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A Republican’s Take: Hegseth Has to Go
Sen. Mark Kelly (L) and Secretary Pete Hegseth (R). Courtesy photos Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that Sen. Mark Kelly, a sitting United States Senator who is also a retired U.S. Navy Captain; an officer with a distinguished career of military and civilian service to the United States, is to be punished; publicly, by demotion, by attachment of a censure to his military record and a resulting reduction in his well-deserved military pension. Why?
East Kilbride man captains Scotland Amputee Football National Team to glory - Daily Record
'Embarrassing...' Celtic fans react to what they are hearing out of Rangers overnight What a weekend it has been for Celtic supporters. The same can’t be said for those in Rangers colours, because once again, history is repeating itself. …
The unusual metabolism of germinal center B cells
Keywords germinal center B cell metabolism The GC reaction GCs (see Glossary) are microanatomical structures formed within secondary lymphoid organs in response to immunogenic stimuli. GCs generate long-lived plasma cells (LLPCs) and memory B cells [1]. Following activation, B cells may participate in either the extrafollicular response or the GC reaction. In the extrafollicular response, B cells migrate outside the follicle and differentiate into short-lived plasmablasts [2–4].
Crypto: Elon Musk’s DOGE vs. the Constitution: Political Witch Hunt or Power Play?
Washington, March 19, 2025—A federal judge has thrown a wrench into Elon Musk’s audacious plan to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through his White House task force, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution’s Appointments Clause and separation of powers, siding with 26 unnamed USAID employees and contractors.
Property with a History: Misquamicut club scene once helped to launch major bands
Steve Smith, lead singer for The Naked Truth, looked out over a sea of faces at the Blue Sands night club in Misquamicut as hundreds of people dropped to the floor to do the happy lobster dance. “It was just crazy to see 300 to 400 people out there rolling on their backs with their arms and legs wiggling in the air,” he said.
Spies, Hurricanes and Fire: Taylor Swift's grand Watch Hill 'cottage' has survived them all
They called it a summer cottage, but the sprawling 35-room mansion that Mrs. George Grant “Pearl” Snowden built in 1930 atop one of the highest points in Watch Hill was certainly far more than that. Holiday House, as she named it, sits on the edge of a 56-foot-high sandy bluff, with spectacular 360-degree views from Block Island Sound to Long Island Sound to Little Narragansett Bay. On a clear day from the widow’s walk, visitors can see Newport, Block Island, Fishers Island and Montauk Point, NY.
Spies, Hurricanes and Fire: Watch Hill’s grand cottage has survived them all
They called it a summer cottage, but the sprawling 35-room mansion that Mrs. George Grant “Pearl” Snowden built in 1930 atop one of the highest points in Watch Hill was certainly far more than that. Holiday House, as she named it, sits on the edge of a 56-foot-high sandy bluff, with spectacular 360-degree views from Block Island Sound to Long Island Sound to Little Narragansett Bay. On a clear day from the widow’s walk, visitors can see Newport, Block Island, Fishers Island and Montauk Point, NY.
Meet the local revolutionaries who called for a break with Britain
Long before cars rushed along Rockville’s West Jefferson Street on their way to Interstate 270, and before the English Georgian-style Grey Courthouse dominated South Washington Street, a modest four-room, 1½-story log and clay building stood near the current intersection of the two streets. It was inside Charles Hungerford’s tavern on June 11, 1774, that a group of 10 men describing themselves as a “respectable and numerous body” led the area in its first steps toward revolution.
Renovating an icon: Upcoming work breathing new life into Westerly’s former Girl Scout House
To look at it today, you’d never know that the dilapidated brown shingle building that was once the Girl Scout House at 23 Elm Street in Westerly was originally a beautiful church with spires, stained glass windows and many ornate touches. It was, until the Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England acquired it in 1948, home to the Calvary Baptist Church. And for the next 50 years, hundreds - perhaps thousands - of young Girl Scouts attended regular meetings there.
