Patriot's Corner top view monochrome contrast blown out MSBA.org - The Maryland State Bar Association, Inc. 'Common Sense Coalition' sets centrist Senate tone Senators in the 25-member Common Sense Coalition on Monday said their work in developing a deal to help end the government shutdown shows the road to getting big-ticket items passed in the future needs to run through the middle of both parties, rather than the extremes. Though senators in the bipartisan group cautioned that the final deal to fund the government through Feb. 8 was ultimately brokered by their respective leaders, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, the coalition’s input was critical in helping break the stalemate. Mr. “I believe that this group has the potential to return the Senate to the kind of place it should be on the issue of immigration: a place for bipartisanship, a place for action, a place for achievement,” Mr. Sen. “I believe that our group, by giving them specific ideas for how to move forward, and because of the size and bipartisan nature of our group, played a very instrumental role in breaking the impasse,” said Ms. Mr.
top view enhanced vibrance contrast and clarity Alex Jones Mueller’s Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Evidence of Robert Mueller’s hopelessly compromised investigation continues to accumulate. Now we learn that five months of texts between two members of his team plotting Trump’s demise have disappeared, a time period that covers many of the crucial moments of the probe. Imagine the rich harvest of texts Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page must have exchanged over the Flynn entrapment. Those texts have vanished, according to the FBI and Justice Department. To a media that has spent months insisting on the reliability and impartiality of those agencies, this story is terribly inconvenient. Once again, Trump’s criticisms are vindicated. The great villain in the media’s tale of collusion turns out to be the victim. In a courtroom, the fruit of a poisonous tree is tossed out. Recall the media furor over Trump’s tweets about the FBI’s tarnished reputation. The media still obsesses over Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russians, from which nothing came.
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