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It is unfortunate the people of Turkey have their own version of Donald Trump, and his name is Recep Erdogan. Last week an alleged, "coup" by some Army officers and men, attempted a bungled effort to overthrow the strongman who wants to make Turkey Great Again.
I frankly do not know what it will take to make Trump supporters realize their "hero" is among the most stupid and ignorant people to run for the presidency. Let me just present Donald speaking.
Mitt Romney, flanked by Donald Trump, speaks at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney. In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump blames Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to Barack Obama on Romney's decision to release his tax returns.
It's felt positively tropical here in Massachusetts this week, so these pics seem especially timely. From loyal commentor Schroedinger's Cat : Finally, I have the garden photos from my India trip that I had promised to send you a couple of months ago.
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Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's nominee for president, has made no secret of his desire to be on stage with Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential debates . " Our America Initiative ," an arm of the Libertarian Party, filed a lawsuit last September against the Commission on Presidential Debates, challenging its "15 percent threshold."
Most electoral map projections have Missouri as a Republican state in November, but it is a toss up in a current poll. Hillary Clinton has 41 percent, Donald Trump 40 percent and Libertarian Gary Johnson 9 percent, according to a Mason-Dixon survey of 625 likely voters conducted last weekend.
For some people, the attack on police officers by a gunman in Dallas this summer brought to mind another attack by a sniper in Austin 50 years ago - on Aug. 1, 1966. That's when student Charles Whitman stuck his rifle over the edge of the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin and started shooting.
Lucia, the teenage protagonist of Jesse Ball's new novel How to Set a Fire and Why , is, like so many of us were around that age, alienated, lonely, and interested in destroying massive amounts of property. She attains that interest by finding out that her new school has an arson club.
Donald Trump said Wednesday that, if he is elected president, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting the sanctions against Russia. At a wide-ranging news conference, Trump said he "would be looking into that" when asked about his stance on Crimea and Russia.
Marijuana legalization has moved from the political fringe to the national mainstream at breakneck speed, minting a whole new class of legal weed millionaires as states to break away from federal prohibition of cannabis. But as the repression and violence of drug war black markets give way to a legitimate economic boom, some states are still trying to work out who exactly may reap the financial opportunities.
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In a rare moment of levity, Jake Tapper recalls DrA1 4mpenfA1 4hrer's summary of his RNC performance as 'It was the Trump of times, it was the Trump of times,' a subtle dig at the narcissism we've grown so accustomed to, during this campaign. On Zakaria's GPS , also on CNN, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens said that the address made him feel like he was watching a Monty Python sketch of the Nuremberg Rally.
This isn't a knock on Kaine, and by accounts he actually does actually speak decent Spanis unlike most of the politicians our press rapturously hails as being bilingual . Still it's ridiculous when having a facility with a second language is seen as some sort of superpower, especially one which is so amazing that bilingual immigrants and their children and grandchildren will be really really impressed.
"He sounded like some two-bit dictator ..." - Sen. Elizabeth Warren Friday morning I read through a Trump acceptance speech Facebook thread by Bernie Sanders supporters. Friends.
Olof Palme had just won his fourth term as Prime Minister when we spoke in Stockholm in the fall of 1985. Like Denmark's Anker Joergensen, this stalwart social democrat opposed the "cold, egoistic new liberalism".
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist who was trying to help an autistic patient who had wandered away from a group home, did everything right when confronted by cops with guns drawn. He got shot anyway: Luckily, Mr. Kinsey is expected to make a full recovery.
Humans have reduced biodiversity - the teeming variety of plant and animal life that competes and co-operates in every ecosystem - to below safe levels across more than 58% of the planet's land surface . This is ultimately bad news for human food security because biological diversity underwrites what naturalists call the resilient ecosystem services on which humans and all higher animals depend - crop pollination and pest control, nutrient decomposition and recycling, water and air purification - and because that 58% of the terrestrial planet is home to 71% of all humans, That humans are reducing biodiversity - and at a cost to the disturbed ecosystems - is not news.