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MSNBC’s Reid: Sanders Has Been Clumsy on Issues of Race

Friday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” while discussing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) not getting support from African-American Democrats, MSNBC corespondent Joy Reid described Sanders as “clumsy” on issues of race.” Reid said, “At the risk of getting a hostile

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Carson: All the Media Pile on Is ‘Actually Going to Help Me’

Friday at a press conference, Dr. Ben Carson, a candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination addressed a Politico story that suggested he fabricated parts of his personal story in his autobiography “Gifted Hands” regarding a claim he received a scholarship offer to the

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Oversight Is a Constitutional Duty

A Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, when asked about the possibility of a thorough investigation into the Clinton email allegations, said, “They really don’t want to [mess] with us on this. Trust me.”

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks to the media during a stop to sign his book at a Barnes and Noble store on November 5, 2015 in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Mr. Carson is leading the field in some of the recent polling for the Republican nomination contest.

Ben Carson, CNN, and the False Choices of Liberalism

Subsequent events may have loomed larger in Friday’s campaign diary for Dr. Ben Carson, but it’s worth taking a look at the exchange where he supposedly became “angry and combative” on CNN, as Mediate put it. Reporters are hitting Carson with something every Republican candidate should be ready for, as the 2016 campaign unfolds: the latest version of the classic False Choice of liberalism.