Renovating an icon: Recent work breathing new life into Westerly’s former Girl Scout House
To look at it today, you’d never know that the dilapidated brown shingle building that was once the Girl Scout House at 23 Elm Street in Westerly was originally a beautiful church with spires, stained glass windows and many ornate touches. It was, until the Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England acquired it in 1948, home to the Calvary Baptist Church. And for the next 50 years, hundreds - perhaps thousands - of young Girl Scouts attended regular meetings there.
The Little Town in Illinois That Helped Decide the Civil War
In the anxious days that followed the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Illinois Governor Richard Yates worried in particular about a disease-ridden little town jutting into the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Flood-prone Cairo (pronounced “Kay-row”), located at the far southern end of Illinois in a region of the state nicknamed “Egypt,” didn’t amount to much.
Farmhouse Revival: Renovation in full swing at Pawcatuck’s historic Stanton-Davis homestead
STONINGTON — Drive down Greenhaven Road in Pawcatuck too quickly and you might miss the oldest continuously operating farm in Connecticut. The Stanton-Davis Homestead, built by Thomas Stanton in 1677, sits back from the road, at the apex of a sharp curve. The two-story home, built in the Colonial style, faces away from the street, toward what was once a sweeping view across a peninsula of land that stretches from the Pawcatuck River to Little Narragansett Bay (today much of that is forested).
Government Shutdowns: How We Got Here
Today’s budget wars would be unrecognizable to earlier generations of Americans. A veteran reporter on government looks at the history of shutdowns and battles over the budget. Editor's Note: Charles S. Clark spent 40 years as a reporter for The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, and other publications. He recently authored “George Washington Parke Custis: A Rarefied Life in America’s First Family,” and writes a weekly column for the Falls Church News-Press.
The Ultimate Congressional Scandal
Crédit Mobilier, one of the worst outrages in the history of Congress, affected national elections and gave “the Gilded Age” its name. Editor’s Note: Robert Mitchell is an editor with the Washington Post News Service and the author of two books on American history, including Congress and the King of Frauds: Corruption and the Credit Mobilier Scandal at the Dawn of the Gilded Age, from which he adapted this essay.
A grand estate restored: The Margin Street Inn
WESTERLY — When Sarah and Chris Cooper opened the Margin Street Inn in May 2018, they were continuing a tradition started by Nancy (Perry) Kelley, who first opened the historic Charles Perry family homestead at 4 Margin St. in 1989 as a way to pass the time during the summers, when her husband Rockie would go away for extended fishing trips in Alaska.
Only 5 House members have ever been expelled. Here's who they were.
While the list of rogues, rascals and reprobates who have served in the House of Representatives is lengthy, the chamber has used its constitutionally granted power to throw out members only five times in its 234-year history. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) faces calls for his expulsion after numerous reports that he fabricated his resume and biography. On Thursday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) introduced a resolution to kick him out of Congress.
Biosensors for healthcare: current and future perspectives
Box 1 Biosensors and their short history According to the Gold Book of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), a biosensor ‘is a device that uses specific biochemical reactions mediated by bioreceptors, such as isolated enzymes, immunosystems, tissues, organelles or whole cells, to detect chemical compounds, typically by electrical, thermal or optical signals’ [ 1. McNaught A.D. Wilkinson A. IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology. 2nd edn.
The Ultimate Congressional Scandal
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The senator who said no to a seat on the Supreme Court - twice
A member of his own party mocked his "grandiloquent swell" and "turkey-gobbler strut." A former senator, discovering him in the company of the ex-senator's wife, threatened to kill him. He despised good-government reformers. But Roscoe Conkling turned them both down - once for the chief justice job and once after his appointment had already been confirmed by the Senate. Most of the men and women offered the chance to serve on the high court react with humility and awe.
Strategic Implications of Battle at Khe Sanh
Throughout military history, certain battles are key turning points in any war. The 77-day siege of Khe Sanh, beginning on 21 January 1968, was one such battle and signaled the beginning of the end for the President, General Westmoreland, and the Vietnam War. The siege of Khe Sanh was one of many tactical battles fought during the 10-year Vietnam War.
