Photos chronicle a summer stay in New York for a group of young albino amputees from Tanzania: http://t.co/QG4zDLm77T pic.twitter.com/ZRni3H4Hev
— Chelsea Matiash (@cmatiash) August 24, 2015
One woman earned several offers after handing her resumé out on the street http://t.co/a7lDMawpNz pic.twitter.com/1D9qX0MyS5
— People magazine (@people) August 23, 2015This week, Donald J. Trump said that listening to Carly Fiorina, the only woman competing for the Republican presidential nomination, gave him “a massive headache.”Keep reading.
It was music to Mrs. Fiorina’s ears.
For months, the former Hewlett-Packard executive has tried to gain traction by pointedly attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton. But Mrs. Fiorina’s candidacy did not start to sizzle until her performance at last week’s second-tier Republican debate, where viewers realized that as the sole woman in a 17-candidate primary field, she was singularly qualified to stand up to Mr. Trump.
It is not a role Mrs. Fiorina necessarily wants to emphasize. “I don’t spend very much of my campaign time talking or thinking about Donald Trump,” she said in an interview Wednesday. But it is one she has embraced with the same fervor that she has employed against Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic Party front-runner.
It is not a role Mrs. Fiorina necessarily wants to emphasize. “I don’t spend very much of my campaign time talking or thinking about Donald Trump,” she said in an interview Wednesday. But it is one she has embraced with the same fervor that she has employed against Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic Party front-runner.
“Women understood” that Mr. Trump’s attack the day after the debate on the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, making a reference to bleeding that many people thought was an allusion to menstruation, was sexist, Mrs. Fiorina told a visibly squeamish Jake Tapper of CNN. “I’ve had lots of men imply that I was unfit for decision-making because maybe I was having my period. So I’ll say it, O.K?”
In a crowded Republican field, Mrs. Fiorina has delivered the most forceful and succinct denunciation of Mr. Trump’s comments, which sent a shudder through a party concerned that it would reinforce perceptions that it was increasingly out of touch with female voters.
Now, many Republicans, preparing to potentially confront Mrs. Clinton in a general election, are looking anew at Mrs. Fiorina, who rose from being a secretary to running the giant technology company HP, as the party’s weapon to counter the perception that it is waging a “war on women.”
“People feel Carly has clearly demonstrated she is a very powerful operator, has a lot of strengths of conviction and is willing to take Hillary — and now even Trump — on very directly,” said Katie Packer Gage, a political strategist who focuses on helping Republicans connect with women.
Asked whether she was willing to play the role of telegenic poster girl of the Republican presidential field, Mrs. Fiorina said, “I know Hillary Clinton wants to paint the entire Republican Party with the broad brush of Donald Trump’s comments, but it’s not clear to me that Donald Trump is a Republican.”
• Bad move….Kelly and her partners were bent upon getting Trump. Priebus ‘n Rove will be orgasmic over it.Keep reading.
• Erick I am on your side usually but this is a big mistake… Megan Kelly came out with with full intent to smear a leading republican candidate, I have never seen such a disrespectful one sided attack from a debate mediator in my lifetime. Trump handled it well,..If we bow to this you can grantee that CNN, ABC, NBC, etc… pansy media will do the same to any and every candidate we put forward.
• I have lost all respect for you Erick. You are another sellout. You have also fallen into the politically correct trap. • What in the hell were you thinking, Erick? Did the establishment get to you as well? What did they pay you to turn on conservatism and “get in line”? you took a step away from we the people today and a giant leap toward being a part of the ruling class…maybe you want a seat at the table when the Washington Cartel meets next. But one thing is for sure. You made a HUGE miscalculation here.
• I’m sorry, but dis inviting Trump was a mistake. The current GOP line up are RINOs, finger to the wind types, and general compromisers. Trump is the one candidate capable of thwarting Jebs money machine and Roves manipulations without having to make a deal.
• What a sophomoric more, Eric. I’m really stunned at you. Here you have a great forum and could have ask pretty much any question -live- you might have wanted of Trump, but, no. You now fall completely in line with the GOPe and begin to demonstrate where you really stand.
It’s not over. And it’s likely to end badly.Keep reading.
In an interview on CNN last night, Donald Trump suggested that Megyn Kelly’s tough questioning was inspired by her menstrual cycle. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes,” Trump told CNN's Don Lemon on Friday night. “Blood coming out of her—wherever.”
He refused to apologize, of course, but after widespread condemnation, Trump, who is running on candor and straight talk, sought to explain his comments in a Tweet. “Re Megyn Kelly quote: ‘you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever’ (NOSE). Just got on w/thought.’”
