Tuesday 23 May 2017

Opinions P.M.: The case for the monuments in your home town: Tell us what should stay and what should go

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The case for the monuments in your home town: Tell us what should stay and what should go
Which ones are worthy of their spots, and which should be removed or re-dedicated?
The walls are closing in
Will Senate Republicans do all they can to learn the truth about Michael Flynn? Here's a key test.
 
Get Washington's statues off their high horses
Time to drain Washington's swamp of historical footnotes memorialized in statuary.
 
The White House justifies its savage budget with a divisive lie
Don't worry, they say: We're only going after the undeserving moochers.
 
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Trump escalates the war on women
While the media chases scandals, Republicans threaten women's health and reproductive rights.
 
Trump violates his bargain with voters and with GOP Congress
Politics does not reward betrayal.
 
Lindsey Graham: Trump's State Department budget could cause ‘a lot of Benghazis’
Trump's proposed cuts to the State Department and USAID would gut diplomacy and put diplomats at risk, but Congress is pledging to fight back.
 
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Confederate statues: 'The monuments were murder'
"I want to gently peel people's hands off of a false narrative of history," Landrieu told me.
 
 
Congress cannot ignore a growing body of evidence that Trump abused his power
Congress cannot duck the impeachment question
 
The first meeting of the Pope-Trump Book Club
Read a good one lately?
 
Speech restrictions in the early 1900s
Some incidents that show how much free speech law has changed since then.
 
Trump is doing himself in, one mouthful at a time
President Trump asked two top intelligence officials to publicly deny the existence of any evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 election.
 
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Trump learned nothing from the ‘skinny budget’ fiasco
He's not even trying to help his base.
 
The latest leaks suggest Trump tried to hobble Comey
Trump surely acts like a guilty man
 
Why full compensation for property owners might lead to more unlawful takings
Many experts advocate increasing compensation for owners of condemned property. But fully compensating them for their losses might actually increase the number of unlawful takings.
 
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