Benghazi again. No mention by Bill Northrup Of the Beirut US embassy bombing in April 1983, which killed 63 people including 17 American embassy staff, mostly CIA plus a USAID officer and a couple of guards. Six months later, Lebanese insurgents car-bombed a US military barracks in Beirut, killing 241 US military personnel including 220 marines.

Congress then did not launch a witch-hunt against Reagan. Yet today, Republican loyalists still talk about Benghazi as though it was some sort of unparalleled disaster. Reagan's pointless screw-up is passed over, as are the huge embassy disasters under GW Bush.

This is not right. Anyone can see this is not right. And if the Bill Northrups of the world succeed in taking away the right to private reproductive children from women, as we all know Republicans are keen to do, then the people will suffer for their complacence. Personal rights are hard-won but easily lost. We all will lose rights under Trump, in fact it's happening right now.