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Trump is not to blame for the Pittsburgh massacre (The Hill)
This past Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, a middle-aged man burst into a baby-naming service at a Pittsburgh synagogue. What followed was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history.Eleven men and women, who had come only to celebrate and to pray, were gunned down, their blood pooling around their scattered prayer books. A heroic team of local police officers charged the shul under heavy fire. Though many sustained severe injuries, the massacre was finally brought to an end. The gunman was captured and should, in my opinion, face the death penalty. [Read More]
The first White House press briefing in almost a month seemed destined to include a showdown between CNN’s Jim Acosta and Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And sure enough, that showdown materialized.
Acosta asked the press secretary about President Donald Trump‘s “enemy of the people” attacks on the “fake news media” — which the Commander-in-Chief renewed Monday morning on Twitter.
“Shouldn’t you reserve the term ‘enemy’ for people who are actually the enemy of the United States, rather than journalists?” Acosta said. [Read More]
More Millennials Are Abandoning Religion For Witchcraft, Astrology (Hot Air)
You may have thought it was just a couple of oddballs and a blip on the radar when some modern-day witches decided to cast a hex on Brett Kavanaugh. (I guess they didn’t use enough eye of newt in that effort since he’s now on the SCOTUS bench.) But it turns out that that wasn’t some niche effort. A new report at Marketwatch reveals that an increasing number of younger people (we’re looking at you again, millennials) are rejecting organized, traditional religion in favor of the divinations of astrologers and witches casting spells. [Read More]
2018 Midterms Could Be ‘Year Of The Woman’ For Only One Party (10 News)
MJ Hegar doesn’t seem like your typical political candidate. From her tattoos to her campaign ads, to her self-described status as an “ass-kicking, motorcycle-riding Texas Democrat.”But her gender? Well, that’s sticking out less and less in what has been dubbed the second coming of 1992’s Year of the Woman.
Hegar is a first-time candidate in Texas and is one of the 256 women who will be on ballots across the country. If all of them won, the amount of women in Congress would be near parity with male lawmakers for the first time ever.
“I don’t know that my being a woman factored into my decision to run. I am very glad to see multiple women run on both sides of the aisle, but not just because they’re women. I think that our elected officials, our representatives, should be more reflective of the demographics of the country,” Hegar said. [Read More]
Can DC Council Candidate Michael Bekesha Convince Local Dems to Vote Republican? (Washingtonian)
There hasn’t been a Republican on the DC Council for almost a decade, and Michael Bekesha wants to change that. Running his long-shot campaign from a rented desk at a WeWork near his home in Navy Yard, the attorney is trying to unseat incumbent Charles Allen to represent Ward 6, which stretches across Capitol Hill, Shaw, and Navy Yard.
Republican candidates in local DC races have typically positioned themselves away from the national conservative operatives who happen to be based here. Not Bekesha: When not holed up in his coworking HQ, he’s an attorney for the conservative organization Judicial Watch, which has made a point of going after Robert Mueller. But he says that in policy terms, he’s running as a different kind of Republican—a necessity in a city where only 4 percent of voters opted for Trump in the 2016 election. “I’m socially progressive but fiscally responsible,” Bekesha says, settling into a sofa in a WeWork conference room. What does that mean in the context of local government? And can he possibly win? [Read More]
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