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Posted at 7:00 pm on June 8, 2017 by Ben Howe Restraint is a conservative value. It’s also a tremendous tool in strategy and planning. And it’s exactly the thing that partisans seem to have in short supply. In the days leading up to the three hour testimony of former FBI director, James Comey, speculation and anticipation mounted. CNN had an actual countdown clock. Twitter was on fire.

Posted at 10:00 pm on June 8, 2017 by Dan Spencer

Posted at 10:30 pm on June 8, 2017 by Teri Christoph Reality Winner was in court today in Augusta, Georgia to face one charge of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information.” Prosecutors contended that Winner should be denied bond because she is a risk to national security and may have stolen additional top secret intelligence. Judge Brian K. Epps agreed with the prosecution, and Winner was denied bond. The prosecution relayed information gleaned from a jailhouse recording between Winner and her mother.

Posted at 1:03 am on June 9, 2017 by Neil Stevens As I write this, the BBC projects the Conservative Party to win 316 seats out of 326 needed for a majority. With it that close, the right still wins, and here’s how. If the Conservatives win 316 seats, Labour 265, the Scottish National Party (SNP) 34, the Liberal Democrats (Lib-Dems) 13, it looks like a win for the array of left-wing parties against the right. But not so fast. Don’t forget Northern Ireland.

Posted at 4:00 am on June 9, 2017 by Joe Cunningham It was the best of James, it was the worst of James, it was the age of honor, it was the age of corruption, it was the epoch of truth, it was the epoch of lies, it was the season of Clinton, it was the season of Trump, it was the spring of Democrats, it was the winter of Republicans. In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. But, what are we to comparing?

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Deutsche Bank says that U.S. privacy laws prevent it from disclosing details about President Trump’s finances and his potential ties to Russia. Five House Financial Services Committee Democrats sent Deutsche’s chief executive officer, John Cryan, a letter in May seeking information on Trump’s past transactions.

Wall Street Journal. "Mr. Trump may have mastered the modes of communication, but not the substance, thereby sabotaging his own agenda." Rove took particular aim at a series of tweets launched by Trump on Monday that appeared to undermine his Justice Department's argument for an executive order barring citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Trump's insistence in the tweets that the U.S.

Labour Party candidate Jeremy Corbyn accidentally slapped a Shadow Defense Secretary in the chest instead of high-fiving her in a clip that went viral Thursday night. Corbyn and Emily Thornbery, the Shadow Defence Secretary, were celebrating their party’s better than expected returns in the U.K.

Labor Party candidate Theresa May should step down. “The prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate,” he said, according to The Guardian.  “Well the mandate she’s got is lost Conservative [Party] seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence.