Zach Montanaro
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Zach Montanaro | October 26, 2016
"Esquire" magazine doesn’t like that some celebrities have apparently chosen to remain silent about politics during this election cycle. The magazine recently posted a story calling out a few high-profile celebrities who have, until this point, not said anything about who they support for president or done anything to use their “influence” to “contribute to the political process.” I.e.: These…
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Zach Montanaro | October 26, 2016
We’ve seen some brutal attack ads in this heated election cycle, but nothing quite like this. Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat running for Congress in New Jersey's 5th District against incumbent Republican Scott Garrett, recently released an ad featuring a grandma talking about certain things about Garrett that made her mad. And the video included some...colorful language. I admit it: I laughed…
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Zach Montanaro | October 25, 2016
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other fellow Republicans have had very choice words for Obamacare after news broke of an impending double-digit premium hike set for next year. “The president recently compared Obamacare to a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and he's right: this disastrous law is blowing up,” Ryan recently joked. “But at least you can return the phone.” Ryan was referring to President…
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Zach Montanaro | October 25, 2016
Ireland appears to have a new landmark. It’s quite an odd sight at first glance: a perfect Celtic cross growing in Donegal forest in Ireland. Passengers who had been flying into Derry airport recently started to notice the massive emblem and wondered exactly where it came from. UTV, a news station in Ireland, soon found the answer. The cross, believe it or not, was actually planted there by a…
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Zach Montanaro | October 25, 2016
Can’t say no one warned you about this. As first reported by the AP, premiums for certain mid-level plans offered on Obamacare's federal exchanges will be going up by double digits, and many people will be stuck with just one insurer. And that news isn’t coming from some conservative think-tank -- it’s coming from the Obama administration itself. Before subsidies, premiums for benchmark plans…
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Zach Montanaro | October 24, 2016
Last week, headlines were made about how Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta sorted potential VP picks into assorted “food groups” based on the potential candidate’s race and ethnicity. Now, it appears this might not have been just a one-time thing for the Clinton campaign. A new batch of emails released shows Clinton aide Cheryl Mills sending Podesta an email with a list of “top 10 or so…
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Zach Montanaro | October 24, 2016
By its own admission, the gay community is supposed to be an open and inclusive group that welcomes people who feel they have been discriminated against. Unless they are Republican. Those people get death threats. That’s the lesson Dewey Lainhart and Cody Moore are learning the hard way. The couple recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal during a Donald Trump rally in Ohio, where they…
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Zach Montanaro | October 21, 2016
Univision has cancelled a debate between Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) and his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy, because the two campaigns couldn’t agree to the conditions for the debate -- namely, Murphy wouldn’t agree to the debate being conducted in Spanish. In an email from Univision to the Rubio campaign, the network laid out the early terms of the debate: “The debate will be in…
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Zach Montanaro | October 21, 2016
Donna Brazile, the current interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, has been a public cheerleader for President Obama’s administration and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to replace him. In private, though, new emails are showing a different story. Based on emails released by WikiLeaks, Brazile sent an email to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta earlier this year saying that she…
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Zach Montanaro | October 21, 2016
Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the national anthem quickly had a domino effect around the NFL, with many players still joining in the protest even to this day. The effect has started spilling into college and high school football games as well, and the media has had not been short on praise for schools who adopt the practice. However, one student isn’t sitting idly by -- quite…