Soon to be Ex-Governor Bobby Jindahl picked a great day for a low-profile exit from the Presidential contest, telling Fox News "This is not my time." After he is forced from office by term limits in January, he will be thinking at America Next, a think tank he set up a couple of years ago. Updated scorecard:
One third of marriages now begin with online dating (and statistics now show the marriages work out better than other "traditional" meeting methods, e.g., friends of friends, church, work, and bars).
13 hours ago Ding ding. Closing statements. 14 hours ago Kasich: "no more criticizing Israel in public." Worth the hand waving & interruptions? Interesting new debate dynamics. 14 hours ago Trump: why does she keep interrupting everyone? 14 hours ago Carly Fiorina got a second double ding. wouldn't speak to Putin because we'd be coming in in a position of weakness. Ca-ca. 14 hours ago Jeb. Yeah. He came in looking for a home run. He'll be lucky to survive with a walk. RT David Corn @DavidCornDC RIght now, Bush aides are drawing straws to see who has to go out into the spin room? 14 hours ago Carson: Our goals is not to contain them, but destroy them. Embedded image permalink 14 hours ago Trump: China is the #1 abuser of this country. Kasich comes off like an insufferable ass. Why does he keep interrupting? 14 hours ago Ding ding. 14 hours ago Did they have a secret meeting to take a pledge not to act like clowns this time? It couldn't have just happened, could it? 14 hours ago Cruz: there are more words in the tax code than in the Bible. And none of them are as good I forgot to mention that Senator Rubio mentioned Candy Crush in an answer. #He'sHip? 15 hours ago Kasich just launched the first attack on someone on stage. He attacked Trump over mass deportations. Now Bush, Trump jump in/start slugging away. 15 hours ago Carson giving a mini-lecture about lies seems a little disingenuous this week.... 15 hours ago Round one over. No one has said anything crazy yet. . .or taken on any of the other candidates. Embedded image permalink 15 hours ago Fiorina softened last debate's helmet cut. Sounding very hoarse. 15 hours ago Bush: "it may be the best Hillary can do, but it's not the best America can do." Looking very serious. 15 hours ago Rubio: we need more welders and less philosophers. 15 hours ago Carson speaking now. After the past week, you expect some enormous whopper. He, too, would not raise the minimum wage. 15 hours ago Donald Trump's first answer sounded sane (other than the content).
Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson's house is an homage to Ben Carson. The amount of memorabilia is like a museum. Most famously now, there is a painting of the Doctor with a large-handed Jesus. Thanks to reader Dean for the "news" tip.
By Jack Brummet, 2016 primary and caucus ed. Ex-Governor Mike Huckabee and Governor Chris Christie didn't poll well enough to stay on the main stage and are now relegated to the kid's table at the 4th Republican debate next Tuesday. They both failed to come up with the 2.5% share in the polls.
On November 10th, Huck and The Governor will be standing with Gov. Bobby Jindal. and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Ex-Gov. George Pataki and Jim Gilmore didn't even pull enough points this time to be at the kid's table.
Jonesboro, Ark., Nov. 16 — A woman drove into a service station last night and said to the attendant in a confidential whisper: "I wish you would check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk." Police said the "guy" behind was a driverless pickup truck, whose bumper was locked with the rear bumper of the woman's car. She was charged with driving while intoxicated.
On Monday, BHO mocked the Republican presidential candidates for promising they could stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. . .when they couldn't handle last week's debate moderators.
The 1997Thomas Guide mentions that the edition contains 666 new streets. Concerned Christians peppered the publisher with questions and complaints, worried that the use of the number 666 was a sort of satanic signal. Thomas eventually caved in and dropped the number by one.
President Reagan cuts in at his birthday party in 1981. Kitty Kelley, in a 1991 book on the Reagans, claimed (disputed by many) Nancy and The Chairman had a long term affair.