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Thursday, February 15, 2018
Infrastructure Spending Won’t Transform America
Appropriately, Warren began the best book about American populism, his novel based on Huey Long’s Louisiana career, with a rolling sentence about a road.
The U.S. Should Welcome More Investor Immigrants
There’s a deep political divide over how to handle immigration, and clashes over the issue have contributed to two government shutdowns — albeit one lasting mere hours — thus far this year.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Rice Email
Evidence continues to show that we are looking at the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. Namely, that the federal government used its enormous intelligence and law enforcement power to attack the presidential candidate of the opposing party during the campaign and undermine his presidency, illegally misleading the FISA Court along the way to obtain permission to spy on American citizens who were part of that campaign/administration.
Rice’s CYA Memo
Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice is back in the news — and that’s never a good thing. Rice was the Obama official tasked with lying on five Sunday talk shows about Benghazi. We also know that Rice had a key role in spying on the Trump campaign.
The Ties That Blind: More Hypocrisy on White House Access
Stop the presses. Democrat Elijah Cummings (D-MD) has just uncovered the scandal of the century: A conservative administration is consulting with conservative experts!
Success Academy
Kids who attend New York City’s Success Academy charter schools do remarkably well.
Science, Secrecy and Lies in Oklahoma
As the Oklahoma attorney general’s office fights to keep hidden from public view the results of secret hearings on the DNA science flaws and falsehoods in former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw’s case, two prominent experts have stepped forward to shed bright light on the government’s myriad mind-boggling failures.
Sickening Celebration of North Korea
Every two years, Americans unite around the television to root for U.S. athletes, to see their dreams of gold medals come true — unless you’re a journalist, in which case the Olympics are a time to root against your country on the world stage.
A New Look Into Poverty in America
In 2015, as told on the Center for Advancing Opportunity website, Johnny C. Taylor Jr., then-president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, heard libertarian billionaire businessman Charles Koch, in a TV interview, discussing eliminating barriers to opportunity.
This Isn’t Normal
You’ve heard the phrase over and over again: “This isn’t normal.” We’ve heard it about President Trump’s rhetoric, and his Twitter usage.
The Fallacy of ‘Crumbling’ American Infrastructure
It’s Infrastructure Week (again), and who among us can contain his excitement?
What Explains the FBI’s Deep Faith in Trump Dossier Author?
Top FBI officials wanted to believe Steele. They needed to believe Steele. So they believed Steele.
Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became Black History Month in 1976.
Trump’s Budget Never Balances
Can you tell which party made the following budget proposals?
Senators Raise Serious Questions That Should Trouble All Americans
After House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) sent his memo laying out potential abuses of the FISA process by the FBI to the White House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) demanded that he be removed as chairman. Nunes was “deliberately dishonest” in pushing to release a “bogus memo,” Pelosi declared, and had “disgraced the House Intelligence Committee” with his “partisan effort to distort intelligence.”
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
High School Students Ban National Anthem From Pep Rallies
A California high school’s student leaders determined the song is racially insensitive.
Another Budget Deal Bites the Dust
Back in September I wrote about our “ethically challenged” democratic system. I said, “We are caught in a downward, self-destructive [debt] spiral.”
No, #Metoo Isn’t Going to Chase Trump From Office
Kirsten Gillibrand, dubbed the #MeToo senator by “60 Minutes,” wants President Donald Trump’s scalp.
Immigration Debate Begins
After securing passage of a budget deal that fully funds the Pentagon and keeps the government open, the Senate is now turning its attention to immigration reform. According to The Hill, “Senators are predicting a free-for-all” debate.