Under the international Open Skies Treaty – of which the U.S., Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and 31 other nations are a part – the Pentagon is rumored to have flown an unarmed Air Force OC-135 observation plane near Crimea, the Ukrainian region seized by Russia in a 2014 invasion.
Questions are sure to come up in Senate confirmation hearing about how the former attorney general under George H. W. Bush will handle Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, and about acting-Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Heather Nauert’s meteoric rise from journalist to powerful U.S. diplomat – considering how Trump nominees have been treated in the past.
While the Commonwealth looks to begin upgrading I-81 within the next few years, they claim the best hope is to fund all “immediate” projects by 2060, over four decades from now. Money still poses a problem as, according to VDOT, widening the interstate would cost an estimated 10 to 15 million dollars for every mile of pavement.
“If Democrats take the House Majority they will push to legalize abortions right up until the birth of the child,” the Virginia GOP said as the 2019 statewide election season begins.
Criticizing President Donald Trump with a “dystopian” view of the world’s future, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chairwoman Christine Lagarde said that global economic prosperity means promoting equality within the trading system to reduce global tensions, including rescinding government subsidies for large industries and protecting technology and intellectual property, which, in fact, are issues Trump ran on during the 2016 presidential election.
As tech and social media giant Facebook battles internal executive struggles and an eight-month-long 25 percent stock slump, the U.K. Parliament has revealed what the U.S. Congress did not, CEO Mark Zuckerberg engaged in “whitelisting” and targeted now-defunct industry competitors.
“From serving as the youngest WWII pilot, a Member of Congress, Ambassador to the U.N., Ambassador to China, CIA Director, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Vice President, and President,” Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (VA-10) said President George H. W. Bush “always served with distinction.”
“We can’t do anything about the emotional cost, but we can do something about the financial cost,” Congressman Morgan Griffith (VA-9) said following his introduction of legislation – based on a true and tragic story from one of his constituents – to allow parents of involuntarily stillborn babies to receive the federal Child Tax Credit.
If the United States and her allies are to see a comparative “victory” in Afghanistan, apart from a permanent occupation reminiscent of imperialism that would be bloody, costly, and ineffective, it is possible that the only way to deal with the country at-large is by dealing with, individually, its local power brokers.
Coming off the 2018 midterm elections, with Democrats taking back the U.S. House of Representatives and Virginia’s congressional delegation from the GOP, the recruitment and training strong candidates on part of the liberal party is likely to be well-funded in such a consequential election.
