The
crowd at the UIC Pavilion on Chicago’s West side erupts in celebration
on March 11, 2016, after it is announced that Donald Trump will postpone
his rally here. (Photo: Caitlin Dickson/Yahoo News)While
many individuals who were removed from the venue had at least been
vocal before being engaged by security, the two young men were escorted
out before apparently engaging in any disruptive behavior. The
security guard who removed the two said it wasn’t up to him who got
kicked out, but that maintaining the safety of all in attendance was his
primary concern at the event. “Last
time I worked here it was for an Isley Brothers concert, as far as I’m
concerned I’m doing the same job,” the unnamed guard told Yahoo News.
“This is more interesting.“ Outside,
Chicago police officers on horseback corralled protesters behind
barricades. Several cars drove by waving huge Mexican flags as the
neighborhood was energized by both protesters and supporters, who were
separated by a large law enforcement presence. Undeterred
by the evening’s setback, Trump conducted several phone interviews with
TV news outlets after the postponement, crediting public frustration
with the U.S. economic conditions for the open defiance in Chicago – not
any reflection of his campaign positions, rhetoric or the ongoing
complaints of how protesters have been handled at his events."Our
businesses are being taken away from us, our businesses are being moved
out of the country,” Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “This is a
demonstration against economic conditions on both sides.”Liberal
activist organization MoveOn.org, which has endorsed Democratic
candidate Bernie Sanders, claimed some responsibility for organizing
“student leaders who organized nonviolent protest against Trump’s
violence & hate.”The
behavior of those in the crowd suggests the protest was carefully
planned. Despite the effort of security to weed out potential unrest in
advance – Yahoo News witnessed a man in a grey suit wearing a Trump pin
approach a band of young and apparently Middle Eastern men and ask them
if they’d like Trump signs in an effort to establish their allegiance –
when the announcement of postponement was made, the arena largely went
nuts. 
National Security:
The Washington Post, of all places, found that not only did Hillary
Clinton send and receive classified material on her unsecured email
server as Secretary of State, she wrote dozens of classified emails
herself.
To understand the implications of this revelation, let’s rewind the
clock to almost exactly one year ago, when Clinton first addressed her
private email controversy at a press conference held in the United
Nations building.
A reporter asked Clinton
whether she was “ever specifically briefed on the security implications
of using your own email server and using your personal address to email
with the president?”
Her answer was emphatic: “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material.”
Then she went on: “I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
The first claim had been proved false long ago, once the State
Department started releasing what would end up being 2,093 of Clinton’s
emails that it said contained classified material.
Once those emails started emerging, Clinton changed her story to say
that she never “knowingly” sent or received classified information,
because none of the messages were so marked. That excuse fell by the
wayside when emails turned up containing information deemed “classified
at birth.” Then several showed up that couldn’t be released at all
because their classification rating was so high.
The Post’s latest revelations,
however, are particularly damning. It found that three-quarters of the
classified emails she sent were written by Clinton herself.
Saying she didn’t know the information was classified because it
wasn’t marked makes no sense, since she was the one who would have been
responsible for marking it in the first place.
And, since she claims that she was “well aware of the classification
requirements,” she can’t now claim that she was ignorant of the nature
of the information she was sending.
As this story has unfolded over the past year, Clinton has tried to
brush it aside as a partisan witch hunt. When that didn’t wash, she
tried to blame the State Department for “over classifying” information,
or charged that it was just the result of interagency squabbles.
Clinton also tried to smear the inspectors general for State and the intelligence community, both of whom were appointed by President Obama.
But what she has never done is admit the truth. Namely, that she set
up her private email account as a way to shield her communications from
public scrutiny — a tactic that worked for a time — and that in doing so
she gave little thought to the national security implications.
Her cavalier attitude apparently set the tone for the department. The
Post notes that top aid John Sullivan “was the most frequent author of
classified emails,” and other top officials, Cheryl Mills and Huma
Abedin, “authored dozens of such notes.”
Under the law, gross negligence in handling classified material is
all that’s required for a government official to face criminal charges.
