A politician got arrested for doing 116mph in a 45mph zone. Sentenced to 1000 hours of community service in lieu of prison, he devoted 500 of those hours to his own political campaign, obfuscating to the court about how he did his community service. He also not only texted a colleague about murdering other politicians, but when the recipient of the text messages objected, he called her to argue the point, insisting his opponents were worthy of assassination.
But the politician is Jay Jones, a Democrat in Virginia. So what would be a national news story were he a Republican with Manu Raju of CNN and others shoving microphones in the faces of congressmen on Capitol Hill demanding to know if they condemn him, will, instead, be a local story so local that even the major press outlets in Virginia try to avoid it.
Actual ERA facts:
—35 states voted to ratify within congressional deadline.
—5 of the 35 voted to unratify before deadline.
—Congress (maybe) added 3 years to the deadline. No new states.
—40 years later, 3 more states ratified.
=33 states (35-5+3) or 35 states BUT NOT 38.
I fully agree with the White House—these “protests” are antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous.
Add some tiki torches and it’s Charlottesville for these Jewish students.
To @Columbia President Minouche Shafik: do your job or resign so Columbia can find someone who will.
The primary “obstacles to peace” in Israel’s region are genocidal terrorists and corrupt PA leaders who repeatedly reject peace deals. Foreign observers who cannot keep this straight ought to refrain from interfering in the democracy of a sovereign ally.
Pentagon has now independently confirmed that it was an Islamic Jihad rocket. It also wasn’t the hospital, but the parking lot. And the 500 # is not reliable.
Yet this blood libel from a US Congresswoman is still up…
https://t.co/S9QH4s4CPn