Demonstrating her formidable rhetorical skills and her unwillingness to suffer fools, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) lit into Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) More stories from theweek.com7 scathingly funny cartoons about Republicans' impeachment cowardiceImpeachment isn't what will hurt Trump mostRon Johnson, Mitt Romney reportedly got into a heated discussion after impeachment witness vote, The lawyer went on the cable news channel to call the impeachment managers' argument 'offensive'. If Republicans want to jam their nominee through days before an election, it will be up to Klobuchar and her colleagues to show what radical, unpopular views will be the law of the land. Citizen-artists already designed the current flag, so retiring it would achieve nothing but to obscure their work. Other lawmakers are expected to move forward with the same rationale. A slick new video showing young and old congregating under the name of the Russian leader has been exposed as one of a number of fake rallies concocted by the Kremlin. The board of RZIM, which is led by Zacharias' daughter, said it was "shocked and grieved by Ravi's actions," and apologized to his victims: "Words cannot come close to expressing the sorrow that we feel for what you have been through or the gratitude we feel for the bravery with which you have responded." Haley, the former South Carolina governor who served as ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, spoke with Politico about the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a profile published Friday, as Trump is accused of inciting the riot in a second impeachment trial. Get more from Axios and subscribe to Axios Markets for free. Nikki Haley is distancing herself from former President Donald Trump, saying he "let us down" and predicting he will no longer "be in the picture" going forward. — Amy Klobuchar … Before sounding another flat-noted judgment on a classic American emblem like the NYC flag, Mr. Yang and his anti-flag allies should recognize that fact. is a job Klobuchar is uniquely qualified to do. At the same time, Haley defended her time working under Trump in the interview, saying she still stands by the fact that he "was someone who cared about the country" and that "there was nothing to fear about him when I worked for him." One can find it both at the NYC Public Library and online. Most of the women Miller & Martin interviewed said that during massages, Zacharias would grab their breasts or genitals and ask for sexual gratification. The flag was intended to showcase the identity and genesis of a fiercely proud American city. Klobuchar will play a critical role in the confirmation hearings. “The colors are based on the Dutch Prince’s flag. I am a lifelong resident of Dutchess County, New York, which draws from this aesthetic as well. This entry was posted in Amy Klobuchar, Ayatollah Ted Cruz. What of the flag itself? https://news.yahoo.com/amy-klobuchar-slams-ted-cruz-004000229.html This suggests that those opposed to the flag do not understand its history, and view it as fair game to create excitement and novelty for a civic pet project. The delay drew a rare rebuke from WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.The WHO team concluded that it's "extremely unlikely" the virus came from a laboratory accident, and that it most likely jumped to humans via an intermediate species.“Our initial findings suggest that the introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely pathway and one that will require more studies and more specific, targeted research,” said WHO scientist Peter Ben Embarek.What they're saying: "The mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) has never been more important, and we have deep respect for its experts and the work they are doing every day to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and advance global health and health security," Sullivan said in a statement. At the core of the article is the contention that Trump incited the crowd to attack the Capitol, that he “willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged — and foreseeably resulted in — lawless action at the Capitol.” This suggests an element of intent that the managers couldn’t prove. Americans have stubbornly showcased their heritage through civic symbols throughout the nation’s history. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. It would create the same wrong that a “new flag” would supposedly remedy. She also explained how droves of Americans are already voting in the 2020 election. The seal is old,” Yang asserted, referring to the official NYC seal borne by the flag. As part of the settlement, Zaquanna Albert, who was with Small at the time of the killing, received $125,000, according to New York Daily News. The earthquake had a 7.3 magnitude and its epicentre was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60 km (36 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. this week, lambasting him for mocking Democrats’ concern about the Supreme Court and attempting to disentangle the Republicans’ power grab from the election. It also has the official bearing necessary for a city such as New York. Now the case is suffering more delays as a result of the pandemic. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar was among several prominent Democrats who slammed the Ted Cruz-led gang of a dozen Republican senators who are threatening to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump when the results are certified on January 6th.. On Saturday, Cruz released a joint statement with fellow Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), … Yang’s home county of Westchester, fittingly enough, also conspicuously bears the Dutch kleuren on its flag. Two people were killed and two more were seriously injured early Friday when their vehicle hit a concrete wall and plunged off a Chicago expressway onto a street about 43 feet (13 meters) below, police said. "In Ravi Zacharias, God gave us the greatest Christian apologist of this century," Pence said at the funeral. The Associated Press recently reported: “In a 2013 Texas Law Review article, [Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney] Barrett listed fewer than 10 cases she said are widely considered ‘super-precedents,’ ones that no justice would dare reverse even if they believed they were wrongly decided. Among them was Brown vs. [sic] Board of Education, which declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. The guidelines released Friday don't require Covid-19 vaccinations for all educators before returning to classrooms. Isn’t she being picked because she’s a slam dunk on reversing abortion rights? The clip, shared by local MPs from Mr Putin's United Russia, wrapped up with a strapline across the screen: “We stand with you, Vladimir Vladimirovich!”