US census 2020: Trump retreats on citizenship question President Donald Trump will no longer pursue adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire. Instead, he said officials would obtain the information through an executive order for government agencies, as court challenges would have delayed a census. The retreat follows a long …
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Jul 11 2019
Nancy Pelosi’s Leadership Failure
What Does Nancy Pelosi Think She’s Doing? By Sarah Jones, New York Magazine July 10, 2019 (Alexander) Acosta, with his baggage from the past and struggles in the present, is both an appropriate and easy target for House Democrats. Or he would be, if Democrats actually wanted to fully exercise their oversight authority. But that …
Jul 11 2019
For The Kids
“Oh, you’re Boy Scouts, but you know life. You know life. So — look at you.” Failing Trump resort cancels strip-club tournament with dancers auctioned as “caddy girls” by Igor Derysh, Salon July 11, 2019 President Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Florida, canceled plans to host a tournament organized by a Miami-area strip club …
Jul 11 2019
Six In The Morning Thursday 11 July 2019
Iranian boats ‘tried to intercept British tanker’ Iranian boats tried to impede a British oil tanker near the Gulf – before being driven off by a Royal Navy ship, the Ministry of Defence has said. HMS Montrose moved between the three boats and the tanker British Heritage before issuing verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, a …
Jul 10 2019
Deader Than A Door Nail
I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not …
Jul 10 2019
Cartnoon
Canadian Lewis and Clark U.S.? A few guys (some soldiers and others not) and a pile of “money” to buy what you need along the way. Brits? A Thousand Soldiers with Baggage Train. If that was all you knew you’d think the U.S. more likely to have good relations with the First Nations. You would …
Jul 10 2019
Six in The Morning Wednesday 10 July 2019
Hong Kong families are feuding as China extradition bill exposes generational fall in living standards By Jessie Yeung, CNN Updated 0352 GMT (1152 HKT) July 10, 2019 In the now widely-shared Facebook video, a young man in a Hong Kong restaurant stands up at his table and glares down at his family members. “You’re criticizing my friends, saying …
Jul 09 2019
Tired Of Waiting For Nancy
After crushing the Republicans in 2018 and beating them on the Government Shutdown over Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s Giant Penis Wall of Hate, why has she turned into such a lying coward? Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It’s With Her Own Party’s Future by Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept July 7 2019 In the …
Jul 09 2019
Why does any of this surprise you?
The man cheats at Golf. Donald Trump’s origin story suffers another severe blow By Aaron Blake, Washington Post July 8, 2019 The Washington Post’s Michael Kranish reported that Trump’s admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance — one of Trump’s go-to brags to play up his credentials — was hardly the feat …