"Donald Trump's use of 'Rockin' in the Free World' was not authorized," [Neil] Young's manager said in a statement released Tuesday.

NBC News

Dear media,

Now will you stop talking about Rick Santorum ?

-cleek

Potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said in an interview on Friday that mandatory ultrasounds for women hoping to get an abortion was "just a cool thing."

During the interview with conservative radio host Dana Loesch, Walker defended a bill he’d signed in 2013 that required women get the ultrasounds.

“The thing about that, the media tried to make that sound like that was a crazy idea,” Walker said. “Most people I talk to, whether they’re pro-life or not, I find people all the time who’ll get out their iPhone and show me a picture of their grandkids’ ultrasound and how excited they are, so that’s a lovely thing. I think about my sons who are 19 and 20, and we still have their first ultrasounds. It’s just a cool thing out there.”

I so hope Scott Walker is the GOP's nominee.

Former Republican, former Democrat, Lincoln Chafee steps up to (maybe) take on Hillary Clinton!

I guess that counts?

But the right way to think about one's vote for president is to think about the presidency not as a person, but as a thing—a huge, sprawling, complex, cumbrous, many-tentacled thing. The executive branch is a corporation. Or, if it makes you feel better, a huge nonprofit. It's thousands of people doing thousands of things: big things, like setting Middle East policy, and small things, like making sure a few painters in central West Virginia are getting a fair wage for federal contract work.

And on this score, the differences between the two major parties are vaster than vast. This maybe didn't used to be so, back when there were actual moderate Republicans. But now? With the Republican Party controlled by the radical right, a Republican presidency doesn't mean merely that you're going to have to see that distasteful reactionary with the cracker-ish accent on your TV screen for the next few years. It means that thousands of people are going to be making many thousands of deeply reactionary decisions, across all federal agencies and departments. This stuff doesn't make the front pages. It rarely makes the news at all. But it goes on, and it affects all of us every day: decisions about civil-rights and environmental enforcement, about the protection of public lands, about the ethical questions raised in scientific research, about the safety of consumer products (and now financial instruments, thanks to Elizabeth Warren), about which polluting or swindling corporations to investigate and with how much zeal… You get the picture.

Indeed.

And while I'm not crazy about Clinton, there is absolutely zero chance I'll vote for the Republican. Not only because, as the linked article explains, the Presidency is more than just the person in the Oval office: it's about the huge executive branch and all of the powers it wields. It's also about the power of nominating judges and foreign policy and all that stuff. But it's also about being able to stop what will probably remain a majority Republican Congress from turning its innumerable ridiculous notions into law.

And Clinton, like Obama, isn't the perfect progressive pony-bringer. But the simple fact that she will likely say "um, no" to the lunatic GOP Congress is more than enough to recommend her. Lacking majorities in the House or Senate, the President becomes the world's most important goal keeper.

WND asks professional demagogue, Ben Carson, the question that's apparently on everyone's mind: Will Obama attempt to circumvent the Constitution and stay in office for a 3^rd term???

Carson surprisingly says No. But WND needs to keep the rabble roused, so it finds quotes from a bunch of other people who aren't as certain.

And, as directed, the deep thinkers in the comments suspect Carson is dead wrong. And most of them are prepared to kill Obama when, not if, he tries to enact his scheme to rule the US forever.

Hillary Clinton may have violated federal regulations by exclusively using her personal email address to conduct business at the State Department, the New York Times reported Monday.

In context, Clinton isn't the only government official or secretary of state to conduct some official business on a personal email account. But Clinton didn't have a government email address at all during her tenure as secretary of state and her aides didn't take steps to preserve her correspondence on government servers, according to the report.

I can has second choice, plz?

Update:
On the other hand, maybe she broke no laws.

I'd still like a second choice.

Since 1934, only one President has managed to avoid a net loss of seats for his party during his second midterm election. That was Bill Clinton, who gained 5 House seats (and 0 Senate seats) in 1998.

Every other President who has had a second term since FDR has lost seats in his second midterm.

W was the only President since FDR with a net gain of seats in his first midterm.

There is a lot of stupid in this country.

Singer, actor and one-time American Idol runner-up, Clay Aiken, is running for Congress as a Democrat in one of the districts near me. Yesterday, I noticed a bunch of his road signs had popped up on an intersection near my house. And right in the middle of them was this:

"republaiken" ?

I thought it might be a sign trying to fool people into thinking Aiken was a Republican. So I turned my car around and went back for a look. But no, it's a real Aiken sign. Same font, same colors, and the little star in the 'A' is shared on this and on the more traditional "Clay Aiken" signs - which I'm not going to show you because fuck you, get your own pictures! Looks like he wants to swing rural NC Republicans to voting for him. Best of luck!

I'd vote for him, if I lived five miles to the west.