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by Sarah Anderson, PJ Media: Over the last couple of months, something has been building in Venezuela. Donald Trump and his team have framed it generically as simply going after drug cartels, but I’m convinced there’s more to it. I’m convinced that we’re going to go after the country’s illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro — who […]

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1849 - First passenger train service to Peekskill, New York, operated by the New Haven Railroad 1933 - Little King, cartoon character by Van Beuren, debuts 1946 - First time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cardinals and Dodgers) 1960 - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK 1975 - Sharon Crews (now known as Sharon Dahlonega Bush) becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster on WPGR-TV in Detroit, Michigan 1979 - "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6 in the US, their third consecutive top ten single 1983 - "A Chorus Line" becomes the longest-running Broadway show with 3,389 performances 1988 - China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1227 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicates German emperor Frederick II 1789 - US War Department establishes a regular army 1927 - Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games in New York's 7-4 win against the Philadelphia A's and 15-4 rout of the Washington Senators 1957 - NFL NY Giants play their last game at the Polo Grounds, a 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh 2001 - Farm Aid 14 held in Noblesville, Indiana; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Doobie Brothers, and Martina McBride More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1893 - Phillips Tead, American character actor (The Front Page; Lightnin'; Fighting Blade; The Adventures of Superman - "Professor Pepperwinkle"), born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 1974) 1928 - Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, English politician and human rights advocate (Liberal MP for Orpington 1962-70), born in Orpington, England (d. 2016) 1956 - James Donald Halsell Jr, American retired USAF officer and astronaut (STS 65, 74, 83, 94), born in West Monroe, Louisiana 1970 - Emily Lloyd [Pack], British actress (Wish You Were Here; Cookie; In Country), born in London, England 1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer (Jeremy "Jez" Usborne- "Peep Show"), born in Boston, Lincolnshire More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1598 - Floris van Pallandt, Dutch Count of Culemborg, dies at about 61 1951 - Bradley Barker, American silent actor and film director, dies at 68 1989 - August A. "Gussie" Busch Jr., American brewing magnate (chairman Anheuser-Busch 1946-75) and baseball executive (owner St. Louis Cardinals 1953-89), dies at 90 2008 - Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), dies at 87 2019 - Larry Willis, American jazz pianist and composer, dies of an aneurysm at 76 More Famous Deaths »

Oregon Governor pushes back on President Trump’s order to deploy National Guard troops to Portland.

The impassioned discussion on Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic of course involved the Trump administration’s decision to indict former FBI director James Comey for lying to Congress. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg set the scene: "The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. Never in modern history has the president used the tools of state power so blatantly to punish his foes. Tonight, what all of this means for the future of American democracy, next…." Never? After Hayes of the right-leaning Dispatch (the show's token conservative journalist) agreed with a cued-up clip of Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb that Trump’s actions marked “a wholesale 180 from the norms of what made America different from third world dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and tyranny,” Hayes actually made the conservative point that this is nothing new historically and that Democratic administrations have previously abused the Justice Department. (NewsBusters would add that those Democratic administrations did so accompanied by either silence or approval from the corporate media.) Host Jeffrey Goldberg's pitch to Hayes was the epitome of smug liberalism. Jeffrey Goldberg: I need your expertise as a shrink here for a minute, not for me, by the way, but for constituency that you understand, the conservative voting constituency that you've covered for a long time. Why is there such acquiescence to the destruction of a not obscure norm? This is not -- we're not talking as a highly technical USDA rules that are changing slightly from administration to administration. We're talking about the defense of the idea that justice is blind and that the people who have the ability to change people's lives forever, their indictment, prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment, have no connection to the dispassion and impartiality that we've always held up to the rest of the world as a gift, as a symbol of our American advancement. Always? Hayes tapped the brakes on the liberal hysteria, bringing up the liberally sainted Kennedy administration, the IRS targeting the Tea Party under Obama, and the Democratic lawfare against Trump. Stephen Hayes: Well, I said that the way that they talk about it is unprecedented. And I said it that way for a reason. I do think there is precedent for these kinds of political prosecutions and targeting of political opponents. Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy went after radio -- used the IRS and the FCC to go after the rising Radio Right, which is what historian Paul Matzko calls these people. It was sort of the precursor to talk radio. And they said in an Oval Office conversation, in effect, go get them. Use the government to go get them. We saw during Barack Obama's administration, the IRS targeting conservative groups. You'd hear from a MAGA people that Joe Biden went after Donald Trump previously. I don't there are -- I'd say, supporting evidence is weak in that regard. But I would -- I think the prosecution in New York was a stretch, a lot of people who weren't -- Goldberg: The prosecution for Donald Trump, the one that led to the 34 convictions. Hayes: That led to the 34. So, what you'll hear from MAGA voters is this is the way that Washington always works. You're so naive that you're so precious that you think this is new and different. This is the way that it always works, and it's about time that we're getting -- Goldberg: All right. What is your answer to them? Hayes: It's not. It's not new and different. I mean, to a certain extent, you know, it's like the, you know, shock to find that they're gambling here. Of course, people use the levers of government to go after their political enemies for the reasons I just suggested. What I think makes this different is that he's so bold and aggressive and unapologetic about it. He's just announcing it in public…. NewsBusters’ Jeffrey Lord ran down some of the more recent historical details of Democratic lawfare and corruption.