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As a U.S. senator in 2002, Hillary Clinton endorsed military action in Iraq, a decision that came back to haunt her in her failed White House campaign six years later.
Now, the 65-year-old potential 2016 presidential candidate is risking the possibility of a similar political situation in a future campaign with her support of President Obama's call for a U.S.-led military strike in Syria as punishment for the use of chemical weapons.
The two conflicts are different: Iraq was a full-fledged war with ground troops that lasted nearly nine years, while the Obama administration is talking about a limited, focused air attack in Syria.
Even so, opponents could use Clinton's position against her in a future campaign.
'The world will have to deal with this threat as swiftly and comprehensively as possible,' Clinton said Monday in her first public endorsement of Obama's plan to respond to Syria's chemical weapons use.
She's expected to repeat her stance in a speech Tuesday, despite widespread American and congressional opposition to military intervention.
An Associated Press poll released Monday found that most Americans oppose even a limited attack - likely with cruise missiles - and about half are fearful that a strike would lead to a long-term U.S. military commitment in Syria.
As she did with the Iraq vote nearly a dozen years ago, Clinton is betting she will be on the right side of history by standing with Obama despite the public opinion polls and a divided Congress.
It was similar to the gamble she made in 2002 when she voted to give President George W. Bush the authorization to use force in Iraq. The resolution passed the Senate, and public opinion was more supportive of war.
By the time the 2008 presidential primary campaign came around, support for the war had soured. Obama, who had spoken out in opposition to the war as an Illinois state senator, won the Democratic nomination over Clinton in part by playing up the differences in their positions on the Iraq war.
Clinton's supporters say this time is different, and they argue that she will be rewarded politically for sticking by the president. Clinton's support was not exactly a surprise.
As the nation's top diplomat, she supported intervening in Syria with a proposal in the summer of 2012 to arm vetted units of the Syrian rebels.
The White House later turned down those plans. Clinton also pushed attempts in the United Nations to develop a political transition in Syria and provide humanitarian aid to Syrians.
The Clinton Foundation, set up after the 42nd president left the White House, was renamed a few weeks ago to include all three Clintons in the name.
Chelsea Clinton, 33, has become vastly more engaged in running operations over recent years, taking on the role as vice chair.
According to the Washington Post after giving their speeches on Monday evening the Clintons held a cocktail reception at the Italian Embassy, with tickets costing $1,000 a person.
Later they hosted a dinner at their home on Whitehaven Street for $25,00 per couple.
The FINANCIAL -- TOKYO, September 5, 2018—Canon Inc. announced the launch in Japan of the EOS R System—comprising the EOS R mirrorless camera, four RF lenses and four types of mount adapter—a new imaging system of cameras and lenses that increases the degree of lens design freedom and expands the possibilities of optic...
The command of light is the essence of visual expression through photo and video, for which lenses are vital. In pursuit of even higher image quality, Canon has created the new EOS R System, which features a revised lens mount—the point of contact between camera and lens—that expands the possibilities of optics, allowi...
Created to utilize RF lenses—born of lens design ideals—to the fullest, the EOS R System employs the newly developed RF Mount. With a large mount diameter and short back focus1 that allows for increased freedom when designing lenses and featuring a new mount transmission system for enhanced communication between the le...
In order to take full advantage of the strengths of the new mount, in addition to employing a mirrorless system, the camera body features shooting functions distinctive of a new system that make use of such attributes as Duel Pixel CMOS AF phase detection autofocus technology and an electronic viewfinder (EVF). What's ...
In addition to a dedication to high image quality, the EOS R System delivers new customer value through enhanced shooting functions in pursuit of speed and comfort.
Canon's EOS System made its debut in 1987 and flourished with EF lenses at its core. Today EF lenses are the system's keystone and are also employed by such products as cinema cameras and network cameras, and have come to support the development of a variety of the Company's businesses as an enduring core of Canon's in...
Brett Kavanaugh would give Donald Trump unprecedented new powers.
President Donald Trump introduces U.S. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as his nominee to the United States Supreme Court during an event in the East Room of the White House on July 9 in Washington.
Does Brett Kavanaugh defer to precedent? The answer to this question could well determine the future of Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights in this country. Kavanaugh’s speeches and judicial opinions suggest that he would not defer to Roe as precedent, and that he would overturn it entirely.
