Month: September 2017

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The genesis of Trump cutting a deal with congressional Dems appears to be counterproductive Freedom Caucus wankery: For weeks, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, had been plotting a strategy to use the debt-ceiling vote to extract concessions from Donald Trump and his fellow-Republicans. Over the weekend, the White House and Senate Republicans indicated that […]
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Irma

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On September 6, 2017
Above: Voted to Confirm Scott Pruitt  It looks like this will be an unimaginable catastrophe, even worse than Harvey: Hurricane Irma rapidly strengthened over warmer than normal ocean waters on Tuesday into a Category 5 storm with estimated wind speeds of 185 mph — the strongest ever measured in the Atlantic Ocean. On its projected […]
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Ending DACA

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On September 6, 2017
It’s really bad, and don’t bet on Congress fixing it either: First of all, the claim that DACA was unconstitutional is false. While the Obama administration preferred a legislative immigration solution, it is unequivocally the legal responsibility of the executive branch to set enforcement priorities. It is also highly misleading to say that DACA contravened […]
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Hatchet Jobs I Can Use

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On September 5, 2017
As a longtime skeptic, this book arguing that Freud was a bad doctor because he was a bad scientist and vice versa looks interesting: While Freud’s inadequacy in helping the people who paid him to help them frequently gets treated as an unfortunate footnote to an otherwise brilliant career, Crews aims to carry the observation […]
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