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

For Ohio Women, Kasich’s Anti-Choice Policies Extend Beyond Abortion

Our community health workers do in-home visits and teach everything from safe sleep, to birth spacing, to nurturing the baby, to making sure there’s the healthiest experience for the infant as possible, and the mom too.
We've been doing this program for 18 years. We were doing it in one county for many years, and we did such a great job that we were allowed to add a county. So we are actually currently the only agency in the state of Ohio that’s allowed to run the program in two counties, and that’s because we’ve had such a great success rate with the program...
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/15/3760507/planned-parenthood-kasich-ohio/

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/

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/

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/

Mississippi could now legalize discrimination against people who have premarital sex

...But as this bill is actually written, though, a whole lot of people in Mississippi besides sexual minorities could face discrimination, too — like the vast numbers of people who have had sex outside of marriage...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/mississippi-could-now-legalize-discrimination-against-people-who-have-premarital-sex/

Blustering Barton: Religious Right Pseudo-Historian Claims Tithing Will Make Your Car And Clothes Last Longer

It’s alarming that a guy with these views and who has been accused of stretching the truth time and time again remains allied with politicians and is so beloved by the Religious Right...
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/blustering-barton-religious-right-pseudo-historian-claims-tithing-will-make

Anti-Choicers Try to Exploit Donald Trump's Gaffe by Pretending Their Misogynist Views Are 'Moderate'

Anti-choicers are using Trump's comments to portray themselves as nicer to women, but in fact, they are worse...
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/anti-choicers-try-exploit-donald-trumps-gaffe-pretending-their-misogynist-views-are

Bernie Sanders Has an Interesting Theory About Why the Republican Party Exists

"I think if we had a media in this country that was really prepared to look at what the Republicans actually stood for rather than quoting every absurd remark of Donald Trump, talking about Republican Party, talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks for the top two tenths of 1 percent, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, a party which with few exceptions doesn't even acknowledge the reality of climate change, let alone do anything about it, a party which is not prepared to stand with women in the fight for pay equity, a party that is not prepared to do anything about a broken criminal justice system or a corrupt campaign finance system, I think, to be honest with you—and I just don't, you know, say this rhetorically, this is a fringe party. It is a fringe party. Maybe they get 5, 10 percent of the vote."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/bernie-sanders-interesting-theory-on-gops-existence

https://youtu.be/2vDAGRQ4__c