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Sanders launches late-stage bid to woo superdelegates

Bernie Sanders’ campaign, buoyed by recent victories, is mounting a late-stage bid to court so-called superdelegates and wrangle just enough of the influential party insiders to close the gap with Hillary Clinton heading into the Democrats’ presidential convention.

Like essentially every other Sanders strategy at this point, it’s an uphill and longshot play.

Campaign officials acknowledged Monday that the Vermont senator, despite his weekend caucus sweep and other wins, cannot secure the nomination without moving the needle on superdelegates – who are elected officials and others free to support whomever they want.

Top Sanders adviser Tad Devine argued the delegate count will be so close that neither Clinton nor Sanders could win the nomination with pledged delegates alone.

“That’s mission impossible,” he said.

So as the Sanders campaign continues to “compete and compete fully,” as Devine put it, in the remaining primaries and caucuses, the underdog team is looking to line up support from superdelegates who remain undecided or aligned with the front-running Clinton.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/...ml?intcmp=hpbt1

Sounds about right.

Even though I completely disagree with his policies Bernie was my 3rd choice simply because he's fringe and anti-establishment.

Jim Webb was my 2nd favorite but he dropped out pretty fast.

The establishment needs to collapse. I welcome Donald Trump in doing that despite him being a bit ridiculous. It needs to be done.

Politics

Bill's Alleged Mistress: Hillary Had 'Several Abortions,' Kept Chelsea to Advance Her Career

http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/03/29/bil...ance-her-career

This is hilarious. Everybody's dirt is coming out

j/c

On Monday, Montgomery Blair Sibley, a former attorney for the so-called D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, filed an application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to release records pertaining to her escort service, because those records “could be relevant” to the 2016 presidential election.

In April 2008, Palfrey, who ran the escort service Pamela Martin and Associates, was convicted of racketeering, using the mail for illegal purposes, and money laundering. Two weeks later, she hanged herself. A number of Beltway insiders were named in the scandal, including Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias and Senator David Vitter.

Sibley, one of her attorneys, claims to have been sitting on a number of documents, including 815 client names, for the better part of a decade, in cooperation with a 2007 restraining order. In February, when he first started making public noise about trying to get the order lifted, he could not explain to the Washington Post in detail what the records contained. “This is where I walk a fine line,” Sibley said. “I don’t want to say something that would violate the order.”

On a Gofundme Sibley started to help pay for his legal fees, he explains the provenance and contents of the records he claims to have in his possession:

In 2007, I issued an ex parte subpoena to Verizon Wireless, Inc. which required them to reveal account holder information for 5,902 phone numbers taken directly from the Pamela Martin & Associates phone record “Blackbook”. Verizon Wireless responded with a Compact Disk containing 815 names, addresses, social security numbers, and home and business telephone numbers of Verizon users who were known to have called the escort service in question, and were likely clients of the service. Additionally, Verizon Wireless provided to me the account information for some forty (40) other escort agency telephone numbers listed in the 2007 Verizon Yellow Pages as operating in the Metro D.C. area.

Early this year, Sibley filed a motion to modify the court order prohibiting him from releasing the records. In February, D.C.’s U.S. district court rejected (rather testily) his motion to have the order lifted, making note of the fact that Sibley’s license had been suspended. (According to the Post, it was a temporary suspension: Three years, in 2008, for being a “vexatious litigant.”)

Former Chief Judge Richard Roberts also noted that Sibley was replaced as Palfrey’s attorney in January 2008: “Why Sibley would have possession of subpoenaed records in a case from which he has been terminated and why he would not instead have turned all copies of them over to the defendant’s continuing counsel of record is not set forth in the motion.” In fact, Roberts did not permit Sibley’s motion to be filed at all.

So, now Sibley is taking his case to the Supreme Court—although, not before suing Judge Roberts and the clerk of the court for $1 million each, accusing them of violating his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. (Roberts retired this month, one day after being accused of sexual abuse.)

“Time is of the essence,” Sibley’s filing to the Supreme Court, submitted Monday, reads. Given the significance of the primary season and the upcoming caucuses, he argues, “expedited resolution of this Application is incumbent upon this court.” (Emphasis his.) What is more, he writes, keeping the information sealed from public view “deprives the People of the information they may deem material to the exercise of their electoral franchise.”

Sibley goes on to threaten, not subtly, that if the Supreme Court doesn’t rule that he should be allowed to simply file the motion to modify the restraining order, allowing him to release the subpoenaed information, that this will “appear to many to intentionally favor one Presidential candidate over others.”