Perhaps more surprisingly, he has hinted that he would essentially overturn the independence of the Federal Reserve and other vital independent agencies by handing control of them over to the president. And perhaps most disturbingly, Kavanaugh’s reverence of a Scalia dissent in a critical case about independent prosecu...
It is important to appreciate that Judge Kavanaugh has a remarkably robust record on Roe and other major controversies. He’s not a stealth nominee. But his candid opinions and speeches played a role in getting the nomination, so it’s also fair to scrutinize them. A close reading of some of his major cases in the area o...
Two key features of such agencies are that 1) they are run by multimember bipartisan commissions and 2) the commissioners or officers cannot be fired at will by the president, but only for good cause. This structure is crucial for fostering expertise and long-term planning, insulated from party control and presidential...
Even if Judge Kavanaugh is on the record signaling his opposition to major precedents like Roe, would he still respect precedent and set those leanings aside? Based on a reading of one of his most significant opinions and his answers in an American Enterprise Institute forum in 2016, Kavanaugh appears to not be particu...
Q: Can you think of a case that deserves to be overturned?
Q: Would you volunteer one?
Judge Kavanaugh: No. (More laughter, long pause). Actually, I am going to say one: Morrison v. Olson. It has been effectively overruled, but I would put the final nail in.
Morrison v. Olson was a 7–1 Supreme Court decision, written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 1988, upholding the Office of Independent Counsel as constitutional. In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia embraced the “unitary executive” theory, which asserts that the president has full control over the executive branch, ...
There was a reason Scalia was all alone in that dissent, though: He was wrong, and his historical assumptions were demonstrably wrong. Further, Morrison has not been “effectively overruled” as a judicial question, even if it has many critics and even if the Supreme Court has rarely relied on it since 1988.
Kavanaugh seems to go further and subscribe to a more extreme version of the unitary-executive theory, which would end the notion of independence in any government agencies. Trump defenders have used such a theory to argue that Trump could have fired FBI Director James Comey for any reason without it having constituted...
To see how far Kavanaugh might go with his unitary-executive theory, it’s important to examine his own rulings. Kavanaugh relied heavily on Justice Scalia’s lone dissent in Morrison v. Olson in a set of decisions on the Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau between 2016 and 2018. In PHH v. CFPB, Kavanaugh ruled (in my opini...
Overturning this precedent would mean an end to the political independence of agencies in banking, finance, trade, nuclear security, and more.
In ruling against the CFPB’s structure, Kavanaugh cited Scalia’s lone dissenting opinion in Morrison v. Olson eight times in the initial panel decision and six times in his en banc dissent. As I’ve previously written, the Morrison dissent, which claimed government investigations and prosecutions were a “quintessentiall...
Founding-era practices further undercut Scalia’s assumptions. Colonial prosecutors were often appointed by judges—not by executive officials—and many early state constitutions listed the prosecutors in the judiciary sections. Some of these constitutions gave legislatures or judges the power to appoint law enforcement o...
Recall, moreover, that the independent counsel experiment ended with nearly universal consensus that the experiment had been a mistake and that Justice Scalia had been right back in 1988 to view the independent counsel system as an unwise and unconstitutional departure from historical practice and a serious threat to i...
Nearly universal consensus? There isn’t even a nearly universal consensus in the Federalist Society that Scalia was right. This is an exaggeration that further suggests Kavanaugh lives in an ideological bubble of highly motivated reasoning. Kavanaugh’s willingness to exaggerate in service of presidential power raises r...
As discussed, Kavanaugh’s indications that he’d go even further than Scalia’s dissent are even more unsettling. Critically, the judge has signaled that he’d overturn Humphrey’s Executor, an 83-year old canonical precedent that is a foundation for the modern administrative state. Overturning this precedent would mean an...
In Humphrey’s, the court ruled on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attempts to fire Federal Trade Commission Chairman William Humphrey because the president wanted to change course on trade and antitrust policy. But the FTC was designed as an “independent agency,” and by statute, the president could remove an FTC chai...
Because of Humphrey’s Executor, the President to this day lacks day-to-day control over large swaths of regulatory policy and enforcement in the Executive Branch. … Those and many other independent agencies have huge policymaking and enforcement authority and greatly affect the lives and liberties of the American peopl...
