The Nevada Democratic convention devolved into chaos with last-minute rule changes, enflamed passions from the Hillary and Bernie camps and when chairwoman Roberta Lange over-ruled the vocal vote, slammed her gavel and abruptly left the podium. California Senator Barbara Boxer made an appearance as did a phalanx of cops.
An anti-gay pastor in Arkansas is in a lot of trouble. He has been arrested on 70 counts of child porn.
“Meet Dave Reynolds. He’s the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing child pornography.
He’s also vehemently anti-gay.
The 40-year-old pastor, who has preached that marriage is between a man and a woman and that all homosexual activity is a sin, was arrested this week after police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a social media account in Sherwood was storing pages and pages (and pages and pages) of images of kiddy porn.
The account allegedly belonged to Reynolds.
In March, Reynolds informed elders at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship that he was under investigation for child porn possession. When they asked if he had engaged in viewing the material, Reynolds told them he had “not knowingly done so.”
Bernie Sanders told Alan Greenspan in 2003 that he is “way out of touch with the needs of the middle class and working families of our country.” Mr. Greenspan responded with characteristic smugness. Five years later, Alan Greenspan admitted he found a “flaw” in his economic model.
What Explains Andrea Mitchell’s Treatment Of Bernie Sanders?
A tow truck driver who supports Donald Trump noticed a ‘Bernie 2016’ sticker on a disabled driver’s bumper and immediately abandoned her, leaving her stranded on the interstate without any help. From his own mouth, he told a TV reporter exactly what his thought process was, including being influenced by ‘The Lord.’
A top draft pick for the NFL was punished for being caught smoking marijuana in a video that was posted on social media ten minutes before the draft. Laremy Tunsil used a weed gas mask / bong, and it may have cost him eight million dollars. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (ThinkTank), and Jimmy Dore, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Watching this year’s presidential nomination process from Australia has been a very interesting affair. I can’t say I’ve followed every single speech or piece of news, but I’ve certainly kept abreast of what is going on and have seen plenty of articles and commentary from people on my feed putting their opinions forward. What interests me the most are the people and media pundits who emphatically denounce Bernie Sanders and his supporters. The reasons all generally boil down to the fact that he is the reincarnation of Karl Marx and he wants to turn the U.S. into a communist state. That he is so far left of centre that he’s basically off the chart.
For those people, here’s a reality check.
Around the rest of the world, Mr. Sanders represents a point on the political spectrum that is mildly left of centre. His “wacky” ideas of free (and we’ll get to that term a bit later) education, free healthcare, regulating banks and corporations and so on are all actually staple ideas of many of the happiest and most prosperous countries in the world. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the happiest countries in the world index for 2016. The U.S. doesn’t make the top 10—but almost every single country that does has the kind of policies Mr. Sanders is promoting at some level. Looking at the other candidates, Hillary Clinton would in most countries be considered right of centre, not left. Donald and Ted? Man, those guys are so far right of centre you couldn’t plot where they exist—they’re pretty much off the spectrum.
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