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Greenland Or Fantasyland?
For some reason Max and Ginger are in a really good mood as they broadcast for the Illustrious Max Miller Studio. And here is the future location for Trump Condo’s Could it be the new cameras? Or the fact that the Texas heat will soon be over… maybe. Listen as they...
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For some reason Max and Ginger are in a really good mood as they broadcast for the Illustrious Max Miller Studio. And here is the future location for Trump Condo’s Could it be the new cameras? Or the fact that the Texas heat will soon be over… maybe. Listen as they...
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The speech we want to hear: ‘This is madness’
One of the candidates should say out loud what many Americans are thinking.
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Trump seems to think he’s an emperor – but we are not entertained | Lloyd Green
Commodus was mad and, at least the way Russell Crowe told it, it took a gladiator to bring him down. America has the pollsHail the
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Trump’s ‘order’ for US companies to leave China shows that the world economy is being transformed
We are moving away from globalization toward a world of fortress economies.
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A new Trump administration rule allows children to be detained indefinitely. Here’s what you need to know.
One child cried silent tears as I met with her mother. Another was refusing food.
read moreThe speech we want to hear: ‘This is madness’
One of the candidates should say out loud what many Americans are thinking.
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Trump seems to think he’s an emperor – but we are not entertained | Lloyd Green
Commodus was mad and, at least the way Russell Crowe told it, it took a gladiator to bring him down. America has the pollsHail the
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Trump’s ‘order’ for US companies to leave China shows that the world economy is being transformed
We are moving away from globalization toward a world of fortress economies.
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A new Trump administration rule allows children to be detained indefinitely. Here’s what you need to know.
One child cried silent tears as I met with her mother. Another was refusing food.
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Opinion
Perhaps A Good Sign
President Trump gave a speech last week at a Royal Dutch Shell plant being built to convert natural gas into plastic. The good sign was that the company had to force employees to attend the speech and be polite, threatening them with loss of pay if they were not. It’s...
G7: Trump Smacks Down Macron’s Claim to Leading Role in Iran Talks
BIARRITZ, France (AP) - The first fissures emerged among G7 leaders on Sunday over how to deal with Iran, as U.S. President Donald Trump denied he had signed on to an agreement on giving France a leading role as a go-between with the world's major democracies.
Homophobic? Maybe. But at least Midnight Cowboy showed me gay men on screen | Ryan Gilbey
The film is 50, and the debate is on about its motives. But growing up, I hankered after images of other gay men, however they were treatedMidnight Cowboy moseys into UK cinemas again next month on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, and with it comes another...
Trump’s Greenland Plan Shows He Has No Idea How American Power Works
The U.S. doesn’t need to buy countries to rule the world.
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‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants
‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants Citing scripture and church teachings, ever more Christians are pushing progressive policy positions based in their faith. Shutterstock Laura E. Alexander, University of Nebraska Omaha Holding...
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THE-ANTI-ANTI-FASCIST (Column and Cartoon)
Other than voting and drawing political cartoons, I am not an activist. By that I mean, I don’t protest. I don’t sign petitions. I don’t write or call my congressman or senators (they’d call me first). I don’t contribute money to causes or political campaigns. I don’t...
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Deroy Murdock: Index capital gains tax to make America even greater
President Trump shouldn't abandon efforts to end the inflation tax on capital gains. Even Democrats say such a move isn't "elitist," as Trump maintains.
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A Different Kind of ‘Right-Wing’
David Koch was conservative precisely because he cared about high culture, not in spite of it. We could use more like him.
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Paul Batura: What we can learn about life from someone who deals with death every single day
My old friend, Mike Costigan, an undertaker and man who is more a minister than a mortician.
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Anglers Don’t Know How to Stop the Hordes of Hungry Sea Lions
This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the lights of Moss Landing, California, twinkling in the distance,
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Fifty Years After Woodstock, We Are Caught in the Devil’s Bargain
The anniversary reminds us of the best and worst of 1969—and today. by Michael Winship The 16th century theologian John Calvin remarked that if you went to every cathedral in Europe and took away all the pieces of the true cross of Christ they claimed to possess,...
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Boris Johnson will have us laughing all the way to the food bank | Will Self
The dialectical relation between politics and comedy is taking us somewhere deeply unfunnyHello, I’ll be standing in for David Mitchell this week, and Stewart Lee next. I’d like to apologise for this in advance: regular readers of this column have become used to...
