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NANA AMPADU’S PASTOR SO-AND-SO & RAWLINGS’ KWEKU ANANSE STORY. We cannot be sure here if the story we are about to tell directly comes from Nana Ampadu’s rich repertoire or told to us by someone whose name and the entirety of the anecdotal location of the said story, itself, are beyond our immediate recall. |
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FDR had dominated American politics for most of the 1930s, but Republicans had high hopes for the 1940 presidential election. Conventional wisdom was that Roosevelt would not try to buck public sentiment by seeking an unprecedented third term and that the Democratic presidential battle would leave that party divided and dispirited. |
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The Star-Spangled Banner in flames Police arrest protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Party as they burned an American flag. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) DAY 3, 5:06 P.M.: There is enough international media in Cleveland to cover a nuclear catastrophe, and it's starting to feel like.... |
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If the Republican National Convention had an unofficial slogan for the first two nights, it was "lock her up." And on the third night, the first speakers of the night wasted little time in drawing out the same chant directed at Hillary Clinton. "Many in public office, we know this all too well, many.... |
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INDIANAPOLIS — Mike Pence wasn’t pleased with Indiana’s top leaders in the early 1990s as they tried to block out-of-state trash from landing in Hoosier landfills, and in his reach for an argument, he wrote an essay comparing their efforts to how Nazi Germany had treated “politically unpopular” Jews. |
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Rick Scott, Florida governor. “I cried with the grieving moms and dads and brothers and sisters of the 49 people slaughtered by an ISIS-inspired terrorist. This war is real. It is here in America. And the next president must destroy this evil. Donald Trump is the man for that job.” “Today, America is in terrible, world-record-high debt. |
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“Mike Pence is a nice person, he’s a good retail politician in terms of remembering people’s names, making sure they get a hand written note,” said Scott Pelath, the top Democrat in the Indiana House of Representatives. “He has that part down. He can be very gracious personally. |
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ANKARA — More than 50,000 people have been rounded up, sacked or suspended from their jobs by Turkey’s government in the wake of last week’s failed coup. The purge of those deemed disloyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan widened Wednesday to include teachers, university deans and the media. |
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ISTANBUL: Turkey widened its massive post-coup purge to schools and the media on Tuesday, vowing to root out supporters of an exiled Islamic cleric it accuses of orchestrating the attempted power grab. Global alarm is mounting over the retaliatory action since Friday´s failed putsch, which has.... |
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10:50 p.m. Saying he was "deeply humbled," Indiana Gov. Mike Pence began his remarks by straight-forwardly accepting the convention's nomination for vice-president. "A Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order," Mr. Pence said, echoing the description he used when his selection was announced. |
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America has always been an exceptional nation. Unfortunately, years of bad policies and poor leadership have weakened our position abroad and limited our opportunities here at home. In a Trump administration, America will reclaim its historic role in the world, and Americans' best interests will be.... |
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