Watson, Elsa Constance (Coito) May 6, 1933 - February 7, 2018 On February 7th, 2018, Elsa Constance (Coito) Watson passed away peacefully after a long il
Medals striking medals hanging from the necks of members of the Tallassee Swim Sharks provided a reason for a celebration at Tuesday’s Tallassee City Council meeting.
reelection. but after someone else has served as governor, they can come back and try again. but very few of them do. only one virginia governor has ever succeeded in that quest in 1965. democrat. bill godwin won the election for governor, and in 1963 he won the election for governor after switching parties, and running as a republican when we won the second time. terry mcauliffe has now run for governor of virginia three times, and won only once. but because he was a massive fundraiser for the clintons before he became a candidate himself, and then was also a massive fundraiser as a candidate, he was the democratic nominee for governor once again this year in the state of virginia. and in the final debate in the middle of a messy back and forth about what books should be allowed in public schools in virginia, terry mcauliffe held his own very well, and he did a reasonably good job in his
Nearly 20 years have passed since the United States went to war in the Middle East, but for the parents of children who never came home time is frozen still.
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We need a new rule. Just as no modern political leader is “Hitler,” no current U.S. government policy is “Jim Crow.”
By this point, every Internet kid is familiar with Godwin’s Law: That, as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of one or more participants being compared to Hitler/the Nazis approaches 100%.
But, here’s the thing: The second “clause” of the law per U.S. lawyer Bill Godwin himself is that the first person to make the Hitler comparison always loses the argument. Why? Because no current policy positions are in fact comparable to those held by Adolf Hitler, who was responsible for the Holocaust and the world’s only nuclear war while Supreme Leader of 3rd Reich Germany.