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| Good morning from Washington, where House Democrats are nostalgic for the Watergate scandal as they try to wring impeachment from the Mueller report. Fred Lucas offers a few exhibits. We’ve also got Ana Quintana’s analysis of Trump’s concessions from Mexico, and Mike Gonzalez’s thoughts on disturbing arrests in Hong Kong. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on illegal immigrants and crime, Ingrid Skop on abortion “safety,” Jarrett Stepman on bagging plastic, and Cal Thomas on praying for the president. |
| News 4 Big Moments in the House’s Mueller Report Hearing John Dean, who served as White House counsel for Nixon, draws parallels between the Watergate scandal that led to his conviction and toppled his former boss and Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian government ties to the Trump campaign. More Analysis Trump’s Negotiations With Mexico Delivered a Big Win “We got everything we wanted and we’re going to be a great partner to Mexico now because now they respect us,” says President Trump. More Commentary How Open Borders and Sanctuary Policies Victimize (and Kill) Americans A teenage girl was killed in cold blood fewer than 15 miles from the Capitol, and still Congress is incapable of working with the White House to combat this scourge of lawlessness. More Analysis China’s Power Grab in Hong Kong “A trial in Hong Kong is a legitimate thing. It’s not like a kangaroo court as it is in China. So nobody wants to be tried in a Chinese court in mainland China,” says Heritage Foundation expert Mike Gonzalez. More Commentary I’m an OB-GYN. Here’s My Take on Whether Abortion Is ‘Safer Than Childbirth.’ The studies supposedly documenting a low risk of death from induced abortion are based on very poor data. For starters, they rely on voluntary reporting—a notoriously weak methodology. More Commentary Pray for the President Even If You Didn’t Vote for Him If Paul could instruct fellow believers to pray for even despotic dictators, given his circumstances, how can contemporary Christians complain when a pastor follows his instructions? More Commentary The Facts About Plastic Bans and the Environment Canada, following precedent set by the European Union, is poised to join a growing list of places where single-use plastic items have been banned. More | ||
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“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” PLATO Good morning! President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the House Judiciary Committee for having John Dean—former White House counsel to Richard Nixon and a political contributor to CNN—to testify. “Can’t believe they are bringing in John Dean, the disgraced Nixon White House Counsel who is a paid CNN contributor,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Dean, who had previously been sentenced to four months in prison for obstructing justice connected to the Watergate scandal, spoke about the Mueller report. Read more here Supreme Court Refuses Atheists’ Effort to Remove ‘In God We Trust’ Off US Currency Former Pakistani President Zardari Arrested on Corruption Charges Something Mysterious ‘Five Times Larger Than the Big Island of Hawaii’ Is Discovered Buried on Moon Former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier bearing his name, was introduced by a key State Department aide to top executives of a firm founded by President Bill Clinton’s former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, according to documents made public by Judicial Watch. Read more The DOJ made an accommodation for Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee by agreeing to begin releasing underlying evidence for the final report by special counsel Robert Mueller. Read more A judge in the anti-discrimination case of former Google engineer James Damore denied the company’s attempts to have the suit thrown out and allowed the plaintiffs to proceed to a phase where they can prompt the tech company to produce data and answer questions on its hiring practices. Read more The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a California-based offshore oil rig worker’s claim that he should be paid for off-the-clock time on the oil platforms, as California law requires, because federal law alone governs the facilities that are based on the Outer Continental Shelf. Read more A day after more than 1 million people took to the streets of Hong Kong to call on the local government to scrap an extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China, scores of small businesses and shops say they will be closed in protest tomorrow. Read more The United States has received the lion’s share of foreign investments worldwide, and the nation’s continued economic growth, coupled with tax reform, has further strengthened its appeal for international investors. Read more See More Top Stories The YouTube ‘Adpocalypse’ and the Strategic Censoring of Opinion By Joshua Philipp Numerous YouTube channels that express conservative viewpoints, or criticize socialism, have recently reported that they’ve been demonetized. Censored channels include those of popular YouTube comedian Steven Crowder and a history teacher who posted videos on World War II that included clips of Nazi speeches. The New York Times reports that thousands of channels… Read more The Art of Trump’s Mexico Deal By Jason Meister The master dealmaker strikes again—despite relentless abuse from his critics, President Trump has successfully used the promise of tariffs to persuade Mexico to help us combat illegal immigration. When the President announced his intention to implement a 5 percent tariff on Mexican imports, his political opponents worked overtime to discredit the strategy, arguing that it would never lead to a meaningful deal between the two countries… Read more See More Opinions Government Welfare: A Cancer Known as Communism By Trevor Loudon Government welfare is communism. Free money from the state, whether in terms of benefits, handouts, or non-universal tax-breaks, is a trap that will draw people into socialism and beyond. It’s a lot like cancer. Stage one of societal cancer is “welfarism.” Citizens get a few benefits for the elderly, the very young, those who can’t look after themselves, maybe some student loans. The economy remains pretty healthy. The symptoms are mild and noticed by very few. Read more In an hour-long, wide ranging interview with CBS News’ Jan Crawford, Attorney General Bill Barr provided a significant amount of new information regarding the Mueller Report, the Russia Investigation, and his examination of the events surrounding the 2016 presidential election. What Everyone Missed From the Barr Interview 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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Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Crisis in California Last week, it was reported that “Los Angeles County’s homeless population has swelled by 12% during the past year as a shortage of affordable housing deepens in and around America’s second-largest city… the 12 percent homelessness rise in Los Angeles County was modest compared with corresponding increases in less populous neighboring counties – up 28 percent in Ventura, 43 percent in Orange and 50 percent in Kern.” Reuters Here’s a look at how the left and the right have reacted to California’s troubles in recent months. From the Left The left argues that California’s policies are not liberal enough, and for liberalizing zoning laws to allow more housing. “‘This is unregulated capitalism, unbridled capitalism, capitalism run amok. There are no guardrails,’ says Salesforce founder and chairman Marc Benioff, a fourth-generation San Franciscan who in a TV interview branded his city ‘a train wreck’… For decades, this coruscating city of hills, bordered by water on three sides, was a beloved haven for reinvention, a refuge for immigrants, bohemians, artists and outcasts. It was the great American romantic city, the Paris of the West. No longer. In a time of scarce consensus, everyone agrees that something has rotted in San Francisco.” Karen Heller, Washington Post “When the cost of living is taken into account, billionaire-brimming California ranks as the most poverty-stricken state, with a fifth of the population struggling to get by. Since 2010, migration out of California has surged… At every level of government, our representatives, nearly all of them Democrats, prove inadequate and unresponsive to the challenges at hand. Witness last [month]’s embarrassment, when California lawmakers used a sketchy parliamentary maneuver to knife Senate Bill 50, an ambitious effort to undo restrictive local zoning rules and increase the supply of housing… “Where progressives argue for openness and inclusion as a cudgel against President Trump, they abandon it on Nob Hill and in Beverly Hills… Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.” Farhad Manjoo, New York Times “Apartment bans are a case of rich vs. poor, longtime resident vs. newcomer, and, all too often, white vs. black, but they are something else too: generational warfare, a showdown in which older homeowners are telling younger renters that there’s no more room. Seen that way, the housing affordability crisis serves as a useful framework for understanding a handful of urgent American issues that have stalled out, particularly intraparty conflicts on the left like those over student debt and climate change… It doesn’t feel like an accident that the youngest woman ever elected to Congress has done more to advance climate change discourse in Washington in six months than Democrats have done in a decade… Young people in college, at planning meetings in Palo Alto, or protesting in Dianne Feinstein’s office, aren’t asking for anything radical—just for what their parents and grandparents already had.” Henry Grabar, Slate “If Democrats can ever achieve a consensus on housing policy, they can do as they wish at present, since the Donkey Party has supermajorities in both chambers in the legislature. But… suburbanites from both parties are wary of disturbing the status quo… the road to enactment of ‘upzoning’ legislation remains rocky and winding. If you’re homeless in California, or are struggling to afford a mortgage payment or rent, help is not quite yet on the way.” Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine From the Right The right blames liberal policies for harming the quality of life of California’s residents. “The top California income-tax rate is 13.3 percent (the nation’s highest). The state’s average sales tax is (conservatively) about 8.5 percent (ninth in the nation). California’s bewildering combined array of gasoline taxes are about 55 cents per gallon and rising (second-highest in the nation). In exchange, California public-school test scores rank between 44th and 46th in the nation. Its roads and infrastructure are rated in various surveys between 42nd and 45th. Driving from the state’s interior to the coast on roads mostly unchanged from 45 years ago takes about twice the time as in the past — if carefully planned at particular times and days of the week.” Victor Davis Hanson, National Review “The quality of life in California is in free fall thanks to liberal policies exactly like those [Democratic presidential] candidates want to impose on the entire nation… California’s energy costs are already the second-highest in the nation; the renewables mandate may scratch an environmental itch, but it will surely mean residents soon pay more for gasoline, or heating oil and electricity… “These are policies that lead to high prices for housing and energy, a laissez-faire approach to law and order that leads to tent cities and rising crime, rising spending that demands exorbitant taxes and big government programs that mean diminished personal freedoms.” Liz Peek, The Hill “San Francisco is the nation’s leader in property crime. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this ugly umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed, and the current average is 51 per day… the poor bear the brunt of low-level and property crimes. ‘In the Tenderloin we have vulnerable populations—people of color, the most children, the second-highest concentration of elders, and they are held hostage by drug dealers and theft, and the city tells them these crimes are not that bad,’ says [former prosecutor Nancy] Tung. ‘We are failing to protect them. The police do a good job, because the criminals are caught, only to be released back on the streets over and over.’” Erica Sandberg, City Journal California “has the worst ranking for homelessness, 8th worst for roads, and worst for teacher-to-student ratio. Its prisons are so crowded that the Supreme Court determined them to constitute cruel and unusual punishment, and it suffered the worst budget crisis of all the states during the Great Recession… “Residents are so mesmerized by the amazing weather and beauty of the place that they tend to overlook the quality of the services. And as a result, management does not change. The state has been under the same Democratic Party management for years. Their monopoly on power is so safe that they now hold supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature despite California’s worsening condition. Management has no incentive to change when it keeps getting re-elected.” Jim Breslo, Fox News On the bright side… Spotted: a swarm of ladybugs so huge, it showed up on National Weather Service radar. NPR Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. 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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. Trump Issues More Tariff Threats The president threatens more tariffs on China. The post Trump Issues More Tariff Threats appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Political Conferences Are The Worst I hate political conferences with a passion. Seasoned politicians get on stage and espouse highly rehearsed, consultant vetted speeches aimed at connecting with the lowest common denominator in the room. These personality-driven, buzz word filled, idea void exercises amount to nothing more than an evening of your favorite cable news outlet. We were looking for something bigger. Something with purpose and meaning that could produce ideas that outlasted the days trendiest political figure. When we decided to do the first ever Resurgent Gathering, Erick’s vision was very clear. No stump speeches. Candidates were forbidden from going on stage and giving the standard ‘Democrats Suck’, ‘Vote Republican’ speeches that they could give in their sleep. We were looking for conservative ideas to answer the days biggest challenges. Immigration. National debt. Abortion. We were looking to inform, educate and empower activist who wanted to have influence in the political process. The post Political Conferences Are The Worst appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Too Many on the Right are Ignoring There’s Something Really Wrong with President Trump I’m not a psychologist. I took one or two general classes on the subject during my undergrad years. So I don’t know the proper diagnosis, the scientific name, or the proper designation for what ails President Trump. Some say malignant narcissism. Some say an inferiority complex. Some say a simple lack of maturity, or a […] The post Too Many on the Right are Ignoring There’s Something Really Wrong with President Trump appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Focus Group Shows Pennsylvania Swing Voters Standing By Trump But polling of the state shows something else entirely. The post Focus Group Shows Pennsylvania Swing Voters Standing By Trump appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » CEO’s Enter the Abortion Debate Seems like a ton of mansplaining is going on here, but 180 CEO‘s spoke out against abortion restrictions in a full page ad in The New York Times. Many of them are men, and based on some of the commentary, I wouldn’t want to work in any of their organizations. From CNN: A letter endorsed […] The post CEO’s Enter the Abortion Debate appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Beto Skates Around Whether Democrats Can Be Pro-Life It’s been a burning question the past few weeks: can one be pro-life and have a home in the Democratic party? I’ve posed this question on two occasions recently, and over the weekend everyone’s favorite skateboarder faced it as well. No, silly, I’m not talking about Tony Hawk. I’m talking about Robert Francis O’Rourke, of […] The post Beto Skates Around Whether Democrats Can Be Pro-Life appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Google and Facebook Are Not the Enemy. The New York Times Just Sucks and is Blaming Them. It certainly looks like the New York Times and national media are going to war against Facebook and Google. We’ve had ample hits on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over the past few weeks. Now the New York Times is blaming YouTube for people getting radicalized and also that Google is profiting off the news business. […] The post Google and Facebook Are Not the Enemy. The New York Times Just Sucks and is Blaming Them. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The New York Times, So Focused on Anti-Right and Anti-YouTube Narratives, Misses an Important Story Lots of people are already commenting on this New York Times story about the progressive who became alt-right then started watching alt-left videos and is now corrected. The entire story is narrative building. The guy watches conservatives and videos about the search for God. He moves to increasingly more conservative stuff, flips to the alt-right, […] The post The New York Times, So Focused on Anti-Right and Anti-YouTube Narratives, Misses an Important Story appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Brian Kemp Will Speak at The Resurgent Gathering Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will be joining me on stage at The Resurgent Gathering 2019. There is still time to get a ticket before prices go up. 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POLITICO PLAYBOOK
POLITICO Playbook: Trump vs. Biden in Iowa splitscreen
By ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN and DANIEL LIPPMAN
06/11/2019 06:00 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
THE JUDICIARY HEARING: A FOOD FIGHT, AND A DUD … WHAT WE LEARNED Monday is that any hearing about ROBERT MUELLER andobstruction is going to turn into a partisan war between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans tried to discredit John Dean as a money-hungry, fame-seeking crook. The top of Monday’s hearing didn’t even get aired live on cable because of the helicopter crash in New York. Unless President DONALD TRUMP begins allowing some of his associates to testify, it’s going to be tough for these hearings to break through — and many Democrats realize that. More from Kyle Cheney on the hearing
WHAT THE BASE WILL THINK … POD SAVE AMERICA’S JON FAVREAU (@jonfavs): “Impeachment hearings are the only way to ensure television coverage of Trump investigations. It’s the only way to take the microphone away from Trump. If you’re still against it, fine, but don’t expect regular hearings to command the same kind of media attention.”
