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May 3, 2016
GOP CHAIRMAN REINCE PRIEBUS: TRUMP IS NOW THE PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE. “Priebus tweeted out shortly before 9 p.m. that Trump will be the presumptive nominee, adding that the party needs ‘to unite and focus’ on toppling former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in November.”
Flashback: “No More Politicians: The Presidency Is Trump’s to Lose,” Roger Simon accurately predicted in August of 2015.
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CBS: TED CRUZ DROPS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE AFTER INDIANA LOSS. “Cruz is ending his campaign for the Republican nomination Tuesday night, CBS News’ Major Garrett has confirmed, effectively ensuring Donald Trump will become the GOP’s standard-bearer in 2016.”
ALL WE ARE SAYING, IS FORCEFULLY GIVE VOTERS A CHOICE. Kasich Camp: ‘We Intend to Forcefully Give’ GOP Voters a Choice.
AP: TRUMP DASHES CRUZ’S HOPES IN INDIANA; SANDERS-CLINTON CLOSE.
Earlier today Ed Morrissey paraphrased the Donald’s prediction: “Trump: If I win tonight, it’s over.” As Ed writes:
After this, it’s going to look even more difficult for Cruz. Next week Cruz is expected to win Nebraska’s 36 delegates (no polling as of yet), while Trump is expected to cruise to victory in West Virginia for its 34 delegates. After that, the primaries mostly return to the coasts, with Washington, Oregon, California, and New Jersey combining for 295 delegates in mostly winner-take-all hybrid configurations. If Trump even gets 40 delegates tonight, he’ll need about two-thirds of the 295 delegates in the coastal states, a very achievable outcome thanks to the GOP’s rules on delegate allocations. And don’t forget that Cruz supposedly conceded Oregon and New Mexico to Kasich, who has little chance of standing in the way of Trump’s momentum.
So yes, it won’t be literally over tonight, but a big win in Indiana for Trump tonight means that Trump can probably start measuring the drapes for the convention in Cleveland.
“Welcome to the general election,” Jennifer Epstein of Bloomberg tweets.
JOINING THE WINNING TEAM: Men have gender changes because women have won battle of sexes.
Ms Weldon, whose books include The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and What Makes Women Happy, said women “play the victim” and now have “it better than men”.
“The only way men have of fighting back against the natural superiority of women is by becoming women themselves,” she said in an interview with The Sunday Times.
She accepted it was an “argument personal to me” but added: “Feminism was necessary in the 1970s because men were so awful then.
“By the end of the 1980s they had realised what was going on and, to their credit, changed. But women didn’t change and went on being victims. Now women can be absolutely horrible to men.
“Women have it better than men.”
TYLER O’NEIL IS LIVEBLOGGING THE THRILLA IN INDIANA: Click here early and often for all the play-by-play action.
HERD IMMUNITY: Flu Shots Protect Babies, Too.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Lab-grown meat is in your future, and it may be healthier than the real stuff.
PRESIDENT ASH CARTER ISSUES STERN WARNING TO PUTIN: US ready to ‘defend our allies’
“We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake – we will defend our allies, the rules-based international order, and the positive future it affords us,” Carter said at the U.S. military’s European Command in Stuttgart, Germany.
Carter expressed a desire not to start a new Cold War with Russia – or a “hot” one.
But he said Russia seeks to “erode” the peaceful order Europe and the rest of the West have enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
It’s nice to have a grownup like President Ash Carter running things again.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: How police in Verona, US, saved a life in Verona, Italy.
ADDICTED TO YOUR SMARTPHONE? Switch To A Dumbphone.
In a world overtaken by smartphones—72 percent of U.S. adults now have one, according to Pew Research Center data—Freeman sees the Punkt cell phone as a way to be less distracted, even if only for a little while. It doesn’t have access to the Internet, or any games or apps. To get a cab, Freeman, the founder and CEO of a coffee shop and roasting company called Blue Bottle Coffee, has to call one. And while he can text, he must go back to doing it with the T9 (that’s “text on 9 keys”) method by tapping the phone’s buttons.
Freeman says he puts away his iPhone to force him to focus, if only once a week, on the “million interesting things that happen that are quieter but much more profound than my Twitter stream.”
Obviously, he doesn’t follow me on Twitter.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Ted Snedeker, The Deputy: Reaping the Whirlwind.
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Secret US spy court approved every surveillance request in 2015.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN features some thoughts on politics, special interests, and societal collapse.
THEY LOOK JUST AS YOU’D EXPECT: Meet the Radical Professors Opposed to Renaming a Public Law School for Justice Scalia.
THE PICTURE LOOKS A BIT LIKE HILLARY. Seriously, I thought it was her for a second. Living With Alzheimer’s.
CHANGE: CNN Destroys Fox News in April Prime Time Ratings.
While you weren’t looking, CNN has been busy demolishing the once-invincible ratings gap between themselves and Fox News. CNN beat Fox News decisively for their prime time lineup in April, and especially in the coveted age gap of 25-54. In fact, the only demographic in which Fox News beat CNN was the over 54 demographic, which is one of the least valuable to advertisers.
Neither was April a fluke. CNN has now beaten Fox News in prime time ratings for five out of the last 8 months. They have also scored wins in weekend ratings and are closing the gap in daytime ratings as well. Overall, where CNN used to have less than half of Fox News’ overall viewership, they now are behind Fox News by a measly 9%, and they continue to dominate MSNBC.
What changed around eight months ago?