Adam B. Lerner
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Cecil the Lion: Sen. Bob Menendez intros CECIL Act to restrict big-game hunting
Sen. Bob Menendez has introduced legislation to curb trophy hunting of endangered and threatened species after the demise of Cecil, an African lion whose death at the hands of an American hunter touched off a social media firestorm. The Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act would extend restrictions on the import... → Read More
Iran’s foreign minister: Israel should disarm, too
Now that Iran has agreed to curb its nuclear program, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says it’s time for Israel to follow suit and abandon its long-rumored nuclear arsenal. “Iran’s push for a ban on weapons of mass destruction in its regional neighbourhood has been consistent,” Zarif wrote in an editorial for the Guardian. “And... → Read More
Rush Limbaugh: Hillary Clinton is like Bill Cosby’s wife
Rush Limbaugh took umbrage at a Rolling Stone article comparing rape allegations against Donald Trump and Bill Cosby on Wednesday. A better analogue, Limbaugh suggested, is the Clintons. Referring to an article titled “What the Trump and Cosby Allegations Reveal About Rape Culture,” Limbaugh said the juxtaposition was blatantly unfair.... → Read More
Ted Cruz 2016: Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney slammed by Texas senator
Ted Cruz slammed Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush on Thursday for telling him to calm down his rhetoric. Appearing on the Chad Hasty Show on radio station KFYO in Lubbock, Texas, Cruz condemned both Romney and Bush “[for] talking about ‘now take it easy guys you don’t really need to oppose this Iranian nuclear deal quite so forcefully.’”... → Read More
Trump: I promise to be nice at the GOP debate
Donald Trump has made a name for himself on the campaign trail for sharp invective and brash hyperbole. But when he takes the debate stage next week, he has promised to play nice with his fellow Republican 2016 presidential candidates. “I look forward to the debate on Thursday night & it is certainly my intention to be very nice & highly... → Read More
Chris Christie's war on numbers
Chris Christie’s got a numbers problem — and not simply due to his lackluster showing in recent polls. The New Jersey governor on Tuesday unleashed a lengthy tirade against Monmouth University’s polling director Patrick Murray, whose survey, he said, “was created just to aggravate me.” “Just look at Patrick Murray... → Read More
Jim Gilmore 2016: Presidential announcement widens GOP field
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore officially became the GOP field’s 17th candidate Wednesday. Gilmore filed his paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission, launching his longest of all long-shot presidential bids under the name “Gilmore for America LLC.” But the question remains whether he will be allowed to join the Fox News... → Read More
Rand Paul invokes Obamacare as a reason to defund Planned Parenthood
Rand Paul has long supported defunding Planned Parenthood, but on Tuesday he invoked a new reason: Obamacare. “I think there’s a strong argument, even for those on the other side of the coin, that guess what, you know, we have free health care everywhere now, we don’t need Planned Parenthood,” the Kentucky Republican, who is... → Read More
Jeb Bush: ‘I was hurt’ by Donald Trump’s attacks on Mexicans
Jeb Bush is opening up about his mixed-ethnicity family, discussing his family’s Mexican heritage and even discrimination his son experienced as a child. “We are very Hispanic in the sense that we speak Spanish at home,” the former Florida governor said in a Spanish-language interview with Telemundo. “Columbia is very Mexican.... → Read More
Chris Christie launches diatribe against New Jersey pollster
Chris Christie brought his New Jersey blunt talk on the campaign trail Tuesday, this time directed at pollsters at the Garden State’s very own Monmouth University. A reporter asked Christie about a poll released Tuesday from the university that showed the New Jersey governor as the first choice of only 4 percent of New Hampshire voters —... → Read More
Donald Trump 2016: Sarah Palin for cabinet post, he says
Donald Trump has succeeded in alienating many of his fellow Republicans with his personal attacks, but if he does win in November 2016 and is forced to assemble a cabinet of GOP allies, he knows exactly whom he would call on: Sarah Palin. When asked on Sarah Palin’s Mama Grizz Radio’s “The Palin Update” Monday whether he would... → Read More
Bloomberg: Trump's net worth is $7 billion less than he claims
Bloomberg has some bad news for Donald TrumpThe financial network’ Bloomberg Billionaires Index analyzed the golf course entrepreneur and ex-reality TV star’s nearly 100-paged financial disclosure form and estimated that his net worth is somewhere around $2.9 billion. His campaign had previously released a statement claiming that Trump... → Read More
Ted Cruz: I wasn't attacking Mitch McConnell 'personally'
Ted Cruz on Monday defended his statement that Mitch McConnell told a “flat-out lie” about re-authorization of the Export-Import bank, doubling down on his assertion that the Senate majority leader conspired with Democrats to undermine the most conservative wing of the party. “I gave a highly unusual floor speech,” Cruz said... → Read More
Zephyr Teachout takes over Larry Lessig's PAC
Law professor and former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout is taking over Mayday PAC, the pro-campaign finance reform group founded by Harvard law professor Larry Lessig. Teachout announced the news on Twitter Monday, writing, “I’m taking over from Lawrence Lessig @lessig as CEO and Board Chair of @MAYDAYUS. Getting ready... → Read More
Dennis Rodman endorses Donald Trump for president
Dennis Rodman has endorsed Donald Trump for president. On Friday, the five-time NBA champion tweeted that the Donald “has been a great friend for many years.” “We don’t need another politician, we need a businessman like Mr. Trump! Trump 2016,” he added. Trump responded on Twitter, writing, “Thank you @DennisRodman.... → Read More
Report: Barack Obama to release Israeli spy
President Barack Obama is set to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Pollard was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison for leaking classified information, obtained through his role as a Naval intelligence analyst, and delivering it to an Israeli agent in the United States. His... → Read More
Sheldon Adelson flies NBA stars to Israel to fight boycott movement
Billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson flew a group of NBA players to Israel on his private jet Thursday. According to the Jewish Journal, Adelson and his wife’s private Boeing 747 jet was lent to a delegation of eight NBA players, led by Israeli Sacramento Kings’ forward Omri Casspi. Video of the players approaching the plane was posted on... → Read More
Appeals court drops one felony charge against Rick Perry
An appeals court in Texas had dismissed one of two felony charges pending against former Gov. Rick Perry. A grand jury indicted Perry last August on one count of abusing his office and one count of coercing a public servant for allegedly trying to push a local Democratic district attorney to resign by threatening to withhold state funds from her office.... → Read More
Jeb Bush: Martin O'Malley shouldn't have apologized for saying 'all lives matter'
Jeb Bush said Thursday that he doesn’t believe Martin O’Malley should have apologized for saying “black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter” on stage at a conference last weekend. “No, for crying out loud, no. We’re so uptight and so politically correct now that we apologize for saying lives matter?”... → Read More
UK should stay in EU, Obama says
President Obama pressed the UK on Thursday not to leave the European Union, saying the country’s membership gives the U.S. “much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union.” Though members of the Obama administration and the president himself have previously said that the country should not leave the EU, in an... → Read More