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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that former White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly saved the country several times from former President Donald Trump’s “recklessness” and “lack of intellectual curiosity.” Guest anchor John Berman said, “So, in this post, we’re talking about today, you saw the former president attack Bill Barr, John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney. In a separate one, he went after someone you worked with briefly in the White House, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, calling Kelly weak, ineffective, born with a very small brain....

Obama Accuses BP of 'Recklessness' Speech comes as poll shows majority in U.S. disapprove of his response In an Oval Office speech on Tuesday U.S. President Barack Obama pledges to do all he can to contain the BP oil spill and help the Gulf Coast recover. NBC News Dedicating new urgency to the Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama accused BP of "recklessness" in the first Oval Office address of his presidency Tuesday night and swore not to rest until the company has paid for the damage it has caused to lives, businesses and shorelines. He announced that he had...

Dan Hannan MEP in the European Parliament speech of March 26, 2009. Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP for the South East of England and author of The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain THIS IS A MUST LISTEN (only about 3 minutes) ------ A partial transcript: 'Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician: namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this House if your actions matched your words, and perhaps more legitimacy...

A 25-year-old driver in Cass County offered a lesson Sunday in what not to do while driving. When pulled over by a sheriff's deputy, not only was he traveling at speeds near 80 miles per hour, but he also said he'd drifted into the wrong lane because he was text-messaging, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Monday. As if that weren't enough, he was arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving. "This is the kind of traffic event where almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong," said Nathan Bowie, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety....

Notes From Out of the Blue . . . Greetings from New Jersey, a State which on Monday will shed Governor James McGreevey, who has single-handedly rewritten the book on personal and political recklessness, to the point that he is now obliged to resign in disgrace. The Governor has been awash in examples of high-risk political behavior since taking office. Many of these have been well documented, including during the final run-up to his resignation Monday, November 15th, as in a recent Gannet compilation found at http://www.courierpostonline.com/news/southjersey/m110704c.htm. But the Governor has also taken part in unacceptably high-risk personal behavior, the...

<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to have a short memory.</p> <p>Last Tuesday, in his State of the State address, he told California that "never again will government be allowed to spend money it doesn't have." By Friday, alas, he had forgotten. He proposed in his budget that the state, well, spend money it doesn't have for the 2004-2005 fiscal year that begins July 1.</p>