At this point, is there anyone who can honestly say that Clinton wasn’t
being grossly negligent?
Malia and Sasha Obama Look Stunning at First State Dinner
Even their dad couldn't believe how big they've gotten over the past eight years. "When I first elected to this office, Malia was just 10 and Sasha was 7. And they grow up too fast," the president said during his opening remarks. "Now Malia is going off to college...And I'm starting to choke up."
At the end of the day, the president is just a regular dad, too.
Malia, 17, slayed in a strapless gown with a sweetheart neckline, and wore her hair down in waves and had it swept to one side. She could easily fit in at a gala, Hollywood red carpet or even the Oscars, given her glam looks and her seat between Sandra Oh and Lorne Michaels.
"I admire you very much, both of you, for your extraordinary strength and your grace, through what is a remarkable childhood and young adulthood that will give you extraordinary strength and wisdom beyond your years for the rest of your life," he said during his speech. "The one thing that you have received from your extraordinary parents is the tools to be able to handle the challenges and the opportunities in front of you."
Even though these two are growing up right before our very eyes, we still can't over how much they really have changed.
If you’ve not seen the GIF, you’ve probably not spent a lot of time on the web.The AftermathIt
is years later; “I don’t know her” has become perhaps the most iconic
words to come out of Mariah Carey’s mouth since “all I want for
Christmas is you.” It was Andy Cohen, in 2014, who was the first to ask
J.Lo directly about the shade of it all.“I
know from back in the day, I’ve read things that she’s said about me
that were not the greatest, but we have never met,” Lopez, who is no
amateur at delivering a verbal knockout, said. “Like, we don’t know each
other. I think it’s kind of from word of mouth of things that have
happened in the past that I’m not really aware of.”Then, last year, Carey was doing an interview with 
Blocking
the Donald from winning the Republican nomination isn’t impossible. But
it will likely require one of his rivals to remain in the race until
the GOP convention in July — and to pull off an upset of historic
proportions.To
understand how strong Trump’s position is — but also why it’s too early
to declare him the winner — you have to understand the byzantine
delegate math that Republicans will be relying on to select this year’s
nominee. The
rules are remarkably convoluted. They’re different in almost every
state. But in a nominating contest unlike any we’ve seen before, they
will be critical going forward.Barring
some sort of cataclysmic event that torpedoes the previously unsinkable
Trump — a murder charge, perhaps — it appears that the Republican race
can end only one of two ways at this point. Either (a) Trump wins the nomination or (b) one of his opponents snatches it away from him in Cleveland.Let’s consider the likelier scenario first: a Trump victory.To be the nominee, a Republican needs to win a majority of delegates; this year’s magic number is 1,237. A scoreboard reads “2016” and “76” for the number of delegates the
state of Georgia has as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
speaks at a rally at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga., Monday.
(Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)You
may have heard that all the delegates at stake before March 15 will be
awarded proportionally and that many of the delegates at stake after
March 15 will be awarded to the candidate who wins each state.
On
the Republican side, the vote comes amid a chaotic descent into what in
any other year would have been described as madness, with the leading
candidates trading crude schoolyard insults; mugging, chortling and
shouting over each other in debates, and one (you know who) blaming a
faulty earpiece for his inability to renounce the support of a former
Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. One can imagine the GOP’s power
brokers, regardless of their actual preferences, secretly hoping all the
candidates will lose, enabling the party to start over with someone new
— or give Jeb Bush, who dropped out in February, a second chance. But
the rules are that someone has to win. In polling, generally, Trump
holds leads ranging from moderate to overwhelming in most states, with
the notable exception of Cruz’s home state of Texas. To stay in the
race, Cruz has to win there, at least, and Marco Rubio, who has made the
most of any candidate in history out of second- and third-place
finishes, has to show he can win somewhere. Trump just has to avoid any
embarrassing losses; Kasich is mostly just trying to hang on until the
electoral map becomes friendlier. His home state, Ohio — a must-win for
him — votes on March 15, the same day as Florida, Rubio’s base, where
Trump has held a big lead in polls. Ben Carson is now considered a
nonfactor in the race after a string of distant finishes.