Kavanaugh went on to question the principle that agencies need independence to follow expertise “in an apolitical way.” He quoted a legal scholar trashing this critical precedent: “Humphrey’s Executor, as commentators have noted, is one of the more egregious opinions to be found on pages of the United States Supreme Co...
All of that said, Humphrey’s Executor is an entrenched Supreme Court precedent, protected by stare decisis. The point of explaining its history and continuing repercussions here is not to suggest that the case should be overturned.
Considering the previous 12-page critique, including the quote about “one of the more egregious opinions” on the books, though, one might be forgiven for inferring that Kavanaugh thinks the Supreme Court should overturn Humphrey’s directly. Of course, a circuit judge needs to back down and acknowledge stare decisis aft...
Kavanaugh also returned to his critique of Humphrey’s in the CFPB case. In a footnote in his 2016 decision and another footnote in his 2018 dissent, Kavanaugh cited critics of Humphrey’s and cast further doubt on the validity of independent agencies. He even addressed the potential effects of overturning Humphrey’s.
There is ambiguity in this noncommittal footnote, but if Kavanaugh is seriously considering striking down the structure of independent agencies in the Trump era—as his writings imply—he needs to explain this position and acknowledge the dramatic consequences. It would be an unpredictable and disruptive change in the ex...
Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep’s clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.
Correction, July 19, 2018: Due to an editing error, this piece originally said that Judge Kavanaugh seems to think centralizing executive powers is unconstitutional. This article also originally described independent agencies as being 150 years old, not 130 years old, which is the correct age.
Nashville, TN – It’s time for Tennessee to get ready. Throughout the month of September 2010, the seventh annual National Preparedness Month focuses on encouraging Americans to work together to take concrete actions toward being prepared in the event of an emergency.
The Tennessee Department of Health is highlighting volunteer service and continuing to recruit and register public health volunteers across the state.
Intersection of Riverside Drive and Crossland Avenue during the flood.
The Dallas Stars have emerged as the front-runners to land highly sought-after defenseman Erik Karlsson, sources told Chris Stevenson of The Athletic.
News regarding Dallas' keen interest in the two-time Norris Trophy winner comes only one day after the Senators reportedly gave teams permission to negotiate a new contract with Karlsson.
Talks on going between Dallas and Senators ... Senators focusing on Miro Heiskanen third overall to Dallas last year, one source suggested. Dallas would rather give up Julius Honka, 14th overall in 2014. Played 42 games with Stars last season. Stay tuned.
Despite it being heavily rumored that any deal involving Karlsson would have to also include Bobby Ryan and his beastly $7.25-million cap hit over the next four seasons, the deal with Dallas would not include the much-maligned winger, per Stevenson.
Ottawa offered its prized rearguard a contract extension on July 1 worth a reported $10 million per season, but given the relative mess the franchise currently finds itself in, it's widely expected Karlsson has played his final game in the nation's capital.
Karlsson is coming off a season in which he registered nine goals and 53 assists in 71 games.
Does it feel like the same destructive things keep happening, that you date the same people, leave jobs for the same reason? We learn early how to make decisions, deal with things and even as we mature and get more sophisticated, sometimes old habits get stuck. What about when it’s a general feeling of unease? The firs...
Yes and no. There are a number of things that can lead to people not identifying themselves as trauma survivors.
Maybe you’re considering whether to see a peer therapist. And despite knowing some of the drawbacks, maybe you decide you want someone who shares some experience or characteristic with you. Maybe it’s the rigor of your education or career. Maybe it’s someone of your race. Maybe it’s your history of abuse. Others want s...
But sometimes there is a different kind of resonance. I remember a client.
It’s not at all unusual to want a therapist who really understands our experiences, perhaps has even shared them. Is that reasonable? Is it realistic? Obviously there are many things we would never know about our therapist (assuming they have appropriate boundaries), but there are certainly there are some things that c...
Peer support is support that comes from people who share our experiences, like in 12 step programs. Professional support comes from trained professionals, like licensed therapists. It’s much easier to trust the expertise of non-peers for non-psychiatric medical problems—most people don’t really care if their oncologist...
What are we supposed to say when a far away tragedy occurs? Does it matter if it was a natural disaster or an act of terror? If the victims were random versus extra vulnerable (like children) or minorities, like the most recent Pulse shooting?
I don’t know what your social media feeds look like but responding to a tragic event in a sensitive way can be really difficult. When someone “stands with France,” others jump on them for ignoring Syria. When some people expressed outrage over police shootings of unarmed African Americans, they were called out for draw...
