Japan marked the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday, with the city’s mayor inviting world leaders to see atomic bomb-scarred cities firsthand to be convinced that nuclear weapons should not exist. Speaking before a crowd of survivors, their descendants and dignitaries including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, the mayor urged U.S. President Barack Obama and others to visit, referring to a proposal made at a ministerial meeting in April of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative in Hiroshima.
Speaking before a crowd of survivors, their descendants and dignitaries including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, the mayor urged U.S. President Barack Obama and others to visit, referring to a proposal made at a ministerial meeting in April of the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative in Hiroshima.
As yet, though, these would-be picketers don't appear to have settled on a cause celebre. Previous polling from CNN/Opinion Research showed there isn't even one issue that a majority of Americans see as very important heading into the 2014 election. Immigration is the issue of the moment, but every other issue has lost its currency in the minds of Americans. [...] As with lots of recent polling on Congress, what this poll does reveal is an American public that is very willing to express to pollsters its outrage at how poorly Congress is performing. We're still waiting for the day when that outrage translates into mass action.
As with lots of recent polling on Congress, what this poll does reveal is an American public that is very willing to express to pollsters its outrage at how poorly Congress is performing. We're still waiting for the day when that outrage translates into mass action.
“To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community an apology… for your disgusting, despicable, smear campaign,” Amash said toward the end of his victory speech. “You had the audacity to try to call me today after running a campaign that was called the nastiest in the country. I ran for office to stop people like you — to stop people who were more interested in themselves than in doing what’s best for their district.”
“One would not presume that Bob Marley, who wrote the well-known song ‘I Shot the Sheriff,’ actually shot a sheriff, or that Edgar Allan Poe buried a man beneath his floorboards, as depicted in his short story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ simply because of their respective artistic endeavors on those subjects,” wrote Justice Jaynee LaVecchia in the court’s unanimous opinion.