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04 September 19
Garrison Keillor | Listen to Your Uncle, for Crying Out Loud
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Blog
Keillor writes: "Each life is a work of art but these days I live a very small life, more an etching than a mural."
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Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Blog
Keillor writes: "Each life is a work of art but these days I live a very small life, more an etching than a mural."
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Trump border wall prototypes being built in October, 2017, near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. (photo: Mani Albrecht/U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Flickr)
Trump Pulls $3.6 Billion From Pentagon Budget to Build Border Wall
Matt Stieb, New York Magazine
Stieb writes: "During the 2016 campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump assured prospective voters that Mexico would pay for a wall on the southern border."
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Matt Stieb, New York Magazine
Stieb writes: "During the 2016 campaign, Republican candidate Donald Trump assured prospective voters that Mexico would pay for a wall on the southern border."
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Members of a family place flowers at a memorial outside the Walmart at Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, where 22 people were killed by a gunman on Aug. 3. (photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
House Democrats Postpone Their Response to Mass Shootings Due to Hurricane Dorian
Alex Daugherty, McClatchy DC
Daugherty writes: "A special legislative meeting on gun control scheduled after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, was postponed due to Hurricane Dorian."
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Alex Daugherty, McClatchy DC
Daugherty writes: "A special legislative meeting on gun control scheduled after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, was postponed due to Hurricane Dorian."
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The view leading into Trump National Doral Miami. (photo: Michele Eve Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump Digs His Own Political Grave
Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
Rubin writes: "Even before we see signs of a trade-war-induced recession, Trump gets lower marks on the economy, and his trade policy gets panned."
Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
Rubin writes: "Even before we see signs of a trade-war-induced recession, Trump gets lower marks on the economy, and his trade policy gets panned."
EXCERPT:
Voters are right to be skittish about the economy. CNBC reports, “The ISM U.S. manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 49.1% in August, the lowest reading in more than three years. Any reading below 50% signals a contraction.” As one might expect, “The report raised fears of a recession and hit the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 300 points, extending losses following the morning release from ISM.”
For all his bluster and insults, Trump has taken on a somewhat feeble quality. He makes the bare-minimum statement on the latest gun massacre, ducks a World War II commemoration in Poland on the grounds that he has to monitor the hurricane (but then plays golf and misinforms the public about the hurricane’s path) and eggs Vice President Pence to stay at the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Ireland, raising once more the grotesque self-dealing and corruption that permeates this administration. (Recall that he’s trying to get the Group of Seven to meet at his Doral golf club next year, thereby presenting the federal courts that are considering emoluments cases one more example of the president’s willingness to use the power of the presidency to line his own pockets.)
As Trump is falling, Democrats remain oddly quiet, perhaps on the theory that one shouldn’t interfere with one’s political opponent when he’s in the midst of blowing himself up. However, at next week’s Democratic presidential primary debate, it would behoove candidates to use the free prime-time TV slot to pound away at the diminished president. Trump has taken credit for just about everything, so it is time to start holding him accountable for just about everything — the listing economy (thanks to Trump’s suffocating trade war), an epidemic of mass shootings (thanks to Trump’s refusal to cross the National Rifle Association), a culture of corruption (thanks to arguably the most corrupt president in history, who sets the pattern for everyone else), strained relations with allies (thanks to Trump’s picking fights with them as he carries water for Russian President Vladimir Putin) and ever-more-extreme weather (thanks to climate change deniers, led by Trump).
An anti-Brexit protester wearing a clown costume and a defaced mask depicting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a placard outside the Houses of the Parliament in London, Britain, September 4, 2019. (photo: Reuters)
UK: Johnson Calls for Election After Humiliating Brexit Defeat
teleSUR
Excerpt: "British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday demanded an Oct. 15 snap election after lawmakers seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit dealt him a humiliating defeat in parliament which he cast as an attempt to surrender to the European Union."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday demanded an Oct. 15 snap election after lawmakers seeking to prevent a no-deal Brexit dealt him a humiliating defeat in parliament which he cast as an attempt to surrender to the European Union."
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks during a press conference in Mexico City, Mexico, on Wednesday. (photo: Sáshenka Gutiérrez/EPA)
Mexico's President Seeks Inquiry Into Botched Investigation of 43 Missing Students
David Agren, Guardian UK
Agren writes: "Mexico's president has promised to investigate the botched investigation into the abduction and disappearance of 43 teacher trainees in 2014 - one of the country's most notorious crimes and an atrocity the then government tried to downplay as a minor local matter."
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David Agren, Guardian UK
Agren writes: "Mexico's president has promised to investigate the botched investigation into the abduction and disappearance of 43 teacher trainees in 2014 - one of the country's most notorious crimes and an atrocity the then government tried to downplay as a minor local matter."
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An aerial view of houses in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian shifts north. (photo: Adam Stanton/US Coast Guard/Getty Images)
Hurricane Dorian's Nightmarishly Slow Pace Is Linked to Climate Change
E.A. Crunden, ThinkProgress
Crunden writes: "Hurricane Dorian's historic destruction in the Bahamas earlier this week is already emerging as the latest example of a disconcerting trend. The storm hit the islands with Category 5 wind speeds and then stalled over land for hours before inching towards the United States."
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E.A. Crunden, ThinkProgress
Crunden writes: "Hurricane Dorian's historic destruction in the Bahamas earlier this week is already emerging as the latest example of a disconcerting trend. The storm hit the islands with Category 5 wind speeds and then stalled over land for hours before inching towards the United States."
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