… NYT COLUMNIST JAMELLE BOUIE: “Pelosi and Schumer Are Playing Too Nice”: “I think there’s a deeper divide, between a politics that sees the grass roots as an asset to use and cultivate versus one that treats it as a complication to manage. It’s a ‘leader knows best’ approach that may squander the Democratic Party’s advantage of enthusiasm and drive against a corrupt and unpopular president. …
“Then again, Pelosi and Schumer are shrewd politicians with decades of experience. Perhaps their resistance to grass-roots Democrats, and to impeachment in particular, will pay dividends. But we should consider the reverse as well: that a Democratic Party that plays with excessive caution — and keeps its base at a distance — is one that might demobilize its voters and produce the same conditions that helped Trump win in the first place.” NYT
NEW … ANDREW DESIDERIO, HEATHER CAYGLE and JOHN BRESNAHAN: “Pelosi-Nadler alliance strained by impeachment divide”
Good Tuesday morning. THE BIDEN SCENE MONDAY NIGHT, via Alexi McCammond of Axios, who pooled the event: “[Joe Biden] addressed a room full of donors and some lobbyists, including Evan Bayh and Chris Dodd, at the home of Amb. Elizabeth Bagley in Washington, D.C. He spoke at length about the importance of supporting the middle class. …
“‘One of my competitors criticized me for not going to Iowa to talk for 5 minutes. … My granddaughter was graduating. It was my daughter’s birthday. I would skip inauguration for that.’”
— THE BEFUDDLING BIDEN BIT: “‘With Trump gone you’re going to begin to see things change. Because these folks know better. They know this isn’t what they’re supposed to be doing,’ Biden said of Republicans in Congress.”
SPOTTED at Biden’s fundraiser: former Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and former MPAA chief Dan Glickman, who previously served in Congress and Bill Clinton’s cabinet. Pic
IOWA SPLIT-SCREEN — Trump and Biden will be campaigning in the same state today for the first time in the 2020 cycle: The president will be in Council Bluffs for an official visit to an ethanol plant, followed by a Republican dinner in West Des Moines, and Biden in Ottumwa for the start of a two-day Iowa swing.
WHAT BIDEN WILL SAY TODAY IN IOWA … “You know, Donald Trump and I are both in Iowa today. It wasn’t planned that way, but I hope Trump’s presence here will be a clarifying event. America’s farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with China. No one knows that better than Iowa.
“He thinks he’s being tough. Well, it’s easy to be tough when someone else is feeling the pain. How many farmers across this state and across this nation have had to face the prospect of losing their business, of losing their farm because of Trump’s tariffs?
“How many have had to stare at the ceiling at night wondering how they’re going to make it? How many sleepless nights do you think Trump has had over what he’s doing to America’s farmers? Here’s the answer: just as many as he had when he stiffed the construction workers and electricians and plumbers who built his hotels and casinos. Zero.” More from Natasha Korecki on how Biden’s slow rollout has rankled Iowa Dems
— BTW … DOUBLING DOWN: Biden will also say that it’s “not naive” to say he will “work across the aisle” and “seek to find consensus.” “That’s not some old-fashioned way of doing things that no longer works. That’s the way our system is supposed to work.” You think Trump is going to sound the same note?
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NYT’S ANNIE KARNI and MAGGIE HABERMAN: “Trump Needs a Target to Stay Interested in His Campaign. For Now, It’s Biden”: “In a recent overarching state-of-the-race briefing in Florida with Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, Mr. Trump was consistently distracted and wanted to discuss other things … Mr. Trump rarely if ever speaks to aides about what he hopes to accomplish with what would be a hard-won second term; his interest is entirely in the present, and mostly on the crisis of the moment.
“He has shown no interest in formulating a new message for his campaign, instead continuing with the winning ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan from his last race and adding that he also wants to ‘keep America great.’
“Mr. Trump has griped about traveling too much, but then lashed out at aides, demanding to know, ‘Why am I not doing more rallies?’ He insists on having final approval over the songs on his campaign playlist, as well as the campaign merchandise, but he has never asked to see a budget for 2019.” NYT
WHITE HOUSE ARRIVAL LOUNGE, via NANCY COOK: Another day, another Office of Management and Budget staffer joins the West Wing. Bradley Bishop, former press secretary at the budget agency, joined the White House communications shop this week to work on outreach to Capitol Hill.
His arrival brings the total number of former Mulvaney aides, who’ve joined the White House since January, to 11 people, and it increases the acting chief of staff’s footprint and his number of loyalists inside the communications shop. Mulvaney has long said that he wanted to bolster both the White House’s press and communications operations.
MORE FROM NANCY COOK — “Treasury’s top decision-makers: White, male and wealthy”: “When Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin postponed installing abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, critics viewed it as further evidence of the administration’s lack of sensitivity to race, gender and history. Under the surface of that public backlash was another one brewing inside the Treasury Department: deepening tensions from the last two years over the diversity of the top staff.
“Out of roughly 20 officials who routinely attend senior staff meetings led by Mnuchin, only three are women and one is a person of color. In fiscal year 2018, the hiring of minorities at Treasury fell to its lowest pace in five years, according to the department’s own statistics, while the number of women and minorities leaving the agency outpaced their hiring.
