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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attempted to counter claims President Biden is too old to lead the White House by bringing up that he has the ability to ride a bike - despite the embarrassing stumble he suffered in June 2022. The issue of Biden's age shot back into focus this week following a damning special prosecutor conclusion that he mishandled classified materials, but was perceived as too old for a jury to convict. It said that a jury would probably conclude that he had 'diminished faculties' and was a 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.' In a discussion on...

Is this time for the 25th Amendment? The Special Counsel declines to prosecute President Biden for reason of diminished capacity. An 'elderly man' with 'significant' memory issues.[Daily Mail] "...because a jury would likely see him as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." [CNN] President Joseph Biden can't be prosecuted because he is an elderly man who can't remember he's president, that he was vice-president. Yes, time to consider and demand the 25th amendment be exercised.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said former President Trump’s political power is “diminished” following his endorsed candidates’ lackluster performance in the midterm elections and vowed to find “quality” candidates for Senate races in 2024. “Here’s what I think has changed: I think the former president’s political clout has diminished,” McConnell said in a interview with NBC News released on Friday. Despite predictions of a “red wave” in this November’s midterm elections, Republicans lost ground in the Senate and only managed to secure a slim majority in the House. Many in the GOP have since placed the blame on Trump...

Diminished prospectsJ.C. Arenas May 10, 2010 Yesterday, the Associated Press reported on Ben Bernanke's commencement address to the newest class of graduates from the University of South Carolina. On this special day, when graduates officially transform from kids just trying to amass credits to earn their respective degrees to grown-ups just trying to earn a living, they were treated to his pessimistic anti-prosperity theme, "money can't buy you happiness." "We all know that getting a better-paying job is one of the main reasons to go to college. But if you are ever tempted to go into a field or take...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - There's little doubt that after 16 months in office, California's action hero-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has begun to shrink to human size. But so far, that's done little to elevate Democrats, who still seem a bit puny by comparison. By proposing a controversial set of reform proposals - merit pay for teachers, overhauling the state's public pension system, creating a mechanism to automatically cut state spending and redrawing legislative districts - Schwarzenegger's aura of invincibility has taken a substantial hit. Everywhere he goes, he's trailed by a growing number of protesters - teachers, police and fire fighters...

Until the 18th century, there was basically only one kind of Judaism, that which is now called Orthodox. It meant living by the religion's 613 laws, and doing so suffused Jews' lives with their faith. Then, starting with the thinker Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) and moving briskly during the Haskala, or "enlightenment," from the late 18th century, Jews developed a wide variety of alternate interpretations of their religion, most of which diminished the role of faith in their lives and led to a concomitant reduction in Jewish affiliation.These alternatives and other developments, in particular the Holocaust, caused the ranks of the...

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