Wednesday, February 8, 2017

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  1. Waiting for New Lives: 2 Refugees’ Long Journeys to the U.S.

  2. Kremlin Asks for Apology After Bill O’Reilly Calls Putin ‘a Killer’

  3. Corey Fulton, James Sharkey III

  4. Op-Ed Contributor

    Trump Picks Wall Street Over Main Street

  5. Issues Facing Republicans in Replacing Affordable Care Act

  6. Trump Calls Hearing on Immigration Ban ‘Disgraceful’

  7. Metropolitan Diary

    An Epic High-Five

  8. Five Places to Go in Berlin

  9. In Libel Suit, Melania Trump Cites Loss of Chance to Make Millions

  10. ‘A Conservative Climate Solution:’ Republican Group Calls for Carbon Tax


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U.S.

Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Pence Breaks Tie

The vote on Tuesday was believed to be the first in Senate history in which the vice president was called in to break a tie on a cabinet nomination.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

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

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U.S.

How Senators Voted on Betsy DeVos

The Senate voted to confirm Betsy DeVos as education secretary.

Nicely calculated.
Betsy DeVos will please the theocracy group.
Her project is an establishment of religion.

3
U.S.

Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles

One thing has become apparent to both the president’s allies as well as his opponents: When it comes to governing, speed does not always guarantee success.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

It is almost certain that the Trump Administration, with the possible exception of Stephen K. Bannon, cannot think.

4
Business Day

A Quiet Giant of Investing Weighs In on Trump

Seth Klarman is not a household name, but his letter to investors, warning about the new administration, is the most sought-after read on Wall Street.
PROTECTIONISM (TRADE) 

I tend to agree that the financial markets are extremely overvalued.
I do not want to follow the markets down.
Timing becomes critical. 

5
World

Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions

The suspension of commando operations in Yemen is a setback for President Trump, who says he wants to take a more aggressive approach against Islamic militants.
TARGETED KILLINGS; UNITED STATES DEFENSE AND MILITARY FORCES; TERRORISM 

Yemen is correct.

6
Opinion

Melania Trump Inc. Imperiled

A lawsuit filed by the first lady shatters any veneer of plausible deniability about the Trump family’s transactional view of the presidency.
SUITS AND LITIGATION (CIVIL); CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 

Turn about is fair play.

7
U.S.

Republican Senators Vote to Formally Silence Elizabeth Warren

Ms. Warren was accused of impugning a peer when she condemned Senator Jeff Sessions’s nomination for attorney general while reading a letter from Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES 

This action will have consequences. 
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama should not be Attorney General. 
The South lost the Civil War.

8
Opinion

President Duterte Is Repeating My Mistakes

When I was president of Colombia, I learned that a “war on drugs’’ is unwinnable.
DRUG CARTELS; DRUG ABUSE AND TRAFFIC 

Getting the money out of drugs will kill the trade.

9
World

Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Influential Hub: The Vatican

Mr. Bannon, a Catholic, has cultivated strategic alliances with those in Rome who share his view that the pope is a dangerously misguided pontiff.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/us/church-militant-theology-is-put-to-new-and-politicized-use.html

Mr. Bannon is attacking a very secure Pope in Francis. 
He should find his power curtailed shortly.
It has been appropriate to treat the Vatican with circumspection.
The Vatican does not rule here though it is not for a lack of trying.

10
U.S.

Appeals Court Panel Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Travel Ban

Three federal judges were considering a lower court’s ruling that allowed previously barred travelers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries to enter the country.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND MEMORANDUMS; IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION; REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS 

The Ninth Circuit is its own entity.
I tend to trust it.

11
U.S.

Live Analysis: Oral Arguments on Trump’s Immigration Order

Live analysis from Times reporters of the oral arguments in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on President Trump’s targeted travel ban.
EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND MEMORANDUMS; IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION 

The Lawyers were badly prepared.  

12
U.S.

Biden Gets a Job, and Obama Goes Kitesurfing

The former president and vice president seem to be doing just fine in life after the White House.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

Obama and Biden are out of elective politics.  
They should no longer be targets for abuse.

13
World

Iran’s Supreme Leader Thanks Trump for Showing America’s ‘True Face’

Mr. Trump’s behavior has proved “what we have been saying for more than 30 years,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.
UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; MUSLIMS AND ISLAM 

Trump has destroyed the credibility of the United States in South Asia.

14
Science

A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months

A rapidly advancing crack in Antarctica’s fourth-largest ice shelf has scientists concerned that it is getting close to a full break.
GLACIERS; ICE; OCEANS AND SEAS; WATER; GLOBAL WARMING 

Global warming is real.

This big tabular berg is already floating. 
There will not be a step in sea level.

15
U.S.

Justice Department Urges Appeals Court to Reinstate Trump’s Travel Ban

The administration said a judge’s order blocking the ban endangers national security. Opponents of the ban said it is a threat to the rule of law.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND MEMORANDUMS; STATES (US) 

The opponents are correct.
A ban will not make Americans safer.

16
World

Woman Was Thrown Into Ocean, Autopsy Says, in Murder That Shook Iceland

A leaked autopsy report in the rare killing says that Birna Brjansdottir was alive when she was thrown, but it was not clear if the killer knew that or if she was conscious.
MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS AND HOMICIDES 

Just a murder.

17
N.Y. / Region

About 20 Rabbis Arrested During Protest Over Trump Travel Ban

Protesters in Manhattan sat down across an avenue, blocking cars and trucks, in a display the rabbinical group’s leader said was meant to show that many Jews opposed the travel ban.
DEMONSTRATIONS, PROTESTS AND RIOTS; EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND MEMORANDUMS; RABBIS 

The demonstration is a bit early.

18
U.S.

Our Articles on the Attacks Trump Says the Media Didn’t Cover

Here is the Trump administration’s list of what it calls underreported terrorist attacks. The Times covered most of the attacks cited, many with multiple articles.
TERRORISM 

The people who need to see the list will not look.

19
U.S.

In Libel Suit, Melania Trump Cites Loss of Chance to Make Millions

The lawsuit says a Daily Mail article on claims that a modeling agency Mrs. Trump once worked for was also an escort service had deprived her of a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
SUITS AND LITIGATION (CIVIL); LIBEL AND SLANDER 

Melania should have chosen differently.

20
Opinion

Why Melissa McCarthy Had to Play Sean Spicer

She showed that cross-gender casting can be a lot more interesting than just putting a man in a dress.
WOMEN AND GIRLS; TELEVISION; ACTORS AND ACTRESSES 

Mr.Spicer acquired the name Sean Sphincter in college. 
The name fits him.


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