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Mike Peters Guest Cartoon: Trump and Greenland
OF RELATED INTEREST: —Why does Donald Trump want to buy Greenland? –-The U.S. must take Greenland by force! —Trump Might Want to Buy Greenland But His Nemesis, China, Is There Before Him Mike Peters is recognized as one of our nation’s most prominent cartoon artists...
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Exasperation mingles with regret as Europe tries to deal with Brexit | Jeremy Cliffe
Opinions are polarised over the reaction in Berlin and Paris to the PM’s Brexit gambitOn an unfavourable day, viewing Brexit-era Britain from the outside is like watching a goldfish circling the castle ornament in its bowl. The country seems short of memory, hazy of...
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Justin Haskins: Ocasio-Cortez has yet another bad idea that makes no sense and would cause big problems
You can always count on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to say things that don’t make any sense. Now she has proposed another one: abolishing the Electoral College.
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Racist abuse in the real world is in decline, so why not on Twitter? | Sunder Katwala
The social media platform is still failing to root out its vilest and most hateful usersBritain is a much less racist country than the one I grew up in. Yet I have received more racist abuse in the last four weeks than the previous 40 years. This paradox can be...
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We must not switch off from the grim truth about Brexit | William Keegan
The health of the nation depends on not acquiescing in the folly of no deal, however tempting it may be to retreatI have a message for the many people I encounter who have given up reading anything about Brexit: I feel your pain! I sympathise with those who say: “I am...
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FOR MADMEN ONLY
“Allow me to introducing myself. I am Boris Badenov, world’s greatest no-goodnik.” – The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show Is Donald Trump mad, or are we just watching him lose his mind? He is neither an intelligent man nor a nuanced thinker. He’s not a brooding soul burdened...
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CNN errs in hiring former FBI official Andrew McCabe
What's to be gained?
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Happy Hour Roundup
Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.
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The Observer view on Syria and the west’s shameful failure to act | Observer editorial
The slaughter in Idlib is intensifying and millions have nowhere to go. The whole stability of the Middle East is at riskThe crisis in Syria does not feature high on the agenda at this weekend’s G7 summit in Biarritz. The absence of two key players – Russia and Turkey...
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May I have a word about… Boris Johnson’s linguistic prowess | Jonathan Bouquet
Our prime minister may model himself on Winston Churchill but his vocabulary falls sadly shortIs it really any wonder that there is so much consternation in Europe at the negotiating tactics employed by the prime minister over Brexit and the blasted backstop?His full...
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Israel Thwarts Large-Scale Attack by Iranian ‘Killer Drones’
In a rare confirmation, the Israel Defense Forces acknowledged Iranian targets in Syria to prevent a “pending, large-scale attack of multiple killer drones on Israel.”
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The Words of the ‘Chosen One’ Matter
“One of the most important things we can all do for veterans is to honor the service of those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty.” – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta During a speech at the 75th annual national convention of American Veterans, Trump,...
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California Votes — The Winners And Losers
What did we learn from the open primary in America's nation-state? A Republican landed a spot in the fall governor's race -- good news for GOP congressmen. And a recall of a Democratic state senator, for voting for last year's gas-tax increase, shows that topic could...
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Five Questions Prince Andrew Still Has To Answer About Jeffrey Epstein
Mark CuthbertIf you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday.Prince Andrew’s Saturday statement didn’t answer this Prince Andrew’s strategy...
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Dear Care and Feeding: My Daughter Refuses to Eat When I’m Not Around
Parenting advice on a toddler’s hunger strike, newborns and pets, and imaginary identities.
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Stephen Goss, appeals judge, found shot dead behind Georgia home
ALBANY, Ga. — An appeals judge in Georgia was found Saturday shot dead behind his Albany home, but officials do not believe it was a homicide. Albany police were dispatched to the residence and found Judge Stephen Goss, 60, in a wooded area dead from a gunshot wound,...
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Trump signals regret over escalating trade war with China
President Trump indicated Sunday that he regrets escalating the widening trade war with China, just days after he announced plans to increase tariffs on Beijing."Yeah, sure," Trump said on the sidelines of the Grou...