“Treasury has fewer policy disagreements these days, said one former official, because the top decision-makers are overwhelmingly white, male and wealthy. That can make the debates less robust and also gives the department the feeling of ‘being disconnected from reality,’ said one administration official.” POLITICO
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NEWS: “Justin Amash quits House Freedom Caucus,” by Melanie Zanona
SARAH FERRIS, HEATHER CAYGLE and LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ: “Dems to yank bill to raise congressional pay after backlash”: “Top Democrats agreed in a closed-door meeting Monday night to pull a key section of this week’s massive funding bill to avoid escalating a clash within their caucus over whether to hike salaries for lawmakers and staff for the first time in a decade, multiple lawmakers confirmed.
“At least 15 Democrats — mostly freshmen in competitive districts — had pushed to freeze pay after some Democratic and Republican leaders quietly agreed to the slight pay increase earlier this month. …
“Democrats in Monday’s leadership meeting first blamed Republicans for the blow up, complaining that [House Minority Leader Kevin] McCarthy and the GOP campaign arm were trying to capitalize on the issue to score political points after previously agreeing not to do so. But then Hoyer said not only would McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise support the increase but the NRCC executive director was also on board, according to sources familiar.” POLITICO
— THIS EFFORT TO GET A PAY RAISE COULD BE one of the most ham-handed episodes in the last few months. The NRCC attacked Democrats for seeking it, even though KEVIN MCCARTHY and STEVE SCALISE — who both live off their congressional salaries — also supported the bump. Meanwhile, Democratic proponents of the increase were unable to build a coalition to raise lawmaker pay or explain internally why they believed it was necessary.
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TARIFF TICK TOCK — “How Mexico talked Trump out of tariff threat with immigration crackdown pact,” by WaPo’s Nick Miroff, Kevin Sieff and John Wagner: “Mexican negotiators convinced President Trump to back down from his tariff threat by agreeing to an unprecedented crackdown on Central American migrants and accepting more-expansive measures in Mexico if the initial efforts don’t deliver quick results, according to officials from both governments and documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
“The enforcement measures Mexico has promised include the deployment of a militarized national guard at the Guatemalan border, thousands of additional migrant arrests per week and the acceptance of bus loads of asylum seekers turned away from the U.S. border daily, all geared toward cutting the migrant flow dramatically in coming weeks. The measures, described by officials from both sides and included in Mexican negotiating documents reviewed by The Post, appear to be more substantial than what the Mexican government has attempted thus far during the precipitous rise in migration to the U.S. border.” WaPo
MORE 2020 WATCH — HAPPENING TODAY: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, in a bid to capitalize on his service as a Navy reserve intelligence officer, gives a speech on foreign policy at Indiana University at 11 a.m. Eastern. He’ll be introduced by former Rep. Lee Hamilton, who chaired the 9/11 commission. More from Elena Schneider
— CNBC’S BRIAN SCHWARTZ: “Hollywood political financier Nicole Avant signs on to back Buttigieg for president”
— AP … “Feisty Virginia primaries closely watched for national trend”: “Normally sleepy affairs, this year’s [state legislative] primary contests feature plenty of drama as moderates in both parties take fire from their outer flanks. All 140 legislative seats are up for grabs this year and Virginia is the only state whose legislature has a reasonable chance of flipping partisan control. Republicans currently have narrow majorities in both the House and Senate.”
TRUMP’S TUESDAY — The president will leave the White House at 12:15 p.m. en route to Council Bluffs, Iowa. He will tour the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy facility at 2:45 p.m. Central. Trump will give a speech on renewable energy at 3:20 p.m. He will then leave for Des Moines, where the president will give a speech at 6:30 p.m. at the Republican Party of Iowa annual dinner. Afterward, he will return to Washington.
PLAYBOOK READS
THE LATEST FROM KIM JONG UN … REUTERS: “North Korean state media called on the United States on Tuesday to ‘withdraw its hostile policy’ towards Pyongyang or agreements made at a landmark summit in Singapore a year ago might become ‘a blank sheet of paper’.” Reuters
— WSJ’S WARREN STROBEL: “North Korean Leader’s Slain Half Brother Was a CIA Source”: “Kim Jong Nam, the slain half brother of North Korea’s leader, was a Central Intelligence Agency source who met on several occasions with agency operatives, a person knowledgeable about the matter said. …
“Mr. Kim, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was killed in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia in February 2017, when two women smeared his face with the nerve agent VX. U.S. and South Korean officials have blamed the attack on North Korea, which it denies.” WSJ
— “Iran Says It Will Release U.S. Resident Charged With Spying,” by NYT’s Vivian Yee
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — “Homeland Security watchdog retires early after his office was forced to retract ‘feel-good’ audits of disaster response,” by WaPo’s Lisa Rein and Kimberly Kindy: “[John V.] Kelly’s announcement follows The Post’s report last week that an internal review found that Kelly overrode auditors who had found problems with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to various disasters.
“When teams of auditors flew to local communities to assess how well FEMA was helping residents recover, Kelly — then in charge of the emergency management auditing staff — directed them to ignore most problems, according to the internal review and interviews. Instead, he told them to produce what the staff dubbed ‘feel-good reports.’” WaPo
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SCOOP — WASHINGTON INC.: “Chamber of Commerce ends contract with consultant after WSJ investigation,” by Daniel Lippman: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reviewed cell phone records and ended a contract with a top consultant after the Wall Street Journal detailed the pricey perks enjoyed by chief executive Tom Donohue and reported that the business lobby group had lost influence in recent years, according to four people familiar with the matter.
“In mid-May, the Chamber ended its contract with Tom Collamore, who was the Chamber’s longtime communications chief and more recently a consultant with an office in the organization’s building near the White House … The lobby group canceled Collamore’s contract after checking his cell phone records and determining that he had spoken to a Wall Street Journal reporter …
“‘I’m not interested in commenting on this story, but any characterization suggesting I would share confidential information is patently false,’ Collamore said in a written statement. … One Chamber official spoke to Donohue recently and told POLITICO that Donohue told the official he did not think Collamore was the source of the calendar leak.” POLITICO
TA-NEHISI COATES on his conversation about reparations with Sen. Elizabeth Warren: “[A]fter ‘The Case for Reparations’ came out, she just asked me to come and talk one on one with her about it. … It was well before she declared anything about running for president. … She had read it. She was deeply serious, and she had questions. And it wasn’t, like, Will you do X, Y, and Z for me? It wasn’t, like, I’m trying to demonstrate I’m serious. I have not heard from her since, either, by the way.” New Yorker
A KUMBAYA MOMENT — “Trump made get-well call to Jerry Nadler in hospital,” by Yahoo’s Alexander Nazaryan: “Putting aside his sharp political differences with one of his primary congressional tormentors, President Trump made a surprising get-well call to Rep. Jerry Nadler, who was briefly hospitalized in Manhattan in May, Yahoo News has learned. … Trump called Nadler from Air Force One as he was on his way to Japan. …
“Trump … told Nadler that he had seen him on television, and that he thought Nadler was ‘tough.’ Trump repeated that assessment several times, adding that he wished the congressman well and wanted to know if he could do anything more. The two men did not discuss politics or impeachment, according to a person familiar with the call.” Yahoo
MEDIAWATCH — “Iran Bars Times Correspondent From Reporting,” by NYT’s Rick Gladstone: “The authorities in Iran have barred the Tehran-based correspondent for The New York Times from working for the past four months, the newspaper said Monday.