Commentary: Designate land at 995 Morrison for affordable housing before it's too late
Gentrification has driven African Americans out of their neighborhoods, and there is an urgent, if not dire, need for affordable and workforce housing, yet a recent editorial on 995 Morrison Drive urged Charleston County Council to move slowly on designating the property for exactly that purpose. The Sept. 28 editorial cites two illogical reasons why council should proceed slowly. First, it cites the need for more financial information because of a county land deal that went bad 20 years ago.
The History of Presidential Mi..(Feb 21,Vol:66 Issue:2)
Distinguished historians have written twenty essays on alleged misconduct in Presidential administrations since George Washington. In 1974, a team of other historians and I assisted the impeachment investigation of Richard Nixon by documenting “misdeeds” in each Presidential administration. In the early months of 1974 the House Judiciary Committee was navigating through unchartered waters as it investigated President Richard M.
A presidential election history lesson: Americans often waited days or weeks for the outcome
ROBERT MITCHELL THE WASHINGTON POST November 4, 2020, 10:18AM Updated 3 hours ago Americans accustomed to learning on election night who their next president will be may mistakenly think, along with President Donald Trump, that the law requires a winner to be proclaimed that evening. "I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of an election in a modern-day age of computers," said Trump, who also vowed to challenge the results in court.
A presidential election history lesson: Americans often waited days or weeks for the outcome
Americans accustomed to learning on election night who their next president will be may mistakenly think, along with President Trump, that the law requires a winner to be proclaimed that evening. Trump attacked the integrity of the electoral system early Wednesday morning, claiming victory in the election even though millions of ballots had yet to be counted. He vowed to go to the Supreme Court to keep them from being counted.
Being Stained by the Credit Mobilier Corruption Scandal
This 1873 political cartoon, titled "Injured Innocents," depicts Uncle Sam scolding party participants for eating his cake, which is labeled "Credit Mobilier." (North Wind Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo) By Robert B. Mitchell October 27, 2020 The ambitious Ohio Republican dreaded being caught up with congressmen in complicated railroad scheme Wracked with dread on a wintry Tuesday evening in 1873, U.S. Representative James A. Garfield retreated to the pages of his diary.
Being Stained by the Credit Mobilier Corruption Scandal
The ambitious Ohio Republican dreaded being caught up with congressmen in complicated railroad scheme Wracked with dread on a wintry Tuesday evening in 1873, U.S. Representative James A. Garfield retreated to the pages of his diary. “At 11 o’clock went before the Credit Mobilier Investigating Committee and made a statement of what I know concerning the Company,” Garfield, 41, wrote. “I am too proud to confess to any but my most intimate friends how deeply this whole matter has grieved me.
Disputed presidential elections: A guide to 200 years of ballot box ugliness
Allegations of vote fraud. Charges of corrupt power grabs. Fears of civil strife by angry partisans. Ripped from today’s headlines? Yes – and no. While it is unusual for charges of election chicanery to precede the balloting, as they are this year, the spectacle of a closely fought presidential contest whose outcome is challenged as illegitimate is almost as old as the republic itself.
Disputed presidential elections and voter fraud allegations predate Trump by 200 years
Before President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden debate Tuesday night, here is a look at the aftermath of four close contests over two centuries that stand out as particularly bitter — and could foreshadow what happens after Nov. 3.
The president had been shot. Then the White House lied about his condition as he slowly died.
More than a month after an attempted assassination left President James A. Garfield seriously wounded, the news from the White House was very encouraging. “The president has passed an excellent night, sleeping sweetly the greater part of the time without the aid of morphia” or other painkillers, according to the official morning bulletin from White House physicians published in the New York Tribune on Aug. 7, 1881.
‘What’s the matter with Kansas?’ William Allen White, Emporia Gazette editor, coined phrase in 1896
The young man stormed into his office, his face red with fury. It was a summer Saturday in Emporia, Kan., in 1896. Like many other Americans, William Allen White, editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette, was fixated on the presidential election pitting Republican William McKinley against Democrat and Populist hero William Jennings Bryan. But on that day, the political strife of the presidential campaign was far from his mind.
