For decades, a significant faction of the Republican Party has been playing the long game with an eye on overturning Roe v Wade and ending abortions. It may not have even seemed a reality, so much as a means of driving supporters to the polls time after time with the false hope of eventually having all the political and judicial pieces in place.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), one of two Republicans on the House Jan. 6 committee, recently made public a letter mailed to his home threatening to kill him, his wife and his five-month-old child.
The right-wing political world is still reeling after the arrest of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog who was leading a surveillance team of six CBS Late Show staffers in the Longworth House Office Building.
The stark photos of former Vice President Mike Pence taking refuge in an underground parking garage to escape the insurrectionists on January 6, the fact there was a moment when the angry mob was unknowingly within 40 feet of the vice president, along with his ultimate decision not to leave the Capitol, but to remain until the electoral votes could be certified - in defiance of Donald Trump - have prompted some to characterize him as a hero.
Witnessing a homeless man or woman pushing a cart with all of their belongings raises a question in a teacher’s heart: could the right teacher at the right time in their early schooling have made a difference in their fate today?
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