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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Governor Charlie Baker will attend a Republican Governors Association meeting for four days in Aspen, Colo., a spokesman said Friday.  CAPITAL SOURCE Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday endorsed Michael Kelley in the District 2 City Council race.  CAPITAL SOURCE On Monday, almost a year to the day after he was offered the running-mate spot, Kaine was back at One Beacon Street.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The Senate minority leader warned President Trump against firing the special counsel or pardoning himself.

Posted at 1:00 pm on July 24, 2016 by Jay Caruso There has been a lot of discussion in the last several months over whether not several conservative icons would be supporting Donald Trump for President. William F.  Buckley, the founder of National Review and host of Firing Line said during the 1964 GOP primary that his rule was to support the “most rightward viable candidate.” That has often been turned into “the most conservative, electable candidate.” Andrew Breitbart in 2011 said of Donald Trump, “Of course Donald Trump is not a conservative.

Posted at 3:30 pm on July 22, 2017 by Kimberly Ross I like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly appointed Press Secretary for the Trump administration. She has a fierce, straightforward style. She’s not afraid to go back-and-forth with members of the media. She furrows her brow and stares at them with incredulity. She will not allow media-types to walk all over her or her boss, no matter the subject in question.

Posted at 4:00 pm on July 22, 2017 by streiff Yesterday, the Washington Post dropped a story alleging, with the same impeccable sourcing that we’ve become used to, that Sessions had two “substantive” conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that had not been disclosed. I’m sort of with Patterico on this. I’m not sure what difference this really makes even on the outside chance that it is true.

Posted at 8:03 pm on July 22, 2017 by Susan Wright Well, she couldn’t beat him in a primary vote, so maybe a terminal disease is the way to go. And if that sounds utterly ghoulish, thank Kelli Ward. Ward didn’t even wait to allow for the news of Senator John McCain’s brain cancer diagnosis to settle in before offering to knock him out of his seat. Said Ward: You know, I get that the show must go on.

Posted at 9:00 pm on July 22, 2017 by streiff Ever since the evening of Novemnber 8, 2016, the Clinton campaign and their lackeys in the media have been trying to affix blame on someone, other than themselves, for Clinton’s loss. Before “collusion” became all the thing, the whipping boys were Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.

President Trump dropped into his golf club in Virginia on Saturday after commissioning the country's newest aircraft carrier in Norfolk, Va.  The president arrived at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. a little after 1:30 p.m., according to a press pool report.  There, he joined Chief of Staff Steve Mnuchin and Mnuchin's wife Louise Linton.  Trump left the golf course at 5:46 p.m. and headed back to the White House, according to a pool report.  The president spoke at the commissioning of the USS Gerald R.