“The correspondent, Thomas Erdbrink, a Netherlands citizen, has reported for The Times from Iran since 2012. He resides in Tehran but has been unable to work since late February, when his press credential was revoked.
“The Times decided to make the issue public after recent speculation and comments on social media. Mr. Erdbrink’s absence from the news report has become increasingly conspicuous because of escalating tensions between the Iranian authorities and the United States.”
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SPOTTED: Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in coach on a delayed 2 p.m. American Airlines shuttle from Boston to DCA. … Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) at Chick-fil-A in Crystal City.
STATE DEPT. DEPARTURE LOUNGE — Lauren Hagen is leaving the office of the Chief of Protocol at the State Department and starting with Boeing on the customer engagement team. Before working at State, Hagen served as personal aide to second lady Karen Pence.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Tad Devine, president of Democratic political consulting firm Devine Mulvey Longabaugh, is 64. A fun fact about Tad: “In going through some old papers, I recently came across a copy of an essay I wrote in 1970, when I won first place in the George Washington essay contest in my hometown of Providence, R.I. Unlike the other eighth-grade students, I decided to go negative on Washington as a slave owner. I guess that essay may have prefaced my career as a political consultant.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Greta Van Susteren (h/t Tammy) … Ashley Mocarski, director of external relations at the White House (h/t Emily McBride) … Wendy Teramoto, former Commerce COS, is 45 … Kim Oates of the House Radio/TV gallery … Jennifer Budoff, budget director for the D.C. City Council … Charlie Rangel is 89 … Lindsey Williams Drath … Jennifer Rubin … Cisco’s Michael Timmeny … Jeremy Ben-Ami, president at J Street (h/ts Jon Haber) … POLITICO’s Emily Dobler and Denis Manevski … former South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard is 66 … Treasury alum David Cohen … TJ Adams-Falconer … Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Tex.) is 71 … Cesar Gonzalez, COS for Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) … former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) is 61 … HRC’s Lucas Acosta … Will Rahn, politics editor at CBS News digital, is 32 … EEI’s Jessica Franks … Tanit Parada Tur … Jamal Brown, national press secretary for Biden (h/t Andrew Bates) …
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These senators running for president made $7.1 million writing books
Writing a book is a good way for politicians to get their message out to voters and promote their biographies, core values and platforms. It can also be lucrative. Six Democratic senators running for president earned upward of $7.1 million from 2014 to 2018, a review of financial disclosures found. Read More…
The 2020 Race: Still tilting Democratic
ANALYSIS — Given President Donald Trump’s inability to broaden his appeal and the likelihood that Democrats will be more united and energized than they were in 2016, the Democratic presidential ticket deserves to be given a narrow but clear advantage for 2020, Stuart Rothenberg writes. Read More…
Sen. Josh Hawley: ‘Huawei is not the answer’
Since arriving in the Senate in January, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley has emerged as a key player on technology policy and a thorn in the side of large companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon. Read More…
Global regulators divide on fintech impact on financial system
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House Democrats pull legislative branch spending bill amid member pay increase fight
House Democrats have decided to pull the fiscal 2020 Legislative Branch spending bill out of a package moving on the floor this week, averting a politically toxic debate over salaries for members of Congress. Read More…
Gaetz: ‘We’re playing out our own version of That ’70s Show’
Rep. Matt Gaetz engaged in a testy exchange Monday with John Dean, the former White House counsel in the Nixon administration, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on lessons learned from the Mueller report. Watch the video here…
Lawmakers all across Red Sox Nation are chiming in with their well wishes for retired slugger David “Big Papi” Ortiz, who is recovering from a gunshot wound suffered in his native Dominican Republic. Read More…
Does open seat in Montana help or hurt Democrats’ pickup opportunity?
Parties crave open seats, considering the vast majority of incumbents win re-election. But in the case of Montana’s at-large district, Democrats may have lost their preferred opponent when Republican Rep. Greg Gianforte filed to run for governor. Read More…
Senate honors late chaplain Lloyd Ogilvie
The Senate on Monday memorialized former Senate Chaplain Lloyd John Ogilvie, who died on June 5 at age 88. Read More…
Collins: ‘The ’70s called, they want their star witness back’
The House Judiciary Committee convened Monday to hear from four witnesses on lessons from the nearly two-year long Robert S. Mueller III-led investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch the video here…
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Elaine Chao gave special treatment to projects in the home state of her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “This is a misinformed online post and the blogger intentionally misleads readers, misrepresents the grant application process … ‘Misinformed’: Elaine Chao’s Office Fires Back At Allegations She Steered Cash To Benefit Mitch McConnell is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Rep. Amash Leaving the House Freedom Caucus Following Trump Impeachment Row Following a series of Twitter posts accusing the President of impeachable offenses, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is leaving the House Freedom Caucus, a group celebrated for wielding a strong conservative influence in the House. Amash had been the first Republican in the House to call for impeachment. From Fox News: “Amash, speaking at a Freedom Caucus board meeting, insisted his departure was voluntary. Amash said he did not want to continue to be a “further distraction” for the caucus, which is chaired by North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Meadows. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a member of the Freedom Caucus, told Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle” Monday evening that Meadows and Amash mutually came to the decision after several conversations. Jordan said the Republican members of the group still consider Amash a friend, but that their disagreements were “sharp” and significant.” Masterpiece Cakeshop Targeted Again Jack Phillips, owner of the Colorado cakeshop that had been the subject of two past discrimination claims, is now being sued a third time for refusing to make a cake for an “unspecified” event. While the second complaint was tossed out, the third was just filed last week. From The Daily Wire: “The latest lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Denver District Court on behalf of Autumn Scardina by attorneys Paula Greisen and John McHugh,” the outlet reports. Scardina is the same woman who filed the previous lawsuit alleging discrimination after Masterpiece Cakeshop denied her request — made the day Phillips won his case — for a cake celebrating her gender transition. Reports on this newest lawsuit are vague on the theme of the pastry in question — they have said, so far, only that Scardina requested a “birthday cake” — but previous filings indicate that Scardina has gone out of her way on several occasions to request cakes Masterpiece Cakeshop clearly will not make. Newsweek reports that the baked goods at the center of Scardina’s previous complaints to Colorado authorities included a “cake to celebrate Satan’s birthday,” with “cheesecake frosting” that would feature “a large figure of Satan, licking a 9” black Dildo…an