Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Swatch & Review

July 21, 2019 34,100 Comments
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Everlasting Liquid Lipstick

Kat Von D’s Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks have some of the most longest lasting formula I have ever tried. There are also a variety of shades available to pick and choose from. The formula is lightweight and full coverage.

If you’r looking for a color more on the dark side of the spectrum then the Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo Everlasting Liquid Lipstick is a great choice.

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

I usually wear Kat Von D’s everlasting lipsticks when I know I’m going to be out for a very long time. I wear them for events like weddings, concerts and parties. They keep my lips snatched through drinks and food. Oily foods will however remove the lipstick.

Her studded kiss lipsticks are creamy and more comfortable ,but of course they do not last as long. So the Everlasting Liquid Lipsticks are better for wearing to events that are going to last while.

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

The set comes in a black and gray box with the signature Kat Von D designs and logo.

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

In the box are two mini everlasting liquid lipsticks that contain 3.0ml of product. One shade is a light gray, Dagger, and the other is a darker shade of gray, Woolf.

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

As a frequent user of matte lipsticks I already know what to expect when wearing matte lipsticks so I always prepare for them

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

Though KVD’s lipsticks are pigmented and long lasting they do also tend to get very dry which is not unusual for matte liquid lipsticks.

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

You do have to do your due diligence and prep your lips before hand before using these because you will be very disappointed in the wear of the lipstick.

If you know you suffer from dry, chapped lips then using a lip scrub before applying the lipstick is absolutely necessary. KVD’s lipsticks dry very quickly and will emphasize every imperfection on your lips.

Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo
Kat Von D Smoke and Mirrors Grayscale Mini Lip Duo

Sometimes it’s not the formula to blame but how much work we put in before hand to ensure that the formula lasts as long as it should. Without properly caring for your lips it can cause the formula to look streaky, patchy or even flaky.

Now let’s get into the swatches:

Dagger

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Woolf

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  2. Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal on Friday
    sternly criticized Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying he should
    ‘follow the example’ of House Speaker John Boehner and resign his position.

    Jindal, the current governor of Louisiana and lagging near the bottom of the Republican presidential field in nearly
    all polls, has long waged an outsider campaign against the so-called ‘D.C.
    establishment,’ a clear reference to leaders like McConnell and Boehner.

    But Jindal’s own behavior at Friday’s Values Voter Summit seemed to undercut his message.

    Just minutes after declaring his credentials as one of
    the most pro-life governors in the country, Jindal conducted three back-to-back TV interviews at the back of the ballroom while speakers onstage were discussing
    the recent, controversial Planned Parenthood videos. 

    Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday called on Senate Republican Leader
    Mitch McConnell to ‘follow the example’ of House
    Speaker John Boehner, who announced his retirement earlier Friday morning

    Jindal went on to slam congressional Republicans for ‘refusing to
    fight’ President Obama on a variety of issues including de-funding Planned Parenthood,
    ending Obama’s health care law and immigration reform

    Jindal’s TV tour offended enough press and participants in the
    ballroom that one lady yelled at the anti-Planned Parenthood speaker on stage, ‘We can’t hear you!’ because of Jindal’s constant talking.

    Others audibly ‘shushed’ Jindal during his interviews.
    Still others sent Tweets during the disturbance.

    Jindal’s TV interviews at the back of the ballroom at the Values Voters Summit Friday
    in Washington did not go unnoticed by the audience

    ‘Look,’ Jindal told DailyMail.com in a hallway outside the ballroom,
    ‘we lowered our voice after the first interview once we realized, our voice – we didn’t realize we were speaking
    that loud.’

    ‘So we did lower our voice after people pointed it out.’

    Others pointed it out as well. Laura Sprigs, sitting in the eighth row of
    the hall, told DailyMail.com that it was ‘unseemly’ and ‘the governor
    embarrassed himself in front of everybody.’

    At one point while Jindal was speaking over David Daleiden, a member of the audience yelled aloud at the stage: ‘We
    can’t hear you!’

