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| News Trump Administration to Close Loophole Blocking Immigration Enforcement The Trump administration’s move “will deter future smuggling operations and weaken the incentives to exploit children for the purpose of gaining access to the country,” say The Heritage Foundation’s James Carafano and Mike Howell. More Commentary The New York Times Works for the Left, and Now Everyone Should Know It A recent town hall meeting with Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Times staffers reveals a publication struggling to maintain any meaningful independence from its aggressively left-wing readership and staff. More News 4 Things to Know About Trump’s New Voter Fraud Claim “Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!” the president tweets. More Analysis Podcast: Blue State Business Owners Are Packing Up Months after New York passed an extreme abortion law, one bookstore owner and pastor decided he has had enough. More News Conservatives ‘Lost Trust’ in Facebook, Independent Report Finds Facebook has a long way to go in reclaiming the trust of conservatives, according to an interim report on the social media giant’s liberal bias overseen by a former U.S. senator. More Commentary What Will They Learn at College? Yale doesn’t require college-level math courses; Harvard accepts an elementary-level foreign language study; and Brown has an “open curriculum,” which means students may take whatever classes they want, without strict requirements. More | ||
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” MICHELANGELO Trump Postpones Denmark Visit Trump Says White House Considering Cutting Payroll Tax, Rejects Recession Fears Woman Spotted With Prince Andrew at Jeffrey Epstein’s House Identified as Ex-official’s Daughter: Reports Seeing the success of The Epoch Times as America’s fastest-growing newspaper, NBC News has published a hit piece that is riddled with inaccuracies, blatant errors, and misrepresentations. Read our response Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam held a press conference, promising to establish a platform for dialogue about the ongoing extradition bill crisis. However, her remark was quickly rebuked by the Civil Human Rights Front, the main opposition group behind the Hong Kong protests. Read more A new nationwide opinion poll on education policy released by Education Next shows growing support for a number of initiatives, namely school choice, and vouchers. Read more A longtime Federal Bureau of Prisons employee—who previously served as a warden of three prisons—has praised Attorney General William Barr’s appointee for director of the agency. He also called the recent staffing changes in the bureau “not uncommon.” Read more Newspaper vending boxes belonging to the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times were recently found to have been sabotaged in Queens, New York. One of the newspaper boxes was found to have been set on fire. Read more An illegal alien’s class-action lawsuit, in which he claimed a Virginia sheriff violated his constitutional rights by detaining him at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been thrown out by a federal judge. Read more The People’s Republic of China and other hostile powers are exploiting the United States’ international student visa policies to conduct industrial and military espionage against U.S. targets, according to a panel discussion at the National Press Club in Washington. Read more See More Top Stories Attention: If you Currently Own or are Considering Buying Physical Precious Metals for your portfolio, please read carefully. On Sept. 26th, 2016, under the Obama Administration, the American Bankers Association and the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures [CUSIP] announced it started tracking a list of Fungible Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium bars and coins. Simply put: when the failing banking system NEEDS to calculate YOUR ASSETS outside of their financial system, THEY CAN EASILY DO SO! Contact GSI Exchange to acquire the secret documented list of fungible precious metals that are now being tracked by the big banks. Call 833-474-4653 now to speak with a GSI Exchange representative about this new tracking trend. Click here to claim your complimentary copy of our exclusive Bank Failure Survival Guide while supplies last It’s Time for Stefan Halper’s Actions to Be Fully Exposed By Brian Cates Shortly after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn joined the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in February of 2016, someone began contacting reporters spinning a tale about having seen General Flynn being courted by a female Russian spy. This person alleged to several media reporters that he suspected Flynn had been successfully compromised by the Putin government… Read more Governments and Teachers’ Unions Should Remain at Arm’s Length By Michael ZwaagstraIn 2016, the Alberta NDP government signed an unusual memorandum of understanding with the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA). The memorandum stated that the government and the ATA would “co-lead in the development and implementation” of a new provincial curriculum for all public schools in the province… Read more See More Opinions The ‘Silk Road’ Verdict By Valentin Schmid The idea, at first, sounded good: Plow trillions of dollars into infrastructure projects in the barren wasteland that is most of central Asia, and trade will start to bloom, economies will prosper, and peace will reign. However, most experts believe real world problems will result in the whole idea turning into nothing but a pipe dream. Read more Shortly after Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn joined the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in February of 2016, someone began contacting reporters spinning a tale about having seen General Flynn being courted by a female Russian spy. It’s Time for Stefan Halper’s Lies to Be Fully Exposed Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account. |
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019 Planned Parenthood Exits Title X Program “Planned Parenthood said on Monday it was withdrawing from a federal program subsidizing reproductive healthcare for low-income women after the Trump administration banned participants in the program from referring women to abortion providers… the policy [also] requires financial and physical separation between facilities funded by Title X and those where actual abortions are performed.” Reuters Under the new rule, “Health professionals are free to provide non-directive pregnancy counseling, including counseling on abortion, and are not prohibited in any way from providing medically necessary information to clients. The Final Rule does NOT include the 1988 Regulation’s prohibition on counseling on abortion – characterized by some as a ‘gag rule’ – but neither does it retain the mandate that all grantees MUST counsel on, and refer for, abortion. Referral for abortion as a method of family planning is not permitted, because the statute written by Congress prohibits funding programs where abortion is a method of family planning.” HHS.gov From the Left The left is critical of the new rule and argues that it amounts to a gag rule that prevents doctors from providing relevant information to their patients. “The stand-off is a case study in how extreme the tactics of the abortion debate have become. The Trump administration is openly dedicated to kneecapping health-care providers that perform abortions, and Planned Parenthood is its biggest target. Planned Parenthood, meanwhile, would rather take a huge financial hit and wage a high-profile fight with the Trump administration than change its practices. In this political environment, any money or policy that comes close to touching the abortion issue is fair game for war, no matter how many people lose access to health-care services as a result.” Emma Green, The Atlantic “This is devastating news for the patients who rely on the clinics that have chosen to withdraw from the program, which serves roughly 4 million people (40% of them through Planned Parenthood facilities). Planned Parenthood says it does not plan to close any clinics just yet, but it’s likely to cut back its hours of service. That means contraception and other reproductive healthcare will be harder to come by, particularly in rural areas where the Title X withdrawal will have the most impact. Nor do industry experts believe other community health clinics will pick up the slack, as the Trump administration has predicted. Even if those clinics were willing to try, it would take years for the ones already serving broad populations to be able to take on hundreds of new reproductive care patients.” Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times “They claim this isn’t a gag rule, but given how broadly the new Title X guidelines are written—‘A Title X project may not perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning’—most providers consider themselves gagged because they can’t risk losing their federal funding over any discussion of abortion… A 2019 report from the Guttmacher Institute put it bluntly: ‘The Trump administration is seeking to transform Title X from an agent of reproductive autonomy to a tool of government-sponsored reproductive coercion.’” Melissa Gira Grant, New Republic “Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health providers were given an impossible choice: They could have continued to receive Title X funds, but that would have required them not just to stop providing the safe, legal abortions to which American women are entitled but to refuse to even tell women where they could get legal abortion procedures. That’s an unconscionable encroachment on free speech; it effectively gags doctors and nurses from giving patients accurate information about their completely legal health care options… “Contraception isn’t just about preventing pregnancy. When women can make their own decisions about their own bodies and reproductive lives, they are more financially secure. They are physically safer. They have more room to grow and achieve what they want. This is what Title X, and Planned Parenthood, fight for: a universe in which women are the primary decision-makers about their own lives and their own bodies.” Jill Filipovic, CNN From the Right The right supports the rule and criticizes planned parenthood for prioritizing abortion over women’s healthcare. “The regulation not only allows doctors to ‘mention’ abortion, it allows ‘nondirective counseling on abortion’ — that is, counseling that doesn’t push a pregnant woman toward an abortion… Is Planned Parenthood really giving up $60 million in federal funding simply because it would have to tell clients to Google the phone number of nearest abortionist, who is often operating down the hall? What’s much more likely is that Planned Parenthood would never comply with the regulation because it also requires physical separation between abortion facilities and grantees that provide contraception under Title X… “Planned Parenthood is free under the regulation to provide abortion counseling, but it doesn’t want to separate its contraception business from its abortion business, as required by the statute establishing Title X. The new regulation is not simply a meaningful step in the right direction for the pro-life cause, it’s a win for the rule of law.” John McCormack, National Review “The Trump administration hasn’t reduced federal funding for the Title X program by a cent… |
[but]
even if contraception access were to decline, it would be
evidence not that the Trump administration has gutted Title X but that
Planned Parenthood has gutted its own ability to provide health care in
order to keep performing abortions. If the group’s executives were
serious about women’s health, they would’ve chosen to maintain federal
funding, adapting to the rule and financially distinguishing abortion
procedures from the rest of the group’s work.”
Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review
“Planned Parenthood [predicts] their withdrawal would create the demise
of Title X, but that’s nonsense. The government spends hundreds of
millions of dollars on contraception through the program, the kind of
demand that creates supply organically. If Planned Parenthood exits the program, other clinics will open to fill the gap
— clinics that will comply with the rule not to provide abortion
counseling or referrals but stick to contraception, which is Title X’s
mission in the first place. There may be some disruption in the short
term, but that would be within Planned Parenthood’s power to fix by complying with the rule.”
Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Dated but relevant: “When Leana Wen was
unceremoniously fired as president of Planned Parenthood, she penned a
New York Times op-ed citing two reasons for her ouster: 1) Criticism
that she ‘did not prioritize abortion enough.’ 2) Resistance to her
‘attempt to depoliticize Planned Parenthood’…
“Wen was criticized as being not merely apolitical, but too
conservative. She envisioned Planned Parenthood transcending partisan
politics and finding common ground, but that was seen as ‘mission creep’
by the board and entrenched staff. What exactly is your mission
if ‘work[ing] to change the perception that Planned Parenthood was just
a progressive political entity and show that it was first and foremost a
mainstream health care organization’ constitutes mission creep?”
Katie Glenn, Washington Examiner
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| Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors. (AFP/Getty Images) As U.S. nears a deal with the Taliban, another major threat looms: ISIS There are widespread concerns that Taliban defectors will join the more ruthless Islamic State if Taliban leaders in Afghanistan make a deal with U.S. officials. By Pamela Constable and Karen DeYoung ● Read more » Trump says he is open to payroll tax cut but downplays recession signs The president’s comments laid bare increasingly urgent White House discussions that have shifted from public denials that anything is wrong to a review process aimed at soliciting ideas to stimulate the economy. By Damian Paletta, Felicia Sonmez and Rachael Bade ● Read more » Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister declines to sell him Greenland The announcement suggests that, despite the president’s denials, the central purpose of his trip had been discussion of a U.S. purchase of the island. By Felicia Sonmez, Anne Gearan and Damian Paletta ● Read more » How K-pop is luring young North Koreans to defect south David Bowie and the Beatles may have helped topple the Berlin Wall. Now South Korean and Western pop may be undermining the Pyongyang regime, with rising numbers of defectors citing music as one factor in their disillusionment with their government. By Simon Denyer and Min Joo Kim ● Read more » Trump tells NRA chief that universal background checks are off the table The president told Wayne LaPierre that the White House remained interested in proposals that would address weapons getting into the hands of the mentally ill, according to people familiar with the call. By Tom Hamburger and Josh Dawsey ● Read more » Opinions Of course Trump backtracks on gun reform. He lacks the courage. By Editorial Board ● Read more » Xi’s choice: Destroy Trump, or save him and weaken America By David Von Drehle ● Read more » How to lose a war, but not end it By Liz Cheney ● Read more » Dear Israel: Please dump Netanyahu. Your friend, America. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » Corporate panic about capitalism could be a turning point By David Ignatius ● Read more » If Omar and Tlaib can boycott Israel, why can’t Israel boycott them? By Marc Thiessen ● Read more » More News Trump: Jewish people who vote for Democrats are showing ‘great disloyalty’ or ‘lack of knowledge’ Critics say that the president’s remarks, made in an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office, were promoting anti-Semitic stereotypes. By Felicia Sonmez and John Wagner ● Read more » Court upholds convictions against highest-ranking Vatican official jailed on charges of child sex abuse Australian Cardinal George Pell was convicted earlier this year on five criminal charges of sexually assaulting two boys in the 1990s. By A. Odysseus Patrick ● Read more » U.S. fencer Race Imboden given 12-month probation for taking a knee at Pan Am Games American hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who raised a fist while on the medal stand, received the same punishment. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee warned of harsher consequences for similar protests in the future. By Desmond Bieler ● Read more » We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out Carolyn Hax for Post columnist Carolyn Hax’s latest advice column every day. Sign up » |
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. The Atoning Sacrifice of the Union Soldiers Means Nothing to the New York Times’ 1619 Project The United States very literally paid an atoning sacrifice for the sin of slavery. Union preachers of the day and the President of the United States came to see the war in that light. Prior to the Civil War, more and more prominent Americans began discussing it in that light. The war was divine wrath poured out on the nation for enslaving a population. While the New York Times may get there, its revisionist, reframing exercise right now totally misses all of that. In fact, the progressive rhetoric of the day and calls for reparations from Democrat politicians are poured out into a void of willful ignorance as they ignore the body count of mostly white Union soldiers who died that slavery might end. They paid reparations with their lives, The nation lost 2% of its male population. The post The Atoning Sacrifice of the Union Soldiers Means Nothing to the New York Times’ 1619 Project appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » A Brief Confession In 2000, the United States’ economy began to show signs of a recession. The Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. Growth in GDP slowed in the third quarter of 2000 to a rate not seen since the first quarter of 1992 when a bad recession contributed to George H. W. Bush’s loss. Republicans began talking […] The post A Brief Confession appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Stop With the Disloyalty Accusations I do not think the President of the United States or a member of congress should accuse any American voter of disloyalty or dual loyalty or question their loyalty because of their votes, their political party preferences, etc. It is wrong and it should stop. The President’s comments sound like something Ilhan Omar would say. […] The post Stop With the Disloyalty Accusations appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Facebook Makes Changes To Win Conservative Trust The long-awaited results of Facebook’s year-long audit have been released. Unsurprisingly, the report shows that conservatives don’t trust the social media platform for a variety of reasons. Per Axios’ exclusive report of the audit results, conservative complaints about Facebook fell into six broad categories. These include concerns that Facebook algorithms make it more difficult to […] The post Facebook Makes Changes To Win Conservative Trust appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Electability Argument Rather than embrace the argument that the DNC media is making, it looks like Joe Biden is making a different one. While news outlets from the New York Times to CNN are broadly painting President Trump and his supporters as inherently racist, electability appears to be the theme the Biden camp is taking up. A […] The post The Electability Argument appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » A Payroll Tax Cut Is Not What The Economy Needs The tax cut that would benefit Americans most is an end to the tariff war. The post A Payroll Tax Cut Is Not What The Economy Needs appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Media Are Using Racism as a Tactic It’s not a coincidence that coverage is all race, all the time now. The post The Media Are Using Racism as a Tactic appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Let Me Tell You What the New York Times Gets Right in the 1619 Project Not far from my home used to stand an old dilapidated house everyone referred to the “half-house.” Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s as the all white Georgia Department of Transportation began mapping out where to pave I-75 through Georgia, the usual suspects got in on the action. Counties insisted on steering roads through small […] The post Let Me Tell You What the New York Times Gets Right in the 1619 Project appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Ilhan Omar: Netanyahu Should Stop the Expansion of Settlements if Israel Wants U.S. Aid The post Ilhan Omar: Netanyahu Should Stop the Expansion of Settlements if Israel Wants U.S. Aid appeared first on The Resurgent. 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POLITICO Playbook: The case for tuning out the White House
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DRIVING THE DAY
A FEW DATA POINTS TO PONDER WHEN CONSIDERING HOW MUCH TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE WHITE HOUSE …
— THE WSJ reported a few days ago that the president was looking to buy Greenland. The White House brushed it aside, saying it was just idle chatter, and then President DONALD TRUMP said: “It’s not No. 1 on the burner, I can tell you that.” The president also said bluntly: “We’re going to Poland and then we may be going to Denmark — not for this reason at all.”
