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Chriss
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Veni vidi vici et vicissim
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News junkie and prolific seeker of truth
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Trump might be an unfit president, Barr conceded. Trump had only recently belittled Barr personally. But President Joe Biden might overregulate kitchen stoves, Barr complained, and faced with that dread possibility, Barr had to prefer Trump as the lesser evil. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before. ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic “We already pulled off the heist,” says a source close to Trump, noting it doesn’t matter to them what the Supreme Court decides now. Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon. ~ Mother Goose Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. – Thomas Fuller Hamilton was willing to swallow his disagreements, because Jefferson was “yet a lover of liberty and will be desirous of something like orderly Government.” In contrast, “Mr. Burr loves nothing but himself—thinks of nothing but his own aggrandizement—and will be content with noth Under this theory, a sitting president could violate the law with impunity, whether that is serving unlimited terms or assassinating any potential political opponents, unless the Senate impeaches and convicts ... Yet a legislature would be strongly disinclined to impeach, much le Dan Lussen, a professional hunting dog trainer, told Rolling Stone that a 14-month-old dog is a “baby that doesn’t know any better.” Why not every gun buyer? Tennessee bill requires teachers and school staff to get 40 hours of training and a background check, fingerprints to state and federal authorities, and submit a psychological certification from a licensed health provider. It was awkward, of course, to formally endorse a man whom he had described as operating not unlike a small child given terrifying powers. Barr’s way of squaring the circle intellectually was to insist that the Democrats were worse. Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine? ~ Tupac Shakur So here we are in the midst of this most consequential election year, debating things such as whether a President has the power to accept bribes for official appointments, to sell nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, or even to call forth a military coup to remain in office. H Trump’s lawyers have argued that a former president could face charges only after first being impeached and convicted. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was perplexed: How can a president be both absolutely immune and also prosecutable after impeachment? From late September to mid-March, only a gloomy half-light lies over the town during daylight hours. Except, that is, for a strange pool of light on the town square, a spotlight-like circle of sunlight spilling over some 600 square meters and a semi-circle of wooden benches. Sending the National Guard to campuses facing Vietnam War protests led to students being killed, including some who had nothing to do with the protests, rather than to anyone being safer. The most likely outcome based on past precedent would be an escalation to serious violence. The shadows: some hide, others reveal. ~ Antonio Porchia Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. ~ Ogden Nash The roughly four dozen migrants that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis helped fly from Texas to Martha's Vineyard -a political stunt that cost Florida taxpayers about $615,000 in total, or about $12,300 per migrant-about a year and a half ago have been granted legal designations due
