With a single statement, surging presidential hopeful Ben Carson elicited a high-five from Donald Trump and an apparent frown from Jeb Bush at the CNN Republican debate Wednesday night.
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Ben Carson Blames Hip-Hop for Destroying African American Values
In a radio interview Sunday, Ben Carson blamed “the hip-hop community” for the destruction of African American values, and then quickly (and radically) redefined the phrase “hip-hop community,” Business Insider reports.
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Carson Against U.S. Electing a Muslim President
Fallout from Donald Trump’s response to an anti-Muslim town hall attendee is creating headaches for his Republican presidential primary rivals. Retired Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson now faces his own anti-Muslim controversy.
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Ben Carson is Formally Exploring a Presidential Run
Retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson formed an exploratory committee on Tuesday to “examine whether (he) should become a candidate for President of the United States.
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Carson Is Now Polling Second Only to Trump
The most recent poll coming from Quinnipiac University ranks retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson second behind Donald Trump and five percentage points ahead of Jeb Bush in the Republican presidential primary.
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Ben Carson Campaign Worker Made Some Very Dumb Tweets
Here’s some advice for all you readers who dream about going into politics one day: Don’t create a public Twitter account that you use to say vulgar things about the president.
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What Does Larry Hogan See in Chris Christie?
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has declared his favorite for the 2016 presidential race–and, to be honest, his choice is a little odd.
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SNL Skewers Ben Carson Over “Prison” Comments
Despite Dr. Ben Carson’s quick apology for his assertion on CNN’s New Day that being gay is “absolutely” a choice “[b]ecause a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight, and when they come out, they’re gay,” Saturday Night Live “piled on” the potential presidential candidate during its “Weekend Update” segment with […]
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Ben Carson’s Incredible Fundraising Superpowers
Dr. Ben Carson, former Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon and increasingly visible potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, raises money. A lot of money. And not just for his own political action committee. His name, likeness, and signature on mass email messages have raised money for Newt Gingrich’s anti-Obamacare PAC, for Alan Keyes’s Black America’s PAC (BAMPAC), […]
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Kid Rock Likes Ben Carson
Kid Rock told New York Times Magazine that endorsing a presidential candidate in 2016 is “not on [his] list of things to do,” but he’s “very interested in the things that Ben Carson has to say.”
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Ben Carson: Being Gay “Absolutely” a Choice, Just Look at Prisons
Dr. Ben Carson was interviewed on CNN’s New Day this morning. And after saying something relatively reasonable about same-sex marriage (that it “should be determined at the state level”), the former Hopkins neurosurgeon who is now formally exploring a presidential run said something pretty darn unreasonable about sexual orientation.
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Ben Carson Labeled “Extremist” by SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based legal advocacy organization that opposes hate groups, just added Dr. Ben Carson to its “Extremist Files,” alongside white supremacists and the leader of the New Black Panther Party.
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Week in Review: 10 Baltimore Stories You Might’ve Missed
Oh, the perils of instant communication. With one click, you’re getting canned unicorn meat in an hour. The next, you’re off the team for threatening the freshmen.
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SPLC Removes Ben Carson from Its Extremist Files
Despite his penchant for gross overstatement (Obamacare is “slavery in a way” and worse than 9/11) and doomsday predictions (the government may attempt a “takeover of the people’s rights” that requires armed resistance; heck we may not even have elections in 2016), it was strange to see his name among the white supremacists and Klansmen […]
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Carson’s Positions on Fetal Tissue Experiments Don’t Add Up
Former Hopkins neurosurgeon and Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is in a difficult position. A video surfaced of Planned Parenthood officials’ crass discussion of using tissue from aborted fetuses for medical experiments. Carson joined the chorus of conservatives who denounced not only the officials’ casual tone and implied financial gain, but the entire practice of using fetal tissue in medical […]