THEN TUESDAY NIGHT, the president pulled out of a trip to Denmark, because the prime minister said Greenland wasn’t for sale.
— THE WASHINGTON POST reported Monday evening that the White House was considering pushing for a payroll tax cut to juice the economy. Shortly after that, the White House said to ignore the chatter, because there were many ideas floating around, and this was no more serious than any of the other proposals bouncing around the building. Then the president said this Tuesday: “Payroll taxes — I’ve been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time.”
— THE PRESIDENT said for a week or two that he was serious about bucking his party and pushing Congress to create a new background-check system for gun purchases. He said he was going to listen to both Republicans and Democrats and get something done in the wake of the tragedies in Dayton and El Paso. Then on Tuesday, he called the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre and told him he would not be pushing for new background checks, The Atlantic’s Elaina Plott reported.
IF THE PRESIDENT MAKES A PROCLAMATION and then reverses, what is the use of the proclamation in the first place?
WE DID A ROUND OF PHONE CALLS Tuesday to people in Hill leadership and at the White House to find out how seriously we should be taking the payroll tax idea. The answers ranged from “not seriously” to “no one has any information on it.”
— CONSIDER THIS: BARACK OBAMA signed a payroll tax holiday into law in early 2012 after a frantic December trying to squeeze it through a divided Congress. What has TRUMP passed through this divided Congress — the one that’s on the brink of impeaching him — that gives you the inclination he could get this through?
Good Wednesday morning. SPOTTED: Paul Ryan on a delayed flight from DCA to Chicago. Pic
THE PRESIDENT’S FOREIGN POLICY …
— WAPO: “Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister declines to sell him Greenland,” by Felicia Sonmez, Anne Gearan and Damian Paletta: “People familiar with the president’s interest in Greenland said he had been talking about the potential purchase for weeks.
“Senior administration officials had discussed the possibility of offering Denmark a deal in which the United States would take over its annual $600 million subsidy to Greenland in perpetuity, said two people familiar with the talks who were not authorized to reveal the internal deliberations. They also discussed giving Denmark a large one-time payment as well to incentivize the transfer, the people said.” WaPo
— CNN’s @kylieatwood: “Trump & Macron spoke over the phone today & agreed they wanted to invite Russia to the G7 next year, a sr admin official said. Trump is expected to broach the topic w/ world leaders at the G7. Today Trump told reporters it would be ‘appropriate’ for Russia to re-enter G7.”
— THEY’RE BACK! … WAPO’S PAMELA CONSTABLE in Kabul and KAREN DEYOUNG: “The U.S. is nearing a deal with the Taliban. But another major threat looms in Afghanistan: The Islamic State”: “The official government line here is that the Islamic State has been defeated.
“The local branch of the extremist Sunni militia, Afghan officials say, has been corralled into a mountainous area near the Pakistani border by Afghan and U.S. forces and can no longer control populated areas. They say it has been reduced to staging suicide attacks against ‘soft’ targets, like the wedding party bombing here on Saturday that killed 63 people and wounded 190. …
“But local leaders in the border provinces of Nangahar and Konar tell a different story. They say Islamic State forces continue to terrorize villagers in areas under their control, forcibly recruiting boys and banning girls from school. They and U.S. officials say that Taliban and Islamic State forces have continued to fight each other, but that they also fear that some Taliban fighters will join the more ruthless Islamic State forces if Taliban leaders make a deal with U.S. officials.” WaPo
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READING FOR JARED AND GREENBLATT … NYT’S TOM FRIEDMAN: “How the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process Became a Farce”: “Last week’s ugly mess involving the abortive visit to Israel of two Democratic congresswomen was useful for only one reason: It exposed how much the Palestinian-Israeli peace process has become a pathetic festival of magical thinking, performance art, reality denial, political fund-raising and outright political fraud. It’s become about everything except what it needs to succeed: courageous, fair-minded, creative diplomacy and leadership.
“At the official U.S. level, Jared Kushner has spent three years ginning up a peace plan that he still won’t show anyone. So far, his only achievement is an Israeli-Palestinian economic conference in Bahrain that no Israeli or Palestinian officials attended.
“Kushner actually seems to believe that the problem can be solved by the Israelis and Gulf Arabs funding a leveraged buyout of Palestinian aspirations for sovereignty and statehood. Kushner deserves some credit for fresh thinking about how to attract investment to the West Bank, but he lapsed into magical thinking when he allowed all the diplomatic features of his plan to be dictated by the political needs and desires of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.” NYT
— AP’S JONATHAN LEMIRE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE: “Trump: Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal”: “Showing a fresh willingness to play politics along religious lines, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that American Jewish people who vote for Democrats show ‘either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’
“Trump’s claim triggered a quick uproar from critics who said the president was trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes. It came amid his ongoing feud with Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, both Muslim.
“Trump has closely aligned himself with Israel, including its conservative prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the Muslim lawmakers have been outspoken critics of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Tlaib is a U.S.-born Palestinian American, while Omar was born in Somalia.
“‘Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel?’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. ‘I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’” AP
NEEDLESS TO SAY: Jews — like everyone else in America — are not subservient to an ideology, political party or person.
WHAT DINA POWELL’S UP TO … FT: “Goldman Sachs claws its way into contention for Saudi Aramco IPO,” by Anjli Raval and Andrew England in London, James Fontanella-Khan in New York and Simeon Kerr in Dubai: “Goldman Sachs has clawed its way into contention for a role in Saudi Aramco’s planned stock market listing, after a months-long charm offensive by top executives, including former Trump administration official Dina Powell, said several people briefed on the matter.
