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peppertree's Journal'I'm not running': Hillary Clinton rules out 2020 bid for first time on camera
Hillary Clinton ruled out a 2020 presidential run for the first time on camera in an exclusive interview with News 12, pledging instead to take an active role by working with the candidates in the crowded Democratic field.
"I'm not running, but I'm going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe," she told News 12's Tara Rosenblum.
In her first local TV interview since the midterm elections, the former first lady and secretary of state opened up about 2016, 2020 and beyond. She expressed deep concerns about the state of American politics today -- and vowed to be vocal about those concerns.
Clinton pledged to take an active role in 2020 as the field of Democratic candidates continues to expand. She's already held private meetings with many of the candidates, and she revealed the substance of some of those closed-door discussions.
At: http://westchester.news12.com/story/40067049/im-not-running-hillary-clinton-rules-out-2020-bid-for-first-time-on-camera-in-exclusive-interview-with-news-12
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Not running in 2020 - but the real winner in 2016, always.
New election date set in North Carolina's 9th District following fraud investigation
Voters in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District now know when they will head to the polls, again.
The State Board of Elections met Monday and voted to set the dates for new general and primary elections in the district, after the results of November's midterms were tossed out last month. Those results were deemed tainted by the board after a months-long investigation into election fraud in the district.
The State Board voted to first hold a primary election on May 14. After that, Sept. 10 will either be the date of the runoff primary election, if it's necessary - or the general election. If a runoff primary is needed, the general election will be held Nov. 5.
Democrat Dan McCready, who trailed Harris by about 900 votes (0.3%) in the unofficial original tally, has been fundraising in preparation for the race since retracting his concession in early December.
Republican Mark Harris, who led in the unofficial results of the first election, has already announced that he will not run again for the seat.
At: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/04/699985857/new-election-schedule-set-in-north-carolinas-9th-district
Democrat Dan McCready and his 2018 GOP opponent, Mark Harris.
McCready, who lost in November by 0.3%, will try again this year for North Carolina's 9th District seat.
He faces as-yet undefined GOP opposition, as fraud scandal-ridden Mark Harris has declined to run.
Trump celebrates North Dakota football champs with fast food
President Donald Trump is again feting football champions with burgers and fries.
Trump is celebrating the Division 1-winning North Dakota State University football team at the White House with a lunch of Big Macs, french fries and Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
Trump served a similar spread that included hundreds of hamburgers to the college football champion Clemson Tigers in January, citing the government shutdown that was underway.
Trump says he could have offered the players chef-prepared food; but, "I know you people."
At: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-celebrates-north-dakota-football-champs-with-fast-food/ar-BBUmLwC
Cheeto and a cornucopia of cholesterol at today's White House reception for the winning North Dakota State University Bisons.
"I could have offered you chef-prepared food; but I know you people."
Pope Francis to open World War II-era Vatican archives to scrutiny
Source: Washington Post
The Vatican announced Monday that it would open up its secret archives on the World War II papacy of Pope Pius XII, whom some scholars have accused of keeping silent about the Holocaust.
Jewish organizations have long called for the Vatican’s archives from this period to be made accessible, saying Pope Pius turned a blind eye to the systematic persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. But Pius’ actions during this period are up for debate, and others say he worked behind the scenes to help Jews.
“The church is not afraid of history,” Pope Francis told members of the Vatican’s Secret Archives division. He said the period of Pius’s papacy from 1939 to 1958 would be opened to researchers on March 2, 2020.
“Pope Francis’s decision to make these materials now fully open and available for international scholarly research is enormously important to Catholic-Jewish relations,” Rabbi David Rosen, the American Jewish Committee’s director of interreligious affairs, said in a statement.
“It is particularly important that experts from the leading Holocaust memorial institutes in Israel and the U.S. objectively evaluate as best as possible the historical record of that most terrible of times, to acknowledge both the failures as well as the valiant efforts made during the period of the [Holocaust].”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pope-francis-to-open-world-war-ii-era-vatican-archives-to-scrutiny/2019/03/04/2908ff80-3e75-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html
Pope Francis and his wartime predecessor, Pius XII.
Pius' relationship with the Nazi regime, with which he had been acquainted since his days as Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Germany, has been the subject of much study and speculation since his death in 1958.
Some credit him with helping thousands of Jews and others at risk leave Germany and Italy during World War II; but others have accused him of authorizing lucrative "ratlines" for Nazis and Italian and Croatian Fascists, through Croatia, after the war.
GOP's anti-Muslim display likening Rep. Omar to a terrorist rocks W. Virginia capitol
Source: NBC News
Angry arguments broke out in the West Virginia statehouse on Friday after the state Republican Party allegedly set up an anti-Muslim display in the rotunda linking the 9/11 terror attacks to a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota.
One staff member was physically injured during the morning's confrontations, and another official resigned after being accused of making anti-Muslim comments.
The display featured a picture of the World Trade Center in New York City as a fireball exploded from the one of the Twin Towers, set above a picture of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is Muslim.
"'Never forget' - you said. . ." read a caption on the first picture. "I am the proof - you have forgotten," read the caption under the picture of Omar, who is wearing a hijab.
The display was set up as part of "WV GOP Day," which the party advertised on Facebook as a day when "Republicans Take the Rotunda."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-s-anti-muslim-display-likening-rep-omar-terrorist-rocks-n978371
The GOP's latest attempt at minority outreach.
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