“Such a result will further erode the faith of the People in a fair and impartial judiciary,” he continues. Plus, he’ll just release the records “containing the names and addresses of eight hundred fifteen (815) Washington D.C. clients of the D.C. Madam’s escort service,” to the public anyway.

Incidentally, Sibley is a Birther, and has sued the Supreme Court for treason—twice. DCist reported in 2012, when he nominated himself as a write-in candidate for president, that he had been disbarred from 13 federal courts and three state bars. His Gofundme is at $390 of the necessary $25,000.

http://gawker.com/disbarred-birther-attorney-says-he-has-records-from-dc-1767915692

https://www.yahoo.com/news/girl-15-groped-pepper-sprayed-140500137.html

So there's a ton of things to discuss here.

My first initial thought is: WTF is a 15 year old doing at a trump rally?

Disrupting and punching an older man in the face before somebody stepped forward and hosed her down.

Former Texas governor and former presidential candidate Rick Perry will never be allowed to live down his 2011 debate gaffe, in which he struggled to remember the third of three federal agencies he’d promised to eliminate if elected president.

Immediately following the debate, Perry told the reporters covering the event, “Yeah, it was embarrassing. Of course it was. But here’s what’s more important: People understand that our principles, our conservative principles, are what matter, not a litany of agencies that I think we need to get rid of.”

At the #CNNTownHall Tuesday night, GOP front-runner Donald Trump was asked by an audience member what he considered to be the top three functions of government. Eventually settling on national security to fill all three top slots, Trump named the government’s priorities to be national security, health care, and education — an answer which even seemed to surprise host Anderson Cooper.

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Conservative values on display.

That's quite a mass of people.. it is highly possible that the contact was just incidental with all of those people so close to each other.... and groping her breasts? It's his word against hers... Sorry, my initial thought is that this girl went there to instigate and ended up getting more than she bargained for.

And not even pervie bernie would grop that.

My initial thought, from that short clip, is "what happened before?" I'm guessing there was some sort of interaction prior that caused the camera phone to come out. Because just that one punch from her, and the pepper spray was out immediately?

It's far too short of a clip to arrive at a logical conclusion on what took place.

Why do I picture the Sheriff looking at the video and saying, "This is nonsense." When the door swings open and a big wig from the Governors office tells him to push the issue or else.

Must
Stop
Trump!

Totally!!! She was there to instigate. That was evident by her demeanor and language. Touched, maybe, maybe not. Who knows? Who could ever prove it? I know one thing, I laughed hysterically when I saw the vid. Her reaction was classic.

Now, don't go getting your panties in an uproar and jump to the conclusion I condone the behavior from either side. Simply stated, the video was hysterical. That's all! I laughed!

Go to those functions with an attitude and get attitude back.....pretty cool!

I'm going to make the assumption that she is a white-trash whore who is making all of this up and just looking for her 15 minutes of fame and that she is serving as a useful pawn in somebody else's political agenda..

That approach seemed to work fairly well for Hillary the half dozen times that Bill was the accused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO3I5VBEE_4

At the end she nods her head and says "I deserved that".

Nothing to see here, more violent Bernie "protestors" as usual.

I can't remember if there is swearing or not in the video but check out:
Bernie vs Trump, Who is more Violent! (Social Experiment)
on youtube for some fun.

She backed down like her Idol Bernie did when BLM took his Microphone!

Turns out she is actually 19.

http://downstreampolitics.com/2016/03/30/trump-protester-punched-elderly-man-actually-19-years-old/

Seemed a bit older to me when she talked. Makes more sense why she is there.

So, wait. What? She's 19, not 15? She's on camera saying she deserved it? (the pepper spray). And, she threw a punch, first?

These are the facts, no?

How Ted Cruz made a mockery of Republicans' religious freedom arguments


http://theweek.com/articles/614654/how-ted-cruz-made-mockery-republicans-religious-freedom-arguments

The Republican Party, which has accused "liberal elites" of waging a "war on religion," last week dispatched its leading lights to the rhetorical battlefields in a religious war of its own making.

On March 22, Americans awoke to the news of the horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels, which should have prompted calls for solidarity coupled with rational and effective law enforcement. But for Ted Cruz — who has made religious liberty a central focus of his campaign — it was instead an opportunity to propose an unconstitutional and dangerous program for targeting American Muslims.

The two Republican presidential frontrunners are engaged in a sordid one-upmanship of who can more blatantly scapegoat American Muslims. For Donald Trump and Cruz, it's an essential part of the gladiator politics that have come to define the GOP primary. Trump has said "Islam hates us" and notoriously proposed banning all Muslims from entering the U.S. Cruz has called for all Syrian Muslims to be banned from the entering the U.S., but for Syrian Christians to be allowed in.


