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Opinion
House Republicans Go Off the Cliff
Will the Senate be there to catch them?Ross Douthat is suffering a crisis of faith.
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World
Mixed Messages From Trump Worry Pro-Israel Hard-Liners
Some of the president’s supporters worry that the White House is listening too closely to Arab and Palestinian arguments and diluting support for Israel’s government.Another Trump failure.
There will be no peace in the Levant.
Peace is victory.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/victory
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Opinion
The Hidden Radicalism of Southern Food
By starting a community farm and a pig co-op, Fannie Lou Hamer pointed the way toward food sovereignty.Subsistence farming is a way to survive with no significant income.
People abandoned it for industrial jobs.
Christian monasteries have made it work.
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Opinion
Hillary Clinton’s Absolution
With nothing left to lose, can she find herself?Hillary Clinton is a good and a wise person.
I do not expect to intersect with her existence in the future.
I admit to curiosity about her decisions.
It is of the same class as my curiosity about J. K. Rowlings next work of fiction.
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U.S.
E.P.A. Chief Recuses Himself From Suits Opposing Obama-Era Rules
Scott Pruitt, the agency’s administrator, had previously been urged to remove himself from cases he had been involved with while serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general.The ethics establishment would have his scalp if he did not recuse himself.
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U.S.
Fight Brews Over Push to Shield Americans in Warrantless Surveillance
Privacy-minded lawmakers in Congress look to limit the N.S.A.’s use of information about Americans that it incidentally collects while spying on foreigners.Inteligence operations at all levels of government conflict with constitutionally protected freedoms.
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Opinion
Body Cams Work, if They’re Used Right
As New York’s pilot program rolls out, close attention must be paid to what’s working and what’s not.The body cam program will cause a great deal of learning.
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U.S.
When That Feisty Neighbor Becomes the President
As a businessman, Donald J. Trump peppered local officials in Florida with requests, and governments pushed back. Now, some approvals come more easily.Donald Trump is indulging in conflicts of interest.
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U.S.
18 Penn State Students Charged in Fraternity Death
Eight were charged with involuntary manslaughter — as was the fraternity itself, Beta Theta Pi — in the death of Timothy Piazza on Feb. 4.Another frat house disaster.
Penn state is trying to change its culture.
I wish the university success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5aiwxSfdH0
There are other words to the song.
https://wilson.engr.wisc.edu/rsfc/fightsongsII.txt
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2.1 Beers, beers for old Notre Dame Bring on the cocktails, we want champagne Send the freshmen out for gin, Don't let a sober sophomore in. We never stagger, we never fall, We sober up on wood alcohol, All the loyal faculty lie drunk on the bar room floor!"
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Opinion
The House Health Care Disaster Is Really About Taxes
For Republicans, governing seems to mean cutting taxes and nothing else.
"The
trick, then, is to make the health care bill’s tax cuts part of that
baseline by passing them into law before a tax-reform package. This
would provide Republicans with far more room to permanently cut taxes
later in the year. In short, Republicans would be able to devise a tax
bill that collects about $1 trillion less in revenue but that would
still qualify as revenue-neutral under Senate procedure.
This
is why Republicans put health care reform at the top of their agenda.
Without the bill to reset the federal government’s baseline tax revenue,
Republicans would be much more constrained when it came time to
overhaul the tax code."
Yes.
The house health care action is a disaster.
It is about tax cuts for the rich.
There is hope it will die in the senate or of the senate.
The Republican majority in the house will end at the end of next year.
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