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The issue of the day when Wilkes Barre, Pa. was founded in 1769 was the infamous and oppressive Stamp Act. This required things printed in the Colonies be produced on paper from London carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
The Stamp Act was hated. It gave us the slogan “No taxation without representation.”
Its loudest opponents in British Parliament were John Wilkes and Isaac Barre.
From them comes the city’s name.
Ex-Dems Create GOP Senate Majority — Cindy Hyde-Smith was easily elected yesterday (Nov. 27) in a run-off election to fill the remaining two years on Thad Cochran‘s Mississippi senate seat. The win gives the GOP a solid 53-47 majority in the upper chamber.
Cochran stepped down April 1 citing health concerns. Ms. Hyde-Smith was appointed by Gov. Phil Bryant to fill the seat until an election could be held.
Mrs. Hyde-Smith had been a Democrat until 2010. She will be one of six former Democrats in the Republican caucus come January. The others are Richard Shelby of Alabama who switched in 1994; Mike Braun of Indiana, who appears to have been a D just for primary election participation in a Democrat county; Bill Cassidy of Louisiana who supported staunch liberals including Michael Dukakis for president before switching in 2006; John Kennedy of Louisiana who was a D when he served as the state’s treasurer before switching in 2007; and John Hoeven of North Dakota.
It’s also worth pointing out that another ex-Dem holds the Oval Office.
Who says bi-partisanship is dead?
Maybe it’s just that true bi-partisans can no longer stomach what the Democrat Party has become.
Pained in body William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-28-18
Ohzkxn iyeb rybsjyxc.
Rkzzi Gyu SS
Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson