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	Police Chief Thinks Racial Profiling Can Be Applied Fairly, Why He's Dead Wrong by Matt Strong Read More »

	Bill Maher Settles the Debate Over Who’s Less Bad: Trump or Cruz by Josh Feldman Bill Maher ended his show tonight by settling the debate once and for all over who is truly worse: Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Read More »

	Maher: The Media Bemoans How Silly the Election Has Gotten... But It’s Their Fault! by Josh Feldman Bill Maher went on a rant against the media tonight over its insane coverage of the 2016 election and its seeming lack of self-awareness on the matter. Read More »

	Maher Blasts Emory Students ‘Triggered’ by Trump: I ‘Want to Dropkick These Kids’ by Josh Feldman Bill Maher tonight went off on the Emory University students who whined about feeling "triggered" by the mere appearance of Donald Trump's name in chalk on campus. Read More »

	Maher to Dem Sen.: If You Can’t Say the Words 'Islamic Terrorism,' Dems Lose the Election by Josh Feldman Bill Maher confronted Senator Cory Booker on his use of the phrase "violent extremism" instead of "Islamic extremism," telling him that could seriously impact his party in the fall. Read More »

	In a Tastleless Tabloid Election, It's Only Fitting the National Enquirer Now on Center Stage by Joe Concha Hand sizes. Other sizes. Nude photos. Allegations of extramarital affairs. A publication CEO named Pecker. That's the last month of this primary season in four sentences. Hard to believe there's just 225 days more of this to endure before it's over. Read More »

	'Stop!' Don Lemon Snaps at Omarosa, Abruptly Ends Segment on Trump by Josh Feldman CNN's Don Lemon kind of lost his cool tonight after Donald Trump supporter Omarosa didn't directly answer his question about Donald Trump's attack on Heidi Cruz and abruptly cut to commercial. Read More »

	Geraldo: 'The National Enquirer Is More Often Right Than They Are Wrong' by Josh Feldman In a day marked by lots of serious skepticism about the National Enquirer's report about Ted Cruz's affairs, Geraldo Rivera said on Fox tonight that the tabloid is actually more right than wrong. Read More »

	Michael Savage: I May 'Withdraw' Trump Support If He Doesn't Disavow Enquirer Smear by Josh Feldman Michael Savage has been more pro-Donald Trump than other conservative radio hosts, but it appears that a line has been finally crossed that he cannot accept. Read More »

	CNN's Burnett: 'Embarrassing' Being in Brussels and Having to Cover Nasty Candidate Fights by Josh Feldman CNN's Erin Burnett said tonight what probably a lot of reporters in Brussels must be thinking this week: a terrorist attack just happened and we have to talk about this tabloid stuff?! Read More »

	The Hilariously Immature #TrumpLovesPecker Turns Into Big Twitter Trend by Josh Feldman We may have finally reached peak campaign immaturity with arguably the most insane Twitter trend of this entire campaign: #TrumpLovesPecker. Read More »

	Olbermann: Trump Getting Nukes Seems More Realistic Right Now Than ISIS Getting Nukes by Josh Feldman Former MSNBC and ESPN anchor Keith Olbermann appeared on The View to share a few laughs (and a bit of terror) about the idea of President Donald Trump getting his hands on nukes... Read More »

	Cruz Campaign Manager Questions Trump's Psychological State on Twitter by Josh Feldman Today has been, um, quite a day on the campaign trail, and amid all the Trump-Cruz warring, Ted Cruz's campaign manager raised questions about Trump's psychological state on Twitter. Read More »

	Ben Affleck's Reaction to the Reviews of Batman v. Superman Was So Sad It Became a Meme by Lindsey Ellefson If you click over to the YouTube page, you'll see that this video has amassed over 1,000,000,000 views in one day. Read More »

	Check Out SnivelingCoward.com (Also Known as Trump's Twitter Account) by Sam Reisman Go to SnivelingCoward.com. Go on. Read More »

	A Bird Landed on Bernie Sanders' Lectern and Everyone Lost Their Minds by Josh Feldman A bird landed on Bernie Sanders' lectern during a campaign rally today and everyone lost their freaking minds. Read More »

	Trump On His Failed Show About Saving Party Girls: It's 'Genius and the Show Will Be Huge’ by Lindsey Ellefson All of this happened -- or rather, didn't happen -- after NBC dropped The Apprentice from its line-up. Read More »

	Donald Trump's Campaign Manager, Coulter Tweeted Out Link to a Hoax News Story (UPDATED) by Josh Feldman The level of caring about facts in the Donald Trump campaign is so low, today his campaign manager just straight-up tweeted out a fake news report. Read More »

	Police Arrest Mall Easter Bunny When They Learn He Didn’t Register As Sex Offender by Lindsey Ellefson This really isn't a good period of time for North Dakota's malls in general. Read More »

	On Cruz ‘Affairs,’ Trump Forgot All The Times National Enquirer Got Sued For Getting it WRONG by Rachel Stockman Read More »

	This Fire Department Created Beeping Eggs So Blind Kids Can Have Fun On Easter, Too by Lindsey Ellefson The ordinance disposal technicians took great care to make sure that all 48 of the specialized eggs will "beep" when the time comes. Read More »

