Monday, May 8, 2017

@7:20, 5/8/17

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Opinion

A Disaster Wrapped in Victory

With the health care vote, the House G.O.P. have made the rest of its agenda harder to achieve.

Wealth triumphs.

The Government cannot do charity.
Church and state are separate.
The poor will starve if they are not fed.
The government does entitlements.
Benefits for all.


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U.S.

A Republican Principle Is Shed in the Fight on Health Care

To the dismay of many conservatives, Republicans have had to shift their focus to cutting, not ending, popular benefits of the Affordable Care Act.

The Republicans are selling "a deal with the devil".
They are having trouble with definitions.

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Opinion

Republican Death Wish

The health care bill poses a threat to many Americans and is a death wish from the politicians who passed it.

Lead pipe has not brought the government of Michigan low.

4
Opinion

Take the A Train, as in Audubon

A “Birding by Subway” map lets riders look up at something other than buildings.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crepuscular

We try not to think of the thousands dead under windmills and lighted buildings.
Poisoned by toxic chemicals dumped in marshes.
Starved by mosquito control efforts.

The spring is not yet silent.
People are working for that.

5
Opinion

John McCain: Why We Must Support Human Rights

I have seen the worst the world can offer. That’s why I believe the United States needs to protect what is good.

He is a Republican and votes with the Senate Republicans.
We will see how he votes on Ryan's health care bill.

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U.S.

Obama Defends Affordable Care Act, but Leaves Trump Out of It

In remarks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Mr. Obama made only a glancing reference to the recent vote to dismantle his signature legislation.

Barack Obama is a gracious man.

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Opinion

Republicans Party Like It’s 1984

Making policy by lying about everything.

Paul Krugman speaks truth.

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Opinion

Mr. Zinke, Keep Channeling Teddy Roosevelt

The secretary of the interior could best imitate the conservationist president by shielding important waters and landscapes from oil and gas drilling.

Ryan Zinke serves at the pleasure of the president.
"Resistance is useless"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon

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Sports

Always Dreaming’s Story Starts With 2 Brooklyn Boys’ Trips to the Track

Vincent Viola and Anthony Bonomo, the majority owners of the Kentucky Derby-winning colt, grew up together in pre-hipster Williamsburg, circa 1960s.

Yes.

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U.S.

Life and Combat for Republicans at Berkeley

Five Berkeley Republicans describe what it’s like to be conservative in a bastion of American liberalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal

Republicans in California have made themselves obnoxious.
Children have not yet thought.
Some never think.


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