Terry McAuliffe is a Hillary Clinton pal. He fronted $1.3 million for her house in Chappaqua, New York. We should all have such friends. Thanks to the Republicans who shut down the government in 2013, McAuliffe is now the governor of Virginia, a swing state, and thus in a position to help Clinton get another house — on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Any governor has political strings to pull, but Gov. McAuliffe is going beyond sharing voter information, get-out-the-vote operations and other traditional political tools. He's creating new voters by unilaterally restoring voting rights to 206,000 convicted felons. McAuliffe is focused on this: In 2012, Barack Obama's margin of victory in Virginia was 3.88 percent, which represented 149,298 votes.
ANKARA – The U.S. is scrambling to stop military hostilities between Turkish forces in Syria and the Kurds, a conflict that threatens to detract resources from the fight against ISIS.
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has vowed that his army's operations will continue in Syria against both ISIS and Kurdish forces until neither poses a security threat to his nation, reports the Boston Globe.
