Mike’s Blog Round-up

When President Joe Biden first joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1975, it was taken as a sign that the 32-year-old legislator was “ticketed for a bright future.” The assumption proved correct. Although it took decades, Biden did ascend the ladder of American power—rising to chair of that committee to vice president and, finally, to the presidency.

This story was published first by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. The US government’s two foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance concluded this spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza. The US Agency for International Development delivered its assessment to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the State Department’s refugees bureau made its stance known to top diplomats in late April.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump is expected on Tuesday to pledge not only to stop U. S. businesses from offshoring jobs, but also to take other countries’ jobs and factories. Among the ideas he is planning to pitch is luring foreign companies to the U. S. by offering them access to federal land.

Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno just stepped in it big time during a town hall in Lebanon, OH this Monday evening. NBC4 obtained a video recording from a Warren County town hall on Friday, where GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno accused suburban women of being focused solely on their ability to get an abortion. “You know, the left has a lot of single issue voters,” Moreno said.

What's former First Lady Melania Trump doing leading up November? Not campaigning for the hubby, of course, she won't even look at him in public. But she sure has learned the tricks that come with acquiring that name. Trump. Melania, when not getting paid a sweet quarter million ducats to speak to the Log Cabin Republicans (seriously, they still exist?

How does Fox News still allow Juan Williams to spew Democrat talking points, ginning up racial hate against anyone with whom he disagrees?