. ‘I think the American people see through this raw use of political power‘ — Watch Amy Klobuchar tear into Ted Cruz for the hypocrisy surrounding Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Republicans, as they did in the confirmation hearings for Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, want to have it both ways — assuring the base the nominee is all-in for their “side” while insisting the left is being hysterical about the consequences of putting another right-wing nominee on the bench. Ravi Zacharias, a prominent evangelical Christian leader and author who died of cancer last May at age 74, led a double life of coerced sexual gratification from massage therapists, his organization, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM), said Thursday. The investigation had been agreed to last May, but it was delayed after Chinese officials withheld authorization to allow the international team's scheduled visit. The needlessly controversial Senate Electoral College Certification is not one of the first placed we’d expect to hear a Foo Fighters reference, but Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar more than rose to the occasion. Amy Klobuchar, closes down Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and TeaTrump over Amy Coney Barrett It was consciously created to evoke the heritage and history of New York and of New Amsterdam before it. Just days earlier on September 24, Amy Klobuchar slammed fellow Senator Ted Cruz over hypocrisy surrounding the proceedings. — Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) January 2, 2021 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be inaugurated on January 20th and no publicity stunt will change that. The same can be said of the design of the seal itself. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday the United States must pay if it wants to keep a two-decade-old troop deployment agreement with his country that is central to U.S. strategy in Asia. We hope Republicans voting to acquit largely on process grounds — a post-presidency trial is unconstitutional, it’s time to move on, etc. Klobuchar would have none of it. Back to top Alert abuse. Evidently, the publisher did not share Yang’s qualms about the “Dutch Prince’s” colors.) Amy Klobuchar Slams Ted Cruz Over SCOTUS Hypocrisy NowThis. And shortly after the Senate on Saturday morning, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md. But the underlying events, and Trump’s unforgivably reckless behavior, will long reverberate. “Corey Johnson [speaker of the NYC Council] proposed having a new flag designed by artists in New York as a symbol of civic pride,” Yang declared — and Yang apparently agrees with him: “I like the idea of a more modern flag for NYC.” In Mr. Yang’s philosophy, longevity is evidently no sign of success. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called on her colleagues to hold consideration of a new Supreme Court nominee until after the election and to consider the impact the nomination will have on people’s lives. This has been a quickie impeachment, running about a month from beginning to end. spotthedog says: September 24, 2020 at 4:54 pm. The vehicle tumbled off the highway, struck a light pole and landed on the street in the McKinley Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side, Illinois State Police Trooper Omoayena Williams said. On September 26, 2020, Trump announced his Supreme Court pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, selecting Amy Coney Barrett for the position. Italians' hopes in Mario Draghi could hardly be higher. Oldness qua oldness is not an argument against the NYC banner. We live where you live. Jennifer Rubin: Republicans can’t just support a peaceful transition. Haley went a step further by saying Republicans shouldn't have followed Trump as he spiraled. Finally, New York City is far from the only city or county that features the old Dutch, New Amsterdam colors. ""It is imperative that this report be independent, with expert findings free from intervention or alteration by the Chinese government. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, Opinion columnist covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic, Distinguished pol of the week: Klobuchar gave it to Ted Cruz. But Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN-D) wasn't having it. The blue-white-orange tricolor produced by the mayor’s committee and approved by the city aldermen in 1915 was a smashing victory of design, and has flown proudly and distinctively over New York’s skyline for the last 105 years. And we can't let that ever happen again." http://www.youtube.com/nowthisnews @nowthisnews This video "Amy Klobuchar Slams Ted Cruz Over SCOTUS Hypocrisy", first appeared on https://nowthisnews.com. Composite image of Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (screengrabs) ... Cruz was followed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who quickly shifted away from such a style of interrogation. Why punish this flag for its success? On February 1, Andrew Yang — the New York author, entrepreneur, nonprofiteer, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate now running for New York City mayor — tweeted that the official flag of his adopted city, a flag that has iconically flown over the