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David Brooks, the columnist that liberals like to call a conservative and conservatives like to call a putz, appeared on his weekly segment with Mark Shields on the PBS NewsHour and proceeded to demonstrate his uselessness to the profession of political punditry.DAVID BROOKS: The emerald path will get to Oz, the curtain will come down, and Marco Rubio will emerge triumphant.(LAUGHTER)JUDY WOODRUFF: We have heard you mention this before.But what about…DAVID BROOKS: I think it will — I do think it will be Cruz and Rubio at the end of the day. I think Cruz will inherit the — and Republicans are really angry.They think the country is going down the tubes. And so they have to express that somehow. They are expressing it now. And I think — but those voters will eventually wind up with Cruz, and then the mainstream voters will wind up with somebody like Rubio or Kasich or who knows.But I just can’t imagine. A major American party doesn’t nominate Donald Trump. I just can’t believe it. I will have to go to Canada after that.(LAUGHTER)JUDY WOODRUFF: But what about Mark’s point about — you get to react. But what about Mark’s point about — some of the candidates were asked questions, and then it turns out later what they said didn’t hold out? So, what about…DAVID BROOKS: Yes. There was the Carson moment with the dietary supplement thing.They — I think the questioners were not prepared for the brazenness of the lies. Now, I don’t totally blame Donald Trump for not knowing what’s on his Web page. I can’t imagine he ever read his Web page. He’s not into that sort of stuff.But there was a certain brazenness to it. And that’s been true of this year, that you — somehow, there is no political price.I think that’s what Donald Trump — that is why he is a bit of a game-changer, because he has said eight million things that are normally disqualifying, but because the electorate is so angry, at least that part of the electorate, they say, well, you know, he says all this crazy stuff, but we need somebody who can really shake things up. So they are willing to tolerate it.I still don’t think they are going to tolerate it at the end of the day. That’s my religion right now.Brooks reminds me of one of the contestants in that brilliant Monty Python skit the 'Upper Class Twit of the Year' race that really has to be seen to be believed.The Pythons were skewering the idle, supposedly inbred rich in England. For Brooks, as far as his punditry and classless observations about the rest of us in America, he demonstrates the same level of incompetence and cluelessness. He has no connection to anyone below his station in life, spouting nonsense about why people support Trump without understanding the America that Barack Obama has created.Anyone who doesn't think the country is going down the tubes is out of touch with reality. During Obama's presidency, we have seen a loss of economic and personal freedom that is unprecedented. The world overseas is blowing up while the president bloviates about 'smart power' and 'leading from behind.'The economy is still in a recession for tens of millions of people. Our schools are losing ground, big cities have seen a steep rise in murders, and nearly 2/3 of the country believes we're headed in the wrong direction.It's not just the plebes who believe the country is going down the tubes, David. This is something you would know if you didn't live an insular and insulated life in your mansion.Anyone who doesn't see how much trouble this country is in should move to Canada regardless of who becomes president.

Andrew T. Miltenberg believes everyone deserves a good defense.

For the first time in many years, national math and reading test scores dropped for elementary school kids. Who's to blame? The better question to ask is, who isn't?

GOP students at Stony Brook and Fordham were eager to see a Republican debate focused on the fiscal challenges facing the U.S.

Last week, I salivated as I beheld a photograph illustrating a newspaper article about the newest villain in the rogues' gallery of foods suspected of colluding in human destruction. The photo showed a frieze of sizzling strips of bacon, caramelized crispy brown at their edges, striped russet and tawny gold down their curling lengths. I wished the picture had been scratch-and-sniff. Seeing it, I longed to fry up a mess of bacon on the spot (I sprinkle it with sugar as it sputters, which adds sweetness and crunch) and pile it atop an egg salad sandwich (made with Hellman's mayonnaise, naturally).

Some time in the early 1960s when my father was driving taxis in Manchester, he had that April Ashley in the back of his cab. For readers who don’t remember April Ashley, let me quote from her website. “My story begins in 1935 in a tough, working-class area of Liverpool where I was born as a boy... In Paris, I debated with myself the decision to have a sex change... I knew I was woman and that I could not live in a male body. I had no choice. I flew to Casablanca and the rest, as they say, is history.”

A clear majority of Iranian legislators said Monday the Islamic republic will not abandon the slogan of "Death to America" despite its July nuclear accord with world powers. "The martyr-nurturing nation of Iran is not at all prepared to abandon the slogan of 'Death to America' under the pretext of a nuclear agreement," 192 members of Iran's 290-seat parliament said in a statement carried by state news agency IRNA.

Beijing controls a radio network sending pro-China news around the world. But Beijing’s not broadcasting that fact.

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

As the prospects for President Jeb Bush fade, his fans should consider a fallback plan: U.S. Sen. Jeb Bush, R-Florida. That goal has many advantages. It allows Jeb to concentrate on a single state, and a state that knows him better than Iowa or New Hampshire. He has higher name recognition in Florida than any …

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The Independent newspaper has published an article claiming that more Islam should be taught in schools because the Islamic prophet, Muhammed, had “British values”

Not quite, scientists say. But new study results show the fallibility of current climate change measuring tools and challenges current theories about the causes of sea level rise.

Hillary Clinton can condemn Republicans as her “enemies,” dismiss the Veterans Administration scandal as “not widespread,” and get caught lying about what she knew about Benghazi and when she knew ...

Trump delivered a backhand compliment to "highly neurotic" DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for orchestrating a "great deal" for Hillary.

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

Mark Levin pulls no punches and tells Stephen K. Bannon that it's time for Reince Priebus to step down as head of the RNC. Breitbart News Daily airs Weekdays...

Liberal HBO comic John Oliver on Sunday praised Republican governors who expanded Medicaid in their states, bashing conservatives who refused. The Last Week Tonight host cheered, “Even fiscally conservative Republican governors like Jan Brewer, Chris Christie, Mike Pence and John Kasich did expand Medicaid in their states, despite being firm opponents of Obamacare.” 

Bill Gates is rapidly reaching supervillain status.

A pheasant hunt in the Hawkeye State.

maybe the left would get somewhere on gun control if they didn't dish out crap as facts

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A Friday evening story at the New York Times covered the Obama administration's decision to "try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." In it, reporters Michael D. Shear and Michael S. Schmidt demonstrated that President Obama undoubtedly did not tell the truth in his interview with CBS News's Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes episode which aired on October 11.