TThe progressive politician, who had been a mere backbencher a few months ago and a total dark horse who had been given 500-1 odds of success, won easily with 59.5% of the vote, signaling an end to the Tory-lite Blairite dominance of the party that had prevailed for so long. It was a decisive defeat for the odious Tony Blair who had campaigned hard against Corbyn.
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Continuing his desperate attempt to get attention, any attention, to his campaign that is barely even registering in the polls, angry Chihuahua Bobby Jindal, envious of the attention given to Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson when they were attacked by Donald Trump, has decided to go after him, no doubt hoping that Trump, after first saying “Bobby who?” might deign to retaliate and insult him too.
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The spectacle of protestors interrupting staged events is all too common. How the event organizers should respond is tricky, especially if the event is a political one where there may be strong passions on all sides and some groups may feel their views are not being represented adequately. How do you balance the need to let the protestors make their point and continue with the scheduled program without resorting to brute force and having the protestors physically silenced and removed? Event organizers may want to take a lesson from Stephen Colbert.
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There is a group known as Oath Keepers whose membership consists of current and former military, police, and first responders who make it a point of sending heavily-armed people to places where there is tension. They have now descended on Rowan County to ‘protect’ Kim Davis, the Kentucky County clerk who has been refusing to issue marriage licenses because of her objection to same-sex marriage, from what they see as a tyrannical judge.
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In welcome news for the campaign of Bernie Sanders, a new poll shows that for the first time, he has edged past Hillary Clinton in the key state of Iowa.
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There has been a lot of media chatter today about Donald Trump’s derogatory comments about Carly Fiorina’s looks and her response to the insult, prompting once again the age-old question of whether it is possible for American politics to get even more trivial and the sad fact is that the answer always seem to be ‘yes’. Another flap the media is drooling over is Trump and the sanctimonious Ben Carson fighting it over who has more religious faith, as if it matters at all to governing. The media loves it when candidates trash talk each other and these will dominate the news cycle for a few days.
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We are witnessing yet another example of how Republican infighting is creating a chaotic legislative situation. The party has long since morphed into something in which the labels moderate and conservative no longer fit the factions within it. Instead we now have two groups better described as extremists and nutcases, the former being those who hold the extreme positions on economic issues that their oligarchic bosses demand and the extreme positions on social issues that their Tea Party base expects. This group controls the leadership of the party.
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