    Daleiden leads the Center For Medical Progress, the group that
    has been releasing secretly-filmed videos of Planned Parenthood executives appearing to callously discuss
    the harvesting of fetal tissue. 

    Kyle Plotkin, Jindal’s communications director,
    attributed the problem to ‘his staff,’ not to the
    candidate. 

    McConnell, like Boehner in the House, has struggled to govern his half of Congress while also pacifying angry – loud right-wing conservatives among his members

    Jindal’s call for McConnell’s resignation drew one of the loudest applause lines in his
    20-minute speech, bringing the audience to their feet after it had previously –
    and loudly – applauded the news of Boehner’s resignation earlier in the
    day.

    ‘It’s time to fire everyone in D.C.,’ Jindal said,
    raising his voice. ‘One down, 434 to go,’ referring to the total
    size of the House of Representatives.’ 

    Growing sharper, Jindal said Republican leaders have done
    no less than endorse the expansion of socialism under President Obama, repeating a
    common line of his stump speech that ‘I am actually angrier with Republicans than Democrats right now,’

    ‘Republicans say they’re conservatives during their campaigns,
    but they don’t govern like it at all,’ Jindal said.

    ‘On issue after issue, all they know how to do is give up.
    We did our work, we got the [congressional] majority.
    But we still have Obamacare, we still have amnesty.’

    ‘Mitch McConnell, it is now your turn. If you’re not willing to fight for conservative principles, follow Speaker Boehner’s example and turn in your
    gavel.’

    McConnell’s office did not immediately respond to an invitation to comment.  

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    Going further, Jindal said his party has ‘become the party of Big Business.’

    ‘It’s time to fire these clowns and get them out of the
    way. Mitch McConnell, before the fight even starts, says we can’t de-fund Planned Parenthood.

    ‘If we can’t make protecting life a winning issue nationally,
    what good is the Republican Party?’ 

    McConnell has been slowly steering the Senate toward a spending bill that would allow the federal government to continue operating past the end of the fiscal year
    in September.

    Jindal also found another target with his speech —
    billionaire Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the race.

    Joking that Trump ‘hasn’t read the Bible because he’s not in it,’ Jindal said
    Trump cannot claim to be a conservative, liberal, Democrat or Republican.

    ‘I love the idea of Trump. I do. I love the idea of an outsider.
    I love the idea that he’s politically incorrect. I love the fact that he’s entertaining and not a part of the DC establishment.

    ‘But the reality of Donald Trump is very different…
    He’s a narcissist,’ Jindal said to strong applause. ‘He doesn’t care about policy.
    So conservatives have a choice to make.’

    THE 2016 FIELD: WHO’S IN, WHO’S QUIT AND WHO’S STILL THINKING IT OVER

    A whopping 20 people from America’s two major political parties are candidates
    in the 2016 presidential election.

    The field includes two women, an African-American and two Latinos.
    All but one in that group – Hillary Clinton – are Republicans.

    At 15 candidates, the GOP field is without two early dropouts but still deeper than ever after one current and
    one former governor bowed out.

    A few Democrats are still assessing their chances at
    succeeding in a much smaller group of five that includes a former secretary of state and a current senator.

    REPUBLICANS IN THE RACE 

     

    Jeb Bush       Former Florida governor

    Age on Election Day: 63

    Religion: Catholic

    Base: Moderates                

    Résumé: Former Florida governor and secretary of state.
    Former co-chair of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.

    Education: B.A. University of Texas at Austin.

    Family: Married to Columba Bush (1974), with three adult children. Noelle Bush has made news with her struggle with drug addiction, and related
    arrests. George P. Bush was elected Texas land commissioner in 2014.

    Jeb’s father George H.W. Bush was the 41st
    President of the United States, and his brother George W.
    Bush was number 43.

    Claim to fame: Jeb was an immensely popular governor with strong economic
    and jobs credentials. He is also one of just two GOP candidates who is fluent in Spanish.

