Author: Justin Lane

Appearing on Sean Hannity’s program yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie argued that he would be able to do a better job of ‘reigning in’ Russia in the Middle East. To Christie, international politics is a big wrestling match – Obama is out of his weight class and getting beat by Putin, Christie would be ‘fine.’ “Look, just when you think it can’t get worse with this administration, it does,” said Christie. “This is a guy who’s convinced that he’s the smartest guy in the room and he’s convinced that he can charm anybody into anything,” said Chris Christie...

During an interview with NPR this morning, Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator John McCain stated that considering the recent bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan a war crime “distorts the definition of a war crime.” Instead McCain insisted that the events were a terrible tragedy, but not a war crime. “This terrible tragedy would not have occurred if the Taliban had not attacked the place to start with,” said McCain. “I find it ludicrous and insulting that people would say because of this terrible accident that somehow war crimes are committed. To call that a war...

A new analysis of supporter writing from the proofreading app Grammarly has found that Democrats have larger vocabularies and make fewer mistakes when writing online than Republicans. To perform their analysis, the group observed the Facebook page of each presidential candidate and captured comments that were at least 15 words in length and were either positive or neutral, excluding negative, toward the candidate. They then selected 180 random comments for each candidate. According to ThinkProgress, what they found was that “for every 100 words written, an average Democratic candidate supporter made 4.2 mistakes, while an average Republican candidate backer...