News of the Week for August 10th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three Reasons Eric Cantor Quit Early <\/a> What Would Constitute A Red Wave In 2014? <\/a> Republicans Could Catch the Wave Even in Hawaii This November <\/a> Chris McDaniel Formally Challenges Thad Cochran\u2019s Win In Mississippi<\/a> Ige holds double-digit lead over Abercrombie in governor’s primary<\/a> 2014 Montana elections: Sources: John Walsh discussing quitting race<\/a> The Endangered Governors List: Democrat Edition <\/a> Missouri Right to Bear Arms, Amendment 5, passed.<\/a> Libertarian Poised to Be a Spoiler in Florida \u2014 But for Whom?<\/a> Desperation, thy name is Colorado\u2019s Mark Udall<\/a> Why is scandal-plagued Andrew Cuomo not getting the Christie treatment in the press?<\/a> Does Steve Scalise hate his caucus?<\/a> Democrats Reviewing Steps for Walsh Replacement<\/a> The Democrats\u2019 2014 problem in one sentence.<\/a> John Walsh Does the Expected and Drops out of the Race; Democrats Search for Alternate Candidate<\/a> Don\u2019t Give Booker a Pass <\/a> Hawaii gov ousted in Dem primary, Senate race too close to call<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CIA Director Brennan Should Resign <\/a> Obama Official Deleted Obamacare Emails Sought By Congress<\/a> <\/p>\n The Courts Advance Concealed Guns<\/a> California battle over concealed-weapon rights could be headed for Supreme Court<\/a> Man shoots himself while posing for a ‘selfie’<\/a> <\/p>\n 120 years of climate scares<\/a> A brief history of climate panic and crisis\u2026 both warming and cooling<\/a> <\/p>\n The Trans-Atlantic Version of Great Moments in Government-Run Healthcare<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Army announces new camouflage uniform pattern<\/a> Army to force out 550 majors; some in Afghanistan<\/a> US Foreign Policy: Maybe a Bikini Would Help?<\/a> WWI 100th Anniversary: UK Taxpayers Still Paying \u00a32bn War Loans to Secret Bankers<\/a> 13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in California Wearing U.S. Marine Uniforms<\/a> American General Killed in Shooting at Afghan Military Academy<\/a> The Hannibal Directive<\/a> Will the U.S. Help the Kurds Fight ISIS?<\/a> ISIS Exterminating Minorities in Iraq<\/a> NATO Fears Ground Invasion as Russia Masses Troops on Ukraine Border<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nEric Cantor just announced that he is quitting his House seat on August 18. The remainder of his term is likely to be filled by a special election held on the same day as the election for the next term. It\u2019s almost certain that Dave Brat, the Republican firebrand who beat Cantor in the primary, will win both and take office immediately after November 4.<\/p>\n
\nPeople are debating would constitute a \u201cred wave\u201d in the current cycle. Here are some thoughts based on previous elections.<\/p>\n
\nHawaii may be about to turn out of office the man who was once known as Barack Obama\u2019s favorite governor. Neil Abercrombie, an often pony-tailed 76-year-old relic of the 1960s who knew Barack as a little boy, was swept into office in 2010 after Obama cut a TV ad touting his old friend as an \u201cinspiring leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nClaiming the existence of at least 15,000 questionable votes, conservative Chris McDaniel said Monday that he is formally challenging incumbent Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran\u2019s victory in June 24\u2019s Republican Senate primary.<\/p>\n
\nThe new Hawaii News Now\/Star Advertiser Hawaii Poll has State Senator David Ige ahead of incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie by double digits in their bitter Democratic primary race. <\/p>\n
\nMontana Sen. John Walsh is engaged in internal deliberations with his political team about whether to stay on the ballot this year, sources said Tuesday, in the wake of a plagiarism scandal that has tarnished the appointed Democratic lawmaker\u2019s standing.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2010, Democrats picked up two open governor\u2019s mansions and barely held onto a third. What lies in store for these embattled three?<\/p>\n
\nThe Missouri Right to Bear Arms, Amendment 5 was on the August 5, 2014 primary election ballot in Missouri as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved.<\/p>\n
\nThird-party challenger “may have a great deal to say” about the Crist-Scott race.<\/p>\n
\nSave for one New York Times\/CBS online poll, which was savaged by The American Association for Public Opinion Research for demonstrating \u201clittle grounding in theory,\u201d incumbent Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) cannot point to much evidence to suggest that he\u2019s going to have a good year at the polls. That survey was the only since March to find the incumbent senator cresting 50 percent support while maintaining a 4-point lead over his challenger, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO).<\/p>\n
\nA prominent governor of a major Northeast state, a rising star within his party and someone who has made clear he has aspirations for the White House, is suddenly entangled by allegations of corruption which threaten to arrest his meteoric rise and might even prove to be the end of his political career. Sound familiar? No, not Chris Christie and the infamous \u201cBridge-gate,\u201d but New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who allegedly tried to tamper with his own anticorruption commission.<\/p>\n