    Achilles heel: Bush has angered conservatives with his permissive positions
    on illegal immigration (saying some border-crossing is ‘an act of love) and
    common-core education standards. His last name could also
    be a liability with voters who fear establishing a
    family dynasty in the White House.

    Chris Christie        New Jersey governor

    Age on Election Day: 54

    Religion: Catholic

    Base: Establishment-minded conservatives

    Résumé: Governor of New Jersey. Former U.S.
    Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Former Morris County freeholder and lobbyist.

    Governor of New Jersey. Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
    Former Morris County freeholder. Former statehouse
    lobbyist.

    Education: B.A. University of Delaware, Newark,
    J.D. Seton Hall University.

    Family: Married to Mary Pat Foster (1986) with four children.

    Claim to fame: Pugnacious and unapologetic, Christie once
    told a heckler to ‘sit down and shut up’ and brings a brash style to everything he does.
    That includes the post-9/11 criminal prosecutions of terror suspects that made his reputation as a hard-charger.

    Achilles heel: Christie is often accused of embracing an ego-driven and needlessly abrasive style.
    His administration continues to operate under a ‘Bridgegate’ cloud: At
    least two aides have been indicted in an alleged scheme to shut down lanes leading to the George
    Washington Bridge as political retribution for a mayor who refused to
    endorse the governor’s re-election.

    Carly Fiorina         Former tech CEO

    Age on Election Day: 62

    Religion:      Episcopalian 

    Base: Conservatives

    Résumé: Former CEO of Hewett-Packard. Former group president of Lucent
    Technologies. Former U.S. Senate candidate in California.

    Education: B.A. Stanford University. UCLA School of Law (did not
    finish). M.B.A. University of Maryland. M.Sci.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Family: Married to Frank Fiorina (1985), with one adult step-daughter and another who
    is deceased. She has two step-grandchildren. Divorced from Todd Bartlem (1977-1984).

    Claim to fame: Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company, something that could provide ammunition against the Democratic Party’s drive to make Hillary Clinton the
    first female president. She is also the only woman in the 2016 GOP field, making
    her the one Republican who can’t be accused of sexism.

    Achilles heel: Fiorina’s unceremonious firing by HP’s board has led to questions about her management and leadership styles.
    And her only political experience has been a failed Senate bid in 2010
    against Barbara Boxer.

    Lindsey Graham  South Carolina senator

    Age on Election Day: 61

    Religion:        Southern Baptist

    Base: Otherwise moderate war hawks 

    Résumé: U.S. senator. Retired Air Force Reserves colonel.

    Former congressman. Former South Carolina state representative.

    Education: B.A. University of South Carolina. J.D.

    University of South Carolina Law School.

    Family: Never married. Raised his sister Darline after their parents died while he was a college student and she was 13.

    Claim to fame: Graham is a hawk’s hawk, arguing consistently for greater intervention in the Middle East, once arguing in favor of pre-emptive
    military strikes against Iran. His influence was
    credited for pushing President George W. Bush to
    institute the 2007 military ‘surge’ in Iraq.

    Achilles heel: Some of his critics have taken to call him
    ‘Grahamnesty,’ citing his participating in a 2013 ‘gang of eight’ strategy to approve an Obama-favored immigration bill.

    He has also aroused the ire of conservative Republicans
    by supporting global warming legislation and voting
    for some of the president’s judicial nominees.

    Bobby Jindal     Louisiana governor

    Age on Election Day: 45

    Religion: Catholic

    Base: Social conservatives 

    Résumé: Governor of Louisiana. Former congressman. Former
    Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning
    and Evaluation. Former Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.

    Education: B. Sci. Brown University. M.Litt. New College at Oxford University

    Family: Married to Supriya Jolly (1997), with three children, each of whom has an Indian first name and an American middle name.
    Bobby Jindal’s given name is Piyush.

