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The 2016 election and ‘The Fable of the Bees’

The 2016 election and ‘The Fable of the Bees’

David Tuerck

The media are missing the point when they attribute the Trump and Sanders phenomena to unhappiness with the "establishment." As for Trump, there is no Republican "establishment" – no clique of insiders who have let down their supporters by refusing to dis-establish the Obama agenda. There are only people like Mitt Romney, John McCain, John Boehner and Mitch O'Connell, who have tried to get elected and then survive to run again. They, like all politicians, are at the mercy of the voters to whom they must appeal in order to win office. If you don't like these politicians, you should blame the voters who got them as far as they went.

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Slain Virginia police officer comes home to Springfield
Massachusetts

Slain Virginia police officer comes home to Springfield

Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) – A Virginia policewoman who was fatally shot her first day on the job was laid to rest next to her father in a Massachusetts cemetery Monday after a stirring tribute from hundreds of officers from around the country who came to pay their final respects.

The flag-draped casket of 28-year-old Ashley Guindon made its way from a funeral home to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Springfield along a route lined by hundreds of saluting officers standing next to their motorcycles. Hundreds more stood at attention outside the church before filing inside to the sound of a bagpiper.

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