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On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, that “I’ve been to the mountaintop” and “seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!” (About 20 hours later, King was felled by an assassin’s bullet at the Lorraine Motel.)
Did King have a premonition of his death?
Reported by the Associated Press. Speaking besides an empty podium that read “Anytime. Anywhere. Anyplace.” Donald Trump called on President Joe Biden to have a “good, solid, friendly debate” to discuss the “real problems of our country.”
President Biden MUST accept the challenge. The choice of the moderator. the time, and the place to determined.
I am proudly Woke!
The former vice president’s comments mark a stunning repudiation of his ex-boss and the president he served with.
Pence did not reveal who he’ll vote for in the 2024 general election, saying that he’ll keep “my vote to myself.” He, however, said he will “never vote” for President Joe Biden. Pence also suggested that he would not back a third-party candidate.
It is a good bet that he will vote for Trump. Pence showed he has no spine and couldn’t even stand up for his conservative principals.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Schumer, the first Jewish majority leader in the Senate and the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., strongly criticized Netanyahu in a 40-minute speech Thursday morning on the Senate floor. Schumer said the prime minister has put himself in a coalition of far-right extremists and “as a result, he has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.”
“Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah,” Schumer said.
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The problem is that Israel’s “religious right” hold the view that they have a divine right to all of Gaza. Some of those people have blocked the roads to stop the delivery of food and medical supplies to Palestinians.
“Sleepy Joe” is no more. At the State of the Union address on Thursday night, the 81-year-old president set out to defuse his biggest liability: deep-seated fears among millions of Americans that he’s too old to serve a second term.
The New York Times reported “Verbal swings at Donald Trump, though not by name. A spirited back-and-forth with G.O.P. lawmakers. And a loud and feisty delivery.”
Reuters reported “President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his case for re-election in a fiery State of the Union speech”
Associated Press reported “President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech”
CBS posted “In defiant 2024 State of the Union, Biden fires opening salvo in likely rematch with Trump”
Can the president keep up this start of the campaign in the defiant and feisty way he started all the way to November 5? He will have to if he hopes to win.
District attorneys in Sacramento, Fresno, San Joaquin, San Bernardino and San Diego counties are using similar blueprints: going after alleged fentanyl dealers for homicide rather than drug sales, in hopes that the threat of harsher criminal penalties will ease an opioid crisis that killed more than 7,300 Californians in 2022.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney says nothing about fentanyl dealers or the rash of smash and burglaries.
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