OPINION EXCHANGE | A lesson from 1896 for Bernie Sanders backers
On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., suspended his campaign for president, clearing the way for former Vice President Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee and likely deeply dividing Sanders’ devoted supporters and even his advisers. Some advisers and supporters will probably cheer the move, seeing it as a way to avoid a debilitating party feud that could hurt Biden in the fall campaign against President Donald Trump.
Bernie Sanders' campaign is over, but his populist ideas will survive
Updated April 9, 2020 4:00 PM On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., suspended his campaign for president, clearing the way for former vice president Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee and likely deeply dividing Sanders' devoted supporters and even his advisers. Some advisers and supporters will probably cheer the move, seeing it as a way to avoid a debilitating party feud that could hurt Biden in the fall campaign against President Donald Trump.
Perspective | Bernie Sanders’s campaign is over, but his populist ideas will survive
On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suspended his campaign for president, clearing the way for former vice president Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee and likely deeply dividing Sanders’s devoted supporters and even his advisers. Some advisers and supporters will probably cheer the move, seeing it as a way to avoid a debilitating party feud that could hurt Biden in the fall campaign against President Trump.
Baby Boy Born Chelsey Knight And Robert Mitchell - The Gilman Star: Birthdays
Chelsey Knight and Robert Mitchell of Buckley are parents of a baby boy, Lex Wesley. Lex was born Friday, Nov. 15, at 4:35 p.m. at Gibson Area Hospital. Posted in Birthdays on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 2:43 pm.
Police investigate shooting at Amtrak parking lot in Rutland
Police on the scene of a reported shooting at the Amtrak station in Rutland Police are investigating a shooting that occurred around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning at the Amtrak station parking lot in downtown Rutland. A bystander reported hearing multiple shots fired just off Evelyn Street, with police chasing a car into the Amtrak parking lot. At around 8 a.m., multiple city and state police units were on scene, as well as two ambulances from Regional Ambulance and a crime scene investigation unit.
Man arrested for shooting at woman in car
A local man is scheduled to be arraigned today after being accused of almost killing a woman after police said he fired a gun at her car on Monday morning. Scott Sweet, 56, of Rutland, is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday in Rutland criminal court on charges of second-degree attempted manslaughter, aggravated assault, aggravated disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment and unlawful mischief.
Thomas Jefferson's 'mammoth cheese': Dairy farmers gave the president a White House gift
The president’s foes dubbed it the ‘Mammoth Cheese’ This cheese is way smaller than the one presented to President Thomas Jefferson. (Victoria Fogg/The Washington Post) July 14 at 7:00 AM In the waning days of 1801, a Baptist preacher arrived in Washington with an unusual — and very large — token of esteem for President Thomas Jefferson. In modern parlance, Elder John Leland of Cheshire, Mass., could be called a Jefferson fanboy.
Joe
If you crossed a chipmunk with a squirrel would the new critter be called a Chipirrel or a Squirmunk? Not sure why it was necessary to share that. Joe Gelarden is an old friend. Not that he is old and a friend, but that we have known each other for some time. A while back, when he felt a desire to get back in the newspaper ring, he gave me a call. He had just taken a job at the Coastal Journal in Bath and was looking for some different ways to entertain the reading public.
Joe
If you crossed a chipmunk with a squirrel would the new critter be called a Chipirrel or a Squirmunk? Not sure why it was necessary to share that. Joe Gelarden is an old friend. Not that he is old and a friend, but that we have known each other for some time. A while back, when he felt a desire to get back in the newspaper ring, he gave me a call. He had just taken a job at the Coastal Journal in Bath and was looking for some different ways to entertain the reading public.
Crystal
Anyone who visits Blue Tin Farm (always call ahead) will instantly notice the soothing karma of happy animals. You very well may be greeted, as you enter the driveway, by two enormous Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, Rosie and Charlie. Believe it or not, this breed of pig was so diminished in number that they were considered critically endangered. This lucky couple, often found reclining in cool, soft earth, is far from endangered. They are wonderfully docile and curious and friendly.
