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Baron's dim-bulbness can't possibly be news to you.

 

Sez the guy who doesn't believe newspaper owners will fire employees for putting out content that they don't approve.

 

I'm guessing your parents kicked you out on your 18th birthday. And the average IQ in their house went up 33% on that day.

 

Nope, they helped me. The difference, though, is that I've never told others who can't make it through college that they're failures because they didn't work hard enough.

 

I don't know what this means in election turnout or anything else, but Bernie sure ain't going quietly.

Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton not 'qualified' for president - CNNPolitics.com

 

It was pretty tough. Over those 22 years I got married, fathered three children and took two graduate degrees (one a PhD). Doing all that in my parents' spare bedroom was quite a challenge.

 

Not BTExpress!

 

Well, look at it this way. It built character.

 

Hillary Clinton talking to the press. Two back-to-back questions:

Did you watch the Yankee game last night?

How does it feel to be campaigning in the Bronx?

 

A real journalist would have led with Vince Foster.

 

Bernie was tripped up, in part, because he was unable to describe how he would go about implementing his specific policy proposals.

How about, instead of asking her about the Yankees, or asking her to simply respond to Bernie, we ask her similar questions.

She said Bernie hasn't done his homework. Let's see if Hillary has done her homework.

 

This is really weird, but the longer the race goes, the more Bernie has grown on me with his refusal to just sit back and let HRC cruise to the finish line.

I think if more Dems were willing to truly look past HRC's fame and really study the candidates' records/platforms, Bernie would be doing even better than he is.

His antiwar position gives him moral high ground to rip HRC on the continuing disaster that is Iraq. His argument against income inequality is especially effective given her ties to Wall Street. He's also been surprisingly effective in pounding her for the ill effects of free trade on domestic jobs.

I read an analysis of his tax plan this morning, and while I'm certainly not predisposed to support massive tax increases, I was somewhat surprised to see that Bernie has a detailed, specific plan drawn up to pay for single-payer health care, firming up SS/Medicare and replacing our aging infrastructure, among other initiatives.

Much of what he has proposed has been dismissed in the media as pie in the sky nonsense that could never be accomplished, but his tax plan isn't really that radical.

Even with all the surtaxes and other stuff rolled in, the top marginal rate would be 52 percent -- well below the 70 percent threshold under Carter.

I know tax policy will never get covered effectively by a modern press that needs big personalities, controversy and scandals to draw clicks and viewers, but it's not nearly as "crazy" a plan as I originally expected.

I'm sure others will disagree, but if the Dems hadn't jury-rigged this nomination process for HRC with the super-delegates, it would feel much less a fait accompli and he could be building on the momentum of winning 7 of the last 8 contests. He's a much more effective candidate than I ever could've imagined.