I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
Former President Trump on Sunday accused Fox News of pushing a Democratic agenda while offering to help rival network CNN become a “gold mine” by going conservative.
“Wow! Fox News is really pushing the Democrats and the Democrat agenda,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Gets worse every single day. So many Dems interviewed with only softball questions, then Republican counterparts get creamed.”
For a long time, you've heard me say that I don't comprehend the turn Christian Evangelics have taken recently in their embrace of Trump et al when I feel the opposite should be happening.
I think that evangelicals set their feet on that path back when Falwell and his Moral Majority decided to go political and hooked up with the Republican Party. After 40 years of preaching the culture war, it wasn’t much of a stretch to start dancing around trump’s golden calf.
There has been a time or two when a Fox News host has actually questioned whether or not Trump was doing anything shady with those documents.
I think now his agenda is to turn his supporters against Fox News and continue the idea that the "media is the enemy of the people" and thus get their information and truth from him alone. A dangerous path in my opinion.
It will be interesting to see if she tries to combat inflation with tax cuts and cutting government programs. That is sort of the mantra of her party, right? At least the support of Ukraine should remain strong.
I think that evangelicals set their feet on that path back when Falwell and his Moral Majority decided to go political and hooked up with the Republican Party. After 40 years of preaching the culture war, it wasn’t much of a stretch to start dancing around trump’s golden calf.
I can agree.
As a gay man that came out at age 17 and now 63 I lived through those years as well as the Anita Bryant years. I think that the anti-homosexual and anti-abortion agenda were among the primary drivers of evangelical politics.
When they say "Make America Great Again" I know what they mean. Sadly decades of progress in equality and abortion rights seem to be eroding.
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Just now, Tweety said:
There has been a time or two when a Fox News host has actually questioned whether or not Trump was doing anything shady with those documents.
I think now his agenda is to turn his supporters against Fox News and continue the idea that the "media is the enemy of the people" and thus get their information and truth from him alone. A dangerous path in my opinion.
That's been a successful strategy for Trump and had worked almost flawlessly as he shuns rules, precedent and laws to his benefit.
Just now, Tweety said:
I can agree.
As a gay man that came out at age 17 and now 63 I lived through those years as well as the Anita Bryant years. I think that the anti-homosexual and anti-abortion agenda were among the primary drivers of evangelical politics.
When they say "Make America Great Again" I know what they mean.
Indeed. After Roe it's easy to imagine what act 2 of this screenplay includes...Thomas previewed the rough draft.
It will be interesting to see if she tries to combat inflation with tax cuts and cutting government programs. That is sort of the mantra of her party, right? At least the support of Ukraine should remain strong.
She seems to have flip flopped many times on issues.
Tax cuts don't really help inflation. In theory with more money circulating and more spending it could increase inflation. But what it also might do is keep spending and demand at it's same level as people spend the money on the higher priced goods. But to think prices will go down is naive.
It's interesting that while the DOJ continues following even unwritten rules, Trump is unbound by rules or laws written or not.
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Under what is known as the 60-day rule, the department has traditionally avoided taking any steps in the run-up to an election that could affect how people vote, out of caution that such moves could be interpreted as abusing its power to manipulate American democracy.
Mr. Trump, who is not on the ballot but wields outsize influence in the Republican Party, poses a particular dilemma for Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, whose department is conducting two investigations involving the former president. They include the sprawling inquiry into the Jan. 6 riot and his related effort to overturn the 2020 election and another into his hoarding of sensitive government documents at his Florida club and residence.
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. But as the 60-day deadline looms this week, the highly unusual situation offers no easy answers, said Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and the former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.
“It’s an unwritten rule of uncertain scope, so it’s not at all clear that it applies to taking investigative steps against a noncandidate former president who is nevertheless intimately involved in the November election,” Mr. Goldsmith said. “But its purpose of avoiding any significant impact on an election seems to be implicated.”
I'm not a fan of unwritten rules. They remind me of the oaths that republicans take to republican causes (think Karl Rove) when the only valid oath is the one taken when sworn into office.
If the rule isn't important enough to codify into actual written policy then it is dangerous.
Yeah … one commentator speculated that most, if not all charges would be dismissed because of the way the law was written.
Kind of reminds me of the drug testing for welfare recipients debacle a while back.
I hope not.
But the theme that "I'm tough on voter fraud" which even though he claimed Florida's system is one of the best in the country and without evidence of widespread fraud, is a real fear of people in his party, is established.
But the theme that "I'm tough on voter fraud" which even though he claimed Florida's system is one of the best in the country and without evidence of widespread fraud, is a real fear of people in his party, is established.
Voter fraud has been a problem in search of a solution ever since a Black man was elected president. I think it significant that the proposed solutions all tend to inhibit voting by democrats and minority communities - not to mention the lower rungs of the working class. Remember that “durable Republican majority”?
Personally, I think DeSantis’ election police is straight-up voter intimidation.
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A Second Constitutional Convention? Some Republicans Want to Force One https://nyti.ms/3CYjzmC
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Elements on the right have for years been waging a quiet but concerted campaign to convene a gathering to consider changes to the Constitution. They hope to take advantage of a never-used aspect of Article V, which says in part that Congress, “on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments.”
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With sharp partisanship making that path near impossible, backers of the convention idea now hope to harness the power of Republican-controlled state legislatures to petition Congress and force a convention they see as a way to strip away power from Washington and impose new fiscal restraints, at a minimum.
They would sell the concept on a narrow agenda related to spending...
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Like others, the proposal by Mr. Arrington, a deficit hawk who hopes to become Budget Committee chairman next year, would seek to confine the convention to consideration of fiscal matters to serve as a check on federal spending and taxation.
But in the era of Trump is unlikely that they would honor those limits...
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But Mr. Feingold and his co-author, the constitutional scholar Peter Prindiville, say the problem is that there is no certainty that the convention could be forced to stick to a defined agenda. They say that a “runaway” proceeding would be a distinct possibility, with delegates seizing the opportunity to promote wholesale changes in the founding document and veer into areas where they would seek to restrict federal power governing the environment, education and health care, among other issues.
“A convention by its very definition is a free-standing, distinct constitutional body,” Mr. Prindiville said. “It would be the ultimate high-risk gathering.”
They say that the reliance on language calling it a “convention of the states” is misleading — “ahistoric” in the view of Mr. Feingold and the book, which lays out the history behind Article V and previous attempts to invoke it.
“Despite convention proponents’ claims of legal certainty, the most important questions about how a convening held under Article V would be called and how it would function are unsettled,” the authors write in the book. “The framers left no rules. In this uncertainty lies great danger and, possibly, great power.”
What also worries the authors is that the leading proponents of the convention idea come from the right and include representatives of the Tea Party movement, the Federalist Society, grass-roots right-wing activists and figures allied with former President Donald J. Trump such as John Eastman, the lawyer who wrote a memo for Mr. Trump outlining how he could seek to overturn the 2020 election.
Buckle up. Today's political Republicans aren't as enamored by our democratic republic as they are enamored by power, IMV.
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