The Orange Moron: "I went to an Ivy League college… I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person." Alas, I don't have an Ivy League education – I went to Tufts – so I suppose I'm not quite at the intellectual level of this brilliant kleptocratic fascist. So, Ivy Leaguers, you special geniuses, what do you make of this? He's one of your own, after all, a proud member of your elite academic class. Congrats.

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Round-up by Michael J.W. Stickings of The Reaction. (Twitter: @mjwstickings.) I'll be here all week.

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