Why Politicians Can’t Resist Posing in Vogue | Liz Truss
Liz Truss, tipped to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, would like to get into Vogue. We know this because he asked Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon how to do it at the Cop26 climate conference last November. Sturgeon said Truss “looked a bit like he’d been swallowed by a wasp” when he told her he’d done his pages twice. “That’s going to feel great, but I don’t want to… I had just been interviewed by Vogue, like you… that’s the most important thing he wanted to talk to me about: I wanted to know. how could he…
Read More »Garland has a political duty to explain the circus perpetrated at Mar-a-Lago | Columns
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,…
Read More »Seminole Tribe sends $1 million to Governor DeSantis’ political committee
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…
Read More »As right-wing rhetoric increases, so do threats and violence
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…
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Political Notes: Montgomery certified election results show 35-vote victory for Elrich, uncertainty remains in Frederick council race
Montgomery County election officials review paperwork during a provisional ballot Saturday. Montgomery County Board of Elections photo. The Montgomery County Board of Elections on Saturday certified the results of the July 19 primary election, with County Executive Marc Elrich leading the Democratic primary for that office by 35 votes over challenger David Blair. Blair, who narrowly lost the party’s nomination to Elrich four years ago by 77 votes, has indicated he will seek a recount in the close contest. Your campaign has 72 hours from certification of election to make a formal application. Saturday’s certification came after county election officials…
Read More »Letters, August 12 – Medford News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News
Congratulations to the Logos team Please join me in congratulating the Logos Public Charter School Rogue Pack, coached by Chris VanNess, for winning the regional and then state environmental science competition called the Envirothon. The four-time state champion team represented Oregon at the national competition in July in Ohio, earning 27th place nationally in a tough competition. Webletters Graphic.jpg This is North America’s largest Envirothon, where each year more than 25,000 high school students compete with their innovative solutions to balance quality of life and quality of the environment. They competed in soil, forestry, wildlife and a topical issue (the…
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Mirage Thompson Ranch Elementary closed; the police make everything clear
Thompson Ranch Elementary School in El Mirage was placed on lockdown for about an hour Friday morning after someone saw a man with a gun near the school grounds, the El Mirage Police Department said The Mirage. The suspect is now in custody, according to Renee Ryon, spokeswoman for the Dysart Unified School District. Police said they received a call from school staff around 10:30 a.m. about an armed man trying to enter the school. According to police, initial witness reports said the man entered the school’s administration building, but police determined the claims were “unsubstantiated.” “This morning at Thompson…
Read More »Police: Officers in Texas shoot and kill man with rifle
Authorities say police in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, fatally shot a man who pointed a rifle at them. RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — Police in suburban Fort Worth fatally shot a man who pointed a rifle at them, authorities said. Friday’s shooting in Richland Hills happened as two officers were investigating reports of shots fired along a city street. They found a man carrying a rifle about two blocks away, according to Richland Hills Officer Sheena McEachran. “The suspect raised and pointed what has been identified as a semi-automatic rifle at the officers,” McEachran said. “Officers fired at the suspect,” who…
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