There’s no family that can run the “family values” trope right off the rails quite like a prominent Christian conservative one. This week, both Radar and TMZ are reporting that Bristol Palin’s former fiancé Dakota Meyer is going after her for child support. And Meyer’s almost mother-in-law, is responding in the only logical way a new grandma would — by issuing a statement to “Entertainment Tonight.”
Signaling that he’s not prepared to concede the language of “family values” to sanctimonious social conservative scolds, Bernie Sanders on Thursday unveiled his own “family values agenda,” centered on a series of proposals to guarantee paid family and medical leave. Noting that the United States lags other wealthy, industrialized nations in paid leave policies — indeed, the country ranks last on family policies — the Vermont senator and 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful called for the U.S. to catch up with the rest of the world.
According to a report published Tuesday by the New York Times, Marco Rubio is terrible with money. The Florida Republican appears to have struggled to manage his finances during times of famine — straining under the weight of student loans and a mortgage — and times of feast — an $800,000 book deal that he used, in part, to buy a lavish boat. His inability to keep track of the comings and goings of his money also led him to use the credit card provided to him by the Republican Party of Florida to do things like pave his house and cover travel expenses to a family reunion.
