WaPo: White House review turns up emails showing extensive effort to justify Trump’s decision to block Ukraine military aid A confidential White House review of President Trump’s decision to place a hold on military aid to Ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after-the-fact justification for the decision and a debate over whether the delay was legal, according to three people familiar with the records. The research by the White House...
www.dailykos.comNPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, about the politics of impeachment in the future.
NPR.orgThe alarm about looming environmental disasters has been sounded off a couple of decades ago. But, the discourse on the topic has not changed much.
www.philstar.comThis Is Politics!? Authored by Mark Jeftovic via Guerilla-Capitalism.com, I managed to catch a glimpse of Arif Virani’s campaign headquarters when I was driving down Jane St. in Toronto the other day. Virani is the Liberal MP for Parkdale / High-Park, whom I went up against in 2015 when I ran for the Libertarian Party of Canada. At one of the town hall debates I met him, he’s a nice enough guy. A couple of his campaign staffers even signed by nomination form so I could get the...
Zero HedgeWriting for the New York Times, Heather Murphy has a fascinating story about the unexpected results of a bone marrow transplant. When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the patient's own cells are destroyed and replaced with cells from a donor. Thereafter, the patient is a "chimera," with two sets of DNA. It's believed that other than helping the recipient's immune system, the donor DNA has little impact on the recipient: “Their brain and their personality should remain the...
Boing BoingThe general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.
BBC NewsI grew up in wealthy New Jersey, where Juicy Couture-clad moms picked up their kids in Range Rovers. And now I realize how important it is to challenge what people like that think
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