Jeb! Bush’s plan to prevent terrorists sneaking into the US by hiding among the refugees fleeing from the chaos in that region is to allow only Christian refugees. When asked how he could distinguish who was a Christian he replied vaguely that it should be easy for them to prove it. And he is right, as this cartoon shows.
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We are now well into full-blown anti-Muslim hysteria with every right-wing politician trying to outdo each other as to who can come up with the most outrageous suggestion. No suggestion is too bonkers if it has as its basis the idea that all Muslims and immigrants of color, however benign they may seem on the surface, are people who might well have a desire to slit your throat in the night.
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Joshua Holland gives seven reasons why the right-wing backlash against Syrian refugees is so misguided. Meanwhile, Seth Myers, the host of a late night talk show, gave an excellent commentary on the absurd anti-refugee stances taken by mostly Republican governors and presidential candidates following the recent attacks by ISIS.
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The writers at The Daily Show and former host Jon Stewart were giving themselves high fives when Donald Trump announced that he was definitely in the race for the Republican presidential nomination because he promised to be a sure-fire source of comedy material. The must be thinking that their cup overfloweth because like Abou Ben Adhem, lo, Ben Carson turns out to lead all the rest on the roster of nuttiness.
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At the risk of this blog becoming all Carson all the time, here is another comedic take on Carson’s curious blend of inflated/fictional biography, sense of victimhood, and his weird beliefs.
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Saturday Night Live premiered a new TV series titled The Adventures of Young Ben Carson based on his autobiographical stories that looks like it will never run out of material since they emerge from one of the most fertile and imaginative brains of our time.
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This would be a good time to show clips making fun of the Republican debate that took place earlier in the week to see the huge contrast between that and yesterday’s Democratic debate.
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Without fail, every year as Christmas approaches, something will happen that gets some people in a snit over some absurdly trivial matter. I always fear whether anything can top the previous year’s silliness and luckily, I am never disappointed. Larry Wilmore looks at this year’s big issue and that is the Starbucks cup controversy.
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Take a look at a graph created by Dara Lind using official prison statistics about the number of prisoners in the US per 100,000 adult US residents. The rates now are nearly seven times what they were for nearly an entire century, from 1880 to 1970, when it suddenly shot up when ‘law and order’ and ‘get tough on crime’ became the way to win votes.
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