Two senior House Democrats to retire
Posted By: Imright, 10/18/2021 8:21:00 PM
Two long-serving House Democrats, Reps. David Price (N.C.) and Mike Doyle (Pa.), announced Monday that they won't seek reelection next year.The two retirements come after House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) also announced last week that he won't seek reelection.Price and Doyle, as well as Yarmuth, represent safe Democratic seats that aren't expected at this point to be competitive in next year's midterm elections. But the retirement announcements come as Democrats are struggling to enact their domestic legislative agenda
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Soldier, Statesman, Infighter
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Soldier, statesman, and skilled bureaucratic infighter Colin Powell has died at 84.Born in Harlem in 1937 and raised in the Bronx, Powell grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood that included Italians, Jews, and African-Americans. In his youth, he picked up enough Yiddish that in 1993, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he greeted Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir with the words, “Men kent reden Yiddish” (we can speak Yiddish). Shamir was fluent in the language but unprepared for the words coming from a gentile American military man. Powell took advantage, saying, again in Yiddish, “Don’t you understand?”
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Times’ perverted coverage (and non-coverage)
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"General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," the Powell family said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page.
“He was fully vaccinated,” they added. “We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
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