Whoever sends in the best campus chalking tomorrow gets a $100 Old […]
April 1, 2016
It’s not easy to be conservative on a college campus. Steven Hayward for PowerLine wrote “Conservative is the New Gay on Campus,” meaning these students and professors are expected to remain silent, or “in the closet.” Much has been made about conservative students and student groups, who face backlash for simply sharing their views or inviting speakers to campus. However, […]
April 1, 2016
Trump support at @KUnews. Is this the post-racial paradise folks pretend exists? 😒 #RockChalkInvisibleHawk #myPWI pic.twitter.com/zjba3jtYoc— Shegufta (@therealshegufta) March 29, 2016 As students panic about Trump 2016 messages on their campuses, more continue to appear. In addition to incidents at Emory University and Scripps College, students at the University of Kansas and the University of Michigan have seen […]
March 30, 2016
In a move of solidarity, the student body presidents of all 28 Jesuit universities came together to sign on to a letter released Monday morning. Its purpose was to “publicly stand in solidarity” with students and allies “calling for an end to racial injustice within institutions of higher education.” The letter presented a positive view of “protests, demonstrations, […]
March 30, 2016
The student hysteria over pro-Donald Trump messages did not end with the recent incident at Emory University. As Fox News reported Tuesday, a Mexican-American student at Scripps College was so troubled to find “#Trump2016” written on the whiteboard outside her dorm room over the weekend that she called campus police. The student body president, Minjoo Kim, sent an […]
Congress
March 24, 2016
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has approved final plans to officially open all combat and special operations positions to women on April 1, and decided there would be no exceptions to the Pentagon mandate announced in December. However, the debate on this issue is far from over, and both men and women — from lawmakers to war veterans, […]
March 9, 2016
Millennials have officially overtaken Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation — giving them an enormous opportunity to influence elections and the political process. However, despite their size, millennials are underrepresented in the workforce and are the least likely generation to vote in political elections. Studies show that the majority of millennials want to elect lawmakers who will work […]
February 24, 2016
Donald Trump has officially gone mainstream, earning two congressional endorsements on Wednesday — including from ‘the vaping Congressman,’ Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Cali.) Politico reported that Hunter joined Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) in endorsing Trump and was drawn to the billionaire by his leadership abilities. “We don’t need a policy wonk as president. We need a leader as […]
February 11, 2016
On Thursday afternoon, the Senate passed a custom enforcement bill originated in the House by Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) that would permanently ban state and local municipalities from taxing internet access. The Hill reported that Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) spearheaded the bill. “This bill is about coming down hard on the […]
February 11, 2016
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) took a puff from his nicotine vaporizer during a hearing to ban e-cigarettes on airplanes Thursday. Like Miley Cyrus, Hunter just can’t be tamed. After exhaling his vaporizer, the California Congressman led a stern defense in favor of vaping. “This is called a vaporizer. There’s no combustion. There’s no carcinogens,” […]
From Around the Web
April 1, 2016
Victim culture has created an ever-growing group of people who fake hate crimes in order to invoke sympathy and continue the myth that there’s a band of racist, misogynist, homophobes patrolling the streets at night dragging their knuckles and wearing “Make America Great Again” hats. CBS New York reported that another fake hate crime was […]
March 31, 2016
The Missouri House of Representatives has made some important changes to the state budget recently, including a large cut to the University of Missouri system and defunding Planned Parenthood, in preparation for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The only problem is, some Missouri lawmakers are confused about the semantics. Missouri Rep. Tracy McCreery […]
March 31, 2016
A former beauty queen, honor roll student, and college sophomore admitted that she threw her old life away and converted to Islam, got engaged to a fellow Muslim, and planned to travel with him to join ISIS. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that 20-year-old Jaelyn Young admitted to her family, friends, and a federal judge in […]
March 31, 2016
Capitalists have been using Bernie Sanders’ candidacy to make extra cash, selling merchandise with the Vermont senator’s name, logo, and image. Everything from bongs, to action figures, and dating websites, and now an STD clinic is asking people to get tested if they “Feel the Burn.” The AIDS Healthcare Foundation Wellness Centers launched FreeSTDCheck.org, a sexual health […]
March 31, 2016
The FBI defines a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” Social Justice Warriors define them as any crime against non-whites. Broadly writer Gabby Bess questioned whether it was even […]
