Two objectors, Lawrence Joyce and William Graham, had challenged Cruz's presidential bid with the board, contending that his name should not appear on the March 15 ballot because his candidacy did not comply with Article II of the Constitution.

Adopting the recommendations of a hearing officer who considered the matter last week, the board of elections on Monday rejected both objections, ruled Cruz eligible and ordered that his name be certified for the election.

CaptHowdy: "How do you alienate the alienated[?]"

You simply hold their heads underwater until they stop thrashing and go limp.

(CNN)David Axelrod, the former top political adviser to President Barack Obama, said Monday that Hillary Clinton's inner circle should accept more responsibility for the candidate's struggles.

1. Why no polling done so we could see how the undecideds broke among the 9.

2. Is the polling place in the Notch required by law to re-open in the morning until 7pm ET tomorrow evening?

Nice place and the local industry was a prophylactic factory.

Big deal, but this was especially funny:

The results are a welcome sign for Kasich, whose campaign said he actively reached out to all nine voters who voted early Tuesday near the Canadian border in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary.

How much revenue does a NFL game generate vs. a GS speech? Can you get permanent brain damage sitting next to Lloyd and speaking to his mercenaries about the income disparity problem?

I could see maybe by listening to Lloyd & Co. a permanent disability could result, but not merely speaking to.

Here's the thing: if Clinton had no plans, no intention, no aspiration to run for the highest office in the land, whatever ridiculous sums of money a firm wanted to pay Clinton to hear her special insights and experiences would be of no particular matter.

If, knowing she had these aspirations, she had donated her fees to charity (hey, there's one way to make those dollars do some real good!), it would be hard to argue that paying her was going to make her beholden to the firms writing the checks.

Your comparisons to highly-paid athletes don't work.  Apples and footballs.

Sexism at work here?  Um, no.  I see how hard you keep trying to make it about sexism, but it just has nothing to do with her gender.  I'd be happy to hold Sanders' feet to the transcript fire, assuming you could find where he made the same kind of money from an industry for which there aren't enough zeros and commas to write out its wealth.

The first time I had a business trip to Phoenix, I booked myself into what I thought was a nice hotel which was operated by a reputable chain. Certainly, the price was very reasonable for a midtown hotel located in the business district of a major city. I initially thought I had scored a great deal. I soon learned otherwise upon my arrival.

The hotel itself was nice enough, but my antennae first went up at check-in, when I noticed that two rather seedy looking "gentlemen's lounges" were just across the street. By the time I returned from a late dinner with friends at about 10:00 p.m., you could hear the heavy bass of the dance music thumping away at those establishments, and there were a few pretty skanky characters hanging out in front of them.

And along the sidewalk fronting the hotel parking lot itself were a number of young women who were practicing their trade, soliciting what appeared to be a steady stream of willing male clientele. While the two clubs across the street closed at 2:00 a.m., the parade of ladies on the sidewalk and vehicles / drivers on the street looking for a little company continued until about sunrise. I never noticed a single police car on patrol in the community the entire night.

And I think a couple of those ladies had a room down the hall on my floor, because I could hear them pass by on a regular basis while talking to men in not-so-hushed tones, and their room door was opening and shutting constantly. "C'mon in, everybody, 'cause we're open all night!"

I immediately checked out that following morning, and relocated to a hotel by the airport, which was also across the street from a church.

Perfect is always the enemy of the good -- particularly whenever perfection isn't nearly so cut and dried as some people would otherwise wish to believe. When one's purity of intent succumbs to the political expediency of the given moment, its result often stands as an example of craven hypocrisy -- much as Mr. Jealous's endorsement of Sanders does here.

They made the claim that the terrain is so rugged that smugglers basically go near the cities, which is are much easier places to cross.

It would also have to be about half the length of the Great Wall of China, and 20 times the length of the Berlin wall, neither of which was the model of sucess in their intended purpose.  

I made the mistake of watching some of the Sunday shows, and had to stop because no one was asking Trump HOW he was going to do any of the things he says he's going to do; he just says words, stream of consciousness style, doing his crazy hand jive, pursing his lips.  Ugh, I can't stand it.

These talking heads just seem so gobsmacked by his bullying insanity that they can't do much more than just move on to the next topic.

Where is it going to end with these guys?  How is it even possible one of them is going to be the nominee?  And why, in the name of God, are the head-to-head numbers so close?  Why wouldn't any Dem - my dog, my mailbox - not be leading by 30-50 points against Trump?

It's kind of hard to simultaneously "Love the $ Trillion War Machine" and oppose every U.S foreign military intervention..

Or maybe, the words "Love" and "every" are distortive and disingenuous oversimplifications in the context of this discussion.