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Unidentified street artists plastered posters conflating Senator Ted Cruz with the Hunger Games' "Mockingjay" symbol around the University of Colorado at Boulder in time for his appearance at tonight's Republican debate. The posters and stickers which appeared this morning are likely the only pro-candidate activism on a day that promises much more anti-GOP action. According to The Gazette: Republicans going to Boulder Wednesday for the fourth GOP presidential debate will be welcomed to the state's liberal stronghold with protests and a plane circling the city with a banner making a quip about the billionaire Koch brothers. The actions were...

.... Breitbart.com, for example, John Nolte largely ignores politics in his review of Mockingjay - Part 1, until ending with: “For some reason this feels like the exact right time for a movie about a revolution against a lying, lawless president.” Likewise, Christian Toto at his conservative site, Hollywood In Toto, largely foregoes politics, though only after opening his review with: “The first two films could be seen as either big government on dictatorial steroids or an Occupy-style lament about the evils of inequality. The franchise's third film … doesn’t change that formula despite the addition of liberal screenwriter Danny...

It was my daughter who first noticed it. “You have a moral reason behind everything you do, Mom,” she said flatly. To this day, I’m not sure if that was an accusation or a compliment. Considering she was in her early 20s at the time, it could have gone either way. Until she made that statement, however, I never really thought of it like that. But she was right.