Thursday, September 19, 2019

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A Clash Over Barack Obama’s Legacy? Democratic Voters Don’t Want to Hear It

Alexander Burns at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
In the Democratic primary, there have been clashes over the Obama administration’s policies. But even liberal voters who admire the former president prefer to look to the future.
 
Let Trump  bear the policy disasters that have occured during his administration. 
 

‘3 Musketeers’ or ‘3 Stooges’? Republicans Challenging Trump May Fall in Between

Annie Karni and Jonathan Martin at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
The three candidates, coupled with a softening economy and the president’s falling poll numbers against almost any Democrat, may offer reluctant Trump voters a way out.
 
Republican opposition to the president will not matter if 
it does not win the Republican convention. 
 
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Should People Profit From Housing? Bernie Sanders Says Yes, and No

Emily Badger at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
A plan for national rent control and for reining in speculators, but also for building wealth through homeownership.
 
I do not know how to make houses affordable twice. 
 
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Trump Says ‘It’s Crazy’ to Spend $13 Million Per Inmate at Guantánamo

Peter Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago
The president said he would look for alternatives to the costly prison in Cuba that holds 40 terrorism suspects, but stopped short of saying he might close it.
 
It is crazy and unlawful to have a POW camp at Guantanamo. 
 

San Francisco to Get Environmental Violation for Homelessness, Trump Says

Michael D. Shear, Thomas Fuller and Peter Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago
President Trump said that San Francisco was in “total violation” of environmental rules because needles used by homeless people were ending up in the ocean.
 
Sadism is limited by the death of the victim. 
Zombis are the suffering dead.
Hell is reserved for Christians.
 
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Pennsylvania State Senator Resigns After Arrest on Child Pornography Charges

Emily S. Rueb at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago
The authorities said they found pornographic images on Senator Michael Folmer’s phone.
 
Child Pornography has become a modern equivalent of a charge of witchcraft.
 
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Trump Visits Border Wall, Hoping to Burnish His Campaign

Peter Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago
President Trump’s photo op at the border was his only public appearance during two days in California, a state that has been a hotbed of opposition to his presidency and policies.
 
Trump promised his voters a wall.  
This one is only symbolic.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Goes-Away-Collection-Return/dp/0743416937/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+magic+goes+away&link_code=qs&qid=1568904865&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1
 

Robert O’Brien ‘Looks the Part,’ but Has Spent Little Time Playing It

Peter Baker, Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
Mr. O’Brien, President Trump’s new national security adviser, is said to bring milder views and a sunnier personality to the job than John R. Bolton.
 
Looking good has been a republican speciality. 
 

A Trickle of Bodies at Ed Buck’s West Hollywood Home, Suspicion and an Arrest

Laura M. Holson and Jose A. Del Real at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
Mr. Buck finally faced consequences this week as prosecutors charged him with operating a drug house and accused him of being a predator who targeted vulnerable men.
 
"Even the evil may come" 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed
 
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As Trump Weighs Gun Safety Bills, Barr’s Plan Draws Skepticism

Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
Attorney General William P. Barr has floated a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, but President Trump has yet to give it his blessing.
 
Trump will not allow effective gun control.
 
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Joe Kennedy to Announce Bid for U.S. Senate

Jonathan Martin and Nicholas Fandos at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 12 hours ago
The Massachusetts congressman will officially announce on Saturday his plans to challenge the incumbent Senator Edward Markey.
 
Tell him no.
There should be no hereditary elites.
 
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This Picture Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Impeachment

Nicholas Fandos at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago
A Renaissance-style tableau for a divided Washington.
 
Rather it confirms the situation.
 
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White House to Pull Nomination of FEMA Pick Amid Claims of Barroom Altercation

Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Christopher Flavelle at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago
The F.B.I. determined that the allegations were unsubstantiated, but the White House is expected to nominate the acting administrator of FEMA, Peter T. Gaynor, to lead the agency instead.
 
Trump wishes to look good while doing evil.
 
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Most Latinos Don’t Back Trump. But Some Wear Their Support Proudly.

Jennifer Medina at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago
At a rally in New Mexico this week, Hispanic voters enthusiastically backed the president’s hard-line approach to immigration.
 
Turn coats are not loved.
 
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Trump Defends Plan to Kill California’s Auto-Emissions Authority

Coral Davenport at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 13 hours ago
The administration's plan has been assailed by California officials and environmental advocates as an attack on states’ rights and on a major policy to fight climate change.
 
Trump does not have the necessary power.
 
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Greta Thunberg, on Tour in America, Offers an Unvarnished View

Somini Sengupta at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
With her typically blunt, often biting remarks, the Swedish teenager has offered Americans an outsider’s view of themselves.
 
Scatology is fascinating but best done in private.
 
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Security Dogs Sent to Jordan Have Died or Fallen Sick, Report Says

Christine Hauser at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
A federal report on a State Department antiterrorism program said at least 10 bomb-sniffing dogs had died of medical issues from 2008 to 2016.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_Islam#Canidae 
 
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A Trump Friend, Under Scrutiny by Prosecutors, Appears at California Fund-Raisers

Maggie Haberman at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
Thomas J. Barrack Jr. attended two events with the president this week in California. Prosecutors have questioned him in their investigation of foreign influence in the 2016 campaign.
 
Thomas J. Barrack Jr has been a useful tool.
 
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‘E for Effort’: Can Bernie Sanders Pass the South Carolina Test in 2020?

Sydney Ember and Shane Goldmacher at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The state, where black voters dominate the Democratic electorate, delivered a huge setback to Mr. Sanders in early 2016. He knows things need to be different this time.
 
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Pentagon Says It Spent $184,000 in 2 Years at Trump’s Scotland Resort

Eric Lipton at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The House Oversight and Reform Committee released the figure amid criticism from Democrats about spending taxpayer money at properties owned by the president.
 
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