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The take-a-knee stuff was started a few years ago as a protest by one guy against what he called oppression of people of color.
As a rabid New York Giants fan, it's hard enough watching football without the extra added annoyance of having to endure political statements along the way.
I don't think I have much of a future as a politician. I don't understand how they think, and really don't get how they negotiate.
Big announcement from Donald Trump on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The combination of campaign promises and assurances to the Dreamers that they needn't worry about getting rounded up and deported made his decision appropriate and totally predictable.
I suggested earlier this week that the tide is turning when The Washington Post named antifa as the aggressor in attacking peaceful demonstrators at a free speech rally in California. But later we got the political equivalent of a tsunami.
We have relatives who live about 150 miles northwest of Corpus Christi, TX.
There have been a number of articles and commentaries recently comparing the North Korean situation today with the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
I can just picture the scene. It's the early '80s and I'm running a mergers and acquisitions group for a major Wall Street investment bank. It's a bit of the Wild Wild West with leveraged buyouts, junk bonds and hostile tender offers dominating the landscape, and deals closing every day.
It's no secret that public trust in news sources — traditional TV, cable, newspapers, even social media — has declined to all-time lows. But when questioned about the particular sources respondents typically access, the trust numbers go way up. This is a dangerous combination since it tends to polarize groupthink at the expense of more balanced debate fueled by unbiased news. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? Perhaps some perspective could help explain the former.
General John Kelly has been chief of staff for only a couple of days, and already the conventional media wisdom is that he will fail. He will be unable to corral the strong West Wing staff personalities and, more importantly, will never be able to manage the Boss. I'm not so sure.
With control of all the levers, eight years of good conservative ideas and repeated assurances that if put in power the GOP would see to it that Obamacare would go, one wonders why repealing it is so hard. The simplest answer is that the GOP isn't nearly as conservative on health care as their rhetoric implied. And when the public sands shifted more positively toward Obamacare, they ran for the hills. If you don't like that one, then another explanation is a profound lack of a basic/unified GOP theme on health care and an utter absence of messaging.
What in the world is going on with Trump publicly trashing his attorney general?
