Here’s your primer on what’s behind the Obama/Elizabeth Warren Feud.
Utah is considering final approval of a plan that would dig a 10 foot deep ditch the size of 75 football fields to store depleted uranium which should settle down to an inert lead in a couple billion years.
We’ve updated our epochal “A (Short) History of Violence: The Post-Acquittal George Zimmerman Timeline.” Your new edition is available here.
I wanted to flag a point about Jeb Bush’s response about the Iraq War. I don’t think it’s so much a gaffe as a tell that this is something like Kryptonite for Bush’s campaign.
If you watch Bush’s exchange it’s clear he’s trying desperately to nudge the question back from ‘what we know now‘ to ‘what we knew then‘. As well he should. My take on this is actually a little different from David’s. I think ‘based on what we knew then’ is a relatively easy one for Bush or other Republican candidates to answer because you have the ‘out’ of flawed WMD intelligence and the reality – for better or worse – that a majority of Americans remember being in that situation twelve years ago and agreeing with the final decision to invade Iraq. It’s hard to criticize someone saying they would have done something at the time that you did do at the time or at least supported.
Some choice words from Laura Ingraham reacting to Jeb Bush re-affirming that he would re-invade Iraq if he had it to do all over again.
The Jade Helm conspiracy theory only took off when Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that he was concerned about a takeover too and ordered the State Guard to monitor military activities to be on the look out for signs of a takeover. And now he’s doubling down. It’s Obama’s fault, he says, that everybody is so convinced the military is plotting to takeover Texas.
Megyn Kelly: “Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the [Iraq] invasion?”
Jeb Bush: “I would have.”
I would have totally expected Jeb to back W. on Iraq if the question were framed as “Knowing what we knew then …” But knowing what we know now? That gives him all kinds of outs. But Jeb didn’t take them.
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When I was a little kid in the mid-70s hitchhiking was part of the normal landscape of driving, neither odd nor unexpected or worrisome. By the time I was a young adolescent in the early-mid-80s, hitchhiking was something for people who were either desperate or reckless or looking for someone to kill. And I should be clear that I certainly wouldn’t let and would do everything I could to prevent my own sons from doing it when they get older. In the third part of our four part series on the end of the open road we look at how and why hitchhiking died.
Glenn Beck hints he may be eliminated like earlier leaders such as Jesus, Gandhi, and King.