Happy Monday. Today is February 29, a leap day that occurs once every four years, and if you get married today, your spouse will know you're incredibly cheap.

ON SUNDAY, DONALD TRUMP SHOWED UNUSUAL COMPASSION to a small group often ostracized from the political arena.

GIVEN THREE OPPORTUNITIES TO RENOUNCE the support of David Duke and other white nationalists who back the GOP frontrunner Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, Trump played dumb – unconvincingly.

HE SAID HE'D HAVE TO DO MORE “RESEARCH” on the former Ku Klux Klan leader and the other groups before rejecting them. For most politicians that research would involve asking yourself, “Does it involve the words KKK, David Duke or White Supremacists?”

SUPER TUESDAY ISN'T JUST THE BIGGEST DAY of the presidential primary; it’s the day that usually ends the presidential primaries right as they’re about to start getting interesting. And by “interesting,” this year, we mean “extra, super duper racist.”

TOMORROW, ON MARCH 1, 13 STATES – six of them in the South – will go to the polls and, like the groundhog, will decide if we get a few more weeks of abject misery.

HILLARY CLINTON LEADS BERNIE SANDERS 55 percent to 38 percent nationally, following a win in South Carolina so decisive they could have stopped counting ballots about twenty minutes into polling.

MEANWHILE, A NEW CNN POLL shows Trump with 49 percent of Republicans backing him, the highest support he’s ever shown in a national poll that wasn’t asking, “Which American looks most like a rotting peach?”

AT SUNDAY NIGHT'S OSCARS CEREMONY, host Chris Rock bailed the Motion Picture Academy out of its two-year-long boycott of black actors by placing Hollywood’s current-day racism in an oddly forgiving historical context.

“IS IT ‘BURNING CROSS RACIST’? No. Is it ‘fetch me some lemonade racist’? No. It’s a different type of racist,” the host of the 88th annual Oscars said. “Hollywood is ‘sorority racist.’ It’s like, we like you Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.”

HISTORIANS AGREE THAT MAKES IT LESS RACIST than the GOP primary, which is bordering on “University of Oklahoma SAE racist,” yet more racist than the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin, since a black man actually won an award there.

MEANWHILE, SPOTLIGHT, THE STORY OF A YEARS-LONG INVESTIGATION into the conspiracy to cover up an epidemic of child abuse committed by priests in Boston’s Catholic church over decades, won Best Picture for its stirring reverence for the nobility of local journalism and inspired decision to mostly avoid depicting Boston accents.

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NO, THE TRANSCRIPTS OF HILLARY CLINTON'S SPEECHS TO GOLDMAN SACHS have not leaked. Because Goldman Sachs has better security than Clinton's emails.

BAD SIGN—38 percent of Florida voters think Ted Cruz could be the Zodiac Killer, which makes him more likely to be the Zodiac Killer than the 2016 GOP nominee for president.

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