Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took to the stage during South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast, using the opportunity to not only give an update on the Senate race, but also to poke some light-hearted fun at her Republican rival U.S. Senator Scott Brown. “I’m…
Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the much-watched CPAC straw poll Saturday evening, edging out Florida Sen. Marco Rubio by 3 percentage points by leading a libertarian turn for the conservative convention.After Cruz (25 percent) and Rubio (23 percent), came Rick Santorum (8 percent), Chris Christie (7 percent), Paul Ryan (6 percent), and Scott Walker (5 percent). After that, a surprise: Ben Carson, the black neurosurgeon who is a rising star in the conservative movement and spoke earlier today at the conference. Carson tied Ted Cruz for 4 percent, and they were in turn followed by Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin, who tied with 3 percent each.There were 23 candidates listed on the survey, and 44 more who were written in. Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Allen West and Fox News Judge Andrew Napolitano each won some votes, but none got over 1 percent. Jeb Bush withdrew his name from consideration.Continue Reading… … Read More
CPAC attendee defends slavery because slave owners provided ‘food and shelter’
A white attendee at the Conservative Political Action Committee defended slavery by saying that slave owners provided food and shelter for African-Americans on Friday, Think Progress reported. An attendee, 30-year-old Scott Terry of North Carolina asked the panelist that Republicans were reaching…
Old notes show that movie executives initially hated “Bladerunner”
Reddit has uncovered a copy of notes that three film executives at Tandem Productions wrote during a screening of Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece, “Bladerunner”– and apparently they did not care for it much.”This movie gets worse every screening,” wrote one producer. “The voice over is an insult,” reads another comment.Also, “Where’s the Vangelis music?”"We must use more Vangelis.” (They might have been right about that call– “Bladerunner” won a Golden Globe for best original score). ;Continue Reading… … Read More
Fla Lt. governor quits over ties to firm under investigation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s lieutenant governor has resigned because of her ties to an Internet cafe company that is now under federal investigation.Jennifer Carroll’s resignation was announced Wednesday, one day after she gave her resignation letter to Gov. Rick Scott. His chief of staff, Adam Hollingsworth, says her resignation was spurred by an investigation into the Allied Veterans of the World, which was once represented by Carroll.Officials from that nonprofit Internet cafe company were recently arrested on racketeering charges. The owner was arrested Tuesday in connection to allegations that he made $290 million after supplying illegal gambling software in Florida and claiming the games’ proceeds would benefit a veterans group. Authorities also interviewed Carroll.Carroll’s ties to the company were questioned when she was in the Legislature when she proposed a bill that would benefit Internet cafes.Continue Reading… … Read More
North and South Korea’s familiar war of words
http://www.youtube.com/v/czS3nDwIz5I?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata View the original here: North and South Korea’s familiar war of words
Matthew Feeney Talks the Militarization of Police on RT
I will be on RT in the 5pm ET hour talking about
the militarization of police. ;
Fellow Reason staffers ;Brian
Doherty,
Scott Shackford, and
Mike Riggs have all recently written on the militarization of
police. A collection of our coverage of the militarization of
police (including Reason 24/7
coverage) can be found here. ;
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