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British Ambassador Resigns, The Epstein Effect
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
The Madness of King Donald:The British ambassador to the United States has resigned in the midst of a dustup over a leaked memo in which he called the Trump Administration “clumsy” and “inept.” Kim Darroch said in a letter that …
Epstein’s Photo Collection, $15 Minimum
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Tiger Beat: In a scandal breaking just in time for salacious beach reading, federal investigators found a trove of lewd photographs featuring underage girls in the Manhattan mansion of billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein at the same time they arrested him two …
Equal Pay on the Pitch, Trump Turns on Fox
Monday, July 8, 2019
Equal Pay:Chants of “Equal pay!, Equal Pay!” broke out in the stadium yesterday as the American women celebrated their fourth World Cup soccer championship since 1991. The women are paid as much as 40 percent less than the men’s soccer …
Billionaire in Cuffs, “Inept”
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Time to Grow Up:Jeffrey Epstein, the New York billionaire with a taste for underage women, is being charged with sex trafficking, several news outlets report. Epstein is reported to have been arrested and is in federal custody. Over the years he …
The Question Persists, Airports of the Revolution
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been: While the Justice Department tries to gin up a good reason for putting a citizenship question on the 2020 census form, President Trump is considering installing the question by executive order, The NY Times reports. …
The Stuff of Dictators, Academic Theft
Friday, July 5, 2019
Make America Trump: President Trump turned Washington’s 4thof July celebration into a 2020 political campaign event using Army tanks and armored vehicles as a backdrop of power and members of the military as a cheering section. Trump avoided his usual barbs …
The Trump of July, Citizenship Reversal
Thursday, July 4, 2019
The 4th of Trump: The National Park Service is robbing its maintenance budget of $2.5 million to help pay for President Trump’s July 4thextravaganza today in Washington. The Trump administration is refusing to say how much the whole deal is costing, …
No Question, No Room
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Law Review:House Democrats yesterday sued the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service for access to President Trump’s tax returns, taking to the courts a demand that Trump and the administration have repeatedly dismissed as illegitimate. The case may ultimately go …
Potemkin Village and Tanks for the Memories
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Potemkin Village:A delegation of Democratic lawmakers said that the Texas immigrant holding facilities they visited were cleaned up in advance to make them look more acceptable. They said the people in custody described how women had been held in rooms without …
Hong Kong Violence, Curve Inversion
Monday, July 1, 2019
China Syndrome: Violent protesters in Hong Kong today smashed the glass walls on the façade of the legislature building and have taken control of the chambers. The police had threatened to use force if the crowd entered the building. Most of the …