    Claim to fame: Jindal’s main source of national attention has been his
    strident opposition to federal-level ‘Common Core’ education standards, which
    included a federal lawsuit that a judge dismissed in late March.
    He is also outspoken on the religious-freedom issues
    involved in mainstreaming gay marriage into the
    lives of American Christians.

    Achilles heel: During his first term as governor, Jindal
    signed a science education law that requires schools to present alternatives to
    the theory of evolution, including religious creationism. His staunch defense of businesses that
    want to steer clear of providing services to same-sex couples at their
    weddings will win points among evangelicals but alienate others.

    George Pataki      Former New York governor 

    Age on Election Day: 71 

    Religion: Catholic

    Base: Centrists

    Résumé: Former governor of New York. Former New York state senator and state assemblyman.
    Former mayor of Peekskill, NY.

    Education: B.A. Yale University. J.D. Columbia Law School.

    Family: Married to Libby Rowland (1973), with four adult children.

    Claim to fame: Pataki was just the third Republican governor in New
    York’s history, winning an improbable victory over three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo in 1994.
    He was known for being a rare tax-cutter in Albany
    and was also the sitting governor when the
    9/11 terror attacks rocked New York CIty in 2001.

    Achilles heel: While Pataki’s liberal-leaning social agenda plays well in the Empire State, it won’t win him any fans among the GOP’s conservative base.
    He supports abortion rights and gay rights, and has advocated strongly in favor of government intervention to
    stop global warming, which right-wingers believe is overblown as a global
    threat.

    Marco Rubio         Florida senator

    Age on Election Day: 45

    Religion:          Catholic

    Base: Conservatives

    Résumé: US senator, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, former city commissioner
    of West Miami

    Education: B.A. University of Florida. J.D. University
    of Miami School of Law.

    Family: Married to Jeanette Dousdebes (1998), with two sons and two daughters.
    Jeanette is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader who posed for the squad’s first swimsuit
    calendar. 

    Claim to fame: Rubio’s personal story as the son of Cuban emigres is a powerful narrative, and helped him win his Senate seat in 2010
    against a well-funded governor whom he initially trailed by 20 points.

    Achilles heel: Rubio was part of a bipartisan ‘gang of eight’ senators who crafted an Obama-approved immigration reform
    bill in 2013 which never became law – a move that angered conservative Republicans.
    And he was criticized in 2011 for publicly telling a version of his parents’ flight from Cuba that turned out
    to appear embellished.

    Donald Trump     Real estate developer

    Age on Election Day: 70

    Religion:     Presbyterian 

    Base: Conservatives   

    Résumé: Chairman of The Trump Organization. Fixture on the
    Forbes 400 list of the world’s richest people. Star of ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’

    Education: B.Sci. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

    Family: Married to Melania Trump (2005). Divorced from Ivana
    Zelní?ková (1977-92) and Marla Maples(1993-99). Five grown children.
    Trump’s father Fred Trump amassed a $400 million fortune developing real
    estate.

    Claim to fame: Trump’s niche in the 2016 campaign stems from his celebrity as a reality-show host and his enormous wealth – more
    than $10 billion, according to Trump. Because he can self-fund an entire presidential campaign, he is seen as less beholden to donors than other candidates.
    He has grabbed the attention of reporters and commentators by unapologetically
    staking out controversial positions and refusing to budge in the face of criticism.

    Achilles heel: Trump is a political neophyte who has toyed with running for president and for governor
    of New York, but shied away from taking the plunge until now.
    His billions also have the potential to alienate large swaths
    of the electorate. And his Republican rivals have labeled him an ego-driven celeb and an electoral sideshow because of his all-over-the-map policy history – much of which agreed with today’s today’s democrats –
    and his past enthusiasm for anti-Obama ‘birtherism.’

    Ben Carson       Retired Physician

    Age on Election Day: 65

    Religion:              Seventh-day Adventist

    Base: Evangelicals

    Résumé: Famous pediatric neurosurgeon, youngest person to head a major Johns Hopkins Hospital division. Founder
    of the Carson Scholars Fund, which awards scholarships to children of good character.

