“Even in the Trump era — when the press is openly clashing with a president — bombing still provides push-button presidential redemption.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-pro-war-media-deserve-criticism-not-sainthood/
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“Subsequent reporters pushed back against the false claims the press secretary was making—namely that their family separation policy was ‘the law’ and not a specific policy choice pushed by President Trump and promoted at the DOJ by Sessions on multiple occasions.”
Read more: https://www.mintpressnews.com/biblical-enforce-law/244044/
“It is not just that power corrupts, it is that already corrupt people seek power.”
“Few commentators are recognizing the vast peril to democracy posed by the sweeping prerogatives of federal agencies.”
“Senator Coleman Livingston Blease hailed from the hills of South Carolina. In 1925, he entered Congress committed, above all else, to protecting white supremacy.”
Read more: http://theconversation.com/how-crossing-the-us-mexico-border-became-a-crime-74604
“Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia bought body armor. Rep. Gregg Harper hired armed security guards for events back home in Mississippi. And Rep. Dan Dovonan fortified his Brooklyn and Staten Island offices with security cameras and buzzer systems. This is the new normal for members of Congress.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/06/11/politicians-fear-for-safety-as-threats-against-congress-skyrocket/
“The Founding Fathers never intended a secret police force to be an independent fourth branch of the federal government.”
“Was it General Eisenhower who saw more clearly than any of us?”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-not-like-ike/
“Months after joining a cannabis company advisory board, former Speaker of the House John Boehner is now telling his former colleagues to let legalization flourish.”