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BOOM. Via Mediaite: CNN’s Jake Tapper shut down Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson when she attempted to argue that “Islamophobia” was a word liberals hurled at people who did not want to live next to ISIS. Tapper asked Pierson if the Trump campaign was at all concerned by the glut of support continuing to pour in from former KKK leader …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: In an interview today on Newsmax, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, denied that San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has a constitutional right to refuse to stand for the National Anthem, even going so far as to accuse him of sympathizing with the terrorist group ISIS.  “I understand that he has an Islamic girlfriend …

The Tennessean reports: Fifty-three Republican state legislators have teamed with a Christian conservative group in trying to become involved in the pending divorce of two Knoxville women who are arguing over child custody. The Family Action Council of Tennessee announced that its legal arm, known as the Constitutional Government Defense Fund, is representing the legislators in filing a motion to …

See the video below. From Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Super Trump! A day after rival Hillary Clinton fell ill at the 9/11 ceremony at the World Trade Center, a pro-Donald Trump SuperPac is launching a digital ad in Times Square depicting Trump as Superman. The video shows Trump — with a big …

Watch this entire thing. Via GQ Magazine: Every few generations, we Americans are called upon to defend our country. To defend it not so much from foreign dictators or war or terrorism, but from those here who have no commitment to progress or democracy or representative government—no commitment to anything except their own out-of-control minds and the bottomless pits of …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Steady job growth and the biggest earnings boost on record helped sharply lower the nation’s poverty level last year and finally provided relief to the long-running problem of stagnant incomes. In its annual report on income and poverty, the Census Bureau said Tuesday that the share of people in the U.S. living in poverty dropped …

Univision reports: Barely 56 days before the presidential election, Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by a wide margin among likely Hispanic voters in four battleground states where the Latino vote may prove to be decisive, according to an exclusive bipartisan survey conducted for Univision Noticias. The Democratic candidate leads her Republican opponent by a margin of three-to-one in three of …

Via Mediatite: If you think the topic of Donald Trump‘s tax returns are a big issue, then campaign manager Kellyanne Conway certainly wants to hear none of it. During a Tuesday morning interview on CNN’s New Day, Conway — who was installed as the campaign manager in August — defended her boss’ decision not to release his tax returns. After …

Reuters reports: You know, some yogalates could tackle those splendiferous moobs. Confused? Then turn to the Oxford English Dictionary which has included the words among more than 1,000 revisions and updates for its latest update. Splendiferous, meaning full of or abounding in splendor, joins yogalates, a fitness routine combining pilates exercises with the techniques of yoga, and moobs, unusually prominent …

Uh huh. Via Politico: When Donald Trump sits down Wednesday with “The Dr. Oz Show” to discuss his “personal health regimen” and reveal some more details about his medical history, the doctor and talk-show host plans to have some “pointed questions.” Discussing the interview with Fox News Radio’s “Kilmeade & Friends,” Mehmet Oz said the show is slated to tape …