Get down with your bad self!

You knew that yesterday all three Republican candidates for President disavowed their previous pledges to support whoever the party ultimately nominated, right? Well… Friendly reminder that the GOP candidates don't even want to vote for the GOP candidates. — John Dingell (@JohnDingell) March 30, 2016

Ivory ban? Here?

Apparently so. From a report by something called The International Fund for Animal Welfare: investigators compiled advertising and sales data from 47 Hawai‘i-based retailers and individual sellers engaged in the online trade of elephant ivory and related wildlife products, including walrus tusks, whale teeth and bone, mammoth ivory, and hippopotamus teeth. They found a total …

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Hawai’i Caucuses for Democrats

Except that it’s not really a caucus, at least not the kind where you meet your neighbors and try to persuade them to vote your way while resisting their blandishments to vote theirs. No, Hawai’i’s Democrats run what’s called a Presidential Preference Poll. A what? Question: Why do you call it a Presidential Preference Poll …

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Wheels of justice turn slowly

But they finally did roll to a complete stop yesterday. When they did the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had found Radovan Karadzic guilty of one count of genocide and other counts of “persecution, extermination, deportation, forcible transfer and murder in connection with a campaign to drive Bosnian Muslims and Croats out of …

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Whaddaya want, smarts from dese guys?

Jonathan Chait, on the Republican Presidential candidates’ reaction to the Brussels bombing: The great benefit enjoyed by the United States over Europe is its multicultural character, in which citizenship is not identified with a racial group. That multiculturalism has allowed American Muslims to assimilate much more easily than in Europe, which makes Americans safer — …

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Arizona blows primary election up

The Arizona Republic, long a conservative and Republican-oriented paper, says it doesn’t believe the Maricopa County election officials intended to suppress turnout today in Phoenix and its suburbs. It says that despite the idiots running the primary election cutting polling places in the county from 200 last time to 60 this time. It did have …

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