NH’s Soldati Reports Cautious Optimism at Standing Rock

UPDATED 12/05/16: Lincoln Soldati decided after two weeks of trying to be helpful at the Oceti Sakowin Camp that it was time to head home to Portsmouth. He stayed last night at a motel that he described as the Bates Motel after leaving camp in a blizzard on Monday.

Betsy DeVos and her big-giving relatives: Family qualifies as GOP royalty

Betsy DeVos voiced her thoughts about her family’s abundant political giving in a 1997 piece in Roll Call, in which she wrote that she had decided “to stop taking offense at the suggestion that we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point. They are right. We do expect some things in return. We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American values.”