actual working model, that can be turned on before we unveil the cake.” Phillips said then that he believes Scardina regularly requests objectionable cakes from his bakery, including cakes with pentagrams and upside-down crosses.” As David Harsanyi of The Federalist notes, though the Supreme Court may not be able to thwart the cultural decline that is evidenced by such attacks on individual liberty, they can mitigate the occurrence of such attacks, insofar as they are state sponsored. From Harsanyi: “Then again, the campaign to destroy Phillips’s business was never merely about punishing a single man for refusing to submit to prevailing leftist orthodoxy. It was also a warning to all would-be apostates that thought crimes could lead to fiscal ruin, public denunciation, and endless harassment. In that sense, the prosecution has probably already paid off. Courts won’t put to rest the cultural debate over social issues. But it’s worth noting that it wasn’t howling protesters but the state-empowered Colorado Civil Rights Commission that attempted to destroy Phillips’s business when he refused to design a specialty cake for David Mullins and Charlie Craig’s gay wedding ceremony in 2012—before gay marriage was even legalized in Colorado or recognized by federal courts. Even today, after getting it wrong for so long, mainstream news outlets like to report that Phillips refused “to bake a wedding cake” or denied a gay couple “service.” Phillips, however, didn’t query his customers about their sexual preferences or their preferred pronouns, nor did he bar anyone from purchasing any products made in his shop, a place of public accommodation. No, Colorado had attempted to compel a citizen to say something he didn’t believe.” AOC to Primary Schumer or Gillibrand? According to a latest report in Axios, there is an expectation amongst top Democrats that AOC will eventually primary Chuck Schumer (D-NY) or Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for his or her seat in the Senate. Recent polls have indicated that she enjoys growing popularity from young to middle-aged women. Emily Zanotti from The Daily Wire outlines whom AOC may target between the two NY Senators and what type of challenges she may face by running in a statewide race: Schumer seems the more likely target, according to Axios’s sources, particularly given that he often falls on the “wrong” side of the battle between progressives and moderates. She’s also dealt more closely with Schumer, helping to dictate how the Senate handles policy initiated in the House by progressive legislators, including her own “Green New Deal,” which came up for a vote in the Senate and lost handily (even though AOC and her co-authors were adamant that a solution be enacted quickly)… There are drawbacks. Even if Ocasio-Cortez is planning to move on to bigger and better things, she’ll need a base of support she currently lacks. National popularity is one thing, but a Senate run will require the attention of every voter in New York State, and Ocasio-Cortez is only popular with voters in and around Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Those might be key constituencies for a Senate run, but they by no means guarantee a victory for a first timer. And as far as Ocasio-Cortez is concerned, they are also by no means hers to fall back on. She’s popular in her home district but not particularly effective, and has yet to open a constituent office from Bronx residents, preferring to focus her attention less on local needs and more on building a national progressive movement. What I’m Reading (or Listening to) Today George Will Defends Conservatism, History, and Civil Liberties (The Federalist) A Win at the Border (National Review) Biden’s Reversal on Taxpayer-Sponsored Abortions Has Both Democrats and Trump Smelling Blood (The Federalist) Legal Pot Won’t Control the Opioid Epidemic (National Review) CAIR Victimizes Fellow Muslims (Daily Wire) Beauty Recommendations That I Love: Sunscreen Edition As some of you may or may not know, I have moved to Tel Aviv for work for the summer. As a result, I have spent a few days roasting on Israeli beaches, bringing about five different brands of sunscreen to the beach with me. 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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray June 11, 2019 Now That YouTube Bans Everything But Twerking Drag Kids, The Right Needs More Than Just Yelling ‘Stop’ By Sumantra Maitra What do you do when you’re amidst a handful of activists determined to destroy the foundations of a society from within? You treat them like insurgents, and you root them out. Full article Mixing Kids With Drag Queens Sets Gay Rights Back Decades By Chad Felix Greene Promoting adolescent boys as drag queens and setting up events in which adult entertainers perform before children has reignited fears the LGBT community spent 30 years fighting. Full article In Our Humorless Age, The New York Times Has Cancelled Political Cartoons By David Marcus The political cartoon has always been a dangerous polemic tool. The New York Times has decided that in our politically correct time it’s too hot to handle. 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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
FIRST READ: General election preview? Trump, Biden battle for the spotlight in Iowa
Just when Joe Biden was looking more and more vulnerable, President Trump and his team are elevating him.
First by this New York Times story highlighting how Biden has gotten into Trump’s head, and how the president trails Biden in their internal polling – which is reflected in the public polling, too.
Second by Trump’s travel to Iowa Tuesday on the same day that Biden will be there, giving both men a split-screen day.
All more than 200 days before next year’s Iowa caucuses.
“You know, Donald Trump and I are both in Iowa today. It wasn’t planned that way, but I hope Trump’s presence here will be a clarifying event,” Biden is expected to say in Davenport at 7:00 pm ET, according to advanced remarks his campaign released this morning, per NBC’s Garrett Haake.
Also from Biden: “America’s farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with China. No one knows that better than Iowa.”
And: “How many sleepless nights do you think Trump has had over what he’s doing to America’s farmers? Here’s the answer: Just as many as he had when he stiffed the construction workers and electricians and plumbers who built his hotels and casinos. Zero.”
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Trump,
meanwhile, delivers remarks on renewable energy from Council Bluffs at
4:20 pm ET, and then speaks at the Iowa GOP’s annual dinner in West Des
Moines at
7:30 pm ET.
If you’re Biden,
this split-screen day in Iowa is an absolute gift.
It makes it seem like the general election is already here.
And it diminishes the rest of the Dem field.
But the challenge for Biden: When you’re provided this kind of gift, you have to deliver.
Iowa’s watching.
TWEET OF THE DAY: So you’re telling me there’s a chance
What Iowa Democrats want, Part 2
On Monday, we got more non-horserace numbers from that Des Moines Register/CNN poll of Iowa Dem caucus-goers.
The percentage of in-person likely caucus-goers saying these policy positions are MUST-HAVES:
- A woman’s right to an abortion: 79 percent
- Recognition that climate change is the greatest threat to humanity: 75 percent
- Restoring the ban on assault-style weapons: 57 percent
- Medicare for All – shifting to an entirely government-run health system: 49 percent
- Broadly expanding student debt forgiveness: 42 percent
- The Green New Deal: 32 percent
- Free tuition at four-year colleges: 23 percent
- Restoring voting rights to all felons, regardless of whether they’ve completed their sentence: 23 percent
- Breaking up big tech companies: 21 percent.
And on whether these candidate qualities are an ADVANTAGE:
- Having years of experience in Washington: 52 percent
- Coming from a place that mostly elects Democrat: 28 percent
- Being white: 25 percent
- Being a woman: 23 percent
- Being gay: 4 percent
- Being over the age of 70: 1 percent.
