By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO-Since New Jersey Democrats remain skeptical of the Bridgegate report authored by lawyers Chris Christie appointed, the Governor may appoint another group of investigators who won’t find anything that implicates him in the scandal. He has asked the search team at Malaysia Airlines to look into the matter.
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President Obama announced that the Affordable Care Act had had reached its goal of over 7,000,000 Americans signing up for its health care plans. House Republicans have changed their strategy on Obamacare and now plan to revoke it 7,000,000 times on an individual basis.
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Jodi Ernst, Republican candidate for one of Iowa’s seats in the Senate, released an ad campaign in which she promised to cut pork in Congress because she had castrated pigs on the Iowa farm where she grew up. Conservative Republican men endorse her fiscal conservatism, but fear her feminist agenda.
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By a 5 to 4 margin, the Supreme Court struck down limits on the amount of money individuals are allowed to contribute to political campaigns. In an addendum to their ruling, they mandated that slot machines from Sheldon Adelson’s casinos will be converted into voting booths for the 2014 elections.
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Searchers for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 have been shocked by how much garbage they have found drifting in the Indian Ocean. They also have deciphered a ping coming from the bottom of the ocean which they surmise is a recording of the late Jacques Cousteau repeatedly saying, “I told you so!”
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Baron is a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted at lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com