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Greg Nash Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012 nominee, is among those courting prospects for a possible third-party bid to keep Donald Trump from the White House, according to a Washington Post report . Among those prospects are Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), one of Trump’s most vocal Republican critics, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who suspended his presidential campaign in early May. Kasich’s chief strategist John Weaver said the governor isn’t interested in running an an independent. A Sasse spokesman declined to comment. But it’s not looking to good for a late in the game third-party bid, according to the...

A hush fell over the assembled media-noids, struck dumb by the utterances of the uniformed officer. “What did he say?” they asked one another, incredulity stamped on their otherwise blank faces. “He said ‘it’s fun to shoot some people.’” In the aftermath of informal remarks made by Marine Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, buckets of PC and outraged ink were spilled over them in articles that tended to minimize their context. That context was Afghanistan, the first combat theater in the war on terror. Then Maj. Gen Mattis commanded Marines who fought there. Now, let’s look at some remarks he...