The economy is always going to be the catalyst with voters. And despite last month's employment numbers, too many people in the U.S. are not personally experiencing the gains. Part-time jobs, contract work, low wages, no benefits, high rents. Where the economy is concerned, Sanders is tapping into the zeitgeist, Clinton is not. I would love to see a woman in the White House as much as anyone, but Clinton is not going to get there if the majority of energized voters view her as being aligned with Wall Street.

If Clinton continues to falter, it will be because she is not connecting with voters who are still feeling the pain of the recession.

"The Green Inferno" is accordingly at its best when it's a horror film that thinks it's a satire, and not a satire that acts like a horror film. There are a couple of notable missteps, particularly in the scene where blonde vegan Amy (Kirby Bliss Blanton) has diarrhea. The scene is presented as an unnerving, even surreal moment in an already unbelievable, intolerable situation. But the sound effects guy was clearly instructed to go to town, and he winds up giving short shrift to one of the film's most believably pathetic characters. Thankfully, while one might wonder what value a horror film that uses savage tribesmen stereotypes, Roth's film does represent anti-heroic Justine and her peers through a lens that is both critical and human enough. "The Green Inferno" is not exactly a feel-good film, but it gets a very particular job done.

Meanwhile in Oregon, all the money we spent arming the National Guard with APCs and automatic weapons turns out to be useless against a bunch of losers with AR-15s.

I also caught some of Hillary Clinton.

I remain more convinced than ever that Sanders is the one who could defeat Trump - or any of the Republican candidates... whereas I see only disaster for the Party and the country if HRC is the nominee.

 "Cruz lays down an atmosphere of apocalyptic fear.."   "as is the wont of inauthentic speakers, everything is described as a maximum existential threat. "   ..."the diagnosis is ridiculous, The Obama administration has done things that people like me strongly disagree with. But America is in better economic shape than any other major nation on earth, Crime is down, Abortion rates are down. Fourteen million jobs have been created in five years."

"The approach works because in the wake of Obergefell on same sex marrige, many evangelicals feel they are being turned into pariahs..." "Cruz exploits and exaggerates that fear.  He sows bitterness, influences his followers to lose all sense of proportion and teaches them to answer hate with hate. This Trump-Cruz conservatism looks more like tribal, blood and soil European conservatism than the pluralistic American kind."

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Florida's death penalty law unconstitutional because it requires the trial judge and not the jury to make the critical findings necessary to impose capital punishment.

"The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death. A jury's mere recommendation is not enough," wrote Sonia Sotomayor for the court's 8-1 majority.

It's not yet clear how many other cases -- including the 400 inmates on the state's death row -- could be affected, experts said.

"The substance of the ruling would affect the vast majority of Florida's death row inmates," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment.

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 It is not known if Kim's husband will accompany this duo.  This should make for a good SNL sketch.

White House spokesman says Obama will not address it in SOU speech tonight, but Obama will talk about the deal he cut with Iran.  Even CNN is kinda griping about that.

No, we don't ever want Republicans in Congress ever to have a say in those decisions.  {Shudder}.

The militiamen occupying the Malheur national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon said on Tuesday that they intended to tell the public soon "when we will be leaving", signalling that the takeover could be heading toward a resolution.

The announcement is significant given that, if they follow through with the plan, the 7pm Friday event will mark the first time the occupiers enter Burns and formally communicate with local residents, who have increasingly called on the militia to end the siege and leave Oregon.

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I didn't realize the guys who want 'the federal government to give local ranchers control of public land in rural Oregon', we not from Oregon.

Jerry DeLemus, a 61-year-old New Hampshire resident who was at the refuge until Monday and has helped Bundy coordinate meetings with nearby ranchers, said the occupation has made significant progress in recent days and could soon be ready to leave.

And the guy who's in charge of it is a real winner.

Fry didn't say when he arrived, but he's set up shop in a building the militants want to turn into a media center, according to Finicum. Fry said he knows "a little bit" about computers.

Fry's Google+ account shows the Ohio man regularly posts anti-Semitic, homophobic, and pro-Nazi propaganda on social media.

Fry also posts in support of ISIS.

 "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR ISIS TO NUKE ISRAELHELL!" he wrote on the site Nov. 30.

When asked to explain his feelings about Israel and ISIS, Fry spoke at length of government conspiracies, plots against multiple countries, Sept. 11, court records, computer viruses on Japanese computers, Fukushima and a Jewish conspiracy against the free world that involves causing nuclear meltdowns.  

"One week before Fukushima happened, an Israeli security team installing security equipment was there at Fukushima," Fry said.