Inside a Trump Rally (David Smalley, Dogma Debate #228)

Alix goes inside a Trump Rally, and we have audio from supporters and protestors. We’re fact checking Democrats and Republicans, and Ken Ham reviewed our science book for kids!
Interview:
http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/dogma-debate-with-david-smalley/e/228-inside-a-trump-rally-43205115

Opening The Books On Donald Trump's Business Deals In Atlantic City

Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow dissects Trump's acquisition of the Taj Mahal casino/hotel, which went into bankruptcy a year after it opened...
Interview: 
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/17/470806232/opening-the-books-on-donald-trumps-business-deals-in-atlantic-city

The Road To The White House Has Gotten Lumpy

The Ted-mentum might slow to a crawl now that he has to campaign to a bunch of elitists with New York values.
https://youtu.be/3m50EE8jeZA

A Torturer’s Confession: Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator Speaks Out

http://democracynow.org - Eric Fair served as an interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI. He was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in Fallujah in 2004. In a new memoir, Fair writes about feeling haunted by what he did, what he saw and what he heard in Iraq, from the beating of prisoners to witnessing the use of sleep deprivation, stress positions and isolation to break prisoners. The military described such actions as "enhanced interrogations," but Eric Fair uses another word—torture. He writes, "If God is on anyone’s side in Iraq, it’s not mine." (Part 2 is the next post below.)
Interview:
https://youtu.be/2oGh93UnxQg

Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator: Because of Trump & Cruz, Door Still "Wide Open" for U.S. to Torture

http://democracynow.org - As Republican presidential candidates promise to bring back the torture techniques used under the George W. Bush administration, we speak with one of the men who actually carried out these policies. Eric Fair served as an interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI. He was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in Fallujah in 2004. His new book, "Consequence: A Memoir," has just been published. Interview: 
https://youtu.be/1t54JZNbkCI

Long Lines at the Wisconsin Primaries: A Closer Look

Seth takes a closer look at the role of voter ID laws in the Wisconsin Republican primary.
https://youtu.be/fHxSfs7GfdY

Trump threatens a third-party bid: Why the GOP must take him seriously (+video)

In yet another taunt to the Republican Party, Donald Trump is, once again, dangling the threat of a third-party run. The businessman-turned-GOP frontrunner said Thursday he is being treated unfairly by the Republican establishment and is considering running as an independent. “I am watching television, and I am seeing ad, after ad, after ad put in by the establishment, knocking the hell out of me, and it’s really unfair,” Mr. Trump said...
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0303/Trump-threatens-a-third-party-bid-Why-the-GOP-must-take-him-seriously-video

The Shady Backstory Behind The Florida Attorney General’s Endorsement Of Donald Trump

A day ahead of the crucial Florida primary, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi endorsed Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump at a rally in Tampa. Bondi’s Monday endorsement comes more than two years after she decided not to follow the New York attorney general’s lead and sue Trump over accusations Trump University seminars swindled people. The timeline of that fall 2013 episode raised eyebrows. Three days after a Bondi spokeswoman said the attorney general was studying New York’s lawsuit to see whether she wanted to take similar action in Florida, Trump cut a $25,000 check to a committee associated with Bondi’s campaign. That seeming conflict of interest was criticized in the Florida press at the time, but a Bondi spokesperson justified her decision by suggesting no action was necessary because the affected Florida consumers would be compensated if New York won that case....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/14/3760061/pam-bondi-donald-trump-trump-university/

Trump Either Doesn’t Understand His Own Tax Plan Or Is Egregiously Lying About It

On Sunday night during a “town hall” broadcast on Fox News, Greta Van Sustren asked Donald Trump about his tax plan. Specifically, she asked him if everyone in the country would get a tax break, “even the very rich.” This is how Trump responded:....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/04/3766069/trump-tax-plan-2/

The Weird, Offensive Argument At The Heart Of The Supreme Court Case Against Birth Control

Pro tip: if you’re about to file a brief in the Supreme Court, it’s a good idea to make sure that you haven’t made any arguments that could give the Court’s blessing to race discrimination. Otherwise, you risk falling into the same trap that caught the lawyers behind a major challenge to women’s access to birth control now pending in the Supreme Court...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/15/3760254/the-weird-offensive-argument-at-the-heart-of-the-supreme-court-case-against-birth-control/

Watch Donald Trump Convince Fox’s Chris Wallace To Lie In The Middle Of An Interview

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace confronted Donald Trump about how the Republican frontrunner handled the accusations surrounding his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who has been charged with battery against reporter Michelle Fields.

