In other news, Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin says one of his first actions in office will be to appease anti-gay county clerk Kim Davis by removing clerk names from marriage licenses. Priorities!
Meanwhile, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wants to block funding for accepting Syrian refugees until the Obama administration proves they aren't secret ISIS terrorists.
Many Syrian refugees have already been accepted into the US. They aren't terrorists.
Finally, Ben Carson is no historian. Carson said the Founding Fathers of the United States had no elected experience. That obviously isn't true, but Carson's campaign clarified that he meant they didn't hold "federal" office.
[Carson] added “Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience.”
“That’s just patently false,” said Benjamin L. Carp, an associate professor of history at Brooklyn College and author of books on the American Revolution.
Mr. Carp said Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, John Hancock and many other signers had been elected members of their colonial assemblies, prior to signing the Declaration. [...]
A spokesman for the Carson campaign, after being contacted about the error, said Mr. Carson had changed his post to say that the signers had no “federal” elected office experience.
Of course they had no "federal" experience. Federal office, as it were, didn't fucking exist prior to the founding of the United States. Derp.