“Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted and then deleted a recognition of the Armenian genocide after he paid his respects at a memorial in the country on Tuesday,” CNN reports.

G. Elliot Morris: “An alternative theory of the 1992 election is that Bill Clinton won because the economy was terrible and voters blamed the incumbent, not because he moved to the right on crime, welfare, and race.”

“If that’s true, then almost any Democrat could have won in 1992. Perhaps the Democrats could do more for their constituents if they stop looking in the rear mirror.”

“Kelly Neumann, a prominent Michigan Democratic fundraiser who is supporting several major Democratic candidates in the state, shared a social media post on Veterans Day in 2024 honoring her grandfather, who served in the Nazi regime’s army in World War II,” Jewish Insider reports.

The remains of a former Oregon mayor Edwin Asher have been identified two decades after his disappearance, according to the forensics laboratory that helped confirm the ID, CBS News reports.

A social media post from the Department of Labor appears to echo a Nazi-era slogan from the early 20th century, USA Today reports.

The post: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.”

It was an alarming echo of one of the central slogans used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party: “One People, One Realm, One Leader.”

“The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in an overnight raid bears resemblance to Manuel Antonio Noriega’s capture, in which the elite U.S. Delta Force seized the Panamanian strongman in 1990 and flew him to Florida to face drug trafficking charges, 36 years ago to the day,” the Washington Post reports.

“A new president with a bold agenda, determined to exert control over government agencies to carry it out. An agency head who refused to quit, rejecting the president’s demand that he resign and insisting Congress had protected his job to keep it independent from politics,” the New York Times reports.

“Long before President Trump declared he had the power to fire independent agency leaders, the United States experienced a nearly identical test of presidential power.”

“The president then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wanted to oust a member of the Federal Trade Commission he believed was an obstacle to his sweeping plan to pull the nation out of the Great Depression.”

Richard Haass: “I am just back from the nation’s capital, where I went to attend the memorial service for Dick Cheney at the National Cathedral. It was good to hear the tributes to an individual committed to public service, and the image of two former presidents (Bush and Biden) along with three former vice presidents (Gore, Pence, and Harris) sitting together comfortably made for a welcome reminder of another Washington.”

“The absence of anyone from the Trump administration underscored that the principal divide in today’s Washington is less between Republicans and Democrats than it is between traditionalists prepared to work within the existing political system and radicals who favor breaking long-standing norms and policies.”

Clark Hoyt: “Recall how Watergate unfolded. Burglars paid by the Nixon reelection campaign bugged telephones at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex. They were caught in the act after a night watchman discovered tape over a door latch and called the police. The scandal broadened and climbed, revelation by revelation—much of it through the reporting of journalists, The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.”

“A bipartisan Senate Watergate Committee was formed and held hearings, trying to find the truth. It was a Republican senator, Howard Baker of Tennessee, who kept asking two key questions: ‘What did the president know, and when did he know it?’ A witness revealed that there was an Oval Office taping system that recorded the conversations there. A unanimous Supreme Court ordered Nixon to turn over the tapes to a special prosecutor appointed by his own Justice Department.”

“The president, having previously refused, then complied. A ‘smoking gun’ tape revealed that Nixon had plotted to block investigators as he campaigned for reelection. The leaders of his own party in Congress went to the White House to tell him that he was almost certainly going to be impeached and convicted. And Nixon was soon on that helicopter leaving office.”

“It’s hard to imagine any of this happening today. The checks on the presidency have all grown weaker.”

President Trump was recently thrown off by France and other countries celebrating “Victory Day” to commemorate the end of World War II, saying it was ridiculous they had such a special day but the U.S. didn’t, considering America won the war for them, Mediaite reports.

He added: “And I said, from now on, we’re going to say Victory Day for World War I and World War II, and we could do it for plenty of other wars. But we’ll start with those two.”