“Ms Powell, who left Goldman in 2017 to work at the White House and came back to the Wall Street bank a year later, has leveraged her knowledge of the region and relationships with the kingdom’s highest authorities to seek business for Goldman, said one person close to the Saudi state energy giant.” FT
HEADS UP … NYT’S MIRIAM JORDAN: “As early as Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to issue a sweeping new set of regulations for detaining migrant children, replacing more than two decades of protections that were put into place as a result of what happened to Alma and her fellow detainees in 1985. The new standards could allow the government to detain children and families for longer periods, revise the minimum standards of care and end the 22-year-old consent decree, known as the Flores agreement, that has protected the nation’s youngest and most vulnerable new arrivals.” NYT
SCOOP … NANCY COOK: “Trump team braces GOP donors for a potential ‘moderate and short’ recession”: “At a fundraising luncheon this week in Jackson, Wyo., headlined by both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged the risks to the GOP elite behind closed doors. If the U.S. were to face a recession, it would be ‘moderate and short,’ Mulvaney told roughly 50 donors, according to an attendee.” POLITICO
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2020 WATCH …
— CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s overwhelmingly white crowd at event on Chicago’s South Side reinforces his struggles to draw support from black voters,” by Bill Ruthhart: “South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg held a self-described grassroots campaign rally in Bronzeville on Tuesday night, but the overwhelmingly white audience he drew to the event in a historic black neighborhood reinforced the difficulty the Democratic presidential hopeful has had in connecting with African American voters.
“Buttigieg did not acknowledge the makeup of the audience in his remarks or in answering questions from the 1,000 people at the sold-out event, but did touch on it briefly as he closed the hourlong rally with a plea for his supporters. ‘Find the people who don’t look like most of you in this room and let them know they have the chance, not just to support this campaign, but to shape it,’ Buttigieg said.” Chicago Tribune
BIG CASH ALERT (big July donations): RNC: Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $142,000 each. … NRCC: Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $142,000. … NRSC: August A. Busch gave $110,000.
TOP-EDS …
— REP. LIZ CHENEY (R-WYO.) in the WAPO: “How to lose a war, but not end it”: “President Trump knows a bad deal when he sees one. He extricated the United States from President Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear accord with Iran. He pulled us out of an arms-control agreement with Russia that Vladimir Putin repeatedly violated. But if news reports are accurate, the State Department is about to capitulate to the Taliban, al-Qaeda’s longtime ally, as U.S. forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan. The president should reject this deal.”
— MITCH MCCONNELL in the WSJ: “We Stand With Hong Kong”
DANIEL LIPPMAN: “Inside Trump’s feud with Anthony Scaramucci”
— BTW … WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHNNY MAC? … PER DANIEL: Earlier this summer, Scaramucci let Trump’s former body man, John McEntee, use his office for six weeks. “He is creating a lifestyle app and he just needed to have a place to hang his hat for a little while,” Scaramucci explained.
— BACKSTORY: After McEntee left the White House in March 2018 over concerns about his gambling habits, he was named “senior adviser for operations” on the Trump campaign. But he quietly left late last year, according to a former White House official. (Although he’s friends with Scaramucci, McEntee is “by no means is a Mooch sympathizer” in Scaramucci’s current feud with Trump, this person said.)
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THE PRESIDENT’S WEDNESDAY: TRUMP will leave the White House at 11:15 a.m. for Andrews, where he will fly to Louisville. He will arrive in Kentucky at 1:25 p.m. and go straight to the Galt House Hotel. At 2 p.m., the president will speak to the AMVETS 75th annual convention. At 3:05 p.m., he will leave the hotel for the Seelbach Hilton Louisville and will participate in a roundtable at 3:15 p.m., and speak at a fundraiser at 4:15 p.m. At 5:25 p.m., he will fly back to Washington. He’s due back at the White House at 7:10 p.m.
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MORE 2020 … “Outside money flows into race for Susan Collins’ Senate seat,” by AP’s David Sharp and Brian Slodysko: “Money is pouring into Maine’s high-profile Senate race, threatening to upend the state’s reputation for genteel politics and giving way to a new era of partisanship. … Advertising data shows Democrats plan to spend at least $1.2 million on ads through December, including a spot that aired for the first time this month that accuses Collins of failing to protect Medicare. A newly formed GOP group, meanwhile, has $800,000 already in the bank, thanks to a small group of wealthy financiers.” AP
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“But at the foundation, according to a newly filed lawsuit, Epstein and his web of associates repeatedly arranged for sex with at least two girls, including one he met when she was 17.”
— BOSTON GLOBE: “At MIT, more fallout from the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein”: “A well-known member of the MIT Media Lab plans to resign over revelations that the research center and its top leader took money from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier who was accused of trafficking in underage girls.
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“A Monday night episode from one year ago, the broadcast of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Aug. 20, 2018, had 16 minutes of ads, with 38 commercials that aired across the nation, according to iSpot.tv, the television ads measurement company. The Monday night episode this week, by contrast, had 13.5 minutes of commercials, with 23 nationally aired spots. Eight of the 23 were promotions for other Fox properties.” NYT
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WEEKEND WEDDING — Sam Jammal, regulatory affairs director and counsel at Firefly, and Jennifer Molina, press secretary for California A.G. Xavier Becerra and a Hillary 2016 and CAP alum, got married Saturday in Cartagena, Colombia. They met at a White House Correspondents’ Association reception and then reconnected at a friend’s barbecue before they started dating. Pic… Another pic
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President Trump threw some curveballs at
Congress on Tuesday, softening his already tentative push for tougher
bipartisan measures to thwart mass shootings and reviving his enthusiasm
for economic stimulus through tax cuts, even as he insists the go-go
economy is not heading toward recession.
Enactment of gun restrictions and adoption of major new tax
cuts are each seen as highly unlikely before next year’s elections,
especially without intense commitments from Trump to cut politically
dicey deals with Congress.
Bucking his conservative base on expanded gun background
checks poses political risks, and the president sounded on Tuesday like a
candidate who was disinterested in adding risk to his reelection
terrain. On cutting taxes, Trump is in a bind. He’s told supporters the
U.S. economy is in great shape, yet he’s nervous enough about a downturn
to express enthusiasm for slashing payroll or capital gains taxes, both
non-starters in a House led by Democrats.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week
called the House back early to work on Sept. 4 to dive into tougher gun
measures, and members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle are
working to draft legislation to promote “red flag” laws, which permit
law enforcement to confiscate weapons from people who may be a threat to
themselves or others. It’s unclear if the GOP-led Senate will put any
gun measure on the floor without Trump’s forceful advocacy.
The odds of that seemed to fade as the president, pressured
by the National Rifle Association, mused aloud about a legislative
“slippery slope” that could undercut the GOP’s solidarity behind gun
rights. Trump’s comments retreated from remarks he made immediately
after shootings earlier this month in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,
when he said he could support “intelligent” gun background checks and
advocated addressing mental illness.
