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During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary debate in South Carolina, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders responded to members of the audience who booed him for his comments on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The controversy has gained steam in recent days after Sanders was forced to address comments he made in the 1980s regarding Castro, whom he claimed was not overthrown because he educated the Cuban people and gave them health care.

Not fair! Only liberals are allowed to make fun of conservatives. That's the way it has always been so when someone like Donald Trump  jokes about liberals it is absolutely intolerable. Not only is it offensive but dangerous since jokes won the election for Trump. That pretty much sums up the attitude of New Yorker television critic, Emily Nussbaum, in her January 23 article. Somehow it is just not right that liberals are mocked. Nussbaum is so upset by this cultural turnaround that she even attributes it to making Trump's victory possible as you can see in the title of...

A stranger was seated next to little Tommy on the plane when the stranger turned to the boy and said"Let's talk I've heard that flights will go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger". Little Tommy who had just opened his book closed it slowly and said to the stranger"What would you like to discuss?. I don't know," said the stranger "How about politics? Should we keep Bush or elect Kerry?" OK said Little Tommy 'That could be a very interesting topic.But let me ask you a question first. A horse ,a cow, and a deer...