It’s a comment that might end any other presidential campaign. Trump is different, in part because this isn’t a campaign. It’s an extended media-driven ego ride.
From the beginning, he’s played by different rules because the media have let him. Trump works just blocks from the headquarters of the major broadcast and cable outlets. But as he’s rolled out his Trump for President brand, he has gotten journalists to come to him. He sits for interviews in the gilded atrium of Trump Towers, a nice home field advantage and one that sets him apart from the other politicians sitting in boring studios.
Trump has conducted frequent telephone interviews on cable networks, sometimes several times a day, and last weekend did “phoners” on two Sunday morning political shows. (Has any other candidate this cycle, in either party, been given an opportunity to do a television interview by phone?) If he were asked policy questions, the arrangement would give him an unfair advantage, with the opportunity to answer questions with a cheat sheet in front of him and Google at his fingertips. But substantive questions about the country and its problems are the exceptions in Trump’s conversations with journalists, who prefer to ask him about his latest controversial comment or seek to provoke the next one by asking him about his opponents. (Trump’s comments about Kelly didn’t provoke any follow-up questions from CNN host Don Lemon, whose interview with Trump continued for several more minutes). So the cycle continues: Trump says something outrageous that may or may not have any relevance to serving as president, he’s asked about it in a largely substance-free interview, and ratings climb—along with Trump’s name ID and poll ratings.
Trump is right, sadly, when he boasts that he is partly responsible for the 24 million viewers who tuned into the debate Thursday night. He has convinced himself that people watch because they love him and in a limited sense, he’s probably right about that, too. While I suspect that the Trump hype is driven by curiosity more than admiration, there is no doubt some segment of the population that is properly understood now as “Trump supporters.” That segment is small and will be shrinking in the coming weeks, but it won’t disappear.
The true Trump apologists are way too far in now. They've invested too much to bail on him. So his defenders will become increasingly desperate to convince people that this is all part of the establishment's failure to understand their anger and the media's failure to appreciate Trump’s appeal.
That’s backwards. It's not that the media haven’t failed to give Trump enough credit; we’ve given his supporters too much...
Never look at history thru ego of the moment you live in; it distorts history's realities http://t.co/Oy2PERUuq8 pic.twitter.com/HMbbSoYHTo
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) July 5, 2015It's not hard to imagine how life was conducted in 1776 as you stand where 56 men signed a document severing them from Great Britain.Still more.
River rock remains the bumpy surface for the grid of streets between old buildings that grandly stand more than 200 years after serving as the seat of defiance, rebellion and, yes, treason.
Today, kids on field trips bounce between tourists eager to connect with and understand the past. They all walk through the interconnecting yards of structures where history was made — the Declaration of Independence was signed here, the cracked Liberty Bell lay in state there, the old City Tavern still serves mugs of stout and Ben Franklin lies in his final resting place.
When we look back from the distance of time, it all seems so regal, so uncluttered from today's political battles raging on social media or among panels of partisans on cable news.
Nothing could be further from the truth; so much divisional politics existed in 1776 that it makes us look like amateurs.
All the past divisions we forget should serve as a warning to never look at history through the ego of the moment you live in; it distorts history's realities.
Historians often caution that to declare you live in the worst of times is to not know history at all.
We run a dangerous risk when we hide parts of the fabric of who we were just because it makes us uncomfortable. We can't learn from our mistakes if we take objects off the shelf that offend us in a Gettysburg gift shop, at Wal-Mart or online at Amazon.
Doing so does our Republic damage, with its hasty perception of political correctness. History is not politically correct — not in 1861, not in 1961, not today; it is messy and it is hateful but it is the chronicle of our progression.
Understanding history means understanding mistakes, even atrocities, and shows us why we shouldn't repeat them...
As manhunt nears 2nd week, upstate New Yorkers adjust to ‘siege mentality’ http://t.co/02HK275AE2 pic.twitter.com/6dVgS3G8yf
— WSJ Greater New York (@WSJNY) June 12, 2015CADYVILLE, N.Y.— Ken Snyder refused to waste a perfect sunny afternoon and spent it reseeding his lawn, despite a manhunt under way behind his home in this rural corner of upstate New York.Yep, regular Americans "getting their guns ready." There's nothing the left hates more than proud, independent, self-sufficient citizens looking out for their own.
It wasn’t a typical day of yardwork for the 70-year-old retiree.
On Thursday, as helicopters buzzed overhead and a small army of heavily armed police lined a nearby country road, Mr. Snyder was ready if the two convicted murderers who escaped from a state prison emerged from the woods backing up to his property.
Inside his garage were two phones should he need to call for help. In his laundry room, on the washer and dryer, was a loaded rifle with extra ammunition. Upstairs in the bedroom: another rifle.
