Friday, 5 May 2017

Opinions P.M.: House GOP cheers health-care vote, ignores iceberg dead ahead

Yesterday, Republicans partied about their vote. Now comes the brutal hangover.
 
Opinions P.M.
 
 
House GOP cheers health-care vote, ignores iceberg dead ahead
Enjoy, folks, 'cause it might be the only celebration you'll be having for a while.
Yesterday, Republicans partied about their vote. Now comes the brutal hangover.
Analysts say Republicans may have just put their House majority at risk.
 
Pope Francis’s sin of omission on Marine Le Pen
Pope Francis and the Catholic hierarchy are missing in action when it comes to France's presidential election.
 
Trump’s bromance with China’s leader makes him a typical U.S. president
There's a long tradition of American political leaders going batty over Beijing.
 
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These Republicans may be throwing their seats away
The AHCA vote may cost the GOP its majorities.
 
Will GOP constituency groups wake up to Trump’s executive order scam?
He makes a big show of doing not very much.
 
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is just fine. That’s the problem.
If this is the standard for what counts as weird or touching in a Marvel movie, the standards could be a lot more rigorous.
 
The King’s English
Our language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, and then the slovenliness of our language makes it easier to have foolish thoughts.
 
 
France’s Macron reveals the weakness of populist bullies
If it can work there, perhaps it can work in other Western democracies.
 
Five myths about the mafia
What the movies get wrong
 
Donald Trump doesn’t want to be called a loser, so keep those thoughts to yourself
He can spot opportunity where some don't even look.
 
‘The time has come to treat the Second Amendment as a real constitutional right’
An interesting 9th Circuit decision touching on (but not resolving) restoration of Second Amendment rights after a conviction is long in the past.
 
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JFK's pioneering election campaign and its reverberations through the years
Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie detail the Kennedy camp's outsider quest.
 
A federalist approach to immigration reform
Republican Senator Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) and Rep. Ken Buck (R, Colorado) have an interesting proposal to give states the power to admit foreign guest-workers. It would be a major improvement over current immigration policy.
 
Appreciating the Kennedy credo of courage, judgment and dignity
A range of essayists explore the speeches and the principles of the JFK administration
 
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