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As long as we're talking about driving, this seems like decent advice: Biggest Winter Driving Mistakes on Colorado Mountain Roads | Denver Westword

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I wonder what will leak out of this briefing: Lawmakers to hear from Navy admiral about attack that killed boat strike survivors | AP News

Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord - WSJ

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I agree: the Minnesota fraud scandals are about much more than just the money and even more than how dangerous it is to have Tim Walz (or anyone like him) running a state. The questions it raises about immigration are salient, even critical: Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud Scandal: Implications for Immigration Policy | National Review

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As much as the Biden administration abused the pardon process, I think President Trump is taking it to a new level. A week ago he pardoned the former president of Honduras who was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison after being convicted of taking bribes to facilitate literally tons of cocaine being sent into the United States. Yesterday, Trump announced that he's pardoning Rep Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife for bribery charges that they were facing trial for. Cuellar says he got ethics opinions prior to engaging in the charged behavior.

Both pardons involved people telling Trump that the accused/convicted were victims of unfair prosecution by the Biden administration.

Nothing can be done to rein in Trump's use of the pardon power but it strikes me as outrageous, bordering on corrupt, even as I understand Trump's hatred of what he perceives as the kind of lawfare that was used to persecute him. But the situations are simply not the same.

Henry Cuellar was on Leland Vittert's show on News Nation last night and basically claimed that he was unfairly and unjustly targeted for prosecution by the Biden DOJ because of his criticism of Biden's border policies (and occasional other times that he sided with Republicans...he probably has the most conservative voting record of any Democrat in the House.)

What was Honduras ex-president convicted of and why has Trump pardoned him?

Trump pardons Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar | AP News

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Does anybody who matters care anymore? Are we all so numb to the behavior of senior government officials that nothing matters anymore except to the extent that one side believes they can use it to hurt the other side?