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Mourning Stevens — and the process that put him on the Supreme Court, by Michael McGough

The Keene Sentinel 20 Jul 2019

Stevens’ nomination by President Ford in 1975 came at an unusual juncture in American politics ... Ford, who had an interest in demonstrating that his Justice Department wasn’t a political operation, appointed Edward H ... The salutary result is that the court is viewed as being above partisan politics....

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A Minister and a gentleman

Yahoo Daily News 20 Jul 2019

Politics is a much bigger canvas to operate and the difference that you can make to the lives of people is much greater than a civil servant ... I know him [Sinha] for more than three decades and initially I had a less than favourable impression of a bureaucrat who has given up the civil services to take up politics....

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Mob Lynchings & Age Old Religious Tolerance

Kashmir Observer 20 Jul 2019

Furthermore he assumed that the operationalization of political democracy based on the Universal Adult Franchise, i.e ... The Nehruvian state, in its practice of secularism, zealously guarded its right to intervene in the social sphere to check communal politics and bring about co-operation and harmony amongst different communities....

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The controversy over Bernie Sanders’s low-paid field staffers, explained

Vox 20 Jul 2019

But beyond the image problem for Sanders that field staff are hoping to exploit in order to get themselves a raise, it’s a case study in the power and the limits of Sanders’s less wonky, more moralistic version of left-wing politics ... This is, of course, just the Sanders campaign operating by the rules as written....

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Floundering NRA struggles to maintain its 2016 influence in 2020 race

CNN 20 Jul 2019

His unceremonious sacking stunned NRA board members, who saw Cox as a potential successor to LaPierre, and infuriated political staffers ... "Every Republican senator who matters has Chris' cell phone number," one GOP operative who worked closely with Cox on the political side told CNN ... "Senators didn't call Wayne," the GOP operative said of LaPierre....

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Bernie Sanders’ unionized campaign workers demand ‘living wage,’ other benefits to match candidate’s rhetoric

The Oregonian 20 Jul 2019

The workers also are demanding that health-insurance costs be fully paid for those making less than $60,000 per year and that the campaign pay for gas when staffers travel by car. It’s still rare for a political campaign, by nature a temporary operation, to be unionized, so Sanders deserves some living-up-to-his-rhetoric credit there ... @douglasmperry....

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Truth, Lies, and Will Van Spronsen

Dissident Voice 20 Jul 2019

But I think it’s so important to recognize that the reason we are in this situation is because of generations of mis-rule by both parties, generations of corruption, generations of the basic needs of the people being ignored or used for political games, without ever being addressed....

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Time to defend Americans

Mesabi Daily News 20 Jul 2019

Could it be some nefarious virus that is inflicting this mental defect that these council officials would choose to bow to ‘political sensibilities’ rather than honor and defend this country they were elected to serve? Apparently they’re even too dumb to resign ... To start with, the basic premise of their operations is 180 degrees off....

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For this US president, the race card is his trump card

The Irish Times 20 Jul 2019

Seasoned political operatives such as Ms Pelosi are aware of the strategy and how it might affect Democrats in next year’s elections ... Ultimately, this week saw Donald Trump emerge from the latest controversy stronger politically....

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Constitutional logjam develops in Karnataka

Deccan Chronicle 19 Jul 2019

Operation Topple mounted in Karnataka was a purely political game, even though Mr Yeddyurappa was seeking to make a mockery of the anti-defection law by inducing large-scale defections of MLAs since it is much easier to catch out individual defectors and punish them constitutionally. This political problem could have sorted itself out politically....

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Protecting Nigerian Airlines

This Day 19 Jul 2019

To observers, it was a form of aero-politics aimed at discouraging foreign operators on the route and thereby stem competition, knowing that if Air Peace continues to operate successfully, inevitably, the outrageous fares charged Nigerians would crash ... involved in aero politics....

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Is Twitter making it harder for Democrats to win in 2020?

CNN 19 Jul 2019

In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics ... Ditto the political operatives staffing these campaigns ... Twitter -- especially the way political partisans use it -- operates like a mob ... But this is politics. And politics is not always (often?) governed by logic....

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Editorial: New York's green light for ballot deception

Times Union 19 Jul 2019

Green Party officials say political operatives greased her victory by enrolling former Republicans as Greens well before the election ... We have argued previously that New York should end fusion balloting, which allows candidates to appear on multiple ballot lines, along with the ability of political parties to cross-endorse....