Rod Rosenstein is leaving as a diminished man and shamed lawyer
‘CLOSE THE RAPE ATTIC’: Swarthmore students occupy fraternity after disturbing documents leak
Should cities subsidize housing for a family making $141,000?
FACT CHECK: Correcting anti-vaccine testimony
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Reading archive 2019-04-10
In Slovakia, Unlikely Presidential Candidate Signals a Backlash Against Populism
Casimir Pulaski, Polish Hero of the Revolutionary War, Was Most Likely Intersex, Researchers Say
Spare us the lectures from Democratic candidates about how Democratic voters are the problem - "In 2004, the conservative Club For Growth ran an ad against Howard Dean, in which a couple told him to 'take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont where it belongs.' Everyone laughed. Now imagine the outcry if a liberal group told, say, Mike Huckabee to 'take his trailer park-living, tobacco-chewing, NASCAR-watching, squirrel-eating freak show back to Arkansas where it belongs.' The condemnation would be furious and immediate, much of it coming from the elite media, who would yet again instruct Democrats that if they want to succeed they really need to stop being so condescending and reach out to those heartland voters.
"Let me suggest something else. When Buttigieg says that he has to educate people in California on the fact that 'Trump voters actually exist,' he may be speaking a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but he means that liberals have no conception of who Trump voters are or what might motivate them. But that’s also absurd.
"As Adam Serwer of the Atlantic points out, 'There are more Trump voters in New York than Wyoming, Alaska, and the Dakotas combined.' Trump got about a million and a half votes in Buttigieg’s home state of Indiana, slightly less than the 1.6 million he got in the coastal state of New Jersey, and much less than the 2.8 million he got in New York, let alone the 4.5 million he got in California. Those are 'real' Americans, too, even if they happen to live within driving distance of the ocean.
"The point is, liberals are aware of who Trump voters are, and even have a pretty good idea of what motivates them, even if those motivations are different for different groups of Trump voters. They may sometimes cry in frustration, 'How could anyone have voted for him!' but it’s not because they literally don’t know what was behind those votes. It’s because Trump’s corruption is so obvious and his character flaws so encompassing that they struggle to see how those motivations weren’t outweighed by the fact that Trump is so awful, which is a perfectly understandable sentiment. Every voter doesn’t have to be a sociologist."
ALL ABOUT PETE: Only accept politicians who have proved they actually care about people other than themselves…
Casimir Pulaski, Polish Hero of the Revolutionary War, Was Most Likely Intersex, Researchers Say
Spare us the lectures from Democratic candidates about how Democratic voters are the problem - "In 2004, the conservative Club For Growth ran an ad against Howard Dean, in which a couple told him to 'take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont where it belongs.' Everyone laughed. Now imagine the outcry if a liberal group told, say, Mike Huckabee to 'take his trailer park-living, tobacco-chewing, NASCAR-watching, squirrel-eating freak show back to Arkansas where it belongs.' The condemnation would be furious and immediate, much of it coming from the elite media, who would yet again instruct Democrats that if they want to succeed they really need to stop being so condescending and reach out to those heartland voters.
"Let me suggest something else. When Buttigieg says that he has to educate people in California on the fact that 'Trump voters actually exist,' he may be speaking a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but he means that liberals have no conception of who Trump voters are or what might motivate them. But that’s also absurd.
"As Adam Serwer of the Atlantic points out, 'There are more Trump voters in New York than Wyoming, Alaska, and the Dakotas combined.' Trump got about a million and a half votes in Buttigieg’s home state of Indiana, slightly less than the 1.6 million he got in the coastal state of New Jersey, and much less than the 2.8 million he got in New York, let alone the 4.5 million he got in California. Those are 'real' Americans, too, even if they happen to live within driving distance of the ocean.
"The point is, liberals are aware of who Trump voters are, and even have a pretty good idea of what motivates them, even if those motivations are different for different groups of Trump voters. They may sometimes cry in frustration, 'How could anyone have voted for him!' but it’s not because they literally don’t know what was behind those votes. It’s because Trump’s corruption is so obvious and his character flaws so encompassing that they struggle to see how those motivations weren’t outweighed by the fact that Trump is so awful, which is a perfectly understandable sentiment. Every voter doesn’t have to be a sociologist."
ALL ABOUT PETE: Only accept politicians who have proved they actually care about people other than themselves…
Monday, April 8, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Reading archive 2019-04-03
Feds are investigating possible Chinese spying at Mar-a-Lago and Cindy Yang, sources say
For months, she fell ill at work. Then, police say, she watched video of a co-worker spiking her drink.
U.S. measles cases surge to second-highest level in nearly two decades
She fled a ‘Jewish Taliban’ sect with her children. Then kidnappers tracked them down.
New State Department Releases on the "Future of Iraq" Project: New Documents Provide Details on Budgets, Interagency Coordination and Working Group Progress
For months, she fell ill at work. Then, police say, she watched video of a co-worker spiking her drink.
U.S. measles cases surge to second-highest level in nearly two decades
She fled a ‘Jewish Taliban’ sect with her children. Then kidnappers tracked them down.
New State Department Releases on the "Future of Iraq" Project: New Documents Provide Details on Budgets, Interagency Coordination and Working Group Progress
Reading archive 2019-03-29 through 2019-04-02
A football locker room, a broomstick and a sex assault case roil a school
Prankster sentenced to 20 years for fake 911 call that led police to kill an innocent man
Can black women and white women be true friends?
‘Stop the massacre!’: When women chained themselves to Washington’s cherry trees
The WWII Nazi Spy Gay Sex Scandal That Rocked the Senate
In small towns across the nation, the death of a coal plant leaves an unmistakable void
Should cats be culled to stop extinctions?
Prankster sentenced to 20 years for fake 911 call that led police to kill an innocent man
Can black women and white women be true friends?
‘Stop the massacre!’: When women chained themselves to Washington’s cherry trees
The WWII Nazi Spy Gay Sex Scandal That Rocked the Senate
In small towns across the nation, the death of a coal plant leaves an unmistakable void
Should cats be culled to stop extinctions?
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