Two spokesmen quit President Morsi’s office, coming after the resignation of the Foreign Minister over night.
Romney voted against running in 2012 in family polll, but lost. And had to run.
I hope this doesn’t just state the obvious. But it is simply amazing to watch how Southern states, ruled by Republicans, have moved so quickly, after the Supreme Court’s VRA decision to push through a series of new laws the only aim of which is to limit black voting: voter ID laws, ends to same day registration, early voting, weekend voting. Here’s yet another example from North Carolina. But we noted numerous other examples within a day of the decision coming down.
Okay, sure, what did I expect? I’ve been writing about this for years. Everything I’ve written and so many other better than I could has predicted this. But still, to see it, it’s another thing again. This is supposed to be the 21st century. And yet, in a broad swath of the society we’re in an ersatz version of the late 19th century.
So the NSA has a Speakers Bureau for the K-12 set.
The government of Ecuador had already been distancing itself from Edward Snowden’s cause. But now the country’s President, Rafael Correa, has gone as far as to say that his government never intended to facilitate Snowden’s journey from Hong Kong to Moscow. He now says his consul in London, apparently in league with Assange, was freelancing. This comes after Snowden released a statement thanking the Ecuadorean government for making his flight (in both sense of the word possible). Read More
It is hard to see how the ultimatum the Egyptian military issued a few hours ago doesn’t amount to a post-dated or contingent coup. But, notably, the military, the opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi are each insisting it does not representative a coup – only a patriotically inclined military encouraging all sides to move toward compromise.
Mitch McConnell: “Accepting the invitation from countless Washington liberals to become President Obama’s Kentucky candidate was a courageous decision by Alison Lundergan Grimes and I look forward to a respectful exchange of ideas.”
