Month: August 2022

Local minor league pitchers are part of the no-hitter combination last month Few who faced Braden Shipley or Larson Kindreich during their prep baseball days here in Southern Oregon would be surprised to find that opponents have trouble getting a hit with the pitching phenoms. Within about a month of each other, however, the duo has been able to claim their professional prominence after each had a role in the no-hitter combination for their minor league affiliates. Kindreich, a 2018 graduate of Crater High, got the ball rolling on July 9 when his outstanding start set the stage for the…

The Department of Justice is investigating Former President Donald Trump for potentially violating the Espionage Act, according to a search warrant that the FBI used to seize materials, including classified documents, from his Mar-a-Lago residence. The most notorious spies were prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917, including Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, who are serving life sentences in prison for spying for the Soviet and Russian intelligence services while working for the ‘FBI and the CIA, respectively. But while Hanssen and Ames were charged under Section 794, gathering or delivering defense information to assist a foreign government, Trump is…

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s storied tradition is back for another year, and Iowa’s big gathering became a magnet for political activity on Saturday. Several Iowa politicians, including Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Joni Ernst, toured the fairgrounds on the third day of the Iowa State Fair. Reynolds and Ernst spent the morning grilling pork chops in the Iowa Pork Tent and talking to constituents about the issues that bother them. “It’s all about inflation, inflation, inflation,” Ernst said. “We have a lot of happy people here at the fair, enjoying life a lot, but I know when they go…

After his nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016, Merrick Garland, according to the New York Times, assured senators that he doesn’t have “a political bone” in his body. This seems to be true, unfortunately. His current job as attorney general inevitably involves making judgments that are inherently political. It involves the exercise of discretion about when to exercise government power and for what purposes. Moreover, the best quality of politics at its best is prudence: fitting orderly principles to messy realities. This requires making judgments that balance competing goals. When it comes to this week’s events in Palm Beach,…

TALLAHASSEE – The Seminole Tribe of Florida, which last year reached a gambling settlement with Gov. Ron DeSantis, contributed $1 million to its political committee on Aug. 1, according to a recent financial report presented The tribe’s contribution was part of the nearly $2.225 million the Friends of Ron DeSantis committee received from July 30 to Aug. 5, the period covered by the report. The committee also spent nearly the same amount of money during the period and had about $124.9 million in cash on hand as of Aug. 5. DeSantis and the tribe negotiated an agreement last year that…

Despite that threat, a day later, when the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News published the warrant underlying the Mar-a-Lago search, it did not redact the names of the FBI agents in the document. Almost immediately afterward, posts on a pro-Trump chat board referred to them as “traitors.” According to the FBI, there are now about 2,700 domestic terrorism investigations open, a number that has doubled since spring 2020, and that does not include smaller but still serious incidents that do not rise to the level of a federal investigation. Last year, threats against members of Congress hit a record high…