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Justice Department will hand over Mueller evidence to House Dems
One explanation why Democrats are conflicted/divided/triggered over the impeachment question is that their oversight of Trump – now that they’re in the House majority – has yet to produce any real results.
In fact, the last several weeks have been dominated by defied subpoenas, witness no-shows and a refusal to hand over Trump’s tax returns.
But yesterday, House Democrats DID appear to get something they’re after.
“House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., announced Monday that he had reached an agreement with the Department of Justice over obtaining underlying evidence from the Mueller report related to possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump,” NBC’s Rebecca Shabad writes.
“Nadler announced the deal in a statement, saying that the DOJ ‘has agreed to begin complying with our committee’s subpoena by opening Robert Mueller’s most important files to us.’”
“The announcement came just hours before the committee holds the first in a series of hearings on the Mueller report and a day before the House is set to vote on a civil contempt resolution seeking to enforce committee subpoenas.”
“Nadler said in his statement that the House would hold off on the ‘criminal contempt process’ for now.”
2020 VISION: Pete’s big speech
Pete Buttigieg today gives what his campaign bills as a major foreign policy/national security speech at Indiana University in Bloomington, per NBC’s Josh Lederman.
Buttigieg’s argument is rooted in the notion that for too long, Democrats have ceded national security to Republicans, Lederman says.
The candidate wants to wind down U.S. wars, including pulling troops from Afghanistan, and elevate “climate disruption” as a national security issue rather than domestic policy.
What’s Buttigieg’s goal? To shine a spotlight on his service as an Afghanistan War veteran and intelligence officer, offering a contrast with Trump.
Buttigieg has accused the president of faking a disability to dodge the Vietnam War draft. Lederman also expects Buttigieg to blame Trump for increasing tensions with Iran and flubbing the increasing threat posed by China.
On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden stumps in Iowa, hitting Ottumwa, Mount Pleasant and Davenport… Steve Bullock also remains in the Hawkeye State… Pete Buttigieg delivers a foreign-policy/national-security speech in Bloomington, Ind… And Tim Ryan does Politics & Eggs in Manchester, N.H.
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 62 percent.
62 percent.
That’s the share of Americans who say that they have become more supportive of transgender rights than they were five years ago, according to a new survey from PRRI.
Just a quarter — 25 percent — say they’ve become more opposed.
The survey also found that 55 percent of Americans say that there are only two genders, while 40 percent say there are a range of possible gender identities.
Among Republicans, almost three quarters — 73 percent — say gender is strictly binary, while 52 percent of Democrats say gender is more fluid.
THE LID: Nothin’ but a number?
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we looked inside the numbers at that new Iowa poll from over the weekend — including what Iowa Democrats say about candidates’ ages.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
Mike Pence is defending the Trump administration’s decision to bar pride flags at U.S. embassies.
Was John Dean’s testimony on the Hill a bust for Democrats?
The Washington Post reports on the migrant crackdown that Mexican negotiators promised to get him to back down from the tariff threat.
Justin Amash is leaving the House Freedom Caucus.
Lawmakers in New York are pushing a new effort to decriminalize sex work.
And Bernie Sanders tells NBC Nightly News that his one big idea is Medicare for All.
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06/11/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Double Voting; Hostage Freed; Lessons of Troy By Carl M. Cannon on Jun 11, 2019 08:32 am Good morning, it’s Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Today’s date is a testament to the idea that even a great cultural, economic, and military power such as the United States can be brought down by hubris — or stealth. It’s an ancient theme, literally. On June 11, 1184 B.C., according to the calculations of Greek mathematician and astronomer Eratosthenes, Troy was sacked and burned. I’ll have more on this in a moment. First, I’d point 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: * * * Impasse Blocks Effort to Fix Calif. Double-Voting Loophole. Susan Crabtree explores how officials in one county have been thwarted in their attempts to address the problem. Iran Frees U.S. Resident Held for Three Years. Susan has this story also. Blumenthal’s Pro-Abortion Bill Removes All Choice. Thomas Jipping finds much to dislike in the Women’s Health Protection Act. Devaluation Weakens Us, Imports Improve Us. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny writes that “conservatives would be wise to re-acquaint themselves with these basic economic truths.” Why Is There Magnetite in the Human Brain? RealClearScience editor Ross Pomeroy spotlights a geobiologist’s theory. * * * The tragedy that befell Troy three millennia ago is among the oldest written stories in Western civilization. It was first an oral history passed down among the ancient Greeks for centuries by the time Homer wrote it down — in an alphabet he helped create for that purpose. As best we can tell, Homer lived about 800 years before the birth of Christ. In “The Iliad,” he’s describing events that occurred some 400 years before his time. (The story was later revisited by the Roman poet Virgil in “The Aeneid.” In that version, a Trojan named Aeneas is told by a comrade, “We’ve had our day, our power, our glory. A heartless Jove has handed all to the Greeks. Our city is ashes! Greece is lord!”) In one of the most memorable lines of Homer’s account — so vivid it was repeated by Brad Pitt in the 2004 movie “Troy” — a vengeful Achilles tells Hector in front of the gates of the city, “There are no pacts between lions and men.” But in Homer’s telling, Achilles’ words contain a self-destructive element. Hector is requesting modest terms before their fight to the death: He’s only asked Achilles to agree that the loser’s body will not be desecrated. “Don’t talk to me of pacts,” Achilles snarls in reply. “There are no binding covenants between men and lions. Wolves and lambs can enjoy no meeting of the minds. They are all bent on hating each other to the death. So [it is] with you and me. No love between us. No truce until one or the other falls and gluts with blood.” The blood spilled is Hector’s, but with his dying breath, the Trojans’ vanquished hero predicts that Achilles’ contemptuousness will lead to his own death. I’m not making a direct connection to how Donald Trump supporters treated Hillary Clinton in 2016 (or even, necessarily, how Democrats are treating President Trump today). Arrogance takes many forms, and anyway, other lines and lessons from “The Iliad” have more obvious relevance to our times. I’m thinking now about Homer’s observation about “the most preferable of evils.” Today, this concept is usually rendered as the “lesser of two evils,” and the frequency with which this sentiment is invoked during election time in the United States ought to give both Republicans and Democrats pause. It might, however, have reminded American moviegoers from an earlier generation of a more lighthearted invocation of that concept, the one Mae West used in “Klondike Annie.” “Well, when I’m caught between two evils,” she quipped, “I generally like to take the one I never tried.” Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences Copyright © 2019 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email becuase you opted in at our website. Our mailing address is: RealClearHoldings666 Dundee RoadBldg. 600Northbrook, IL 60062 Add us to your address book |
