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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/obituaries/john-marttila-dead.html

Arizona is not a big state in terms of population.

It has a water shortage and an international border.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006213696/ocasio-cortez-protest-pelosi.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/house-democrats-freshmen.html

Orientation is about learning how the system has worked.
There will be work to be done.
The moment is for learning how to do it starting with what is available.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/kevin-mccarthy-house-republican-leader.html

Kevin McCarthy has been left with a failing coup.
His problem is political survival.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/house-democrats-freshmen.html

The Democratic party has a long standing deep organization.
It is built on constituent services.
If these radical freshmen were not skilled in delivering constituent
services they would not have been elected.
The services they have promised are a bit different from what was standard.
The power structure is being informed of the changes.
There is no fight beyond a fight for attention.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/trump-caravan-midterms.html

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“Now that the political utility of troops on the southern border to face a fictitious caravan invasion threat is over,” said Adm. James G. Stavridis, a former commander of the military’s Southern Command, “let’s hope the president will stand down the troops so they can be with their families — especially over the holidays.”

But some officials in the Defense Department worry that Mr. Trump could do the opposite — seek an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, the 1878 law that prohibits the government from using active-duty troops to enforce laws inside the country’s borders."

The president is attempting a prohibited action.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/trump-john-abizaid-saudi-arabia.html

The U.S. has no colonial office.
The Saudi do not choose to be colonized.

The general has problems which should not be new to him.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/politics/melania-trump-mira-ricardel.html

We are likely to see the first presidential divorce.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/politics/defense-strategy-china-russia-.html

The U.S. is not going to Nuke Moscow or Peking.
Diplomacy is the only way forward.
The administration must learn to use diplomacy.
Republican party hacks do not understand diplomacy.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/politics/jeff-denham-josh-harder-california.html

Austerity has failed.
Taxation of the wealthy has succeeded.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/politics/democrats-midterm-gains.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/14/earth-death-spiral-radical-action-climate-breakdown

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/health/hospital-mergers-health-care-spending.html

Hospital managers are in the game for profit.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/education-midterms-school-funding.html

Public schools are primarily paid for with property taxes.
Property taxes are taxes on wealth.
The wealthy do not want to pay for the poor almost by definition.

"From whom much is given; much is asked.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/education-midterms-school-funding.html

Politics always comes first.
The rule of law makes politics possible.
This circular relationship is the reason new democracies are rare.

Law without politics is tyranny.




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