My post today, like yesterday's, will update you, dear reader, on one of the state level campaigns that will have their collective denouement in November. John E. James is going for the Senate, not the House. James is a rising star within the Republican Party. We know this because President Donald Trump briefly considered him as a possible nominee for the US Ambassador to the United Nations after Nikki Haley left that post. James, pictured, is a veteran, a West Point graduate who was with the US Army in Iraq. After discharge, he went to work in a company his father had founded, James Group International. (Hmmm, one can see his appeal to Trump -- although Trump surely feels superior in that, in HIS family, one gets bone spurs rather than going to war.) Last June, almost a year ago, there were reports that different groups of Republican were trying to recruit James for two distinct career opportunities. One group wanted him to challenge incumbent Democrat Haley Stevens for ...