Saturday, May 20, 2017

@8:24, 5/20/17

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N.Y. / Region

This Nervous City

The Coney Island of one poet’s mind.

I am fascinated by though not fond of Coney Island.

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Technology

Getting Recommendations From Facebook Friends

You can create a question post for your Facebook timeline that encourages your friends to give their advice, complete with links and maps.

I have been refusing to pay attention to Facebook.

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The Learning Network

A Call to Action: Winners From Our Fourth Annual Student Editorial Contest

It’s no easy task being selected as a winner out of 7,895 entries, a record.

If editorial writers were doing their job this contest would be more difficult.

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Business Day

White House Fights a Familiar Enemy: The Press

After two bombshell reports, the Trump administration trains its fire on the news media and the sources who are leaking to it.

It is far easier to blame the messenger than to fix the problem.

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Real Estate

Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey

This week’s properties include a townhouse in Jersey City, N.J., and five-bedroom house in Rye Brook, N.Y.

South facing glass.

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Opinion

Why Republicans Are Always Looking Over Their Shoulders

Fear of being “primaried” in ever more polarized districts keeps congressmen from breaking ranks.

"Marching Morons"
What is to be done about majority factions remains an unsolved problem.

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Opinion

How Impeachment Could Help the G.O.P., Not the Democrats

Readers discuss whether Democrats should try to impeach the president or focus on House and Senate races in 2018.

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

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U.S.

Senator Thom Tillis Says He Is ‘Fine’ After Collapsing

From what appeared to be a hospital bed, the senator said in a video that he had been “overheated” and was fine.

Sadly

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Business Day

Kellyanne Conway Responds to ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts

“My beliefs, commitments and loyalties are plain to see,” she said, in response to their claims that she found representing Donald Trump distasteful.

So are the views of Morning Joe.
My distaste is dominant.

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U.S.

Polarizing Sheriff David Clarke Says He’ll Take a Top Homeland Security Job

The Milwaukee County sheriff, who spoke at the Republican convention, once said ISIS and Black Lives Matter activists were allying to destroy America.

Our Liberty is in danger.

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Business Day

White House Fights a Familiar Enemy: The Press

After two bombshell reports, the Trump administration trains its fire on the news media and the sources who are leaking to it.
U.S.

A Sampling of ‘Natural Foods Cookbook’ Recipes

The author, Beatrice Trum Hunter, who died at 98, credited the natural ingredients she used for helping her live longer than people who relied on processed foods.
Well

Red Meat Increases Risk of Dying From 9 Diseases

High red meat consumption increased the rate of dying from cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes, infections, Alzheimer’s disease, kidney disease and liver disease.
Opinion

President Trump’s True Revelation: He Is Unfit for Office

He has the legal right to blurt out classified information, but his ignorance, vanity and foolishness endanger the nation.
U.S.

Woman Is Caught Trying to Scale White House Fence, Officials Say

The woman had jumped a protective bike rack, prompting the Secret Service to clear the North Lawn.
U.S.

Video: The McMaster Press Conference, Decoded

President Trump's national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, took questions about whether President Trump shared classified information with Russian dignitaries in an Oval Office meeting. How did he answer?
Business Day

Trump’s Urging That Comey Jail Reporters Denounced as an ‘Act of Intimidation’

News organizations expressed outrage Wednesday over a report that President Trump asked the former F.B.I. director to consider imprisoning journalists who published classified government information.
Well

Yogurt May Be Good for the Bones

Older men and women who ate yogurt daily had a lower risk of osteoporosis than those who did not eat yogurt.
Technology

Getting Recommendations From Facebook Friends

You can create a question post for your Facebook timeline that encourages your friends to give their advice, complete with links and maps.
Business Day

Roger Ailes’s Swift Exit From the Network He Built

Mr. Ailes was ousted barely two weeks after the former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment.

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