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| Democrats are really confusing on tax policy Posted: 11 Jun 2019 05:35 AM PDT Out on the 2020 campaign trail, all you see is the presidential candidates pushing for free stuff and pounding the podium about marginalized groups. Talking incessantly about income inequality and elevating the minimum wage is a typical schtick. So is raising taxes on the wealthy. If you come from a state where housing is completely unaffordable, […] The post Democrats are really confusing on tax policy appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Mayoral candidate John Carroll opposes City Council bill to make Honolulu a sanctuary city Posted: 11 Jun 2019 03:36 AM PDT Honolulu City Council Bill 31 (2019) introduced by Council Members Carol Fukunaga and Ann Kobayashi would prohibit Honolulu Police Department [HPD] from cooperating with U.S. Customs and Border Protection [CBP] and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] to keep our community safe by apprehending illegal aliens. This would reverse long-standing policy wherein HPD has been […] The post Mayoral candidate John Carroll opposes City Council bill to make Honolulu a sanctuary city appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Obama’s fallen legacy Posted: 11 Jun 2019 03:22 AM PDT The legacy of Barack Obama should have been sealed on the night of November 4, 2008. Regardless of affiliations, agendas, or policies, a moment was reached in our history where a man who represented a race once enslaved and dehumanized had risen to the mantle of national leadership and been chosen to fill the most […] The post Obama’s fallen legacy appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Exposed: Slave labor and torture in Communist China Posted: 11 Jun 2019 02:49 AM PDT Diodes are important components of most electrical devices we use today. The demand for inexpensive and reliable diodes has made them a hot commodity in China. But were the diodes in our devices created through slave labor? A newly surfaced undercover video shows how this may be possible. China is well known for using forced, […] The post Exposed: Slave labor and torture in Communist China appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Pentecost Part 3: Repent and Evidence of God Posted: 10 Jun 2019 11:30 PM PDT The people who heard Peter’s Sermon are convicted. Peter’s instruction to them is more applicable to new believers today than even his sermon. In Part 3, this article in the Pentecost series will focus on the part of Pentecost called the Ingathering. 37Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter […] The post Pentecost Part 3: Repent and Evidence of God appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Wake up and smell the socialism: It can happen here if conservatives don’t act Posted: 10 Jun 2019 06:28 PM PDT Socialism requires a deep-seated ignorance, emotional desperation, and indoctrination by nefarious forces in order to spread across a land, especially one as free and prosperous as the United States. But despite trends pointing to the rise in popularity of socialistic principles, I still see it mocked rather than argued against by many conservatives as if […] The post Wake up and smell the socialism: It can happen here if conservatives don’t act appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| #15 Mueller Malfeasance and Cankles IS Corrupt! Posted: 10 Jun 2019 06:09 PM PDT Welcome to Game On! The podcast that will take on bad ideas, no matter who has them. Leftists, RINO’s or just about anyone else. This week JD and Stacey explain the emerging details that demonstrate the manipulation and outright omissions in the report by Robert Mueller and his staff. As more documents are made public, […] The post #15 Mueller Malfeasance and Cankles IS Corrupt! appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| How to become a federal criminal: The most ludicrous laws in America Posted: 10 Jun 2019 05:07 PM PDT Did you know making obscene gestures towards a horse is a federal offense? How about selling Swiss cheese without holes? Selling llama poop? Feeding a pig trash that hasn’t been cooked by a license garbage cook? These and so many other laws are on the books and they’re absolutely ridiculous. Some estimates put the current […] The post How to become a federal criminal: The most ludicrous laws in America appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The importance of Ephesians 6:12 Posted: 10 Jun 2019 04:43 PM PDT The Bible must be read throughout and everything should be taken in context rather than as individual passages, though some may bring meaning to those who seek a special word. Nonetheless, Ephesians 6:12 stands out as a verse that acts as a warning throughout all of time. Even in the days when Paul wrote to […] The post The importance of Ephesians 6:12 appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| MS-13 gang member uses child with chickenpox to try to enter U.S. Posted: 10 Jun 2019 04:25 PM PDT The border crisis isn’t just about migrant families flooding our borders and straining our resources. The surge of migrants has created multiple loopholes through which criminals can enter into the United States undetected. They often use children as a way to get released into the interior quickly. CBP agents reported an MS-13 gang member used […] The post MS-13 gang member uses child with chickenpox to try to enter U.S. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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Good morning,As on many things, the way the voters define “junk insurance” is quite different from the way that term is used in official Washington.Seventy-six
percent (76%) of voters believe “health insurance that fails to pay for
its promised coverage” should be considered “junk insurance.” A
ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 13% disagree and 11% are
not sure.The survey also found that most voters consider five other forms of health insurance to be junk
insurance:Seventy-two
percent (72%) believe that the term “junk insurance” applies to “health
insurance with so much red tape that people have to wait a long time
for surgery.” Just 14% disagree.Sixty-nine
percent (69%) believe “health insurance that forces people to pay for
coverage of medical procedures they don’t need” is junk. Only 18% disagree.Sixty-eight
percent (68%) believe
junk is the appropriate description for “health insurance that places a
limit on care for items such as cancer treatments.” Nineteen percent
(19%) disagree.Sixty-two percent (62%) consider “health insurance that won’t let you choose your own doctor” to be junk insurance.A
bare majority–51%–think junk is the right description for “health
insurance that requires young people to subsidize the premiums of older
people.”Highlighting
a gap between the political world and the rest of the nation, just 41%
believe “health insurance with low premiums that covers only major
medical expenses and emergencies” is junk. On that point, 38% disagree.
Many Democrats have opposed giving voters more choice and tried to label
less expensive and less comprehensive insurance as junk.Just
28% think ‘”health insurance that is expensive but covers virtually
every medical emergency” should be considered junk. Most (52%)
disagree. This makes it clear that voters don’t have a problem with
expensive health insurance, they just don’t like the idea of being
forced to buy it.Data released earlier showed that 75% of voters think they should be able to choose between health insurance plans that range in price based on the level of
coverage they provide.On
a different topic, 45% of voters nationwide now believe President Trump
should be impeached and removed from office. Forty-two percent (42%)
disagree and 14% are undecided. This is the
third consecutive poll to show a slight increase in support for
impeachment since Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s public statements and formal resignation two weeks ago.Still,
just 25% believe the president even somewhat likely to be impeached and
removed from office. Only 9% think it’s Very Likely.Today’s Number of the Day highlights
the decline in public perceptions of Facebook. Thirty-one percent
(31%) of voters believe the tech giant has generally been good for the
United States while 34% think it’s been bad.Those
numbers represent a decline for the company over the past six months.
Last November, 45% thought Facebook had been good for the country while
35% said bad.Thank you for your interest in our work,Scott
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Trump has perfected the art of antagonizing his opponents with
provocative tweets. He demonstrated this skill recently in declaring
that the tax reform act,…
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