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Rand Paul was having a decent night in the fourth Republican debate Tuesday, until he fielded a question about climate change. With his answer, he disappointed those who thought he might deliver reality-based comments. Paul, like the rest of the GOP candidates, wants to repeal President Barack Obama’s legacy-making Clean Power Plan reining in carbon…
There are certain phrases that conjure the very truth of an era: “England expects that every man will do his duty,” Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson signaled at the Battle of Trafalgar. And this, from Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson when he was asked by a doctor what was the best way to engage the overwhelming number of Federalists:…
I never thought I’d run for public office. Of course I never thought I’d found an irreverent news site called Fark.com, run it for 16 years and counting, write a book, fight off a patent troll, go to business school at age 38, and do dozens of other things. But even two years ago I…
In recent days, the press has run Ben Carson’s anecdote about attempting to stab his close friend as a teenager through the wringer: What were the circumstances? Why don’t his friends remember it happening? Did it really happen it all? But one explosive question—perhaps the most important one of all—remains unanswered: Was young Ben Carson…
This is a preview of the seventh installment of ’16 And President, the Huffington Post series that takes you behind the scenes for a day in the life on the campaign trail with the candidates running for president. MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H. — Have you ever wondered whether, if given the opportunity, Jeb Bush would go back in…
On last night’s episode of The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore weighed in on Ben Carson‘s new outreach strategy with a rap ad directed towards African-American voters. All things considered, Wilmore thinks Carson’s got a loooooong way to go before he can be the Tupac Shakur of politics. Deciding that he “had to hear this,” Wilmore…
“I knew this was going to happen, who is that?” Trump asked. SNL’s cold open may have featured Larry David appearing once again as Bernie Sanders, but it did not include any glimpse of host Donald Trump. We had to wait until the monologue to see The Donald make his case to the nation as…
If you pulled over one hundred people on the street, and asked them to state a religious belief they hold, I’m not sure you would get any answer more plausible than “the pyramids were built for the storage of grain.” Would you now? Yet we mock Ben Carson for this, but we do not make…
Ben Carson suggested creating transgender bathrooms in an interview Thursday with Fusion’s Jorge Ramos. Questioned about Houston voters’ rejection of a law banning LGBT discrimination this week, Carson said: “How about we have a transgender bathroom?” “It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable,” Carson said of transgender people. “It’s one of…
The “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” has certainly gotten more political lately and Wednesday had comedian Aziz Ansari on playing Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal. The hair was spot on. The shiny brown locks perfectly combed to the side captured the perfect Jindal in front of a bank of bookcases. And fake Bobby was excited….