“A lot of the people that put me where I am are strong believers in the Second Amendment and I am also,” the president said in the Oval Office on Tuesday, noting he’s been reminded of concerns from his base. “They call it the slippery slope, and all of a sudden everything gets taken away. We’re not going to let that happen,” he said (The Hill). The Hill: Hobbled NRA shows strength with Trump. The Atlantic: Trump on Tuesday phoned the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre to say universal background checks are off the table, adding he wants to focus on “increasing funding” for mental-health care and directing attorneys general across the country to start prosecuting “gun crime” through federal firearms charges. The New York Times: After lobbying by gun rights advocates, Trump sounds a familiar retreat. The Washington Post: Parkland, Fla., students unveil a sweeping gun-control proposal and ambition for a youth voting surge in 2020. Niall Stanage: Polls flash warning signs for Trump. Much more appealing to the president’s GOP supporters, especially if the economy contracts, might be talk of lowering tax burdens. A day after the president’s aides tried to tamp down reports that cutting payroll tax cuts was under serious discussion at the White House, Trump said it was indeed an idea under serious discussion, at least this week. He also mentioned his long-running enthusiasm for lowering taxes on capital gains (The Hill). Trump said he might not need Congress to index capital gains to inflation (Reuters). The president’s interest in building tax-code fortresses against potential political jeopardy could influence his fall agenda with Congress. One idea Trump resists: retreating from U.S. tariff punishments against China, which most economists agree contribute to slower U.S. economic growth. Those economic fears could give China greater leverage in negotiations. Beijing has warned that if the U.S. doesn’t lift the tariffs, China will continue to retaliate through the election, and it has already imposed retaliatory tariffs and stopped buying U.S. agriculture products (NBC News). The Associated Press: President acknowledges China policies may mean U.S. economic pain. The Washington Post: Fact-checking Trump’s remarks on the economy (spoiler alert: the attorney general in 1993 wrote that a president cannot index capital gains without Congress). |
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POLITICS & CAMPAIGNS: Democratic
presidential candidates have one week remaining to meet the Democratic
National Committee’s rules to qualify for the debate stage Sept. 12 and
Sept. 13 in Houston, moderated by ABC News and Univision.
Ten have already made the cut by meeting polling and grassroots fundraising thresholds: Former Vice President Joe Biden, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and entrepreneur Andrew Yang (CNN).
What’s tough about the third round of primary debates?
Candidates need to show contributions from at least 130,000 individuals,
coming from at least 400 unique donors in 20 or more states. They also
need to reach 2 percent in at least four DNC-approved polls before the
Aug. 28 deadline.
The debate chase is one factor behind the summer obsession with early polling. Jonathan Easley and Max Greenwood report
that new surveys suggest the strength of Sanders’s campaign is being
underestimated. Sanders is clearly in the race nationally and in early
voting states with Biden and Warren. The newest surveys also suggest his
breadth of support is more diverse than Warren’s base; Sanders does
better with blacks and Hispanics and with voters without a college
degree.
The Hill: Sanders to unveil climate plan on Thursday.
And speaking of polling, Biden is enjoying a rebound in
CNN’s latest survey, showing a double-digit lead over the rest of the
Democratic field. The former vice president is at 29 percent, with
Sanders at 15 percent and Warren at 14 percent. Why is his lead
noteworthy? Because Biden has climbed, while Sanders and Warren have
remained in place compared with their respective standings early in the
summer (CNN).
In other political news … Rep. Lauren Underwood
(D-Ill.) on Tuesday announced support for an impeachment inquiry,
becoming the second House Democrat representing a district carried by Trump in 2016 to back the move (The Hill) … California’s Harris,
under pressure from progressives, will participate in a Sept. 4 town
hall event focused on climate change and hosted by CNN, shifting her
scheduling commitment to a donor event (The Hill) … Warren on Monday met her doppelgӓnger, Stephanie Oyen, at a St. Paul, Minn., rally and the two had some fun with the head-turning likeness (check out the photo) (The Hill) … Seeking to overcome resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) to allowing election security legislation to come to the Senate
floor, Republicans for the Rule of Law launches a series of ads today
on Fox & Friends, NBC’s “Meet the Press” and Fox News Sunday
targeting GOP senators in South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kentucky, says spokesman Chris Truax. More politics … The music selected by presidential campaigns at rallies tell us something about candidates and their target audiences, but what? The New York Times analyzes 10 of those playlists … Colorado polling finds the top tier of presidential contenders bunched in a pack, with Sanders at 26 percent, Biden at 25 percent, Warren at 20 percent and Harris at 13 percent. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is polling in his state at 1 percent in the new Emerson poll … In a key Texas House race, Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones’s campaign said she raised more than $1 million in the first 98 days of her 2020 bid to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, a seat held by Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who recently announced his is not seeking reelection. |
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| WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: The president did a lot of talking on Tuesday. Here’s a recap: Trump on Tuesday canceled an official state visit to Denmark in early September after its prime minister rebuffed his interest in buying Greenland. “Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time,” Trump tweeted. “The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!” (The Hill). Danes expressed shock and disbelief following the U.S. president’s abrupt decision (Reuters). Trump on Monday tweeted a mock composite photo of a high-rise Trump tower overlooking the sea along Greenland’s coast. “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” he wrote. The Washington Post explains how Trump became tantalized by a U.S. purchase of Greenland, a self-governing territory within Denmark, as a large real estate deal. The president railed at Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats. “I think Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The president and the GOP have sought to win over Jewish voters from the Democratic Party by criticizing statements by Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. Both have criticized Israel’s government. “Where has the Democratic Party gone?” Trump added. “Where have they gone … where they’re defending these two people over the state of Israel?” (The Hill). In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment (Reuters). In the United States, Jewish groups J Street and the American Jewish Committee were part of a chorus that denounced the president’s remarks (The Hill). Trump repeated he’d like to see Russia included again in the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations, returning to the Group of Eight format from which Russia was disinvited in 2014. Leaders of G-7 nations meet in southern France next week (The Hill). Trump said he may nominate John Sullivan, deputy secretary of State, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Russia, succeeding Jon Huntsman, who announced on Aug. 7 that he would resign as the top U.S. diplomat in Russia after two years in the Trump administration. Huntsman is expected to leave the post in October, and there’s credible speculation that he wants to run for governor in Utah (The Hill). Trump was responding to a report in The New York Times that Sullivan will be his choice to head to Moscow, if confirmed. |
| © Getty Images Vice President Pence said the U.S. Space Command will be up and running Aug. 29. Responsible within the Pentagon for planning and executing space operations, it will have 87 units by next week with capabilities that include missile warning, satellite operations, space control and space support (The Hill). |
| OPINION |
| Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems, by Robert E. Scott of the Economic Policy Institute Policy Center, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2ZdTKLL How to lose a war but not end it, by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Washington Post opinion contributor. https://wapo.st/2MsaMQl |
| WHERE AND WHEN |
| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Jeff Weaver, Sanders’s presidential campaign senior adviser, who talks about 30 years working with the Vermont lawmaker; Tenae Stover, an airline catering worker and member of UNITE HERE Local 23, discussing a possible strike; miner Collin Cornetter, describing unpaid coal miners and their protests; and Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, directors of the documentary film “American Factory.” Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House is in pro forma sessions until returning to Washington on Sept. 4 to begin consideration of legislation to respond to mass shootings. The Senate continues to meet pro forma but is not scheduled to return for votes until Sept. 9. The president travels to Louisville, Ky., to speak at the American Veterans national convention this afternoon, where he’ll also hold a political roundtable and fundraising committee reception. The vice president travels to Roswell, N.M., to speak about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement at Elite Well Services in Artesia, N.M., after which he’ll visit the U.S. Border Patrol Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at 2:45 p.m. Pence will fly to Salt Lake City and remain overnight. Attorney General William Barr will be in Dallas today with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is seeking reelection, and other officials to discuss efforts to reduce violent crime in the city’s neighborhoods. Barr will also tour a boxing gym staffed by the Dallas Police Athletic League and take questions from the news media at 2:45 p.m. The Federal Reserve at 2 p.m. will release its minutes from the July Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Economic indicator: The National Association of Realtors reports at 10 a.m. on existing home sales in July. Analysts have been closely monitoring a softening housing market this summer. |
| ELSEWHERE |
| ➔ Banks: U.S. banking regulators on Tuesday bowed to financial institutions by easing trading regulations applied to Wall Street banks, known as the “Volcker Rule,” handing them one of their biggest wins under the Trump administration. It took less than a decade of methodical lobbying by financial institutions to secure lighter restrictions than those enacted with the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law enacted in response to the 2008 financial meltdown. The revamped rule drew criticism from consumer activists and Democratic lawmakers who warned of potential risks to taxpayers (Reuters). The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation amended the “Volcker Rule,” which originally was devised to ban lenders that accept U.S. taxpayer-insured deposits from investing those deposits for their own gain. The original restriction (now scrapped) forced banks to prove that their short-term trades — those held for less than 60 days — were allowable under the law. Banks complained that the provision was burdensome and restricted legitimate trading (The New York Times). ➔ Italy: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation on Tuesday and accused League party chief Matteo Salvini, his own interior minister, of sinking the government’s ruling coalition and endangering the Italian economy for personal and political gain (Reuters). The Economist called it a “bombshell,” albeit one that was anticipated, adding that no one knows what comes next. … Meanwhile, Spain ordered a naval vessel on Tuesday to the Italian island of Lampedusa to bring migrants stranded there on a rescue boat to Mallorca after some jumped overboard, amid a prolonged stand-off with Italy’s government. Salvini and the Italian government forged a tougher line on African migration to Europe (Reuters). ➔ Pro basketball: Who’s in charge of enforcing the NBA salary cap? The New York Times’s Sopan Deb answers that question: “With great minutiae comes great responsibility.” |
| THE CLOSER |
| And finally … Panda-monium this morning … bye-bye to Washington’s Bei Bei and hello to Norfolk’s red panda triplets! Bei Bei, a giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2015, on Thursday will celebrate his fourth birthday but is preparing to leave the United States to live in China as part of a panda-breeding agreement between the two countries. Always a crowd favorite in Washington, Bei Bei is the offspring of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian and was conceived by artificial insemination (WTOP). |
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Meanwhile, the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk announced this week that Masu, a 3-year-old red panda that came from Denver two years ago, delivered triplets in June, two males and a female, each now weighing a pound. The zoo is auctioning off naming rights for the photogenic cubs until Aug. 30 as a way to support conservation of the endangered red panda species. Information HERE (The Virginian-Pilot).
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President Expresses Confidence in Volatile Economy “Trump was clear he didn’t think the nation is at risk of a recession, and that a boom was possible if the Federal Reserve would slash its benchmark interest rate. ‘We’re very far from a recession,’ Trump said. ‘In fact, if the Fed would do its job, I think we’d have a tremendous spurt of growth, a tremendous spurt.’… Trump faces something of an inflection point on a U.S. economy that appears to be showing vulnerabilities after more than 10 years of growth. Factory output has fallen and consumer confidence has waned as he has ramped up his trade war with China. In private, Trump and his advisers have shown concern that a broader slowdown if not an outright recession could arrive just as he is seeking reelection based on his economic record.” But the President also acknowledged that his trade war with China may have hurt some American producers and consumers. Read more over at Associated Press. 2020 Updates New updates in the 2020 Democratic race look good for Elizabeth Warren and bad for Kamala Harris, with Biden holding steady and Buttiegieg making a surprising showing in a straw poll. Elizabeth Warren drew a large crowd in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she spoke to thousands of supporters about her proposed wealth tax and immigration, among other issues. Donald Trump narrowly lost the traditionally-Democratic state in 2016, and hopes to put it in play in 2020. In other election news, Biden and Buttigieg, as well as Democrats vis-à-vis Republicans more generally, made a strong showing at the Iowa Fair’s Cast Your Kernel straw poll. Am I the only one who loves the fact that we still have political traditions like this? NYT’s 1619 Project Strongly Critiqued Between this project, the NYT staff conversation that leaked, and the focus of most of the Democratic candidates, it looks like one of the central narratives of the 2020 election will be race and its role in American history and institutions. In this BRIGHT editor’s humble opinion, it’s about time we confronted this divide: was America ever great? Increasingly, right and left do not answer this question – so central to citizenship itself – the same way. My husband, Jarrett Stepman, is publishing a book soon that counters the left’s narrative, explaining why the heroes of the American past still deserve their pedestals today, and how the left has twisted our history for political ends. The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past is coming out on October 1st, but you can find it for pre-sale on Amazon. Read the NYT essays and a few of the conservative responses below: The series of essays that make up the 1619 project. (The New York Times) Rich Lowry: The Left’s Vile Smear of the American Founding. (New York Post) John Daniel Davidson: The Ghost of John C. Calhoun Haunts Today’s American Left. (The Federalist) Fashion Moment of the Week You all have read plenty about fashion trends I love. It’s time for some trends I hate. Dad sneakers. A couple years ago it suddenly became cool to dress like a 60-year-old tourist, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. If you want a comfy sneaker to go with your outfit, try a sleek-profiled leather option like these. Biker shorts. These are not flattering. They are not cool. They do not go with your suit jacket. They look like you forgot your pants at the gym. I don’t care that Kim K is a big fan, just stop. Over-the-top casual athleisure.This started as an equally-odious guys’ trend; the aptly-chosen “scumbro” tag has been applied to celebs like Justin Bieber and Diplo. But model Bella Hadid is also a big fan, as can be seen with this street-style selection of a ripped Nike sweatshirt paired with hideous track pants. Intense animal prints. I’ve been slowly convinced that leopard print retains a certain classic allure, but the rest of these super-popular animal prints, from zebra to snakeskin, just strike me as way too busy, especially when given a saturated color makeover. Mules. I actually love mules – this beautiful list of them in Vogue contains some drool-worthy options – in theory. In practice, they are constantly falling off my feet. Y’all know I’m a heel queen and not one to complain about discomfort in exchange for style, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to walk like a semi-normal human in this type of shoe. Absolutely love something on my hate list? Have tips for walking in mules? Hit me up on Twitter at @inezfeltscher. Wednesday Links Heather MacDonald: Trump isn’t the one dividing us by race. (Wall Street Journal) Why do we allow China, now in the process of crushing Hong Kong, open access to our universities to spread government propaganda? (The Federalist) Christian universities are facing mounting money problems. (World Magazine) Chicago Teacher’s Union travels to collapsing socialist hell-hole Venezuela, praises dictator. (Chicago Tribune) One columnist puts his chips on the table: “Joe Biden Won’t Win.” (Spectator USA) ICYMI, my latest on the increasingly one-sided ideology of public schools. (Daily Caller) In today’s edition of “Is that creepy thing from a Black Mirror episode or China IRL,” a Chinese company is set to begin selling cloned cats to bereaved pet owners who want a copy of their departed felines. (Daily Star) Is this the greatest Trump tweet ever? (The Hill) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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FIRST READ: Whiplash in the West Wing
It’s Year 3 of Donald Trump’s presidency, and his behavior in office isn’t getting better.