    Education: B.A. Yale University. M.D. University of
    Michigan Medical School.

    Family: Married to Candy Carson (1975), with three adult sons.
    The Carsons live in Maryland with Ben’s elderly mother Sonya, who was a seminal influence on his life
    and development. 

    Claim to fame: Carson spoke at a National Prayer Breakfast in 2013, railing against political correctness and
    condemned Obamacare – with President Obama sitting just a few feet away.

    Achilles heel: Carson is inflexibly conservative, opposing gay marriage and once saying gay attachments formed in prison provided evidence that
    sexual orientation is a choice.

    Ted Cruz            Texas senator

    Age on Election Day: 45

    Religion:         Southern Baptist

    Base: Tea partiers

    Résumé:U.S. senator. Former Texas solicitor general. Former U.S.
    Supreme Court clerk. Former associate deputy attorney general under President George W.
    Bush.

    Education: B.A. Princeton University. J.D.
    Harvard Law School.

    Family: Married to Heidi Nelson Cruz (2001), with two young daughters.
    His father is a preacher and he has two half-sisters.

    Claim to fame: Cruz spoke on the Senate floor for more than 21 hours in September 2013 to protest
    the inclusion of funding for Obamacare in a federal budget bill.

    (The bill moved forward as written.) He has called for the complete repeal of the medical insurance overhaul law,
    and also for a dismantling of the Internal Revenue Service.
    Cruz is also outspoken about border security.

    Achilles heel: Cruz’s father Rafael, a Texas preacher, is a tea party firebrand who has said gay marriage
    is a government conspiracy and called President Barack Obama
    a Marxist who should ‘go back to Kenya.’ Cruz himself
    also has a reputation as a take-no-prisoners Christian evangelical,
    which might play well in South Carolina but won’t win him points in the other
    early primary states and could cost him momentum if he
    should be the GOP’s presidential nominee.

    Jim Gilmore     Former Virginia governor

    Age on Election Day: 67

    Religion: United Methodist

        Base: Conservatives

    Résumé: Former governor and attorney general of Virginia.
    Former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Former U.S.
    Army intelligence agent. President and CEO
    of the Free Congress Foundation. Board member of the National Rifle Association

    Education: B.A. University of Virginia.

    Family: Married to Roxane Gatling Gilmore (1977), with two adult
    children. Mrs. GIlmore is a survivor of Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    Claim to fame: Gilmore presided over Virginia when the
    9/11 terrorists struck in 1991, guiding the state through a difficult economic
    downturn after one of the hijacked airliners crashed
    into the Pentagon. He is nest known in Virginia for eliminating most of a much-maligned personal property
    tax on automobiles, working with a Democratic-controlled state legislature to get it passed and enacted.

    Achilles heel: Gilmore is the only GOP or Democratic candidate for president who has been the chairman of his political party,
    giving him a rap as an ‘establishment’ candidate.
    A social-conservative crusader, he is loathed by the left for championing the state law that established 24-hour
    waiting periods for abortions. Gilmore also has a reputation as an indecisive campaigner, having dropped out of
    the 2008 presidential race in July 2007. 

    Mike Huckabee     Former Arkansas governor

    Age on Election Day: 61

    Religion: Southern Baptist 

    Base: Evangelicals

    Résumé: Former governor and lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
    Former Fox News Channel host. Ordained minister and author.

    Education: B.A. Ouachita Baptist University. Southwestern Baptist
    Theological Seminary (did not finish). 

    Family: Married to Janet Huckabee (1974), with three adult children. Mrs.
    Huckabee is a survivor of spinal cancer.

    Claim to fame: ‘Huck’ is a political veteran and has run for president before, winning the Iowa Caucuses in 2008 and finishing second for the GOP nomination behind John McCain. He’s known as an affable
    Christian and succeeded in building a huge following on his weekend television program,
    in which he frequently sat in on the electric bass with country & western groups and
    other ‘wholesome’ musical entertainers.

