After proclaiming herself "an activist citizen and part of the resistance," and by definition - absolutely not part of the establishment? - Hillary Clinton has unveiled her latest fund-raising vehicle - Onward Together to "champion the vision that earned 66 million votes in the last election."
In April 2014, just as the Ukraine conflict (and proxy civil war) was hitting its climax, in the process undermining US-Russian relations for years, some 2,066 Americans were asked to show where the Ukraine was on a map. The result, while leaving something to be desired, was not terrible.
Fast forward to this weekend, when the NYT repeated the same exercise with the latest geopolitical hotspot: North Korea. In an experiment led by Kyle Dropp of Morning Consult, he asked 1,746 American adults to point to where North Korea is on the world map. This was the raw result:
By Gwynne Dyer via BangorDailyNews.com,
“I am no Mussolini,” Venezuela’s beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro insisted on television early this month. But if things go on this way, he could end up like Mussolini. That would be very unfortunate for him and also for Venezuela.
After years of DOJ service outside the spotlight, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was thrust into the public eye last week when the Trump administration cited his scathing letter of FBI Director Jim Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation as the primary reason for Comey's sudden dismissal that took pretty much everyone by surprise, including Comey himself.
After evading the press for much of the past week in the aftermath of Comey's firing, and following this weekend's unconfirmed report that Trump may be seeking to fire Sean Spicer (along with several other key members of the Trump inner circle), not to mention the latest SNL skit, today's press briefing may be somewhat awkward affair for the White House press secretary.
Expect more of the same: questions on Comey, whether there is a growing chasm between Trump and the Senate on healthcare policy as well as questions on the global malware attack.