Wallace starts out skeptically, pressing Trump on why Lewandowski denied he ever touched Fields instead of simply apologizing. (Video of the incident later emerged showing Lewandowski grabbing Fields.) Then things go downhill....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/03/3766021/watch-donald-trump-convince-foxs-chris-wallace-to-lie-in-the-middle-of-an-interview/

Ted Cruz Calls For National Law To Cripple Unions

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said during a radio interview Thursday that he supports national “right-to-work” legislation, a type of anti-labor law that Wisconsin passed last year in an effort to cripple the state’s unions.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/01/3765757/cruz-right-to-work/

Trump Takes His Fourth Position On Abortion In Three Days. He’ll Need To Change This One Immediately

Trump is having a lot of trouble making up his mind about where he stands on abortion...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/01/3765914/trump-abortion-four-positions-three-days/

The bizarre optimism in Donald Trump’s theory of the economy

Trump appears to blend economic conspiracy theories with magical-thinking accounting: Stocks are a bubble inflated by "easy money"; government regulators have taken control of banks and choked off lending to everyone but the rich; the "real" unemployment rate is closer to 20 percent than 5 percent, and his crowd sizes prove it; cutting taxes and renegotiating the terms of trade will reinvigorate the economy and the middle class and somehow pay off the federal debt within eight years...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/02/the-bizarre-optimism-in-donald-trumps-theory-of-the-economy/

Ex-Mexican President Says Trump 'Reminds Me Of Hitler'

Former Mexican President Vincente Fox slammed Donald Trump again on Friday, telling CNN that the Republican presidential candidate reminds him of Adolf Hitler.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/vincente-fox-trump-hitler

Michigan Republicans Are Trying To Change Election Law To Stop Liberal Ballot Initiatives | ThinkProgress

“They are trying to stop [us] cold,” said LuAnne Kozma of the Committee to Ban Fracking In Michigan. “They are trying to cut us off and force us into court.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/24/3762667/michigan-republicans-fracking-ban-legal-marijuana/

Watch: Jimmy Kimmel's Fake Ad Hilariously Points out Cruz and Trump Are One and the Same | Alternet

When both of your options are awful, it can be hard to find the silver lining...
http://www.alternet.org/media/watch-jimmy-kimmels-fake-ad-hilariously-points-out-cruz-and-trump-are-one-and-same

British Columbia’s Carbon Tax Has Been So Successful That Businesses Want To Increase It

A carbon tax may be a controversial topic in the United States, but in one Canadian province, this eight-year-old policy has been such a success that on Wednesday more than 100 businesses said they support a tax increase...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765312/canadian-business-support-carbon-tax-increase/

Alabama’s ‘Family Values’ Governor Might Get Impeached Over An Extramarital Affair

Now, Bentley has found his own crumbling marriage under scrutiny (his wife, Dianne Bentley, filed for divorce last year). Last week, the 73-year-old governor admitted to having sexually suggestive conversations with his senior political advisor, 44-year old Rebekah Mason, who is also married. The conversations took place in 2014, before Bentley’s divorce proceedings began...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/31/3764800/alabama-robert-bentley-governor-sex-scandal-family-values/

Donald Trump Says His Very Rich Muslim Friends Won't Be Banned From The Country | ThinkProgress

Pressed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews whether Trump’s friends could even get into the country with a ban on Muslims, Trump conceded. “They’ll come in,” he said. “They’ll come in, and you’ll have exceptions.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/03/31/3765216/trump-muslim-friends-immigration/