After nearly a week of what seemed like unbridled chaos, the House of Representatives finally elected a Speaker. Today, the real work begins.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 01/09/2023 17:51:58 by TriSec)

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30 comments (Latest Comment: 01/06/2023 21:28:30 by BobR)

It's been said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That certainly seemed to be the case yesterday as 3 separate votes in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to deliver the Speakership to Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Actually, the results did change, and not in his favor. Perhaps we should reclassify that as the definition of desperation.

This has rarely happened in U.S. history (exceptions being 1855, 1923, and 1997-98). As one writer put it, The House Republican Circular Firing Squad Over Who Will Be Speaker Is a Vision of Things to Come:
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21 comments (Latest Comment: 01/04/2023 20:32:58 by Raine)

Late last year, in between Thanksgiving and the holidays, the last of the confederate statues was removed in Richmond, Virginia. Amid the chaos of the season, and the Mid-term elections, it might have been easy to miss.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 01/02/2023 22:50:31 by TriSec)

It is the final Friday of 2022. Let's try to send the year out with some fantastic beauty from a park on the other side of the globe.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 12/30/2022 23:38:08 by wickedpam)