It's really mind boggling to think that if Hillary Clinton's name was attached to any of these things she'd have been drawn and quartered long ago. The Bondi scheme alone .... suppose the Clinton Foundation had "mistakenly" made a $25,000 campaign contribution to an AG whose office was looking into allegations of fraud against her, only to have it go away when the check arrived. Do you further suppose the media would give her a pass if she said, "Oops!", reimbursed the foundation and paid a small fine to the IRS?
Once upon a time, I lost a post and blogged about it. This is not that. I spent hours writing about Trump and Clinton, including everything anyone would possibly want to say but simply couldn't in so eloquently a fashion, only to have it wiped away in one painful swoop.
“Terrorism is a real threat,” Biden said, “but it’s not an existential threat to the existence of the democratic country of the United States of America. Terrorism can cause real problems. It can undermine confidence. It can kill relatively large numbers of people. But terrorism is not an existential threat.” If Biden were running for the presidency, this piece of the Biden Doctrine—what he calls “proportionality”—would no doubt be red meat for many who place terrorism at the heart of America’s challenges today.
“Sexism is more socially acceptable than racism,” said Jennifer Lawless, of American University. Multiple women, in fact, brought up a couple of examples from Hillary’s 2008 campaign. One was the low-grade sexism of some in the mainstream media.
Turns out Trump may not be the psychopathic liar we all (mostly) think he is. I know! SAD! According to a secret investigative report by the New York Magazine, Obama and Hillary did INDEED found ISIS. We can, of course, expect the journalists involved in the article to turn up missing in the coming days ...
Read this AMAZING work by previously sad losers from a failing rag while you still can!!
With its own version of a powerful troika of cross-state networks combining policy research, legislative orchestration, and public advocacy across dozens of states, the American left would become much more able to elect and support progressive politicians at all levels of government. As the US right well understands, that sort of combined clout across the states is what it takes to move the needle in American politics and public policy. As liberals continue to relearn through hard experience, capturing the presidency and operating in Washington, DC — is simply not enough.
The problem inherent in generational politics is that young people grow up. This is what makes winning their votes so difficult, and so unlike appealing to other demographics. There is little time to build networks, develop ideologies, or select leaders. With so much turnover, once a young generation gets organized politically, it’s not young anymore.
“We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was,” Chief David Brown said in a press conference Friday morning. “Other options would have exposed our officers to grave danger. The suspect is deceased … He’s been deceased because of a detonation of the bomb.”
The case, Utah v. Strieff, No. 14-1373, arose from police surveillance of a house in South Salt Lake based on an anonymous tip of “narcotics activity” there. A police officer, Douglas Fackrell, stopped Edward Strieff after he had left the house based on what the state later conceded were insufficient grounds, making the stop unlawful.
“We originally created the House Un-American Activities Committee to go after Nazis. We passed several laws in 1938 and 1939 to go after Nazis and we made it illegal to help the Nazis. We're going to presently have to go take the similar steps here."
We are going to have to take similar steps.
Similar steps as the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Adapted from the original, which was published in 1989 in the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine. Footnotes from the author (as told to Tommy Craggs) are included throughout the story, and a postscript from Glenn Stout, editor of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing series, follows.
And this year, Warren could be rising in power just as a leadership vacuum is opening among Senate Democrats—and particularly those progressive populists. Reid is retiring, and his expected successor, Chuck Schumer of New York, is considered suspect due to his friendly relationship with Wall Street. Also retiring are two of the leading women of the Democratic Caucus: Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Barbara Boxer of California. Warren’s only real rival in terms of national following would be Sanders, whose historic presidential run has built a loyal following outside of Washington.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm uncomfortable with a candidate who writes off an entire portion of our country. He's fundraising like a monster but couldn't bother to even campaign in the heavily black southern states? That's not just a lack of outreach and respect it's a deliberate snub.
I've lived in the South all of my life. I'm not black but ... no, there's no but. I'm not black. But trust me - those of us who have lived our lives among and amidst the depth of any southern community know that family lands hard. It fucks you up, it turns the world on a dime and never - EVER - means letting go. Full stop.
Donald J. Trump will be the Republican nominee. Let's stop pretending otherwise and wasting time when there's so much at stake.
So who do we want to put up against him? Let's be honest; no one agrees and likely won't until they're told they're wrong long enough to give in unless they convince the other side that they're totally wrong. Sounds like a caucus. Sounds like politics.
If only black people knew more, understood better, where the candidates stood —now and over their lifetimes —they would make a better choice, the right choice. The level of condescension in these comments is staggering.
