Recent content by Icarus27k

Right now, Huffington Post Pollster averages Trump's national lead in a match against Hillary Clinton as 37.4%. I used the same metric from HuffPost Pollster for the 2012 election and from Pollster.com (before it merged with HuffPost) for the 2008 election. In the first quarter of 2012...

The sub-headline: 'You want to quote me as saying hahahahahahaha?' asked one. Thursday in the Republican Party was like hilarious fan-fiction for Democrats to hate read until they hurt from all the laughing. It started with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump erupting into a civil war. It ended with...

by New York Times journalist Nate Cohn Democrats: 62% Hillary Clinton 37% Bernie Sanders Republicans: 36% Donald Trump 27% Ted Cruz 22% Marco Rubio 7% John Kasich

So how is he doing? The average of his job approval rating over the last month, according to Gallup, is 46% approve, 50% disapprove. Compare that to past presidents. George W. Bush's approval was in the low-to-mid 30s at this time in his presidency. Bill Clinton's was in the high 50s. Ronald...

that is piped into U.S. high schools: 2. One award for a 1992 report on AIDS and another award for a 2004 report on war in Sudan. Number of Peabody Awards won by Fox News: 0. Think about that.

In case you didn't know the details of how this is going to go. CNN poll, Dec. 18-21, 2014. 54% Hillary Clinton (D) 41% Jeb Bush (R) 56% Clinton 39% Chris Christie (R) 60% Clinton 35% Ted Cruz (R) 59% Clinton 38% Mike Huckabee (R) 58% Clinton 38% Rand Paul (R) 56% Clinton 35% Ben...

1. Gas was supposed to cost $5.45 per gallon. In March 2012, on the floor of the United States Senate, Mike Lee (R-UT) predicted that if Obama was reelected gas would cost $5.45 per gallon by the start 2015. Lee said that gas prices would rise 5 cents for every month Obama was in office...

Yesterday, lawyers for the U.S. Supreme Court sent four marriage cases to the justices to be considered by the justices at their private January 9 conference. That means five marriage cases from five states (Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee) will be discussed by the justices and...

This was the headline of a March 6, 2009, Wall Street Journal op-ed. On that date, the Dow closed at 6626.94. Yesterday, the Dow closed at 18024.17. It's now been nicknamed "the worst op-ed in history". Now that the Dow has hit 18,000, let us remember the worst op-ed in history - The...

To be fair, he chugged egg nog in a drinking game. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/a-utah-man-had-to-be-hospitalized-for-chugging-eggnog?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.aeRDZGDdJ

A limited release of 200 theaters, and it's suddenly become a movie everyone wants to see. Curious how that happened. Sony Entertainment Announces Limited Release of 'The Interview' - NBC News

Will air tonight ( Dec. 18 ) at 11:30 PM EST. Colbert will then take over for David Letterman on The Late Show. Presumably, this will also be the end of "Stephen Colbert", the conservative pundit character (inspired mostly by Fox News idiocy) which Colbert has been playing for nine years...

Spoiler alert: Kim Jong-Un gets killed in "The Interview". Did Sony Get Hacked Because of This Kim Jong-un Death Scene?

That is, to be preserved in the Library of Congress. 13 Lakes (2004) James Benning’s feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings with artistry and scope that might be compared to Claude Monet’s series of water-lily paintings. Embracing the concept of "landscape as...