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She said if she had to do Bush/Gore all over again she would send it back to the state. Her vote was based on feelings not the law. They basically made it up for Bush. We all paid the very expensive price. The damage has been done and yes, she's definitely responsible no matter how much she regrets what she did.

A US senator has called for a government investigation into the impact on national security of garlic imports from China.

Republican Senator Rick Scott has written to the commerce secretary, claiming Chinese garlic is unsafe, citing unsanitary production methods.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Historians today note that Pearl Harbor is one of a very few true watershed events in modern American lore, like the JFK assassination or the 9/11 terror attacks. For decades afterward, most of our parents and grandparents could always recall when they first learned of the Japanese assault and further, exactly what they were doing at the time. It was a moment forever preserved in the amber of their memories.

Personally, I've found that for many visitors to Hawaii, Pearl Harbor is far less a visitor attraction than it is a personal pilgrimage, one which re-connects them to those same memories first relayed to them by their elders.

For decades after the event, survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack would volunteer their time at the USS Arizona Memorial Center in Pearl Harbor National Historic Park, recounting for those visitors their personal recollections of that "Day of Infamy." They're almost all gone now, but those recollections have since been preserved in the video and film archives at the University of Hawaii and the National Park Service

I fell out of bed and broke a rib just before Thanksgiving three years ago. Not realizing it was broken, I went back to bed. The next day I  had an x-ray or cat scan-- and learned it was broken. Since I had broken a different rib a few years before, I knew there is no treatment for broken ribs (except for pain pills, which thankfully, they liberally prescribed and renewed until the pain was gone. Today, thanks to the Global Holy Warriors (DEA), they try to send you home with aspirin or ibuprofen).

Do you have Medicare? (Please don't be insulted if you are too young for Medicare, I don't know anyone's age here!) Medicare sent two home nurses every week for 4 weeks to give me physical and occupational therapy. It helped and it's completely free with Medicare.

Now, I'm acutely conscious of them because the terrain around here outside Nice and Antibes is mostly these incredible (and sometimes quite steep) hills with narrow streets that wind around, and sidewalk shortcuts up- and downhill that are often cement staircases with steps of varying widths which, more often than not, have no handrails. One really must pay attention and watch one's own steps around here.

I'm so sorry to hear of your recent fall and hospitalization, and I am glad that you are on the mend and have your family around you. We're now of that certain age where we must confront the fact that we're no longer spring chickens. I fell a few months ago in Honolulu near City Hall and it happened so fast that I was already face-first on the ground before I even realized that I had fallen. Fortunately, the only thing hurt was my pride. I have to learn to pick my feet up a little higher when I walk.

A local group around here has been formed, Republicans Against Perry.

The Democratic slate is large. I think there are 5 announced candidates. I can remember when they had to scrape to get one Dem to run for this seat.

And if the supremes uphold the CO ruling, does that make it so in the rest of the states?

It would seem to me that the supremes agreeing with CO would just open it up for other states to make the claim to take Trump off the ballot. However does anyone think that red states will file?

The Griffin case cited by that Washington Post article was a ruling by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase that was issued in his concurrent capacity as a federal circuit judge, which was then a common practice for SCOTUS justices of his era. Because it was NOT a decision of the entire Supreme Court, Griffin therefore lacks the full force and effect of stare decisis that would nominally accompany a SCOTUS ruling.

Further, I'd note that Chase had only months earlier issued an entirely contradictory ruling in his capacity as Chief Justice in U.S. v. Jefferson Davis, in which he held that the former Confederate political leader - who had several months prior been released from federal custody after being incarcerated without trial for over two years and was, by most all contemporary accounts, a broken man - could not be tried for treason because he was immunized by Section 3 of the 14th Amendment as a self-executing form of punishment.

Thus, Chase affirmed that Section 3 then operated as exclusive punishment for those ex-Confederate leaders who, by virtue of their former capacities as U.S. federal officials and military officers, had fundamentally violated their respective oaths of office and allegiance by engaging in insurrection against the United States.

Therefore, I would contend that Chief Justice Chase's ruling in Davis effectively precludes his subsequent conclusion in Griffin. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment is likewise self-executing in the same way that other self-executing provisions of law are, because the right to run for elective office is not considered a fundamental right under the U.S. Constitution and is subject to state law, since the states and not the federal government administer elections.

(In case law, the term "fundamental right under the Constitution" often tends to focus on an individual's economic right to pursue a livelihood, e.g., protection by the government of the enjoyment of life, and liberty, the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety.)

Summarizing an earlier conclusion by law professors William Baude and Michael Paulsen, Federal Judge Michael Luttig and Yale law professor Lawrence Tribe, both constitutional scholars, contend that "Section 3 [of the 14th Amendment] requires no legislation, criminal conviction, or other judicial action in order to effectuate its command." In other words, it is self-executing.

I will qualify with a caveat what I've said here by noting that I am not an attorney but rather, a current Ph.D. candidate in history who is quite familiar with Civil War-era cases such as U.S. v. Jefferson Davis, a good account of which can be found in Jill Lepore's recent article in The New Yorker.

If Peter G or Jeralyn have an issue with my interpretation, I'm sure they will provide further clarity.