    Achilles heel: Huckabee may have a problem with female voters.

    He complained in 2014 about Obamacare’s mandatory contraception coverage,
    saying Democrats want women to ‘believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar.’ He earned more scorn for
    hawking herbal supplements in early-2015 infomercials as
    a diabetes cure, something he has yet to disavow despite disagreement from
    medical experts.

    John Kasich       Ohio governor 

    Age on Election Day: 64 

    Religion: Anglican

    Base: Centrists 

    Résumé: Governor of New York. Former chairman of the U.S.
    House Budget Committee. Former Ohio congressman. Former Ohio state senator.

    Education: B.A. The Ohio State University.

    Family: Married to Karen Waldbillig (1997). Divorced from Mary Lee Griffith (1975-1980).

    Claim to fame: Kasich was Ohio youngest-ever member of the state legislature at age 25.
    He’s known for a compassionate and working-class sensibility that appeals to both ends of the political
    spectrum. In the 1990s when Newt Gingrich led a Republican revolution that took over
    Congress, Kasich became the chairman of the
    House Budget Committee – a position for a wonk’s wonk who understands the nuanced
    intricacies of how government runs.

    Achilles heel: Some of Kasich’s political positions rankle conservatives, including his
    choice to expand Ohio’s Medicare system under the Obamacare law, and his support for the much-derided ‘Common Core’ education standards program. 

     

    Rand Paul      Kentucky senator

    Age on Election Day: 53

    Religion: Presbyterian 

    Base: Libertarians 

    Résumé: US senator. Board-certified ophthalmologist.
    Former congressional campaign manager for his father Ron Paul.

    Education: Baylor University (did not finish). M.D. Duke University
    School of Medicine.

    Family: Married to Kelley Ashby (1990), with three
    sons. His father is a former Texas congressman who ran for president three times but never got close to grabbing the brass ring.

    Claim to fame: Paul embraces positions that are at odds with
    most in the GOP, including an anti-interventionist foreign policy, reduced military
    spending, criminal drug sentencing reform for African-Americans and strict limits on government electronic surveillance
    – including a clampdown on the National Security Agency.

    Achilles heel: Paul’s politics are aligned with those of his father, whom mainstream GOPers saw as kooky.
    Both Pauls have advocated for a brand of libertarianism that forces government to
    stop domestic surveillance programs and limits foreign military interventions.

    Rick Santorum     Former Penn. senator

    Age on Election Day: 58

    Religion: Catholic

    Base: Evangelicals 

    Résumé: Former US senator and former member of the
    House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Former lobbyist who represented World
    Wrestling Entertainment.

    Education: B.A. Penn State University. M.B.A. University of Pittsburgh.
    J.D. Penn State University Dickinson School of Law.

    Family: Married to Karen Santorum (1990), with seven living children. One baby was stillborn in 1996.
    Another, named Isabella, is a special needs child with a genetic disorder.

    Claim to fame: Santorum won the 2012 Republican Iowa Caucuses by a nose.
    He won by visiting all of Iowa’s 99 states in a pickup truck belonging to his state campaign director, a consultant
    who now worls for Donald Trump.

    Achilles heel: As a young lobbyist, Santorum persuaded the federal
    government to exempt pro wrestling from regulations governing the use
    of anabolic steroids. And the stridently conservative politician has attracted strong opposition from
    gay rights groups. One gay columnist held a contest
    to redefine his name, buying the ‘santorum.com’ domain to advertise the winning entry – which is too vulgar to print.

     

    REPUBLICAN DROPOUTS

    Rick Perry, former Texas governor

         (withdrew Sept. 11, 2015)

    Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor

         (withdrew Sept. 21, 2015)

     

     

     

    DEMOCRATS IN THE RACE 

     

    Lincoln Chafee  Former Rhode Island governor

    Age on Election Day: 63

    Religion:  Episcopalian            
                          Base: Centrists

    Résumé: Former Rhode Island governor. Former U.S. senator.
    Former city councilman and mayor of Warwick, RI.

