Florida mailman lands a gyrocopter on Capitol lawn, hoping to send a message – Washington Postby wpjljron
Thursday, April 16th, 2015.Florida mailman lands a gyrocopter on Capitol lawn, hoping to send a message – Washington PostDoug Hughes loves to fly. As a kid, he’d plant himself at the local airport and monitor the comings and goings of planes. He read up on the Wright brothers and Kitty Hawk. On Wednesday, Hughes, a 61-year-old mailman from a small town on Florida’s Gulf Coast who dearly wants campaign finance reform, flew his […]
Doug Hughes loves to fly. As a kid, he’d plant himself at the local airport and monitor the comings and goings of planes. He read up on the Wright brothers and Kitty Hawk.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
If Democrats were to take control of the House of Representatives after the November elections, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said her party would “amend the [U.S.] Constitution” on the “very first day” to overturn the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” decision.
That’s the lead paragraph of a report at the Daily Caller.
It’s a promise she can’t possibly deliver. And any high school Civics class student could tell you that. But they don’t teach Civics in high school these days, so maybe Nancy Pelosi will get a pass for this outrageous statement.
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Who benefits from perpetual election cycle? (letter to the editor)
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By Andrew Kass
In America, having barely survived the lies and turmoil of the last election, the lesson some states have taken is to make it harder for citizens to vote. Though the only proven fraud attempts were those undertaken by the former President, that’s the bill of goods his party is trying to sell.
But here’s the bigger problem: America is locked into a perpetual election cycle. We all saw 2021 campaign posters sprout the week after Election Day 2020. Presidential campaigns drag on for two years while England elects a government and prime minister in six weeks, which is more in line with common practice in the world’s democracies.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, tells reporters he has secured enough Republican votes to start President Donald Trumpâs impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses and documents Democrats want, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020. The trial could start as soon as this week if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi releases the articles of impeachment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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