It’s Political: Donald Trump won the Nevada caucuses by an overwhelming 45.9 percent and Marco Rubio crept into second place with 23.9 percent. It’s Trump’s third straight win and crowing about it from the podium he said, “We won with highly educated, we won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

Twister: A violent weather warning continues across the South today after tornadoes ripped across Mississippi to Florida. At least three people were killed as 18 tornadoes touched down. About a half dozen people are reported to be missing.

Advice and Dissent: Senate Republicans are stiffening their resolve to deny a hearing to a Supreme Court nominee and to back it up they cite the words of an unexpected source: Vice President Joe Biden. Back in 1992 when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden spoke about a theoretical nomination coming up in an election year. “It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over,” Biden said on the Senate floor.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, addressing the president’s intentions, said, “He has every right to nominate someone. Even if doing so will inevitably plunge our nation into another bitter and avoidable struggle, that is his right.” But the Republicans say they have no intention of considering it.

Gitmo: President Obama sent Congress a plan for closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in an effort to fulfill one of his original campaign promises. Republicans are likely to dismiss it.

The president said, “Keeping this facility open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.”

Less than 100 prisoners are left at Gitmo. The political flaw in Obama’s plan is that he would transfer about half of them to a facility in the US. Congressional Republicans have repeatedly said they won’t allow foreign terrorists to be housed in the States.

Permawar: The Syrian government and one of the major opposition groups have agreed to a ceasefire, according to a joint statement released by the US and Russia. But the agreement does not include the Islamic State and the al-Nusra front, two of the more powerful warring parties in Syria’s civil war. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says even during the “cessation of hostilities” he reserves the right to strike “terrorist groups.”

TrumpNews: Not that you’d be surprised, but a study out of the University of Pennsylvania says Donald Trump has dominated news coverage among Republican candidates. He hit his peak at over 90 percent in August and is just over 40 percent now.

Liar, Liar: While Trump continuously pounds his opponent Ted Cruz as an abject liar, The NY Times’ Frank Bruni has chimed in to say that Cruz is not the Godly man he claims to be. “The Texas senator is some piece of double-talking, disingenuous work,” Bruni writes. “While the so-called dirty tricks that he and his lieutenants have been charged with aren’t all that shocking by the standards of bruising presidential campaigns, they really do stand out in the context of Cruz’s flamboyant claims of rectitude and righteousness.” Bruni says Cruz “directs you to his halo as he surreptitiously grabs a pitchfork.”

Trump just wields the pitchfork.

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