Melania Trump was paid $237,000 to make a rare appearance at a political event in April, although it's unclear who forked over the cash. Melania Trump delivered speeches at two fundraisers for the Log Cabin Republicans, a group for LGBT conservatives, in April and July this year. She received the six-figure payment for the earlier event, according to former President Donald Trump's most recent financial disclosure form, CNN reported. Trump has not released a financial report for the period that covers July, although CNN also reported that a Trump ally requested a "similar" payment for the second event. read more
Greg Sargent: At bottom, Vance's whole purpose of running with the grotesque pet-eating lie has not been to draw attention to the story of Springfield, but to rewrite it. read more
Donald Trump has claimed the audience during his presidential debate with Kamala Harris went "absolutely crazy" for him - but there's a huge issue: there was no audience at the ABC debate. read more
while J.D. Vance's hillbilly ancestors may not have been the inbred, possum-eating, superstitious bushwhackers of legend and lore, as they descended on Ohio from the hills of Kentucky they had more than a little in common with the Haitian immigrants Sen. Vance now spends his days vilifying in terms that would have been familiar to Fritz Hippler, the filmmaker whose 1941 propaganda film Der ewige Jude comes to its climax with images of leering kosher butchers covered in the blood of animals slaughtered in the service of "the so-called Jewish religion." Lord Acton would have us believe that it takes absolute power to corrupt absolutely. But even the dream of the vice presidency"that "bucket of warm piss" in the immortal words of Vice President John Nance Garner"will do the trick, if you are the right kind of person. read more
Vance is defending spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants. Asked by the CNN's Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were "a story that you created", Vance replied, "Yes!" read more
From the WaPo obit (www.washingtonpost.com):
During an interview in 2023, Mr. Yoshioka was asked if he had visited Hawaii after the war. No, he replied.
"If I could go, I would like to," he added. "I would like to visit the graves of the men who died. I would like to pay them my deepest respect."
It's not the Israelis screaming "from the river to the sea."
Au contraire ...
An early Zionist slogan envisaged statehood extending over the two banks of the Jordan river, and when that vision proved impractical, it was substituted by the idea of a Greater Israel, an entity conceived as extending from the Jordan to the sea.[9][10] The Palestinian phrase has also been used by Israeli politicians. The 1977 election manifesto of the right-wing Israeli Likud party said: "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."[11][12][13] Similar wording, such as referring to the area "west of the Jordan river", has also been used more recently by other Israeli politicians,[3] including Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 18 January 2024.[14] Some countries have considered criminalizing Palestinian but not Israeli use of the phrase.[15][16]
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Busy boys. That was part of a very big push. But, as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto understood, almost certainly doomed in the longer run. He tried to let his hawkish contemporaries understand the problem.
And then, when his view did not prevail, he did as he was trained to do: he planned - and planned well - for war. Fascinating guy.