Yesterday Ted Cruz appeared to disparage Donald Trump in a private meeting with supporters. Trump responded this morning by encouraging Cruz to bring it on, prompting many outlets to declare to that the gloves were finally coming off. Judging by this afternoon’s tweet from Cruz, he’s not quite ready to take on the front-runner.
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Coming Soon has a recap: Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful …
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The Hill reports: The activist hacking group Anonymous has selected Donald Trump as its latest target in the wake of the GOP presidential candidate’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. “Donald Trump, it has come to our attention that you want to ban all Muslims [from entering] the United States. This policy is going to have a huge …
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Ben Carson is very upset with reports that the GOP is anticipating a brokered convention and might work to position an establishment candidate against Donald Trump. Via Politico: “If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning,” Carson said in a …
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It will be a very gay Festivus at the Florida Capitol Building this year: The Florida Department of Management Services on Thursday approved an application by Deerfield Beach political blogger Chaz Stevens to set up the display to honor the Festivus “holiday,” agency spokeswoman Natalee Singleton said. Stevens’ application for his 2015 “Rainbow gay edition” display — a 6-foot-6-inch pole …
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Arkansas continues to battle gay families and yesterday the state Supreme Court agreed with them. Reuters reports: The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court order that allowed same-sex parents throughout the state to be listed as parents on the birth certificates of their children. It let stand the certificates obtained by three lesbian couples who had …
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Via the Washington Post: Republican officials and leading figures in the party’s establishment are preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to sit atop the polls in the GOP presidential race. More than 20 of them convened Monday near the Capitol for a dinner held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and the …
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Several days ago a Jamaican activist filed a lawsuit which seeks to overturn his country’s colonial-era criminalization of homosexuality. Today Jamaica’s most-read newspaper endorsed his attempt. From their editorial: Hopefully, Maurice Tomlinson has greater insulation than was available to Javed Jaghai, so as to allow him to sustain, to the final tier of the court system, if necessary, his constitutional …
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A couple of weeks ago Twisted Sister granted Donald Trump permission to use their 80s anthem We’re Not Gonna Take It at his campaign rallies. Now lead singer Dee Snyder is rethinking things in the wake of Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. “What’s going on now is really making me question allowing the song to continue to be used,” Snider said …
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Via Business Insider: Real-estate magnate Donald Trump tweeted a challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday, encouraging his Republican presidential rival to attack him. Trump was responding to a report in The New York Times the day before that quoted Cruz suggesting that voters would start to question the foreign-policy judgment of both Trump and another GOP candidate, …
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