    Education: B.A. Brown University. Graduate, Montana State
    University horseshoeing school.

    Family: Married to Stephanie Chafee (1990) with three children. Like him, his father John Chafee
    was a Rhode Island governor and US senator, but also served as Secretary
    of the Navy. Lincoln was appointed to his Senate seat when his father died in office.

    Claim to fame: While Chafee was a Republican senator during the George W.
    Bush administration, he cast his party’s only vote in 2002 against a resolution that authorized military action in Iraq.
    Hillary Clinton, also a senator then, voted in favor – giving him a point of comparison that
    he hopes to ride to victory.

    Achilles heel: Chafee’s lack of any significant party loyalty has turned allies into foes throughout his political career, and Democrats aren’t
    sure he’s entirely with them now. He was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 2000 but left the party and
    declared himself a political independent after losing a re-election bid in 2006.
    As an independent, he was elected governor in 2010. Now he’s running for president as a Democrat.

     

    Martin O’Malley    Former Maryland governor

    Age on Election Day: 53

    Religion: Catholic

    Base: Centrists 

    Résumé:Former Maryland governor. Former city councilor and mayor of Baltimore, MD.

    Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

    Education: B.A. Catholic University of America.
    J.D. University of Maryland.

    Family: Married to Katie Curran (1990) and they have four children. Curran is a district court judge in Baltimore.

    Her father is Maryland’s attorney general. O’Malley’s mother is a receptionists in the Capitol
    Hill office of Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski.

    Claim to fame: O’Malley pushed for laws in Maryland legalizing same-sex marriage and
    giving illegal immigrants the right to pay reduced tuition rates at public universities.
    But he’s best known for playing guitar and sung in a celtic band cammed ‘O’Malley’s March.’

    Achilles heel: O’Malley may struggle in the Democratic primary since he endorsed Hillary Clinton eight years ago.
    If he prevails, he will have to run far enough to
    her left to be an easy target for the GOP. He showed political weakness when his hand-picked successor lost the
    2014 governor’s race to a Republican. But most troubling is
    his link with Baltimore, whose 2016 race riots have made it a nuclear subject for politicians of all stripes.

    Jim Webb      Former Virginia senator

    Age on Election Day: 70

    Religion: Christian (nondenominational)            
                    Base: War hawks and economic centrists

    Résumé:Former U.S. senator from Virginia. Former U.S. Secretary of
    the Navy under Ronamd Reagan. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.

    Education: B.A. US Naval Academy (transferred from the University of Southern California).
    J.D. Georgetown University.

    Family: Married to Hong Le Webb (2005). Divorced from Jo Ann Krukar (1981-2004).

    Divorced from Barbara Samorajczyk (1968-1979). 

    Claim to fame: Webb is the rare Democrat who
    can bring both robust defense credentials and
    a history of genuine bipartisanship to the
    race. He served in Republican president Ronald Reagan’s defense directorate
    as Navy secretary, and earned both the Navy Star and the Purple Heart in combat.
    Webb is also seen as a quiet scholar who has written more than a half-dozen historical novels and a critically acclaimed history of Scots-Irish U.S.
    immigrants.

    Achilles heel: Webb has a reputation as a bit of a quitter.
    He resigned his Navy secretary post over a budget-cut dispute
    just 10 months after taking the job, and he declined to run for re-election to the U.S.

    Senate in 2006. He also attracted bad press for defending the use of
    the Confederate flag as a heritage symbol for American southerners.

    Amid a nationwide clamor to remove the flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds,
    he wrote that Americans should ‘respect the complicated history of the Civil War.
    … Honorable Americans fought on both sides.’

    Hillary Clinton Former sec. of state

    Age on Election Day: 69

    Religion: United Methodist 

    Base: Liberals 

    Résumé:Former secretary of state. Former U.S.
    senator from New York. Former U.S. first lady. Former Arkansas first lady.

