Nerdist 774: Quentin Tarantino

December 18, 2015

Quentin Tarantino (director, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) chats with Chris and Matt about going to Comic-Con back in the day, what movies inspired him as a kid, and how he turns everything he reads and sees into a movie in his head. He also talks about his process while directing and writing, things that almost made it into his movies, and what to expect with The Hateful Eight!
 
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Dadawan: The Force Awakens

Welcome to episode five of Dadawan, a podcast covering the Star Wars universe from a GeekDad perspective. It’s here! After months of speculation, we finally have the answers. This week, our full review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens!


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FULL: 3rd Democratic Presidential Debate (ABC news Debate) Sanders, Clinton, O'Malley 12/19/ 2015 HD

Streamed live on Dec 20, 2015

Saturday night, ABC News will host the third Democratic Party debate for the 2016 primary season. Establishment frontrunner Hillary Clinton will be challenged by former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The event will be held on the campus of St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire, just weeks before the official state primary on February 9.

ABC News’ David Muir and Martha Raddatz will be the moderators for the event, which is cosponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader.

The event begins on ABC Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET, and viewers can also tune in at ABCNews.com. Additionally, the ABC News app and other mobile platforms will carry the New Hampshire debate as well.

#DemDebate will focus on national security and foreign policy in wake of #ParisAttacks: https://t.co/A2NsjRPnCB pic.twitter.com/UCQhuJizPx


This is the third debate for the Democrats and the timing could not be any more dramatic for the candidates on the left. On Friday, the Sanders campaign formerly sued the Democratic National Committee after they restricted access to important voter data for the Senator’s camp. The move came after a young Sanders staffer was caught breaching a database of Clinton campaign information. While the DNC imposed restrictions on Sanders, the self-described Democratic-Socialist’s campaign alleges that the Committee and its Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz are simply favoring conditions for a Clinton surge.

Find out how to watch the debate live online here, and check back for Mediaite coverage throughout tomorrow night’s events.

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12/15/2015 CNN Republican Presidential Debate for 2016

Published on Dec 15, 2015

with Closed Captioning

GOP Primary Debate for the Nomination

CNN-Facebook

December 15, 2015
Las Vegas, NV

Who will be the nominee to face against the infamous Hillary Clinton?

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IQ2US: The Equal Protection Clause Forbids Racial Preferences in State University Admissions

Thursday, December 3, 2015

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that: "No State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Yet many state universities give substantial preferences to certain races in their admissions decisions. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court approved such preferences, but the case was close, and controversial, and the question will be back before the Supreme Court this term. One side may argue that these preferences level the playing field, remedy prior discrimination, and enhance diversity within the classroom, thus redeeming the true promise of equal protection. But the other may say that these preferences – in favor of some races, at the expense of others – are racial discrimination pure and simple, the precise evil that the Equal Protection Clause was intended to forbid.

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