Republicans challenge legitimacy of overseas votes, including military
The Pennsylvania suit opens a front in GOP efforts to raise questions about the validity of mail-in ballots, targeting a group that had been seen as off-limits.
By Colby Itkowitz and Amy Gardner
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Another chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous has emerged
Trumpworld is eager to have Americans blame his opponents' rhetoric for assassination attempts — both to nullify their arguments and to cast Trump as a victim.
The GOP nominee's plans for immigration, tariffs and opponents would be violent and foolish.
Opinion by Eugene Robinson
He seems sincerely, and incredibly, unable to understand how tariffs work. He portrays them as "taxes" on foreign countries, but actually it is U.S. importers who foot the bill, who will then pass those extra costs along to consumers. Trump's tariffs would effectively be a huge tax increase on any American who buys anything made overseas. Speaking last week to the Economic Club of New York — of all audiences — Trump defended this bad idea by praising the McKinley Tariff, an 1890 measure that raised import duties to nearly 50 percent and caused prices to soar. The tariff, named for Republican House member and future president William McKinley, ended up making Americans poorer and producing less revenue for the government, not more. Anyone who wonders whether a second Trump term would really be so bad should listen to what he intends to do. It won't just be bad. It will be much, much worse.
Jimmy Carter is the very best human to have ever been President.
From the article:
Nearing his 100th birthday and in hospice care since February 2023, the former president Jimmy Carter reportedly has one goal: voting for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.
"I'm only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris," Carter told his son Chip this week, as his grandson Jason Carter recounted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
David Middleton: We felt that going from playing live to entering the studio was a natural progression. You know, naturally, all of the groups that we grew up listening to made records. Paul and I at one point even kind of started chomping at the bit, and I remember a time when he and I were driving around town, just kind of talking, and saying, "Okay, if we don't have a record out by this time next year, we're just busting it up."
So much of being in a band is sitting around and waiting. Getting your name out and waiting for things to happen, waiting for sound check, waiting for the club to open, and this and that. And weeks go by without a gig. Especially back then. Of course, I sound like an old man, but without the internet and things like that constantly putting your name out there, you had to play gigs, you had to put up flyers, you had to really keep your name out there to get anything going.
