“Senate Republicans waved off police officers’ emotional accounts Tuesday of battling a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a partisan escapade not worth paying attention to,” Huffington Post said on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 (read story here), with S[...]
Archive for July 27th, 2021
July 27th, 2021 - 8:32 pm § in News Media, Politics
Police testify about Capitol riot; Republicans turn their backs
Status report: 535 Capitol rioters arrested, 300 more sought
Samuel Lazar (photo), 35, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested by the FBI on Monday, July 26, 2021. He’s accused of spraying police with chemical irritants during the Capitol riot. (Read story here, and more details here.) So far, the FBI has arrested 535 Capitol rioters and is looking for 3[...]
July 27th, 2021 - 10:08 am § in Politics
“Bipartisanship? Good riddance!”
Bipartisanship, in the sense of Republicans and Democrats cooperating to solve problems, seems to have been a passing phenomenon in American history, a product of a different time, and no longer with us. A Columbia University historian (profile here), in a CNN op-ed (here), isn’t shedding tear[...]