\n\u2026 or is it just his adviser who does? A day ago, Politico reported that incoming House GOP whip Rep. Steve Scalise uses the services of a Washington lobbyist, John Feehery, to help vet potential staffers. Ethical concerns were raised! (E.g., would Feehery, a former leadership aide, help hire people who would then owe him [duh] and maybe help him gain access for his clients?) A \u201cnon-story,\u201d tweeted a New York Times reporter. But the real story was buried on Feehery\u2019s blog. Scalise, it seems, has sought out the counsel of someone filled with a sophomoric rage against the Tea Party faction that forms one backbone of the GOP caucus Scalise aspires to help lead. <\/p>\n
\nSen. John Walsh hasn’t made a public appearance since the weekend, and Montana Democrats are reviewing the steps they would need to take to replace him with another candidate if he decides to withdraw from the Senate race.<\/p>\n
\nFrom a Hill article, discussing the Democrats\u2019 current kitchen sink \/ spaghetti against the wall \/ Hail Mary play \/ spin the chamber and hope it\u2019s the one without the bullet strategy they\u2019ve adopted for the midterms<\/p>\n
\nIt was almost immediately pointed out that “I am ending my campaign so that I can focus on fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to me as your U.S. senator” was directly plagiarized without attribution from a 1972 speech by Thomas Eagleton.<\/p>\n
\nWhy are Republicans so soft on \u201cCory\u201d?<\/p>\n
\nHawaii Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie, in a historic loss, was soundly defeated in Saturday’s primary by a state senator, while the island’s marquee U.S. Senate race remained too close to call. <\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\nThe CIA scandal is distracting from a bigger issue: the partisan probe of enhanced-interrogation methods.<\/p>\n
\nThe administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) deleted some of her emails and may not be able to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the flawed Obamacare rollout, CMS has warned Congress.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nGun-control advocates are learning the downside of getting their way. Recently, a federal judge struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on the carrying of concealed handguns. Anti-gun forces have been losing in legislatures for a long time. Now they are finding that even where they win, they lose.<\/p>\n
\nThe Supreme Court has turned aside all Second Amendment challenges since a pair of landmark rulings in 2008 and 2009 confirmed the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms. <\/p>\n
\nTwenty-one-year-old Oscar Otero Aguilar had been drinking with friends before shooting himself while posing for a \u2018selfie\u2019 with a loaded gun<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nScientists seeking funding and journalists seeking an audience agree: panic sells.<\/p>\n
\nFor at least 114 120 years, climate \u201cscientists\u201d have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us\u2026but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nWhen government suppresses the free market and takes over the healthcare sector, you get some really odd results.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThe Army has selected a new camouflage pattern to begin fielding next year, an unidentified senior Army spokesperson announced in a statement late Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nAbout 550 Army majors, including some serving in Afghanistan, will soon be told they have to leave the service by next spring as part of a budget-driven downsizing of the service.<\/p>\n
\nAmerican officials keep surprising the world. Every day it looks more like they get their salaries not in money but in cannabis. After the sensational statements made by Jennifer Psaki about sending the US 6th Fleet on a mission to \u201cthe shores\u201d of Belorussia, (look on a map to understand that one), another State representative, deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf, decided to compete with Psaki for the laurels of the most absurd declaration\u2013 and brilliantly succeeded, declaring that 250,000 Ukrainian refugees that left their homes in East Ukraine and fled to Russia from continuous artillery shelling by Kiev government troops went there \u201cto see their grandmothers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIt’s a century since the outbreak of the First World War but British taxpayers are still paying for their country’s part in it \u2013 and a handful of banks is cashing in on hundreds of millions of pounds.<\/p>\n
\nBorder Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nAn American general was killed today and 15 other soldiers wounded in an attack at a military academy in Afghanistan today.<\/p>\n
\nIDF authorizes firing on position of Israeli soldier being kidnapped to prevent his capture<\/p>\n
\nThe latest string of victories by Islamic militants in Iraq raises an enormous and obvious question: What\u2019s the U.S. doing to help the Kurds?<\/p>\n
\nKurdish members of Iraq\u2019s Yezidi religious minority in Sinjar are being massacred by ISIS if they refuse to convert to Islam. They\u2019re ancient fire-worshipers with roots in Zoroastrianism and they long predate the Koran.<\/p>\n
\nRussia has massed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine\u2019s border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian mission to invade, NATO said on Wednesday, its starkest warning yet that Moscow could soon mount a ground assault against its neighbor.<\/p>\n