1
Opinion
Nancy Pelosi Spanks the First Brat
Flags of their fathers: In the battle for Washington, the president and House speaker are armed with very different values from their upbringings.Trump would haul her into court for assault.
2
Style
Their Warhols Are at the Whitney. Their Ugly Divorce Is on Display, Too.
The tawdry divorce of Libbie and David Mugrabi is not just a tabloid story. At stake are a trophy townhouse, works by Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, and the inner-workings of one of the world’s most influential art dealer families.There is gold in them thar ills.
3
Opinion
What Real Border Security Looks Like
Republicans and Democrats should agree to build an Israeli-style “smart fence.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
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U.S.
Students in Rural America Ask, ‘What Is a University Without a History Major?’
Financial and enrollment woes at schools like the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have led to a scramble for fixes, such as dropping longstanding liberal arts degrees.Victory conditions.
Unfortunately it is not the victory of rural America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
The goal of liberal education remains the same.
The balance of the curriculum has changed.
In the U.S. there was a religious society managed by a diverse priesthood.
That diversity was a nuisance.
The selected solution was a separation of civil governance from religious governance. The separation of Church and State. That separation is now failing.
The unfree have little need for the knowledge base necessary to free people.
People who faithfully follow Leaders are not free.
Free people can organize to work toward an understood condition.
Faith is a condition of unfreedom.
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U.S.
Pentagon Officials Fear Bolton’s Actions Increase Risk of Clash With Iran
At the direction of its leader, John Bolton, the National Security Council asked the Pentagon last year to provide military options to strike Iran after militants hit an empty American lot in Baghdad.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton
I do not read minds.
The military is correct to fear John R. Bolton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
6
Food
The Supreme Court May Change the Way You Buy Wine
The justices will hear oral arguments in a contentious case involving whether consumers can order from out-of-state wine shops.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Prohibition started and ended state by state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
#Development_of_the_prohibition_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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New York
The Chrysler Building Is for Sale. Does Anyone Want It?
Legacy office buildings were once glamorous citadels. In the age of WeWork, they’re outdated and inefficient urban spaces.Top down management is the rule.
Much of it is offshored and delegated.
The Trumps should buy the building.
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Opinion
My Sister Is in a Saudi Prison. Will Mike Pompeo Stay Silent?
The United States secretary of state is visiting Riyadh — but political prisoners are not on his agenda.Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281939_film%29
"We are not in Kansas anymore, Toto"
"There's no place like home"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
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U.S.
V.A. Seeks to Redirect Billions of Dollars Into Private Care
For individual veterans, private care could mean shorter waits, more choices and fewer requirements for co-pays. But critics say the current veterans’ health care system could be starved of resources.The Republicans would like to destroy the V.A.
This is part of their plot.
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U.S.
Texas Couple Found Guilty of Enslaving Girl From Guinea for 16 Years
The authorities accused the couple of bringing the girl from Guinea when she was 5 years old to cook, clean and care for their children.Chattel slavery is not uniquely American.
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Opinion
Tucker Carlson Versus Conservatism
The Fox News host amplifies a debate the right needs to have.I disagree with both these personas for different details and their unifying principle.
Faith is designed by mortal persons who are subject to error.
"I pray you in your very bowels believe you may be mistaken"
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell
"
- I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
- Letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (3 August 1650)
- Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the
man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be
drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the
liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
- Letter to Walter Dundas (12 September 1650)
12
Health
A Virus Even More Dangerous Than Zika to Pregnant Women
The Zika virus must take the “side roads” into the placenta to infect a fetus, one researcher said — but the Rift Valley fever virus takes the “expressway.”The C.D.C. and the N.S.F. deserve their funding.
13
World
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/world/asia/afghanistan-air-force.html
Eleven years after the United States began building an Afghan air force, it remains a frustrating work in progress, even as Taliban gains have increased the need.
The Taliban are the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
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U.S.
A Wave of Violent Daytime Killings Has Puerto Rico on Edge
The killing of Kevin Fret, a gay musician with a huge social media following, is only the latest in a series of brazen murders that have plagued Puerto Rico.It looks like fewer killings than last year.
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World
Congo Says Felix Tshisekedi Won Election, Rebuffing Independent Review
Outside observers said another presidential candidate, Martin Fayulu, was the runaway winner. Mr. Fayulu called the official results an “electoral swindle.”Martin Fayulu is correct.
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Fashion
When Cultural Circles Are Expanded and Redrawn
She was raised in a conservative Muslim community in Oregon; he was a Roman Catholic born and raised in Vermont.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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New York
Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Democrats to the Left, Whether They Like It or Not
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has forced party leaders and 2020 presidential candidates to grapple with left-wing proposals that some might prefer to avoid.Urban liberals are more left than has been viewed as popular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Military_service
18
Sports
Andy Murray, Citing Pain, Says He Will Retire After Wimbledon
Murray, the 31-year-old former No. 1, who has struggled with a hip injury for months, said he would stop playing this year.He has retired.
https://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/schedules.asp?team=0129
| 12/22 | at
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California |
3:00 PM ET | PACN | W 76 - 66 |
| 1/3 | at
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Baylor |
9:00 PM ET | ESPN | L 57 - 68 |
| 1/6 | at Houston | 12:00 PM ET | CBSS | W 81 - 61 |
| 1/9 | vs. Cincinnati | 7:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | W 82 - 38 |
| 1/13 | vs. South Florida | 1:00 PM ET | ESPN | W 63 - 46 |
| 1/16 | at Tulane | 8:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | |
| 1/20 | at Temple | 1:00 PM ET | ESPN3 | |
| 1/23 | vs. Southern Methodist | 7:00 PM ET | ||
| 1/27 | vs. UCF | 4:00 PM ET | ESPN2 |
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Opinion
When Honest Women Replace ‘Self-Made’ Men
Female politicians show that rising to power is a group effort.Yes
All "Stand on the shoulders of giants"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants
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Opinion
I Am Pro-Life. Don’t Call Me Anti-Abortion.
That kind of language allows critics to dismiss me and fellow pro-lifers as single-issue obsessives.One is the ultimate master of one's body.
In politics, power or majority rules.
In democracies, the majority rules.
Males may not speak against or for abortion.
It is the woman's choice to bear or not to bear a child.
The man made his choice when he had sex.
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