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Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to California on Wednesday in the wake of several mass shootings that have shocked the state and the nation — but which defy talking points about gun control or extremism. The Los Angeles Times reports: Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Monterey Park on Wednesday to honor the victims of one of the three mass shootings that have left her home state reeling this week. Harris will lay a wreath at a memorial in honor of the 11 people killed by a gunman at a dance studio during a Lunar New Year celebration...

Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Republicans who “politicizing” him were “ridiculous.” Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: Since you’re retiring, do you think that will change what looked to be a really intense political firestorm aimed at you? There have been all these House Republican calls for investigations into the origins of COVID and saying they’re gonna bring you up to Capitol Hill. Do you think that wanes as you step down? FAUCI: Well, I don’t think it’s gonna wane for me because they’re already...

Meghan McCain told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that she was begging the right to “stop politicizing” the killing of George Floyd by former police officer Derek Chauvin. In a video from Fox News, co-host Greg Gutfeld said, “I’m glad he was found guilty on all charges, even if he might not be guilty of all charges. I am glad that he is guilty of all charges because I want a verdict that keeps this country from going up in flames.”

Thursday while making a statement about the Charleston church shooting, President Barack Obama raised the issue of dealing with guns and gun violence. Transcript as follows: This morning, I spoke with Vice President Biden and with Mayor Joe Riley and other leaders of Charleston to express our deep sorrow over the senseless murders that took place last night. Michelle and I know several members of Emanuel AME church.

President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed profound “sadness and anger” at the Charleston church shooting as well as deeply personal frustration that America’s political climate makes it virtually impossible for now to tighten restrictions on who can buy firearms. “We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun,” Obama said in the White House briefing room, Vice President Joe Biden standing at his side.

The shooting in the Kansas City area on Sunday at Jewish facilities that killed three was a horrifying reminder of the dangers some hate groups pose. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder on Monday morning issued a statement on the matter. “I was horrified to learn of this weekend’s tragic shootings outside Kansas City. These senseless acts of violence are all the more heartbreaking as they were perpetrated on the eve of the solemn occasion of Passover. “Justice Department prosecutors will work with their state and local counterparts to provide all available support and to determine whether the federal hate crimes statute...

I think it’s worth remembering how the Obama campaign sought to smear Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for raising legitimate questions about an egregious foreign policy failure that was made even uglier by false explanations. The Obama campaign accused Romney and Ryan of being “reckless and irresponsible” for focusing on Benghazi and the White House line about a video having caused the tragedy. “The entire reason this has become the political topic it is – it’s because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan,” said the Obama campaign’s most agressive flack, Stephanie Cutter. Brett Baier of Fox News tore her apart....

WASHINGTON (BP)--The Obama administration has come under criticism for using its faith-based office to push the president's political agenda. "The government -- and especially those who lead the faith-based initiative -- ought to do everything they can to avoid the appearance and reality of politicizing the initiative," said Stanley Carlson-Thies, a former staff member with President Bush's faith-based office. A conference call hosted by President Obama and Josh DuBois, director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, has sparked most of the controversy. During the Sept. 21 call, Obama and DuBois encouraged thousands of faith-based organizations to stand behind...

On Fox News Special Report today (September 3rd), Bret Baier revealed that under socialized medicine, British doctors are concerned about some terminally-ill patients being forced to die prematurely. Is this what we can expect from the end-of-life “care and counseling” from HR 3200? VIDEO: Death Panels Real in Europe

Source: Hanaway-R to be replaced by McCullough-D as AG for Missouri?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska lawmaker leading an investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of her public safety commissioner should be removed because he appears to be manipulating the probe to damage her vice presidential candidacy, a Republican legislator says.

As President Bush comes off a series of speeches designed to reassure the American people, a classifiesd report from the nation's 16 spy agencies tells a different story. According to an estimate from the National Intelligence Council, the war in Iraq is making the threat of terrorism worse. America is less safe today than it was after Sept. 11, 2001, because the conflict is creating more extremists... The White House says the leaked portions of the report are incomplete and out of context. One of the aides emphasized that they believed taking the fight to the terrorists was, in their...

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leaders on Friday accused Vice President Dick Cheney of playing politics with terrorism and contended that voters won't buy Republican arguments that the GOP is stronger on national security. "They've run this play one too many times," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a conference call with reporters. "The American people simply do not recognize any validity in what they're saying." Republicans, in turn, accused Democrats of political posturing. "It sounds to me like Senator Reid is trying to accuse us of politicizing while he, himself, is politicizing the issue," said White House press...

Sometimes congressional gridlock is a good thing, because it stops Congress from doing something foolish. Such is the case with "intelligence reform," which the 9/11 Commission and its allies have tried to rush to passage in a lame-duck congressional session. Earlier this month, advocates appeared to concede defeat, although President Bush unfortunately has signaled a willingness to sign almost any bill that reaches his desk. Certainly there is room to improve America's intelligence-gathering activities and especially the manner in which information is put to use by the military and domestic security agencies. But reshuffling the bureaucracy in a hurried manner...

Thursday's lead story ("Dems: Bush politicizing war") was a clear distortion of the facts. President Bush did not say that Senate Democrats were not interested in the security of the American people. Speaking about Democratic senators' insistence on pro-labor provisions in the Senate version of the Homeland Security bill, Bush said, "You need to worry less about special interests in Washington and more about the security of the American people." He did not mention the Democrats specifically. I did not see a story about Democratic Sen. Zell Miller taking to the Senate floor after Daschle to lambaste his Democratic colleagues...