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"Spencer Pratt surges to runoff in LA mayor’s race after angry voters send message to Karen Bass."Does that sound like a reasonable headline description as to what happened on Tuesday in the mayoral election in Los Angeles? After all the incumbent mayor Bass was rejected (as of this writing) by almost two thirds of the voters. It is a headline that appeared on the 930 WFMD Radio website and is somewhat reflected in a bizarre way at Politico which somehow managed to give the election results a laughably different interpretation with "Becerra and Bass surge in California as anti-establishment fever...

Go to www.yahoo.com and see the first headline as Democrat has early lead in NY House race.... and NO MENTION OF THE BIGGER RACES..... Bwahahaaaaaa!

I keep hearing and for some reason it seems to emanate from the left, is some presidents who served in the military make very poor war presidents, while very good wartime presidents have no military experience. They hold up FDR and Abraham Lincoln as examples of the latter. Well, I'm not positive about Roosevelt, so I won't go any further on him. On the other hand, I'm quite tired of yelling "The Blackhawk Wars, dammit, the Blackhawk Wars!", to the conceding, typically ineffectual Republican talking head. Abraham Lincoln not only served in the military, he was an officer, a Captain,...