    Former law school faculty, University of Arkansas Fayetteville.

    Education: B.A. Wellesley College. J.D. Yale Law School.

    Family: Married to Bill Clinton (1975), the 42nd President of the United States.
    Their daughter Chelsea is married to investment banker
    Marc Mezvinsky, whose mother was a 1990s one-term Pennsylvania congresswoman.

    Claim to fame: Clinton was the first US first lady with a postgraduate degree and
    presaged Obamacare with a failed attempt at health care reform in the 1990s.

    Achilles heel: A long series of financial and ethical scandals has dogged
    Clinton, including recent allegations that her husband and their family foundation benefited financially from decisions she made
    as secretary of state. Her performance surrounding the
    2012 terror attack on a State Department facility in Benghazi, Libya, has been catnip for conservative Republicans.

    And her presidential campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to
    engage journalists, instead meeting with hand-picked groups of voters.

     

    Bernie Sanders*  Vermont senator

    Age on Election Day: 75

    Religion: Jewish

    Base: Far-left progressives

    Résumé:U.S. senator. Former U.S. congressman.
    Former mayor of Burlington, VT.

    Education: B.A. University of Chicago.

    Family: Married to Jane O’Meara Sanders (1988), a former
    president of Burlington College. He has one child from a previous relationship and is stepfather to three from Mrs.
    Sanders’ previous marriage. His brother
    Larry is a Green Party politician in the UK and formerly served on the Oxfordshire County Council.

    Claim to fame: Sanders is an unusually blunt, and unapologetic pol, happily promoting progressivism without
    hedging. He is also the longest-serving ‘independent’ member of Congress – neither
    Democrat nor Republican.

    Achilles heel: Sanders describes himself as a ‘democratic
    socialist.’ At a time of huge GOP electoral gains, his far-left ideas
    don’t poll well. He favors open borders, single-payer
    universal health insurance, and greater government control over
    media ownership.

    * Sanders is running as a Democrat but has no party affiliation in the Senate.

    DEMOCRATS IN THE HUNT 

    Joe Biden, U.S. vice president

    Biden would be a natural candidate as the White House’s sitting second-banana, but his reputation as a one-man gaffe factory
    could keep Democrats from taking him seriously.

    Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts senator

    Warren is a populist liberal who could give Hillary Clinton headaches by challenging her
    from the left, but she has said she has no plans to run and is happy in the U.S.

    Senate.

    US Election 2016

  3. Aston Villa are in talks with Borussia Dortmund over a move for Netherlands striker Donyell Malen. 

    Negotiations between the two clubs continue after Villa’s opening £15million plus bonuses offer fell short of the £25m fee the Bundesliga
    outfit are looking to receive. 

    This week, Mail Sport revealed that Unai Emery’s side had rekindled their interest in 25-year-old. 

    Malen can play across the front line, predominantly on the right wing, and would give Villa extra pace plus depth
    and quality for Emery in attacking positions.

    The Netherlands international has 18 months remaining on his
    contract at the Westfalenstadion. 

    Malen also has a strong rapport with Villa left-back Ian Maatsen, the two having played together at Dortmund and through the national team set-up.

    Aston Villa are in talks with Borussia Dortmund
    to sign Netherlands forward Donyell Malen

    The 25-year-old made four appearances at Euro 2024 and found the
    net twice against Romania in the last-16

    The addition of Malen would give Unai Emery extra depth and quality in attacking positions

    Malen started out in Ajax’s academy before joining Arsenal where he graduated through the youth team into the first-team reckoning and figured in their pre-season tour to Australia in 2017 but was then sold that August to PSV Eindhoven.

    He excelled in the Netherlands, scoring 40 league goals in just over 80 appearances before being snapped up by
    Dortmund.

    Malen has scored five goals this season including one in Dortmund’s 3-1 Bundesliga victory over Wolfsburg last weekend.

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