Mr. Snyder, who reckons the escapees are likely far from the prison by now, said he is less anxious than his wife, who suggested using chairs to barricade the doors they never used to lock.
“People just want to be back to normal,” he said.
As an intensive search for Richard Matt, 48 years old, and David Sweat, 34, nears its second week, some residents in the area surrounding the Clinton Correctional Facility expressed increasing weariness with what has seemed at times to be a siege mentality in the bucolic countryside surrounding the prison in Dannemora, N.Y.
“People are on such a heightened alert that if there’s just the simplest thing out of the norm, especially in that area right now, they’re calling it in and we’re following up,” Andrew Wylie, the Clinton County district attorney, said in an interview Friday.
Residents and business owners in Pennsylvania’s Monroe County, in the Poconos resort area, know how it feels to live in the middle of a manhunt.
The rural county was the epicenter of a seven-week search for Eric Frein , a local resident accused of shooting two state troopers—one fatally—before fleeing into the woods last September.
“It was abnormal, but we went along with our day-to-day,” said Barrett Township Supervisor John Seese. “If they had an area that was closed off, you just didn’t go there that day.”
Ray Cawolsky, who owns a deli in nearby Mountainhead, said he best remembers two contrasting sounds from that manhunt: the quiet of a stifled tourist season and the roar of search helicopters.
“It was a lot of helicopters flying over 24 hours a day, armored vehicles running up and down the road,” Mr. Cawolsky said. “We had state police for customers, but we lost all our tourists. Everyone was afraid to come here.”
Fall is a busy season for Poconos business owners, who cater to tourists visiting to hike, leaf peep or hunt. But outdoor activity was severely restricted during the search, and the hunting season was canceled altogether.
In upstate New York, it remains unclear how the efforts to find Mr. Matt and Mr. Sweat will pan out. It may mean a short-term boon for area hotels and restaurants and may boost overtime pay for law-enforcement officers involved, but it also could strain government budgets.
For now, many locals said they are adapting to the immediate threat. They are locking their doors and windows while some, like Mr. Snyder, have been getting their guns ready...
CASPER, Wyo.—Few people noticed the 74-year-old in the tan Stetson at a high-school rodeo here. Dick Cheney was happy to blend in.Keep reading.
That is about to change. The former vice president is looking to make a splash on the national stage with a new book to be published in September and a group he and his daughter Liz launched to advance their views.
The effort is sure to play directly into the 2016 presidential debate, in which national-security policy is already a point of difference between the Republican candidates, many of whom are looking to turn the page on George W. Bush’s administration.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds, Mr. Cheney previewed some of his likely positions:
• He characterized one leading GOP contender, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, as an isolationist. “He knows I think of him as an isolationist, and it offends him deeply,” Mr. Cheney said. “But it’s true.”
• An early critic of nuclear talks with Iran, he thinks the U.S. should be prepared to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. He also favors additional arms shipments to U.S. allies in Eastern Europe and further military exercises in Poland to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• And he scoffed at the debate that tripped up Mr. Bush’s brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, over whether or not he would have invaded Iraq with the virtue of hindsight. (Mr. Bush, after some back and forth, eventually said he wouldn’t). Mr. Cheney instead said Republicans should scrutinize the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq under President Barack Obama.
Mr. Cheney’s overarching message, and the theme of the book he is co-authoring with his daughter Liz Cheney, is that the U.S. needs to assert itself more on the world stage. “We thought, looking forward to 2016, it was very important to make sure those issues were front and center in the campaign,” he said.
By weighing in, Mr. Cheney is bound to make himself a flash point in the 2016 debate, stoking further questions about which policies of the George W. Bush administration Republicans embrace and which they reject, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the bulk collection of phone records and interrogation policy. That could prove particularly uncomfortable for Jeb Bush, who has struggled to define himself apart from his brother.
Mr. Cheney already exerts quiet influence over his party, making semiregular trips to the Capitol to address House Republicans and advising some GOP White House hopefuls. He wouldn’t discuss those conversations. Two of his top foreign-policy aides have signed on with Jeb Bush. And he is headlining donor events all over the country for the Republican National Committee.
“The party is very fortunate to have an active and engaged Dick Cheney for this upcoming political cycle,” said Reince Priebus, the party’s chairman, noting the number of candidates and elected officials who turn to the former vice president for advice. “He’s a top fundraising draw, in high demand.”
Holly Shulman, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, said “there’s no one happier about Dick Cheney becoming a foreign policy surrogate than we are…If he needs any assistance getting out his message, our team would be happy to help book him for interviews.”
