Read and marvel at this guy. I don't know what he would advocate and vote for. But I sure do like him. That segment on SNL last night was very cool. It's embedded here. As a citizen I disagree with a number of the politicians' decisions over the years about what wars they have gotten our country into. But that in no way stops me from saying, to this admirable fellow, and to all other veterans today: never forget.
Thank you, Leon Jaworski and thank you, plaintiffs, for your successful efforts to win release of this document yesterday.
I realize opinion on whether it would be advisable to seek impeachment of this president, should the Democrats win at least the House, is split. I am not of one mind on this matter myself, at this point.
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s public prosecutor said Wednesday that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered upon arrival at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month as part of a premeditated plan to kill the prominent journalist and dispose of his body.
The statement, delivered as Saudi Arabia’s prosecutor left Istanbul for Riyadh, marked the most conclusive official description to date of what happened to the prominent journalist and Washington Post contributing columnist when he entered the diplomatic mission on Oct. 2.
Plenty of questions lingered after the Oct. 6 confirmation of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. A new one surfaced last week: What was NBC thinking?
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A day after a gunman shot and killed two people at a Jeffersontown Kroger, those close to the victims expressed why they’d miss them so much.
Maurice Stallard, 69, was shot inside the store while shopping with his grandson for a school project.
Vickie Jones, 67, was shot to death minutes later in the parking lot.
“She wouldn’t hurt a fly,” Kevin Gunn, Jones' nephew, said. “She was a solid-to-earth Christian woman. Very kind and loving to her family.”
Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute and co-author with Thomas Mann of It's Even Worse Than It Looks, WaPo yesterday.
So maybe there is, I don't know, a 1.3% chance that something like this (or other disruptive scenarios that he likely thought it wise not to mention) could happen beginning in 10 days, instead of something a good deal less than that.
posted by Tim Hains, at RealClear Politics, earlier today.
Fiery and powerful speech at a campaign rally in Milwaukee last night, with humor mixed in. About 18 minutes of footage, plus transcript in the article.
As the conversation turns to the central theme of his book, Volcker suddenly sits up in his heavily padded chair by his favorite window in his Manhattan apartment and points at me to make sure I write this down.
“We have a serious problem in this country,” says Volcker, who is fighting cancer. “Here I am trying to defend government in the midst of a world that doesn’t respect it.”
Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a whispering campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalist’s alleged murder by operatives of Saudi Arabia — and support Trump’s continued aversion to a forceful response to the oil-rich desert kingdom.
Georgia Sec. of State overseeing his gubernatorial campaign's vote suppression efforts starts at 3:15 in.
Texas story starts at 5:31.
Rachel um, noting, Sen. Democrats approving 15 judgeships in exchange for...going on recess so both sides can campaign, at 1:22 in. Boy, Dems really know how to play hardball.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) raised the ire of protesters Thursday after telling a group of mostly women who confronted him in one of the Senate buildings that he would talk to them when they “grow up.”
Video of the incident ricocheted around social media Thursday night, the latest in a string of confrontations reflecting the heated emotions coursing through the Capitol amid the fight over Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