This is a love letter for those who don't fit in "the box."
Even though partnering up is the “next stage” and it is a sign that you are acceptable and stable and mature, you can still be those things without being in a long-term, cohabitating monogamous relationship.
After several months away from a reliable internet connection, and sometimes electricity and therefore my blog, I am back.
As I write this first post saying “hello” again, saying, “I am so excited to be back in so many different ways,” I am also grieving.
As Semisonic sang almost 20 years ago, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” I re-begin my blog and my life in the United States only by ending and leaving many people who I loved in Ghana.
Many readers are familiar with the Holmes-Raye Life Stress Inventory. The inventory was designed to predict the chance of a health breakdown based on the quantity and quality of stressors from the past year. It can be surprising to see how many of the stressors are things that are generally considered positive: marriag...
We are built for routine and sameness. Even people who crave change and chases stimulation have to adjust to new routines and new ways of doing things.
Change. Loss. A Slump. Trauma. There’s a lot of ways to get thrown off balance and feel like you’ll never get up. We often think that healing will bring back our equilibrium but sometimes, in order to heal, we need to get some equilibrium first.
I know a lot of people who spend all their time acting like they’re feeling great when they’re not, and that’s a terrible way to live. I’m not talking about a permanent move toward acting like things are perfect. I’m not talking about lying to yourself or anyone else when things are really tough right now.
I’m talking about setting into motion a habit of functioning as though the world is still turning. It’s really the sort of thing people mean when they talk about putting one foot in front of the other. So here are three steps to get your started.
Beautiful 1.29 Residential lot with a pond. Located in the Grant-Valkaria area. This property has a culvert and gate in the front. Don't let this one get away!
How simply mah-vellous! The ingenious ``New-Fangled Editorial,'' June 8, gives us the ultimate time-saving device for appearing well informed without ever having to think. Smashing, just smashing. Elizabeth A. Brown, Paris, Ill.
It may come as a surprise, but editorial writers do occasionally have interesting ideas. Something like the retrieval system this editorial humorously describes should in fact be implemented. Quick access to the nation's editorials would be of value to students, legislators, lobbyists, and editorial writers. If the mos...
Many thanks for the technological break-through in introducing the touch-tone editorial. This innovation is a much needed feature given the plethora of urgent, not-to-be-put-off difficulties demanding our attention these days. We couldn't possibly handle this wide range of important issues without this computerized ser...
Computerization overwhelms us with knowledge, but doesn't give us the one thing we really need - the wisdom for making right decisions.
As for my access to the ``new-fangled'' editorial - I still have a dial newspaper. Ralph Emerson, Tacoma, Wash.
TORONTO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The pace of purchasing activity in Canada, measuring the monthly variation in economic activity, edged up in August from July as employment and prices climbed, according to Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data released on Friday.
The seasonally adjusted index rose to 61.9 from 61.8 in July, surpassing analysts’ expectations for 61.4. A reading above 50 indicates an increase in the pace of activity.
The Ivey PMI measures the month to month variation in economic activity as indicated by a panel of purchasing managers from across Canada.
The unadjusted index rose to 61.3 from 56.7 in July.
The gauge of employment rose to an adjusted 59.6 from 55.3 in July, while the prices index firmed to 71.5 from 71.1.
Separate data on Friday from Statistics Canada showed that Canada shed 51,600 jobs in August as losses in part-time work overtook gains in full-time employment.
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Parks and Recreation would like to thank all parade entrants for their participation. This year's parade was a huge success, featuring a variety of creative floats, vehicles, horses, and walking groups. Prince George Parks and Recreation would also like to thank the judges, Deputy Coun...
The winner of each of the five categories will receive a plaque at the Jan. 10, 2012, Board of Supervisors meeting at 7 p.m. All parade entrants are welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 804-733-2646.
Be extra careful driving because school starts in Fayette County, and children will be back on the streets and at school bus stops.
More than 40,000 students are returning to classes.
For information, go to Fcps.net.
The festival will feature dozens of food booths, live music, children’s activities and more.
It’s noon to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday at Masterson Station Park, 3051 Leestown Road.
The second annual Opera Under the Stars at the MoonDance Amphitheater, 1152 Monarch St., will feature some of the best opera artists in Central Kentucky.

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