Crystal
Anyone who visits Blue Tin Farm (always call ahead) will instantly notice the soothing karma of happy animals. You very well may be greeted, as you enter the driveway, by two enormous Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, Rosie and Charlie. Believe it or not, this breed of pig was so diminished in number that they were considered critically endangered. This lucky couple, often found reclining in cool, soft earth, is far from endangered. They are wonderfully docile and curious and friendly.
Calm
Some photographs need no explanation. They are just what they are—a moment in time that is. Little else. So that is why I won’t bother you with how I came to make this week’s image completely drenched on my way home to Southport from a trip to the dump, oops ... dating myself — refuse disposal facility. I was dutifully employed as a trash disposal expert to accumulate some long held possessions and escort them to aforementioned facility.
Calm
Some photographs need no explanation. They are just what they are—a moment in time that is. Little else. So that is why I won’t bother you with how I came to make this week’s image completely drenched on my way home to Southport from a trip to the dump, oops ... dating myself — refuse disposal facility. I was dutifully employed as a trash disposal expert to accumulate some long held possessions and escort them to aforementioned facility.
Memories
Occasionally, when I am not looking, something will slip into my field of view unexpectedly, and with it will come a batch of recollections. Memories. And there will be a moment of remembering about a time or place or an event not thought about. A sliver of light, a reflection, a shape, sometimes even just a color, and then a cascade of neatly tucked away images that awaken from long ago, or perhaps not so long ago, recently overlooked.
Memories
Occasionally, when I am not looking, something will slip into my field of view unexpectedly, and with it will come a batch of recollections. Memories. And there will be a moment of remembering about a time or place or an event not thought about. A sliver of light, a reflection, a shape, sometimes even just a color, and then a cascade of neatly tucked away images that awaken from long ago, or perhaps not so long ago, recently overlooked.
Thank you
What a wonderful stretch of days! The weather. The weather. The weather. It seemed so much better, too, because of constant wet and chilly. A welcomed change. And there was plenty of outside stuff to do. So many tasks it was difficult to know where to start. So I started by helping my wife clean a cottage she manages on Spruce Point for John Druce. I washed windows, vacuumed and swept pine needles off the patio, stripped the bed and gathered used towels from the bathroom.
Thank you
What a wonderful stretch of days! The weather. The weather. The weather. It seemed so much better, too, because of constant wet and chilly. A welcomed change. And there was plenty of outside stuff to do. So many tasks it was difficult to know where to start. So I started by helping my wife clean a cottage she manages on Spruce Point for John Druce. I washed windows, vacuumed and swept pine needles off the patio, stripped the bed and gathered used towels from the bathroom.
Ella and Hamilton
I first met Ella Beauregard at Hendricks Head Beach on Southport. I was enjoying low tide and making some photos when Ella came walking down from her house with a chicken under each arm. Ella and her parents, Mike Beauregard and Pam Pearce, lived in Ruth Gardner’s place, now better known as “the land for Southport’s future.” Ella might have been 10 years old then.
Browns
I was “working out” on the riding lawnmower (where I do much of my “creative” thinking) the other day, and recalled how many times I thought it would be fun to do a picture book about the Browns, and browns, of Maine. Brown people, brown fields, brown earth, brown trees, brown buildings — all things that are brown, including Brownville! Ken Brown wasn't too keen on the idea but I've never mentioned it to the Browns with whom I made this week's photo last year.
Jacob Pike
The Jacob Pike will be 70 years old this year, just like me. Happy birthday to us. But, unlike me, Robbie Begin, Linc Simmons and a crew headed by Tony Finnocchiaro, the Jacob Pike can be reconstructed. I'm afraid it would take more than a few new planks to help my career! The Jacob Pike is one of a batch of similarly designed vessels that have worked the Northeast coasts over the years. The wooden sardine carrier was built for Moses Bernard Pike of Lubec.
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