Monday, 17 April 2017

Opinions P.M.: This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump's lies

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Opinions P.M.
 
 
This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump’s lies
Lies, lies and more lies. And Americans know it.
Why Trump cannot brush off demands for his tax returns
Trump's stonewalling will only hurt him.
 
How Republicans have already backed themselves into a corner on tax reform
Beset on all sides by procedural, substantive and political dangers.
 
Why the special election in Georgia’s 6th District matters
If Republicans win tomorrow, the victory will speak to the party's ability to lead, organize and maintain what has traditionally been ours -- even during tumultuous and unpredictable times.
 
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A showdown between North Korea and the United States could turn out to be a pay per view
And hard to tell how fake it is.
 
Americans still don't understand what 'risk' means, and they are proving it again with President Trump
What could go wrong? Here's what.
 
Fake olds: ‘Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force’ is probably not a real George Washington quote
It's often attributed to him, but there seems to be no solid evidence that he actually said it; and indeed, this seems to be a mangling of a related but different quote that was common around that era.
 
Have no fear, ‘Fearless Girl’!
The statue of the plucky girl isn't violating the "Charging Bull" sculptor's copyright.
 
 
Sketchpad: Trump doesn’t react well to protests
He does this kind of thing instead.
 
Trump’s national security model can’t be duplicated on domestic policy
Foreign policy makers are the anti-Trumpkins.
 
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions
Keeping arrestees' cash after their release, no deference for EPA farm-pollution rule and an appalling SWAT raid.
 
Activist, accused of sexual misconduct, tries to vanish online reports of the accusation
I've been seeing more such attempts to scrub publicly available accounts -- in this case, including ones published in newspaper Willamette Week and on the website Jezebel.
 
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The results of Turkey’s referendum
The results of Sunday's vote will grant Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more power and result in fewer freedoms for women and the press.
 
Morning links: Judges halt Arkansas’s execution frenzy
Plus: Georgia cops fired after a beating is captured on video, more scandal in Orange County, and how to tell whether reform prosecutors are the real deal.
Ups and downs
Who is gaining ground?
 
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