Flag on a wall
“I don’t know how people can pray with a symbol of hate and white supremacy and man’s inhumanity to man in the chapel.”
— Rev. Al Sharpton following a meeting with Citadel President John Rosa, on a request to remove a Confederate Naval flag from a campus chapel. Sharpton’s National Action Network has dropped its call for Rosa to step down until an investigation is complete into why cadets were photographed recently wearing white hoods. More.
Homage to a princess
“Ted, getting in bed with Iran and Russia to save Assad is inconceivable. Princess Buttercup would not like this.”
— U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in an undercard presidential forum this week in a comment directed to colleague Ted Cruz, his foreign policy and his love for the movie, “The Princess Bride.” More Graham debate gems.
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