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  • Trump Meets with Potential Vice Presidents

    Observer Staff|Updated Jul 6, 2016

    There was no rest for the weary during the Independence Day holiday on Monday, Donald Trump seems to have named three Republican politicians as his possible vice-presidential pick at the party's national convention in Cleveland later this month. "The only people who are not interested in being the V.P. pick are the people who have not been asked!!" Tweeted Trump. Nominated were first-term Iowa senator Joni Ernst, the first-term Arkansas senator Tom Cotton – like Ernst a m...

  • FBI: Clinton was "Extremely Careless," but her conduct was not "Gross Negligence." Whatever.

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Jul 6, 2016

    She knowingly sent mutliple e mails from her private e mail server that contained classified information while she was Secretary of State. You or I would go to jail for much less. Hillary Clinton's going to the White House instead. But you and I, we're not Clintons are we? Attorney General Loretta Lynch said last week that she would follow the recommendations from the FBI team investigating Clinton. So any chance of a criminal prosecution is now removed from the 2016 President...

  • Full Statement from FBI Director James Comey

    Observer Staff, FBI Press Release|Updated Jul 6, 2016

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation won't recommend that Hillary Clinton or her colleagues be prosecuted over her use of a private email system while Secretary of State, FBI director James Comey said Tuesday morning. Here is the statement by Comey, as provided by the FBI. Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's Use of a Personal E-Mail System July 05, 2016 Good morning. I'm here to give you an update on the FBI's...

  • Respected Republican Judge Richard Posner Rejects Strict Constructionist View of the Constitution

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Jun 29, 2016

    When measuring whether or not laws are constitutional, the tradition is to look at the constitution, its intent and traditional interpretations. Judge Richard A. Posner, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, has published an opinion on the Slate website, in which the respected jurist says studying the US Constitution has no value. Posner wrote: And on another note about academia and...

  • George Will Resigns from Republican Party

    Observer Staff|Updated Jun 25, 2016

    Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor George Will says that he doesn't know who he will vote for for President. "But I know who I will not be voting for--Donald Trump. Will has left the Republican Party due to Donald Trump's presumptive nomination for president. Will, whose column is published by The Washington Post, told that news paper Saturday that he changed his Maryland voter registration from Republican to "unaffiliated" earlier this month after House Speaker...