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Democrats’ health care split squeezes Senate contenders
The major battleground-state Democrats running to flip the Senate want nothing to do with Medicare for All.In states like Arizona, Iowa and North Carolina, challengers Mark Kelly, Theresa Greenfield and Cal Cunningham are staying tightly focused on the health care...
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Trump accuses news media of trying to make reelection more difficult
President Trump early Sunday lashed out at the news media, accusing it of trying to hurt his reelection chances."Before I arrived in France, the Fake and Disgusting News was saying that relations with the 6 others...
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Party of Trump, Party of Koch, Party of greed
Jonathan Chait on how the Republican Party became the party of Trump. New York Magazine In the summer of 2016, Mick Mulvaney promised an experiment of sorts to resolve just what had motivated the Republican Party’s fanatical opposition to Barack Obama. Mulvaney...
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A Lobbyist-Tied Industry Group Ghostwrote Letters Of Support For Oregon Gas Project
“When you guys edit you really edit.......lol,” a Colorado state senator wrote after the Consumer Energy Alliance revised an op-ed he co-authored.
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‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants
‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants Citing scripture and church teachings, ever more Christians are pushing progressive policy positions based in their faith. Shutterstock Laura E. Alexander, University of Nebraska Omaha Holding...
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THE-ANTI-ANTI-FASCIST (Column and Cartoon)
Other than voting and drawing political cartoons, I am not an activist. By that I mean, I don’t protest. I don’t sign petitions. I don’t write or call my congressman or senators (they’d call me first). I don’t contribute money to causes or political campaigns. I don’t...
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Biden struggles to hit it off with millennials
Joe Biden has a millennial problem.The former vice president is holding onto his perch atop the polls, but strategists and political observers say he needs to do better with younger voters if he wants to win the De...
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Trump regrets not raising tariffs on China higher, White House says
When President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he had second thoughts about escalating the trade war with China, he meant that he wished he
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A Trumpet Made Of Bullets And The Kids Who Inspired It Take Hope Around The Country
The Instrument of Hope, a trumpet made partly of bullets and inspired by the survivors of the 2018 Parkland, Fla., mass shooting, is touring the country to promote healing.(Image credit: Matt Mckay/Publicis North America)
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Arab Women Are Tired of Talking About Just ‘Women’s Issues’
The striking image of a tall woman dressed in white, lightly veiled, wearing large gold earrings, and raising a finger as she led several hundred men and women in chants of protest against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir went viral in April.Described as a Nubian...
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White House Backpedals After Trump Expresses ‘Second Thoughts’ On China Trade War
Asked whether he had regrets over the ongoing trade dispute, Trump said: "I have second thoughts about everything."
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As disputes boil at G7, Trump softens on trade war
President Donald Trump says all is well at the Group of 7 summit, which gets underway Sunday on France's Atlantic coast.
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VA staffers blasted ‘ridiculous’ meetings and questions with Trump allies in internal emails
Career officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs expressed deep frustrations over having to entertain "ridiculous" policy recommendations from a trio of influential Mar-a-Lago club
read moreCentral bankers face political shocks, and hope to avoid the worst
Global central bank chiefs know their job is to keep the economy out of the ditch.
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In Hong Kong, Moderate And Radical Protesters Join Forces To Avoid Past Divisions
In 2014, Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement was beset by divisions. Now various protest factions are working together. "If either one gets hurt, we feel the other's pain," says a moderate lawmaker.(Image credit: Vincent Yu/AP)
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Firearms Museum Focuses On Gun Safety, History And Culture
The Cody Firearms Museum in northwest Wyoming just got a makeover. It's moved away from being a monument to guns and toward being an educational space. (Image credit: Kamila Kudelska/Wyoming Public Radio)
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Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White ‘Dude Walls’ Of Honor
Historic portraits of revered scientists and doctors can be found all over medical schools and universities — and, as it happens, most feature white men. Some say this sends the wrong message.(Image credit: Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry need to decide if ‘future is going to be immersed in celebrity world’
Royal expert Angela Levin said she 'can't imagine Meghan quietly taking a back seat' as she urged the British couple to consider their 'increasingly confused'
read moreHave Pollsters Learned Nothing Since the Last Election? By Brian C. Joondeph
While the moniker “fake news” is typically reserved for cable news and some of the more prominent newspapers in America, the term could also be applied to presidential polls. How many pollsters predicted Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election by a landslide up to...
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