So after the Brussels attack last week, Cruz said, "We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized." Uncharacteristically agreeable, Trump called the unconstitutional proposal a "good idea."

Somehow this was only one half of Republicans' very mixed-up week on religious freedom.

A day after Cruz thumbed his nose at the Constitution, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that even the nation's staunchest religious freedom advocates have called into question. At issue is whether the government violates the religious freedom of faith-based non-profits by requiring them to fill out a form to opt out of providing contraception coverage in their health care plans, as required under the Affordable Care Act.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Cruz has singled out the most sympathetic of the religious non-profits, an order of Catholic nuns called the Little Sisters of the Poor, as exhibit A in President Obama's alleged war on religion. He has accused Obama as having "the audacity to sue the Little Sisters of the Poor," when in fact the order of nuns sued the administration.

After the Supreme Court hearing last week, Cruz renewed his full-throated cries for religious liberty. He released recommendations on Thursday from his Religious Liberty Advisory Council, which include a pledge to "direct the Department of Health and Human Services to exempt all employers who object for moral and religious reasons from any contraception mandate."

"Whether Hobby Lobby or the Little Sisters of the Poor, people of faith should not be made to bow down at the altar of political correctness," Cruz said.

If "political correctness" sounds familiar, it's because he wields it constantly to portray religious pluralism as the enemy of Christianity. In fact, he invoked it days earlier when calling for a "people of faith," Muslims, to be subjected to increased government surveillance. "In the wake of the Brussels attacks, I called for vigorously guarding against the political correctness that has plagued Europe," he wrote in a New York Daily News op-ed.

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This is par for the course for Cruz. Throughout his campaign, he has portrayed the conscience rights of conservative Christian non-profits (and business owners) as being under mortal threat, but he has seemed oblivious to the perils to the constitutional rights of religious minorities, like Muslims he believes should be targeted by law enforcement for their religion and nothing more.

As always for Cruz, religious liberty is for one people only: Christians.

You are being PC. If you are being attacked by a group of radicals, to increase police patrols in those neighborhoods is only prudent. To infiltrate them with Detectives is also wise.

It is how we subdued the KKK back in the day.

what if they aren't coming from a muslim neighborhood.

you're telling me if some muslim family living in the middle of white suburbia does something, or living in the hood, then instead of patrolling those areas, we need to patrol a neighborhood he doesn't even live in?

no wonder our government is hilariously inept. they employ people like you to make those decisions.

Is that what I said? Wow, I need to be more PC like you.

i see what PC means to you conservatives now.

it means everytime somebody calls BS on your statements, you guys cry about being PC instead of actually explaining what you said.

con men. makes sense now.

Well if the girl was 19, took the swing, got pepper sprayed, she did deserve it. I would have whooped his ass though. Just saying.

I say something, you repeat it with a whole bunch added to it, twist the meaning, and feed it back to me as an accusation.

How am I supposed to answer something like that? I am hearing my own statement for the very first time and it is unrecognizable!

And you wonder why people talk in Politically Correct fashion today.

Bernie would have kicked your butt for hurting one of his troops!

The wuss that fondled then sprayed her after popping off was a trump supporter. Bernie supporters only bring it when provoked.

not really. i gave you a scenario. you then cried about PC

you sound like Ben Carson when people laughed him out of the candidacy after his "pyramids were for storing grain" comment.

instead of explaining himself, he just cried about PC

Yes, he and I are together on the issue of TRUMP!

delusional, too.

no wonder he retired.

Retired? He is your next Secretary of Education.

highly doubt that.

Now there's a thought. Somebody who has never worked in Education to be appointed Secretary of Education? Wow.

What next...Chris Christie as Surgeon General?

nah, he's better for the department of food & agriculture.

Yup. Zero evidence she was fondled at all as well. If we can use crowd reaction as a form of evidence we can easily claim she probably wasn't touched at all, much less fondled. Or they'd have that dudes head on a pike.

New Headline:

Ugly 19 year old falsely claims sexual assault, assaults innocent man, blasted in face with peppery justice.

I was happy to see her "I deserved that" response. I hope other social justice warriors are as graceful when they are no longer the dominant paradigm harassing everyone.

Why not surgeon general...?

Trump said "Dr.Carson has great ideas on education but we will see what Ben wants to do."

Along with ideas, fresh innovative approach and a willingness to take on a serious challenge and not be shy of risk taking...I would seriously hope any Secretary of Education comes with great experience, success and a long history in public education.

Don't we already have all that and the system sucks?

http://www.thebestschools.org/magazine/ben-carson-interview-on-education/

I would rather see him as Surgeon General.