Comment on Rahm Emanuel: Jesse Jackson, Jr. should show hand

On her 48th birthday, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) celebrated by campaigning. Yes, there was cake, and there was singing, and there was a DJ, but there was also—a little under three weeks out from a heated Democratic primary—canvassing in the sweltering heat. The primary has been cast as another test of how the Democrat Party responds to Israel’s war on Gaza.

The internet has been burning up this past week with the many, many faux pas—faux paws?—of Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, what with his “childless cat ladies” thing, his endorsement of a reprehensible book by a reprehensible guy, and the foreword Vance wrote for yet another book, by Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts, even as Trump was trying to distance himself from that political dumpster fire. It is fun, however, to take some of Vance’s more ridiculous assertions at face value, such as his claim that “the entire Democrat party is like this childless cabal of people who don’t really care about the future.” (You didn’t think the Harris campaign was going to let that one go by, did you?) Unearthed video: JD Vance calls Democrats a “childless cabal of people who don't really care about the future” pic.twitter.com/dfWKajTc7y— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 30, 2024 Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg—whom Vance namechecked as “childless” even as Buttigieg and his husband were in the midst of adopting a child—made the case quite eloquently to Jon Stewart that being childless and caring about your country’s future are not mutually exclusive.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The “heat dome” causing scorching temperatures across Western Europe and North Africa, and boiling athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games in Paris, would have been impossible without human-caused global heating, a rapid analysis has found. Scientists said the fossil-fueled climate crisis made temperatures 4 to 6 degrees F hotter.

They hate any and all things truly American: the national anthem, faith, the flag, families, love of country, rule of law, the protection of innocence and common decency.

Again, the lowly soldier is accountable for being placed in a dangerous situation by inept and feckless senior political and military leadership.

Life among the terminal lefties.