Instead, it’s getting worse.
On Tuesday night, the president said he was cancelling a trip to Denmark – a U.S. ally – because it wouldn’t sell Greenland to the United States.
(Who else thought the Greenland story was a joke when they first saw it?)
“Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time,” Trump tweeted.
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And just hours earlier, in discussing Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib being denied entry into Israel, Trump said this about American Jews: “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
This is no way to run a country. Or to talk about its citizens.
Or to treat an American ally.
Everyone who works in Washington knows this. Staff members at the White House know this. Top officials inside the Republican Party know this.
Yet here we are.
Talk about mixed messages
By the way, it’s hard to take anyone seriously – let alone a presidential administration – when you say one thing and then say another just a day or two later.
Consider these statements, as Politico noted this morning:
Trump on Sunday: “We’re going to Poland and then we may be going to Denmark — not for this reason at all [to purchase Greenland]. But we’re looking at it. It’s not number one on the burner.”
Trump on Tuesday night: “Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time….”
The Trump White House on Monday: “A White House official said more tax cuts were on the table, ‘but cutting payroll taxes is not something that is under consideration at this time.’ Another senior administration official cautioned that a payroll tax cut was not under serious consideration.”
Trump on Tuesday: “Payroll tax is something that we think about and a lot of people would like to see that, and that very much affects the working — the workers of our country.”
If you’re not supposed to believe half of what the president or his administration says, then what’s the half you’re supposed to believe?
TWEET OF THE DAY: The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 79 percent
79 percent.
That’s the share of Jewish voters who reported voting for Democratic House candidates in the 2018 midterms, compared with just 17 percent who voted for Republicans, according to exit polls.
In the 2016 presidential election, 71 percent of Jewish voters supported Hillary Clinton, while just 23 percent voted for Trump.
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2020 VISION: Turn the radio up – for that sweet sound
Pete Buttigieg’s campaign is going up with two radio ads in Iowa that emphasize rural America.
“When the President gets on Twitter to brag about the high-stakes game he’s playing with China, he’s not seeing the same rural America that I see,” Buttigieg says in one ad.
And here’s Buttigieg in the other: “As a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I saw firsthand the sacrifice made by those in uniform…and I noticed how many of them came from places that look a lot more like South Bend than the big coastal cities,” he says. “It’s one reason that the Buttigieg Plan will expand opportunities for veterans — providing those who’ve served with two weeks of training on what it takes to start a small business…followed by a $10,000 grant to help transform a good idea into a successful company.”
On the campaign trail today: Most of the 2020 Dem field addresses the Iowa Federal of Labor convention in Altoona, Iowa… And the candidates make other appearances in the Hawkeye State… Julian Castro holds a “Caucus for Kids” roundtable in Des Moines… Beto O’Rourke stumps in Marshalltown and Des Moines… Joe Biden hits Ankeny and Newton… Bernie Sanders holds a health-care town hall in Des Moines… Steve Bullock is in Des Moines… Elizabeth Warren holds a town hall in Los Angeles… And Cory Booker raises money in L.A.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: Bernie Sanders responded to President Trump’s comments regarding American Jews voting for Democrats while at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa.
NBC’s Gary Grumbach reports his remarks: “If you are Jewish, I gather, to be a loyal American, you gotta vote for Donald Trump and Republicans. Well, let me say this to the president: I am a proud Jewish person, and I have no concerns about voting Democratic. And in fact, I intend to vote for a Jewish man to become the next president of the United States.”
John Delaney spoke at the Native American Presidential forum where, as NBC’s Benjamin Pu reports: Delaney may have hurt his case with Native American voters. When asked by an indigenous reporter if he’d commit to issuing a presidential apology to the Native American community, Delaney responded, “I haven’t thought at all about this notion of a general apology, and it’s not something I had thought about. So I obviously do support specific apologies, because I went on stage and that’s one of the first things I said as that the fact that the Congress of the United States in the 70s actually officially apologized for that massacre, so I obviously support apologies around specific situations. But I have no perspective on a general apology.”
THE LID: Hope springs eternal
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we looked at Joe Biden’s electability argument.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
Trump’s own advisors aren’t as calm as the president when it comes to looming economic fears. (And here’s the latest on what Trump has said about a payroll tax cut.)
NBC’s Amanda Golden interviewed Kirsten Gillibrand about the opioid crisis.
Here’s where the various GOP primary challenges to Trump stand. (Spoiler: Joe Walsh is among those readying a bid.)
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| White House to change Flores Agreement, allowing longer detention of asylum seekers: Report Posted: 20 Aug 2019 04:31 PM PDT The Flores Agreement has been arguably the biggest draw for asylum-seeking migrants who have created the border crisis in recent months. In the agreement, children may not be held in migrant facilities for longer than 20 days, which gives families a quick release into the United States interior as well as, in most cases, work […] The post White House to change Flores Agreement, allowing longer detention of asylum seekers: Report appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| False premises: Gun control push after mass shootings is like the Iraq War after 9/11 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 04:01 PM PDT Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11, so let’s invade Iraq. Most Americans fell for this false logic before President George W. Bush embarked the American military on indefinite actions in the Middle East. It was false and they knew it, but they found intelligence speculating about weapons of mass destruction and ran with it. This […] The post False premises: Gun control push after mass shootings is like the Iraq War after 9/11 appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Will any Democrats emerge from the bottom like Ted Cruz in 2015? Posted: 20 Aug 2019 03:36 PM PDT In the middle of August, 2015, Senator Cruz was in the middle of the pack for the Republican nomination for President. Despite having strong fundraising, he had held back on spending much as others pushed to gain early polling bumps. According the the August Rasmussen poll, Cruz was in 7th place, trailing Donald Trump, Marco […] The post Will any Democrats emerge from the bottom like Ted Cruz in 2015? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Bernie Sanders blames high cost of college for seniors going bankrupt Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:44 PM PDT To all of you 68-year-old college freshmen out there, Bernie Sanders wants your vote. He feels your plight. He recognizes the crushing effect of the high cost of college and how it’s making your go bankrupt. All you want is a degree so you can get a job to pay for socialism in your golden […] The post Bernie Sanders blames high cost of college for seniors going bankrupt appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Kudos to President Trump for listening to his base on gun control Posted: 20 Aug 2019 02:24 PM PDT Since before the 2016 election, I’ve said President Trump is malleable. He’ll listen to his base when we speak, and if his White House advisers are giving him bad advice, all we have to do is keep shouting the truth. He’ll hear us. He’s listening. Following the mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, […] The post Kudos to President Trump for listening to his base on gun control appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Stop blaming Sony for Spider-Man debacle. It’s Disney’s fault, folk. Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:53 PM PDT The Twitterverse is all aflutter over Sony and Disney’s inability to make a new deal that would allow Spider-Man to continue being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nearly every fanboy is outraged at Sony, but this outrage is completely misplaced. It was Disney’s greed that got in the way. Sony wanted to continue the […] The post Stop blaming Sony for Spider-Man debacle. It’s Disney’s fault, folk. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Seven things that should be banned before ‘assault weapons’ Posted: 20 Aug 2019 01:23 PM PDT Yesterday, the first Republican signed onto an “assault weapons” ban. Pete King, New York’s RINO Congressman, spoke out against the weapons that were used in recent mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton. “They are weapons of mass slaughter,” King said. “I don’t see any need for them in everyday society.” Let’s get one thing […] The post Seven things that should be banned before ‘assault weapons’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Honolulu has a bright future if we all work together Posted: 20 Aug 2019 12:35 PM PDT THINK AHEAD Where we are now is neither where we were in the not so long ago past nor where we want to be in the near future. Let’s look at the kind of community we want to provide and leave for our children and grandchildren. Imagine a world in which…. Hawaii’s largest economic component […] The post Honolulu has a bright future if we all work together appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Was the Inca Empire a successful example of socialism? Posted: 20 Aug 2019 12:20 PM PDT As socialists pivot from one failed example of socialism to the next failed example of socialism to the welfare state that decries claims of socialism, perhaps we should prepare ourselves for when the socialist reach the bottom of the barrel with examples of the collective ideology’s past successes. And before you say, “well that’s silly, there’s […] The post Was the Inca Empire a successful example of socialism? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Gen Z needs a real history lesson Mom and Dad Posted: 20 Aug 2019 11:57 AM PDT Generation Z, ages 13 through 22 are genuinely confused. On one hand, many polls find they are quite conservative. The Hispanic Heritage Foundation found the majority of Gen Z voters identified as Republicans in a poll of 50,000 14-18-year-olds in 2016. Other measures show they are more fiscally and socially conservative than either Gen X […] The post Gen Z needs a real history lesson Mom and Dad appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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08/21/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Leaving Afghanistan? Sanders and ‘Ethnocide’; Boos and Beer By Carl M. Cannon on Aug 21, 2019 09:39 am Good morning, it’s Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. Seventy years ago today, with his team trailing 4-2 in the 9th inning against the New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies centerfielder Richie Ashburn made a spectacular diving catch on a line drive from Giants first baseman Joe Lafata — or at least Ashburn thought he did. Neither team was in contention at the time, the National League pennant race that year being a two-team race between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. Nor was there any particular rivalry between Ashburn and Lafata. The former was a budding 22-year-old star at the dawn of a Hall of Fame career. Lafata was a 28-year-old journeyman in his second (and last) season in the major leagues. The game of baseball is egalitarian that way. Even though Ashburn was a brilliant defensive outfielder and Lafata couldn’t hit a lick, on this day in this inning, the centerfielder couldn’t quite get his glove under the ball. I must quickly add that Ashburn vehemently disagreed. He thought he made the play. First base umpire George Barr didn’t see it that way: He ruled it a trap, not a catch. Although Ashburn’s coaches and teammates sided with their centerfielder, in the days long before instant replay the only opinion that carried any weight was the umpire’s. This being Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty, fans joined the debate. A soda bottle came flying from the stands. Then another. And another. The bottles were soon joined by cans, newspapers, even vegetables. The umps put up with the barrage for about 15 minutes until crew chief Al Barlick had enough. He called the game, awarding a forfeit to the Giants, which means the official score of the Aug. 21, 1949 game in Philadelphia’s Shibe Park was 9-0. I’ll have more to say on this episode — and how it relates to participatory democracy — in a moment. First, I’d steer you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * Leaving Afghanistan: Hawks and Doves Weigh Risks. Susan Crabtree assesses prospects for a troop drawdown deal, and the advisability of one. Will ’80s Stance on “Ethnocide” Harm Sanders With Native Americans? Phil Wegmann revisits the candidate’s support for the Sandinista government, which engaged in atrocities against the indigenous Miskito tribe in Nicaragua. Gabbard Victimized by DNC’s Dubious Debate Criteria. Michael Tracey is puzzled by the party’s rationale for designating some polls as “qualifying” but others as falling short. The Return of Jackpot Justice. In RealClearPolicy, David DesRosiers spotlights a tort ruling that just might bring back the practice of seeking whopping judgments unconnected to the cost of actual damages, or an underlying crime, or negligence. The Steel Industry Has Been Harmed by Steel Tariffs. In RealClearMarkets, Allan Golombek argues that President Trump’s actions have provided a textbook example of the costs of protectionism. * * * It’s easy to make fun of Philadelphia sports fans. I’ve done it myself. Where else are the hometown stars routinely booed? Phillies fans jeered at America’s first hand transplant recipient while he was throwing out a ceremonial first pitch. Eagles fans pelted Santa Claus with snowballs and cheered when a Dallas Cowboys player lay on the turf with a career-ending neck injury. The ugliest incident I know of was the drunken Phillies fan who deliberately vomited on an 11-year-old girl and punched her father. It sounds like a joke, but it’s literally true: In surveys gauging the worst fans in professional sports, the City of Brotherly Love holds both the No. 1 and No. 2 spots — Phillies fans followed by Eagles fans. “Some of those people,” Pete Rose once quipped, “would boo the crack in the Liberty Bell.” It’s a good line, but I’m not going to let it be the last word. “City of Brotherly Love” may seem like an overreach on the part of civic marketers, but that’s actually what “Philadelphia” means in Greek. It was William Penn’s aspiration more than his promise. But Philadelphia as the “cradle of liberty” — or, rather, the creator of our imperfect but always evolving democracy – is a historic fact. Philly fans might well boo the crack in the Liberty Bell. Hell, they might boo the bell itself. But who ever said democracy wasn’t messy? Philadelphians know that more than most, which is why two decades ago Mayor Ed Rendell approved “Eagles Court,” staffed by an actual municipal court judge in the bowels of Veteran Stadium to adjudicate fan hooliganism in real-time. Philadelphians also know that democracy requires citizens to be vigilant. The man who was punched and his daughter puked on? He was a local police chief from Easton, Pa., who was trying to show restraint. But when it became clear that his family’s burly assailant had to be subdued, four or five men from Philadelphia came to his aid. And the thug went to jail. And sometimes the people just need to be heard. I’m not talking about fans booing Philly’s pricey new slugger, Bryce Harper. I’m referring to the time they booed President Herbert Hoover. The occasion was the 1931 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Athletics. Game 3 of the Series was held at Shibe Park, where fans anticipated a pitchers duel between Burleigh Grimes and Lefty Grove. Meanwhile, President Hoover was struggling to keep a lid on things. The Great Depression was spiraling out of control and the night before Hoover had met with banking and insurance executives searching for answers to the tight credit that was choking an already failing economy. Hoover loved baseball, but he wasn’t looking forward to the next day’s game. He went, he revealed in his memoirs, only because the White House had already announced the trip and the president felt that canceling it would be seen as a sign of panic. So he kept his date with destiny, first lady Lou Hoover by his side, attending a baseball game in the 12th year of Prohibition in a city already known for rowdy fans. What happened next, as the First Couple entered the stands, was captured nicely by William B. Mead and Paul Dickson in their excellent book on presidents and baseball: Mrs. Hoover looked smart in a burgundy outfit and an orchid corsage. Hoover waved his gray hat and smiled. Light applause swept the stands. Then a few boos. More boos. The booing became almost a roar, and evolved into a chant. Economics might have been on Hoover’s mind, but the fans made their feelings known: “We want beer! We want beer! We want beer!” The following year the Democrats put repealing Prohibition in the party platform at their Chicago convention. It was a good summer in the Windy City. The Cubs won the pennant and Franklin Roosevelt would win the White House. Baseball fans in every major league city got their beer. So maybe the next time you have a cold one at the ballpark you should take a few seconds and toast the Philly phanatics who helped make it happen. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com |
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