How can one contend that January 6 was not obstruction, when insurrectionists blocked the most serious official U.S proceeding, verifying the presidential election?
This column presents Chapter 4/Section 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022." It is from the most recent printing (the third), in 2013. The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 4, is entitled "30th Amend. to the Constitution of the United States (2002)."
Political establishments are "conservative." They tend to hold on to old ways of doing things, refusing to make more than minor tweaks to the system, until and unless they're forced to make real changes.----Historically, those changes have been first proposed by "third party" political candidates, after which growing public support has eventually forced "major party" adoption.
By international law, Israel is legally responsible for the well being of its captive, confined and illegally militarily occupied Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip,
The lay Catholic English journalist Dr. Austen Ivereigh (born in 1966) perceptively weaves together multiple strands of Pope Francis' thought in his new 2024 book First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis (Loyola Press).
One, erratic and often unhinged, blew up the U.S.-Iran accord that was the landmark foreign policy achievement of President Obama's second term. He then ordered the assassination of a top Iranian general visiting Iraq, dramatically raising tensions in the region. The other is a traditional advocate of American exceptionalism, a supporter of the U.S.-Iran agreement who promised to restore it upon taking office[...]
This would be horrifying if it happened to me,/(Also quite upsetting if it only happened to you),
It's Earth Day. I feel so in ove with the world again. I had a lover's quarrel going, like Robert Frost said. But now we're good again. I love you Earth.