https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/vp-ed-letf-0928-20190928-dxrmlrybijb6hft5sbjzcmx2py-story.html
This letter is unremarkable, except that…
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This letter is unremarkable, except that…
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Dynastic governments deal with the same challenges democratic governments do.

“At the Constitutional Convention, James Madison argued that the document would need a provision “for defending the community against the incapacity, negligence, or perfidy of the Chief Magistrate.”
Madison, at least, thought this kind of intellectual disability was grounds for impeachment. Plus, we have added the 25th Amendment. Time to act.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29262984/liddle-hypen-apostrophe-president-trump-tweet/
“When assessing the president’s suitability for the role he currently occupies, it’s easy to get caught up on things like, he is making American policy towards other countries while their governments put money in his pocket. Or he has hired a bunch of lobbyists to regulate industries on whose behalf they were recently lobbying. Or he instituted a regime of human-rights abuses at the southern border. Or he said very fine people march alongside Nazis. Or, most recently, he pressured a foreign power to interfere in an American presidential election for his personal political gain, a betrayal of his oath of office and the nation he purports to lead.
But there’s something else to consider in all of this. The president, you see, is insanely fucking stupid.”
Aaron Spence needs some “big boy” pants.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/nra-russians-ties-president-2016-election/index.html
The NRA appears to keep sinking deeper and deeper in dog doo.
Naturally, the GOP members of the committee referred to the investigation as strictly political, ignoring the facts brought to light. Gotta protect the campaign coffers, I suppose.
Maybe it is time the NRA returned to its roots and stuck to gun safety and got out of politics.
Today’s editorial is objectionable on a number of different levels, but what stands out to me is the triumph of ideological theory over common sense.
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