Washington Post | October 15, 2016
The white flight of Derek Black - "He never used racial slurs. He didn't advocate violence or lawbreaking. He had won a Republican committee seat in Palm Beach County, Fla., where Trump also had a home, without ever mentioning white nationalism, talking instead about the ravages of political correctness, affirmative action and unchecked Hispanic immigration.

"He was not only a leader of racial politics but also a product of them. His father, Don Black, had created Stormfront, the Internet's first and largest white nationalist site, with 300,000 users and counting. His mother, Chloe, had once been married to David Duke, one of the country's most infamous racial zealots, and Duke had become Derek's godfather. They had raised Derek at the forefront of the movement, and some white nationalists had begun calling him 'the heir.'

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"Eight years later, that future they envisioned in Memphis was finally being realized in the presidential election of 2016. Donald Trump was retweeting white supremacists. Hillary Clinton was making speeches about the rise of white hate and quoting David Duke, who had launched his own campaign for the U.S. Senate.

"White nationalism had bullied its way toward the very center of American politics, and yet, one of the people who knew the ideology best was no longer anywhere near that center. Derek had just turned 27, and instead of leading the movement, he was trying to untangle himself not only from the national moment but also from a life he no longer understood."

While some people may actively embrace and espouse personal points of view which are indeed deplorable, the story of Derek Black's gradual intellectual enlightenment and emotional growth, which eventually compelled him to embark on an often very painful personal journey to escape the suffocating darkness of his family's own narrow-minded and intolerant world, shows us that nobody is truly irredeemable.

Yesterday, I saw an old guy on a city park bench dressed in a black jacket, black shirt, and black cap with a Waffen SS patch prominently displayed on the front of it.

I kid you not.

Our eyes met, and the only thing that kept me from sardonically addressing him as Herr Himmler, or blurting out something angrier like "you f*ckers aren't so tough now" was the thought that he might possibly be suffering from advanced dementia/senility..

For anyone who cares about progressives in the senate - this is the guy.  He voted against the Iraq war, and was the lone senator to oppose the Patriot Act, among many other awesome qualities.

A key member of Donald Trump's inner circle has contacted a media banker about the idea of setting up a new television network after the election, according to a published report.

The Financial Times reported that Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, contacted LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff about the idea. The report, citing people with knowledge of the matter, said the conversation was brief and hasn't progressed. But the report said the approach suggests that Kushner and the Republican candidate are looking at how to capitalize on their populist movement.

And someone has shut down their Internet access...

Three hours later, Zapotosky was compelled to retract his Tweet, when State Dept. spokesperson Mark Toner took vigorous issue with his now-public insinuation, told the reporter that the items in question were actually Mrs. Clinton's in the first place, and upbraided him for reporting out of context information from a Form 302 (Public Disclosure form) without first seeking further clarification.

In the meantime, Zapotosky's first tweet alleging theft was retweeted 156 times and received 135 likes, while his subsequent retraction was retweeted only 25 times and received only 38 likes.

Follow the money. Always.

Follow the money and it will lead you to a quid pro quo.

....or at least an attempt.

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This dumpster fire of a campaign has three weeks to go. For a tired nation and a deeply-wounded political process, the end can't come fast enough. Faced with the prospect of his impending loss, a humiliating one at that, Donald Trump has gone full Buzz Windrip, complete with conspiracy theories, angry rhetoric and a collection of malcontents in search of their own power. Daily, Trump now indicts and impugns the American electoral system with conspiracies enough to float a squadron of black helicopters.

Hillary Clinton, however, represents the status quo on many different levels. She is the embodiment of what so many Americans (and almost all Republicans) see as a country run by elites who truly care little for their well-being.

Regardless of how she walked back her "deplorable" comment and many of Trump's supporters are in fact deplorable, she meant what she said. The urban left has too little respect for suburban and rural America.

Sarah Weddington was 26 and, as a recent graduate of the University of Texas law school, had rarely taken on a contested lawsuit. She had only used her law degree to work on divorces and wills.

"It makes you grateful because all of us want to make a difference. And I know that I have."

Weddington represented "Jane Roe" of Roe vs. Wade, which altered the lives and health of women with the Supreme Court's decision on Jan. 22, 1973, affirming women's right to have an abortion.

"The next president will have a Supreme Court legacy comparable to that of Richard Nixon who filled four vacancies in a little more than two years."