New York skyline since 1915, should be offhandedly retired and replaced with a less “old” design. Reply to this thread. Amy Klobuchar is great! CalicoJack says: September 24, 2020 at 6:31 pm. The design works, and has for 105 years. Like Like. I see this as the real world. He spent months at a pair of apartments he owned in Bangkok, and the investigators found 2016 texts showing that Zacharias "spent his days writing and his nights receiving massages" there. And I hate Ted Cruz." Surely not. Should New York City’s banner be cast into the dustbin of history? For instance, it was reported earlier Saturday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who was at least publicly on the fence, had told colleagues in an email that he was prepared to vote to acquit. The withdrawal period has been twice extended, however, to create what Philippine officials say is a window for better terms to be agreed. “This is about people’s lives — their health care, their rights, and their future,” she said indignantly. Zacharias, born in India and raised in Canada, first rose to prominence preaching at a 1983 conference organized by Rev. Rattled by protests in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny that have swept across the country, Mr Putin's government appears desperate to prove his popularity is unscathed in a series of dubious demonstrations. It doesn't seem like that will change, since his reasoning was based on the fact that Trump is already out of office rather than on anything about Trump's alleged role, or lack thereof, on Jan. 6. Anyone concerned that the seal on the city flag is “old” has missed the boat with his concern by a good hundred years. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the top Democrat on the Rules Committee with oversight over federal elections, led the defense of Arizona’s election results following an objection signed by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and their colleagues. He waged a dishonest and poisonous campaign to overturn the election that culminated in a mob disrupting the counting of electoral votes at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Yang needs a better argument to convince New York to abolish the iconic flag designed by the 1915 mayor’s committee. WASHINGTON – As Congress convened a Joint Session to receive each state’s electoral votes, U.S. WASHINGTON – On Thursday, in an exchange at the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. To better understand this pandemic and prepare for the next one, China must make available its data from the earliest days of the outbreak. . (These words are found in the above-mentioned book, Seal and Flag of the City of New York. Trump’s defense team didn’t have good answers — or really any answers — when queried in the Q&A about what Trump was doing in these hours. Klobuchar was one of the more pointed voices in the Senate to criticize the move, writing … "We have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them. After all, the American flag itself bears the title “Old Glory” — and not as an insult. ... 4 Responses to Amy Klobuchar Buries Ayatollah Ted in a Very Well Marked Grave. “No, Senator Cruz, this isn’t ‘theater,’” she said in response to his accusation that Democrats were playing politics with a nominee. Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) is certainly capable of dismantling a nominee, but she may be constrained by her role as a vice-presidential nominee. But Democrats became more interested in hearing from witnesses after more details about a call between Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the middle of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot emerged. Before June 1915, New York City had no official flag, and used, on an ad hoc basis, an unofficial white banner bearing the city seal. On top of this, his pressure campaign to get Republican officials to throw the election to him in key states was intolerable in its own right. The vehicle “was traveling too fast for road conditions” on Interstate 55 — also known as the Stevenson Expressway — when the accident happened at around 4 a.m., Illinois State Police said. In Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, where one of the videos was filmed, the crowd joins together after leaving their workplaces and football pitches to flash the torches on their phones at the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar was among several prominent Democrats who slammed the Ted Cruz-led gang of a dozen Republican senators who are threatening to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump when the results are certified on January 6th. But at least the NYC flag incorporates the Dutch colors in upright bars. Trump’s nominee may be more congenial and intellectually adroit than Cruz, but Klobuchar reminds us that she is exceptionally skilled at bringing arcane constitutional issues down to earth. But it appears that all this history is lost on today’s anti-flag crowd. Draghi has several advantages. As it happens, John B. Pine himself edited the handsomely bound volume, which was officially authorized by the mayor’s seal and flag committee. The committee’s response anticipated the complaints made by Yang over a century later: “It is in no sense a new design,” John B. Pine of the official Art Committee said, “and any criticism that it is not beautiful or that it does not meet heraldic requirements is irrelevant.” He added, No doubt, a more beautiful seal could be designed, but we regard it as of far more importance to perpetuate the seal which was adopted by the Common Council in 1686 and which ever since that date has been used by the City but with slight modification as the symbol of its corporate entity. The snowfall started late on Thursday and was expected to end on Sunday. I heard Johnson tell Romney ‘Blame you.’ Voices were definitely raised.” — Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) February 13, 2021 Johnson, like most everyone else, was apparently under the assumption the vote would go the other way, setting up a quick end to the trial on Saturday. Klobuchar must explain what it means to have a highly ideological justice on the bench whose cramped method of jurisprudence does not see constitutional protections for gay marriage, for access to abortion and a host of other rights we have come to take for granted. "We need to acknowledge he let us down," Haley said. The CBS Thing Morning co-hosts even interviewed Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar on Monday, and the interview proves that the answer to Cruz’s question of whether they will press a Democrat about choosing sides is no. If House Democrats hadn’t rushed to impeach Trump in an afternoon, they might have written a more airtight article. New York City on Friday settled a lawsuit brought by the girlfriend of Delrawn Small, a Black man who was killed by an off-duty police officer during a traffic incident in the summer of 2016. "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. When introducing their version of the city seal to the board of aldermen for approval, the 1915 Art Committee answered an expected criticism of the design. She was just getting warmed up: She made clear she is not yet willing to concede that Republicans get their second extremist justice through a hypocritical power play. . From entertainment to politics, to viral videos and breaking news stories, we’re delivering all you need to know straight to your social feeds. The occasion was the 250th anniversary of the installation of the first mayor and board of aldermen of the City of New York in 1665, marking the beginning of “New York City” under the English and the end of Dutch rule over New Amsterdam — aside from a period in 1673–74 when the Netherlands regained control. Senator Klobuchar ends by diagnosing the very real theater being perpetrated on the American public by Republicans like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, and providing the very real antidote to this poison: democracy. His conduct in the post-election period and on January 6 will blight his reputation forevermore. At least that's how it seemed. Should New York City, or New York State itself, therefore be abolished? While modern flag designers often criticize the practice of putting seals on flags, if any design were an exception to this rule, the NYC flag would be it. … Directly following Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s plainly misleading call for an examination of election results in several states, Klobuchar not only rebutted […] As it is, a number of Republicans will conclude, reasonably enough, that Trump is still guilty. The apparent “oldness” of the emblem is intentional, not accidental. Still, Haley dismisses impeachment proceedings against Trump as a "waste of time." On Thursday, Sept. 24, during a Senate Judiciary Committee session, Sen. Amy Klobuchar decided to make her remarks a response to the abject intellectual wasteland that is Sen. Ted Cruz. One she didn’t include on the list: Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that affirmed a woman’s right to abortion.” Compelling the nominee to articulate the consequences of overturning settled law (some states could criminalize abortion, correct?) SEN. KLOBUCHAR: So, I don’t see this as theater as you describe, Senator Cruz. So while Klobuchar’s remarks were aimed at Ted Cruz, they were meant for every spineless Republican. Trump's SCOTUS nominee was announced just weeks ahead of Election Day on November 3. The impeachment trial is hurtling toward a conclusion, after brief drama over potentially calling witnesses. Heavy snowfalls have buried Moscow in massive snow piles, disrupting transport, delaying flights and making it tough to get around for pedestrians braving strong winds and temperatures of minus 15 Celsius (5 Fahrenheit). We can’t vote for Klobuchar in Iowa, but you can vote for Theresa Greenfield starting October 5th! On the other hand, incredibly enough, the article doesn’t even mention Trump’s conduct during the riot, when he continued to criticize Mike Pence as he was being targeted by the mob, and that he went AWOL as allies begged him to tell the rioters to stand down. The weakness in their case stems from the defects of the article of impeachment itself, which both goes too far and not far enough. Lewis of our day." 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New York City itself was first settled in 1624 and is, therefore, centuries older than the flag Yang thinks is too geriatric to represent it. It is a great read for anyone interested in the history of Gotham’s civic symbols. With its orange-white-blue triband, the Dutchess County flag is an exact reproduction of the Dutch Prinsenvlag, distinguished only by the county seal. His funeral in August was attended by then-Vice President Mike Pence, NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, and other boldface names. And at this critical moment, protecting the WHO’s credibility is a paramount priority." She told Politico the former president has now "lost any sort of political viability he was going to have" and predicted he will not run for federal office again. Source: mother jones "But none of the lawmakers went nearly as deep into right-wing fantasyland as Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Russia's emergency service advised people to stay away from trees, warning of winds gusts of 18 metres per second (40 mph). During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) talked about the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth… September 2, 2018 Senator Klobuchar on NBC's "Meet the Press" Two children, including the couple’s son, were also passengers in the car when New York Police Department officer Wayne Isaacs, who is also Black and remains on the force today, fatally shot Small on the fourth of July in Brooklyn. A strong earthquake hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday, injuring dozens of people and triggering widespread power outages, but there appeared to be no major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

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