The Republican party must be breathing a huge sigh of relief. The US Secret Service said yesterday that people will not be allowed to bring guns into the Republican convention to be held in Cleveland from July 18-21.
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The Republican governor of Georgia has vetoed a bill (I wrote about it a few days ago) that would enable discrimination against members of the LGBT community. Many businesses, including the film industry, had threatened to boycott the state if he signed the measure into law.
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The story in the National Enquirer that Ted Cruz had affairs with five women has had at least one beneficial outcome and that is it sheds some light on how the political gossip machine operates. Michael Calderone decribes it as a massive game of telephone and takes us through the timeline of how the rumors went from person to person and quickly became a complicated web where it has become impossible to figure out who originated the story. It seems like the story has been circulating for months, and was at one time being pushed by the Marco Rubio camp at a time when he and Cruz were vying for the second place slot behind Trump.
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The Daily Show tries to keep up with developments in the Republican race. It is not easy to do and Trevor Noah tries to figure out how the party got to this point where the race has descended to the almost surreal and comes to the conclusion that Donald Trump is really the candidate they have long been waiting for, their messiah.
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The states of Alaska, Washington, and Hawaii held caucuses yesterday and Bernie Sanders won by huge margins of 82-18%, 73-27%, and 70-30% respectively.
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When Bernie sanders was speaking at a rally in Portland, Oregon, a small bird came and rested on his podium, and the crowd went wild.
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AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) is one of the key components of the Israel lobby in the US and plays a powerful force in elections, similar to the role that the NRA plays. It advocates for very hardline Israeli policies against the Palestinians and also against any nation that it or the Israeli government deems to be opposed to Israel. Needless to say, it vigorously opposed the nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran.
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During the period when Marco Rubio and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were slinging crude insults at each other, observers hoped that the Republican primary race had finally hit bottom and could not descend any further into the muck. We now know that that is not true. The campaign has got sleazier by the day.
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Some states, including Ohio, like to give tax breaks and other forms of subsidies to film companies to make their films there. The case that is made is that making the film in the state brings jobs and revenue that more than compensates for the giveaways, and in addition the state gets lots of free publicity and visibility. At one time, states seemed to be in a bidding war for film companies, much to the latter’s delight.
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The Daily Show correspondent Adam Lovitt looks at the rise of anti-Semitic events at the rallies for Donald Trump. One has to wonder at the rapidly decreasing number of groups that have not been disparaged at Trump and GOP events.
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