2016 Election

We’re just inside three months from the first primary and already top Democrats are openly mulling Hillary Clinton’s running mate selection. The Hill reports: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro is a favorite. His backers think the 41-year-old would give the Democratic ticket a youthful face and help the party with Hispanics. But he’s hardly alone, and other Democrats …

Hillary Clinton this weekend joined her Democratic rivals in calling for the federal government to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule 2 drug, opening it up to medical research so far blocked by its Schedule 1 classification. The Washington Post reports: “We haven’t done research, why? Because it’s considered a schedule 1 drug,” Clinton said during a town hall meeting at …

Via Talking Points Memo: Fox News host Todd Starnes called the media scrutiny around the life and memoirs of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson a “lynching” on Monday. “The mainstream media’s political hit job on Dr. Ben Carson is nothing short of a journalistic lynching, strung up with rumors and innuendos and flat-out lies,” Starnes said in a video posted …

Mike Huckabee took a swipe at Dr. Stabby on MSNBC this morning, saying, “I will go on record today and tell you this: I never hit my mother with a hammer and I never stabbed anybody. Never wrote about it either.” Huckabee also slammed Dr. Stabby’s incessant whining about media scrutiny, adding, “Pal, you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Watch below.

Over the weekend Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal spoke at a “religious liberty” convention, where Pastor Kevin Swanson called for executing homosexuals, but only after we’ve been given a chance to repent. Also speaking was Pastor Philip Kayser, who distributed pamphlets calling for the death penalty for homosexuality, witchcraft, and blasphemy. Keyser told the audience that Christians must …

“Leviticus 20:13 calls for the death penalty for homosexuals. YES! Romans 1:32 – the Apostle Paul does say that homosexuals are ‘worthy of death.’ HIS WORDS, NOT MINE! And I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ! And I am not ashamed of the truth of the word of God! And I am willing to go to jail …

Mediaite recaps: SNL kicked off tonight’s show with a cold open mocking Rachel Maddow‘s Democratic forum and LARRY DAVID IS BACK, PEOPLE! After getting through Martin O’Malley, “Maddow” talked to a laid-back Hillary Clinton and promised her some tough questions––”not actually tough, just MSNBC tough.” But, really, the real star of the segment was David as Bernie Sanders yet again …

Entertainment Weekly recaps: The website DeportRacism.com owes Larry David $5,000. During Donald Trump’s opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, David shouted “Trump’s a racist,” a phrase the political action committee said would net its speaker a cash bounty if spoken during the broadcast. “Trump’s a racist,” David said at the end of Trump’s opening, before adding, “I heard if I …

This time the debunking comes from the Wall Street Journal: In his 1990 autobiography, “Gifted Hands,” Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class—identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301—that their final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new …

The Guardian has published a set of photos taken inside Ben Carson’s home, including one of the misspelled scripture chiseled over his fireplace. As you’ll see, Ben Carson is a HUGE fan of Ben Carson and his home also includes a drawing of Ben Carson with Jesus Christ Himself resting a reassuring Holy Hand on the shoulder of Ben Carson. …

Last night Ted Cruz was the last of three GOP presidential candidates to take the stage at the “religious liberty” convention organized by gay death penalty advocate Pastor Kevin Swanson, whose supporters also distributed pamphlets calling for gays to be executed. Swanson began his introduction of Cruz with a wild hand-waving rant in which he declared that “Jesus Christ is …

It’s not billed as a DNC-sanctioned debate, but the three remaining Democratic presidential candidates are in Rock Hill, South Carolina tonight for a “forum” hosted by Rachel Maddow.  The event will air live on MSNBC and can be viewed online with your cable system login. Watch along with us. Some believe that tonight will be Martin O’Malley’s swan song unless …

Whoa. Mediaite reports: The race for Louisiana governor just got ratcheted up a few notches with what’s being described as a brutal new ad against Senator David Vitter. Vitter, for those not aware, got caught up in a 2007 scandal when his number was found in a D.C. madam’s list and publicly admitted to sinning. He publicly moved past it, …

“There are instances in which both the Old and New Testament speak to the matter with unbelievable clarity. You know what that sin is – it’s the sin of homosexuality. In fact in Romans 1 Paul affirms that this particular sin is worthy of death. The Old and New Testament, I believe both speak with authority and we outta receive …

According to International Business Times, billionaire investor Paul Singer’s backing of Marco Rubio may be tied to Rubio’s position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At a discounted price, Singer purchased debt owed by Argentina and is suing them for full repayment. And Rubio can help with that. They write: Bloomberg reports that Singer’s firm, Elliott Management — through a …

This morning Mike Huckabee spoke at the “religious liberty” convention organized and hosted by Pastor Kevin Swanson, who has called for executing gay people because Jesus. (As have at least two other speakers scheduled to appear.) Right Wing Watch has the transcript from the clip below: “Here’s what the president should do, and if I were president this is what …

Less than an hour after Ben Shapiro denounced Ben Carson as a liar, he suddenly has a very different opinion. “Carson never said he applied. He said he was extended a full scholarship offer. What’s more, West Point doesn’t offer scholarships: all admission is free contingent on serving in the military afterwards. It thus seems probable that Westmoreland or another …

Well, folks – this is MUCH larger than a dodgy stabbing story. Politico reports: Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The academy has occupied a central place in Carson’s …

Teabagistan is an uproar, again, over this morning’s CNN interview with Ben Carson, whom they tried pin down about his allegedly stabby, violent past. Salon recaps: In a nearly 30-minute interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Ben Carson repeatedly lashed out at recent inquiries into his violent childhood as “pathetic” and attacked host Alisyn Camerota Friday morning for pushing what he …

Last night Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton about Ben Carson’s myriad “crazy stuff.” The Daily Beast recaps: “[Carson] said, ‘Evolution is a theory from Satan.’ ‘Obamacare is like slavery.’ He said, ‘Homosexuality is a choice,’ and he knows this because ‘people go into prison straight and come out of prison gay.’ He said Joseph from the Bible ‘built the pyramids …