it s that time of year when yearbooks come out and everyone gets to pour over pictures of their classmates and quietly judge their haircuts and senior quotes. you get to look back and remember when certain classmates seem so nbt and others seem so awkward and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style. who could have known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington this week. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy posing with almost all of his living predecessors. there is newt gingrich, of course, who was speaker of the house from 1995 to 1999. there s nancy pelosi who was speaker 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to this year. there is john boehner speaker 20 # 1 to 2515. and then there s kevin mccarthy the current speaker of the house. if you re wondering about the years 19991 and 2007 that is when dennis has rt is speaker of house. and he s very much al
and then there s kevin mccarthy the current speaker of the house. if you re wondering about the years 19991 and 2007 that is when dennis has rt is speaker of house. and he s very much alive but he stopped getting invited to these photo-ops after he was convicted of a serial child molester. just like a lot of other class photos this one offers insight into the passage of time. it started back in 1995 when newt gingrich became the first republican speaker of the house in 34 years. the republican presidencies of eisenhower and nixon and ford and reagan and george h.w. bush,
got from the fbi s human resource division listed a few things one of which being my refusal to participate in lawful arrests, which was the january 6th, which, again, i didn t refuse, i said i had only a conflict of interest, conscientious objection. before i get into the substance of what mr. friend is saying here, it is important to take a moment to acknowledge mr. friend is saying this on the russian state propaganda network rt, and this clip is from december which was nearly a year into russia s war of aggression in ukraine, and this is mr. friend s network of choice. anyway, let us look at the arrest in which mr. friend claims he was a conscientious objector. the new york times claims he declined to take part in the arrests for a man named tyler bench. here is what mr. bench wore from