The Liberal Party sent to the woodshed in 2006 — and told, decisively, to stay there in 2008 and 2011 — has been welcomed back to the government side of the House of Commons, and it’s packing MPs from every part of Canada. How about that? After nearly 10 years of the Conservatives and Stephen …
A while back, I had been baking bread in my bread machine quite often. Then I got sidetracked by a lot of medical issues which involved trips downtown fairly frequently, and I got out of the habit. After that the West Bend breadmaker stopped working properly: it would kick back into “Basic” bread mode no …
Washed two loads of clothing, emptied the dishwasher, endured an hour of heavy rain, went to two different stores in search of flying insect killer, missed the deadline for the “Car Wash Saturday” fundraiser at the church down the hill, listened to the U of Hawai’i blow a sure win with two minutes left in …
Mr. Trump said this during an interview with Bloomberg News’s Stephanie Ruhle: “When you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time,” and Ms. Ruhle jumped in to say “”Hold on, you can’t blame George Bush for that”, to which Mr. Trump replied “”He …
Daniel Murphy should go back to Ireland, the New York Mets should go back to Queens, and I sincerely hope the Cubs sweep them in four games. That is all.
Privatization of government work has not been the cost-saver the Cato Institute and its fellow travelers on the right have claimed it would be, for reasons that are blindingly obvious to those who don’t wear ideological blinders. So argues Donald F. Kettl at the Washington Monthly, in a preview to a new book he’s written. …
Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers defeated the Mets this evening 3-1 and forced a Game Five to determine the winner of their half of the National League Divisional Series. (The Cubs beat the Cardinals in their game earlier today to win that half.) Phew! That was a tight game. The Mets only got three hits, …
First the University of Southern California fired its head football coach Steve Sarkisian for an addiction problem of some kind. Then came the news that
There’s a bloody surprise! After House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy let the cat out of the bag a couple of weeks ago when he told the media that the Committee’s aim was to hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances to win the Presidency in 2016, today comes news that a former investigator for that committee plans to …
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Your browser does not support iframes. Had the Dodgers’ Chase Utley not prevented Ruben Tejada from throwing the ball to first base by sliding into him the inning would have ended. Because it did not, the Dodgers tied the score on that play and then scored three more times to win the game and send …
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