
SF Police Chief Won’t Resign over Mario Woods
On Friday night, calls for the San Francisco police chief, Greg Suhr, to resign resounded at a community meeting after a video clip surface showing police fatally shooting Mario Woods.

On Friday night, calls for the San Francisco police chief, Greg Suhr, to resign resounded at a community meeting after a video clip surface showing police fatally shooting Mario Woods.

The president of the University of Missouri, Tim Wolfe, is out, forced to resign by protests over his allegedly inadequate response to racist incidents on campus.

Embroiled in a financial scandal and hemorrhaging support from members of his own party, the mayor of Rome, former surgeon Ignazio Marino, resigned Thursday evening, saying that he only had “the best interests of Italy’s capital” at heart.

While Breitbart News has been reporting for months that John Boehner’s speakership was in jeopardy, the Washington media was stunned on Friday with the historic announcement of Boehner’s resignation.

On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.

In a televised address to his people, he said he had a moral duty to resign, because he was elected (just over half a year ago!) as a staunch opponent of the austerity measures he now believes it necessary to impose, in order to keep Greece in the Euro and secure its future.

The honorable resignation is a lost art in American politics. Most politicians are determined to cling to power, regardless of the cost to their reputation, their party’s standing, or their broader ideals. Scalise could have resigned with dignity, affirming the principle that even fleeting association with racism and antisemitism will not be tolerated in the Republican Party.