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CNN’s latest lie that Hillary Clinton has won a presidential primary reads like this:

“Sanders needs more delegates to win than are available in the remaining contests, meaning he would need supredelegates to support him in order to win the nomination.”

At the same time, CNN is claiming this:

2383 minus 1402 means that Sanders needs 981 more to win, by CNN’s calculation.

2383 minus 1704 means that Clinton needs 679 more to win, by CNN’s calculation.

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If you can get presidential candidates in the Democratic or Republican parties to answer any of these, please let me know.

1. President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal, according to the National Priorities Project, devotes 54% of discretionary spending (or $622.6 billion) to militarism. This figure does not include care for veterans or debt payments on past military spending. Is the percentage of discretionary spending now devoted to militarism, as compared to what you would propose for 2018,
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She has the record and the vision

“For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country still can be.” —Robert Kagan

“I have a sense that she’s one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president.” —Dick Cheney

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Only a nation already far down the freeway to fascism could call what the United States is doing “democracy” and not laugh or cry. The most ill-informed, incarcerated, disenfranchised, overworked, fear mongered, and impoverished electorate in the wealthy world is picking gladiators for this year’s electoral entertainment.

In one corner, the brainwashed dads are backing a two-bit Berlusconi with as many positions on any issue read more

I was looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what I’m dreaming of  –Waylon Jennings

Why do the Republican presidential debates resemble world wrestling matches without all the formality and politeness?

Why do the Democratic presidential debates always end up with the two candidates deeply respecting the other’s admirable efforts to destroy everything decent in the world?

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The chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party called to complain that I was being unfair to him, and maybe he was right. But I’d simply urged the need to avoid any appearance of bias, and if the chairman doesn’t understand that, he’s in for a heck of a lot more criticism than he’s ever imagined. This is his bio on the party website at 11:15 a.m. ET on Friday, February 26, just after he called me:

The Washington Times had prompted Harrison’s call with this article:

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