Trump could get Congressional Gold Medal under new House GOP resolution FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans wants to award former President Trump the Congressional Gold Medal. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is leading a Congressional resolution to bestow the ... 05/14/2024 - 6:18 am | View Link
Fil Am veteran’s family accept Congressional Gold Medal Eight families of Filipino American WWII veterans this month accepted the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously on ... American World War II veterans. The Memorial Squadron flew over the ceremony ... 04/22/2024 - 4:35 am | View Link
“Rosie the Riveters” honored with Congressional Gold Medal House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) presented the “Rosies” with the Congressional Gold Medal on Capitol Hill. “These are the women that built our ships and our bombs. These are the invisible ... 04/11/2024 - 6:42 am | View Link
Real-life ‘Rosie the Riveter' honored with Congressional Gold Medal for WWII work Mae Krier, 99, was one of several women awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. The Congressional Gold Medal is considered the highest expression of appreciation ... 04/10/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Former Medford mayor among WWII veterans of ‘Ghost Army’ to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal Markey, who introduced and wrote the gold medal legislation, has known the McGlynn family for decades. Markey first began working to bestow the medal upon the Ghost Army while Jack McGlynn was ... 03/20/2024 - 1:04 pm | View Link
Rep. Jamie Raskin called for an investigation after Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, said non-committee members were drinking in the chamber during a hearing where Marge Greene kicked things off by insulting lawmaker Jasmine Crockett. Via the Independent:
“I didn’t see the drinking but the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury, raised it,” Mr Raskin told Fox News outside the US Capitol on Friday.
The Drain the Swamp fabulist spoke at the wholly corrupt National Rifle Association's event on Saturday in Dallas, Texas, and went on to brag about doing absolutely "nothing" about gun violence. Trump is very proud of that, just as he is proud of overturning Roe. Trump can't feel empathy, and he's sucking up to the NRA out of desperation for votes to keep him out of prison.
Crooked Timber - Originalism for Realists;
Just an Earthbound Misfit - they're called 'self-inflicted wounds';
No More Mr. Nice Blog - Yastreblyansky for the record;
Reveal - shot by a civilian with a police gun;
Tell Me a Story - Hairy Butthead talks at female graduates.
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Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of the most pressing and divisive issues facing our country. Imagine a nation, our nation, where the top 1% possess more wealth than the bottom 90% combined— a nation, our nation, where the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens with each passing year.
“The deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and Iran’s foreign minister leave the country without two influential leaders at a particularly tumultuous moment of international tension and domestic discontent,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, Iranian state news media reported.
“Secretary of State Antony Blinken directed his top staff to crack down on leaks about diplomacy relating to the Israel-Hamas war, saying clearly that he was ‘angry’ with the constant stream of press reports revealing sensitive information,” Politico reports.
“Not only did classified materials make it into press reports, he chided State leadership earlier this month in a small team meeting, but also fresh proposals to broker a cease-fire and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas.