Obama signs Dodd-Frank in 2011. One of the world’s inevitabilities is regulatory capture: when regulators who are supposed to regulate an industry end up serving the industry's interests, rather than…
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Dudes, I don't really care that much what George Clooney thought of Joe Biden. Give me some reporting that nails the Biden inner circle for their conspiracy of deception.
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Trump policy hits home. Groundwork Hudson Valley, one of our best and most effective Community organizations that has done so much here, was abruptly told in April that it was losing $5.5 million in grant funding that had been appropriated to cover educational and environmental programs. The reason? A sudden decision to cut any programs that are related to environmental justice or climate change. I haven't investigated this yet, but I imagine that this was a congressional appropriation.
Brilliant strategy for making yourself look powerful and successful: Suggest a completely idiotic and dumb idea, and then claim victory when you change your mind and take it back.
U.S. and China Reach Deal to Temporarily Slash Tariffs
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The 145 percent U.S. tariff on Chinese goods will come down to 30 percent for 90 days, while the two sides continue talks aimed at resolving their differences.
BREAKING: Sec. State Rubio clarifies foreign movie tax, explains it will also include 100% to 200% tax on "foreign influenced" film shot in the US, with a 300% tax on any films with "Fellini-sque scenes" and a "Cahier du Cinema tax" to be levied from any film elements that may have been derived from discussions in the famed French periodical...
"Sinners"... I think critics are contorting themselves in order to be polite. This is one half of a very good movie, and one half of a rather dumb vampire flick.. I just don't buy that the vampires are some kind of meaningful metaphor. I respect Coogler, he doesn't want to make an intelligent move that doesn't make any money. So he tacks on the exploitation genre, not only zombies but there's a Rambo machine gun thing as well as a kill the klan thing. But isn't it sad that it could have been a 100% excellent film? He really captured something about the Delta and the birth of the blues in the first half. I could have gone a bit more with the horror thing if he had built it in a little bit more in connection with the crossroads myth and all the superstitious traditions involving mojo hands and black cat bones etc. One of the superb characters was a practitioner of that sort of herbal magic. But any movie that has Buddy Guy in it can't be all bad...
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Ben Cohn went on a 1,000 mile road trip from Estonia to Ukraine to deliver a donated truck. Share his journey and meet some of the heroes leading volunteer efforts in Ukraine at a live virtual event that includes a screen of Ben's short film and a discussion straights from the front lines.![]()
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Long Rants
Kroft: Hi, I'm Steve Kroft. I'm a broad shouldered, good looking, well preserved older man with deep lines on my face, magnificent hair and enough of a serious, journalistic persona…
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It would be hard to come up with a slimier, more specious argument than the one made by the Trump administration in its pharmaceutical pricing initiative, launched last week. Yes,…
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The Jerusalem embassy move is another crude, angry Trump gesture against the political correctness of the elites. It has the added plus for Trump of paying off campaign contributor Sheldon…
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Such great news that Goldman Sachs and Apple are teaming up to create a new Apple credit card! Yes, the great vampire squid that is "wrapped around the face of…
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Rolled out of bed today determined to write a blog about the future of America, as it will be determined in the 2018 and 2020 elections. The strands: How to…
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Two bad days in Congress didn't scare Mark Zuckerberg into a profound spiritual and religious conversion. He has not renounced the material world. Zuckerberg seems to be the same smugly…
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A couple of fairly crazy, free-thinking professors have formulated a new ideology they call Radical Markets. I've read their book -- it's a bizarre but compelling amalgam of Henry George, Adam…
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Thank you Donald Trump for motivating me to go out and vote on a day when there isn't even an election in my district! I wanted to go out and…
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We recently needed to get a travel visa to France for my wife, who is Chinese. It wasn't easy. The visa requests need to go through the French consulate office…
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