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Soon-to-be-former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke (D-TX), who is a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, released this 48-second video, which made a very powerful case in opposition to President Donald Trump's demand for a border wall boondoggle among the U.S./Mexico border: pic.twitter.com/XONeh8HUf1 — Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) December 28, 2018 That might be the most well-produced web video that I've ever seen from a political figure of any kind, bar none. Beto did not physically appear in the video, and neither his voice nor anyone else's voice, was heard in the video. However, the video didn't need anyone to be seen or heard to drive home the message about the many reasons why the proposed border wall boondoggle would be an absolutely ridiculous idea, and the various images of the natural beauty of Rio Grande Valley also helped make the case against the border wall boondoggle. I will note that I am currently undec

With a potentially very large field of candidates expected to seek the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2020, I made this observation about the divide within the Democratic Party being more complicated than a simple divide between a center-left establishment and a left-wing progressive insurgency: The 2016 primary campaign between Hillary and Bernie has probably led a lot of people to incorrectly believe that there are only two factions within the Democratic Party. In reality, it's a lot more complicated than that. — Aaron Camp (@ProgMid) December 25, 2018 Obviously, the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries/caucuses quickly became virtually a two-candidate race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders well before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses were held that year, and became an actual two-candidate race between the center-left Hillary and the progressive Bernie after Martin O'Malley ended his longshot presidential bid after the Iowa caucuses.

In just a couple of hours from now, at 6 P.M. CST, the first of two national semifinal matches in the NCAA Division I women's indoor volleyball tournament, BYU vs. Stanford, will begin. Both of the national semifinal volleyball matches are airing on ESPN tonight, with the second match, Nebraska vs. Illinois, scheduled to begin no earlier than 8 P.M. CST. Both games will be played at a neutral site in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Target Center, which is normally home to the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the NHL's Minnesota Wild, but has been converted into a volleyball venue for the national semifinal games tonight and the national championship game on Saturday. Given the title of this blog post, you may be asking yourself, how exactly is the NCAA inconveniencing people who want to watch indoor volleyball on television tonight? I'll explain how the NCAA is inconveniencing volleyball fans. For those who might have a rooting interest in either BYU or Stanford, they a

After being fired by the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 2017 after being implicated in a sex scandal involving sending at least 12 phone calls on a university phone to escort services, Hugh Freeze took the head football coaching job at...wait for it...Liberty University, an evangelical university that was founded by the late televangelist Jerry Falwell, Sr., whose current president is his son, Jerry Falwell, Jr., and has a strict "honor code" that, for lack of a better description, regulates the morality of its students. At the press conference in which Freeze was announced as Liberty's head football coach, things got even weirder: #Liberty AD Ian McCaw on Hugh Freeze: "He’s a man of great faith, great family man." — Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 7, 2018 I'm sure you've met a few others who can handle your junk @CoachHughFreeze pic.twitter.com/NxEU8bxUYz — gmannVOLS (@gmannVOLS) December 7, 2018 I'm not going to cri