drsmooth wrote:

thephan wrote:We have Senators coming out of the woodwork to say that they would vote for repeal. Fly back today to cast a vote. Sort of your expected people with SASS and Yoho

While Yoho is a crackpot, he is not a Senator

jerseyhoya wrote:

Augustus wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:The media is notoriously easy on conservatives!

Why was someone like, say, Bobby Jindal ever taken remotely seriously? In the first half of this decade I read/watched probably a dozen mainstream media think pieces on how he was the future of the Republican Party/American politics.

Because he was a Rhodes scholar who ran his state's hospital then university system, served as a top official in the Bush administration, was in Congress for three terms, then a two term governor who was re-elected in a landslide all by the time he was in his early 40s?

“I always tell the president, ‘You don’t need them,’” says Sean Hannity, the self-abasing monkey-butler of the Trump regime. The president, Hannity says, can reach more Americans via Twitter than he could through the conventional media. That isn’t true, of course: Only about one in five Americans uses Twitter. Hannity might be forgiven for not knowing this, a consequence of his much more general habit of not knowing things. But he actually does know the president. How could he possibly believe that this man — this man — does not need them?

pacino wrote:@pwnallthings was in contact with the aforementioned Smith and describes his interactions.

@pwnallthings wrote:I still prefer my headline of "I went through thousands of pages of FOIA documents, and you'll never guess what happened next"

jerseyhoya wrote:
Kevin Williamson usually entertains me when he's writing about Trump. The article is good and correct, but the paragraph about Hannity makes it.

The leaning minaret of Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque survived conquests by the Mongols and the Ottomans, neglect under Saddam Hussein, and air raids during the Iran-Iraq War and the U.S. invasion in 2003.

But after three years of Islamic State rule, it is now little more than a pile of stones at the center of a shattered city.

By all accounts except their own, the jihadists rigged the mosque and its 850-year-old tower with explosives and blew them up last week as advancing Iraqi forces came within steps of the complex.

A Reuters visit to the site on Friday, a day after Iraq's military recaptured it, confirmed the extent of destruction: the 45-metre (148 ft) al-Hadba minaret had been reduced to a stump while the mint green dome was the only part of the prayer hall still standing.

swishnicholson wrote:I find myself in the odd spot of being on Christie's side in this ridiculous NJ standoff. I mean, the lottery thing is a scam, and the Blue Cross deal sounds vaguely illegal (though nice if you can get away with it), but put it to a vote, get your names on the record and move on.