	Microsoft Apologizes for Its Racist, Hitler-Loving Bot, Says 'Tay' Was 'Attacked' by Sam Reisman Microsoft issued an apology via the company's official blog Friday for the "behavior" of its bot Tay, the juvenile (and politically illiterate) bot that came into the world on Wednesday primed to learn about humans and was taken offline mere hours later after it became a vulgar, bigoted troll.... Read More »

	War Vet Rep. Gabbard Releases Emotional and Evocative 'Cost of War' Ad For Bernie Sanders by J.D. Durkin "I could not in conscious stay back here in beautiful Hawaii and watch my brothers and sisters in uniform go off into combat," Gabbard says in the video continuing with clear remembrance in her tone, "These are friends and people who we never forget." Read More »

	Trump Aides Make Good on Promise to 'Spill the Beans' on Heidi Cruz by Sam Reisman After Donald Trump threatened to "spill the beans" on Heidi Cruz, his campaign reps took to the airwaves and Twitter Friday to indicate that they had done that very thing. Read More »

	Beck Goes Full Bible: I ‘Believe That Ted Cruz Actually Was Anointed’ by God by Lindsey Ellefson Note his belief that Cruz was put on this earth by God just to rise up "at this critical juncture" and lead America. Read More »

	Trump Denies Planting Cruz National Enquirer Story: I Had 'Absolutely Nothing To Do With It' by Alex Griswold Read More »

	Trump Campaign Ruffles Feathers With Alleged Unauthorized Use of Eagle Image by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	Brainwashing of My Dad Seeks to Unravel the History and Impact of Right-Wing Media by Sam Reisman The Brainwashing of My Dad is an inquiry into the right-wing media apparatus that "changed a father and divided a nation." Read More »

	The NY Daily News Alleged Trump is Pals With the Enquirer's Top Dog Months Before Cruz Did by Lindsey Ellefson He's not the first person to make the allegation that Trump has that particular publication in his pocket. Read More »

	Cruz: 'Donald Trump May Be a Rat But I Have No Desire to Copulate With Him' by Sam Reisman Ted Cruz said the following: "Donald Trump may be a rat but I have no desire to copulate with him." Read More »

	Ted Cruz Responds to National Enquirer Allegations: 'These Smears Are Completely False' by Alex Griswold Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz took to Facebook Friday to denounce a National Enquirer story accusing him of carrying on several affairs, pointing out that the Enquirer is run by a close friend of Donald Trump and accusing his GOP rival of being behind the story. Read More »

	The National Enquirer Claim of 'Pervy Ted' Cruz 'Caught Cheating' With Five Mistresses is Fascinating and Flawed by Lindsey Ellefson Now that the Enquirer is claiming Cruz has had five mistresses, keeping the grains of salt necessary for reading most of their pieces handy seems prudent. Read More »

	CNN Guest: 'White People Like Yourself' Don't Understand What Creates Radical Terrorists by Sam Reisman During a heated discussion on CNN Tonight Wednesday, Rula Jebreal, a foreign policy analyst told conservative commentator and former CIA operative Buck Sexton that "white people like yourself" were ill-suited to pursue preventive counterterrorism efforts against ISIS. Read More »

	Marla Maples Reacts to Trump’s Anti-Heidi Tweets: We Have to ‘Keep the Peace’ by Lindsey Ellefson You may know Marla Maples as the woman with whom Donald Trump cheated on Ivana Trump. Read More »

	For Some Reason WaPo Debunks Life of Woman Who Got Job Interview During Trump Presser by Tommy Christopher It seems like years ago in news time, but it was just this past Monday when Donald Trump interrupted a press availability to offer a woman in the crowd what amounted to an impromptu job interview. That woman, 38 year-old Alicia Watkins, is now having her spot blown up by The Washington Post. As it turns out, Watkins has garnered media attention in the past, including this spot on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network Read More »

	CNN Airs Powerful Interview of American Brussels Survivor From His Hospital Bed by Tommy Christopher News of the terrorist attacks in Brussels continues to dominate the news cycle this week, but not all of the stories are horrible and soul-crushing. On Friday afternoon, CNN aired a powerful interview with Mason Wells, a Mormon missionary who survived the attacks, and told his story to CNN from his hospital bed. Read More »

	Here Are This Year’s Winners of Pioneer Press’ Annual Peeps Arts-and-Crafts Contest by Lindsey Ellefson The overall winner of the still photo category was a tribute to the late David Bowie. Read More »

	Under Siege 2 Star Steven Seagal Believes Mass Shootings are 'Engineered' by Sam Reisman Steven Segal, the action movie star of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, told Russian television that mass shootings in the United States were "engineered." Read More »

	'Trump Armband' Comedians Caught Begging Justin Trudeau to Run for US President by J.D. Durkin And now, we've spotted the duo back at it again, and it seems to have gone over the heads of the Vox staff and former Mic on-air talent Liz Plank in a recently produced video that featured Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read More »

	Trump Supporter Derails CNN Segment by Accusing Fellow Guest of Having an Affair With Ted Cruz by Alex Griswold A CNN debate between a Donald Trump supporter and former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter went off the rails Friday when the Trump supporter suddenly accused Carpenter of having an illicit affair with her former boss. Read More »