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1) Joe Arpaio’s last stand - Vox
2) The Tax-Cut Con Goes On - NYT
3) Goodwin Sentenced to 8 Years, Ramos Gets 6 Years in Harris Attack - NBC News
4) The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools - The Guardian
5) Woman flies fighter plane through Japan air force's glass ceiling - The Guardian
6) Fact check: Trump overstates the cost of a Camaro in China - It does not cost $119,000 - Autoblog
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Joe Arpaio’s last stand -The former Maricopa County sheriff is about to lose a race as Arizona shows signs of turning blue.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a rally with then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Marshalltown, Iowa, on January 26, 2016.
Scott Olson/Getty Images
The infamous former Maricopa County sheriff is likely making his last stand for a spot in public life by running in the Republican Senate primary. He’s reminding voters of his close ties to the president and his own Trumpian record on immigration and crime that dates back well before the president ever ran for office.
“All I can say is I’ve had a relationship with the president from day one,” Arpaio said to a crowd of local Republicans, including some of his most ardent supporters. The stop was one of several on a relatively muted “ICE tour” that his campaign is doing this week.
Prior to entering the race, Arpaio was mired in a longstanding criminal court case. In 2011, a federal judge issued an injunction ordering him to stop racially profiling Latino drivers as part of his efforts to apprehend unauthorized immigrants. He continued to do so, however, and was ultimately convicted of criminal contempt of court. Trump, who became his personal friend and political ally, went on to pardon him last year, though the president has stopped short of endorsing Arpaio in the race.
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The Tax-Cut Con Goes On - Why Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot.
One answer, obviously, is that the unindicted co-conspirator in chief will continue to be protected from the law. And for those concerned with the survival of American democracy, that has to be the most important issue at stake in November. But if the G.O.P. hangs on, there will also be other, bread-and-butter consequences for ordinary Americans.
First of all, there is every reason to believe that a Republican Congress, freed from the immediate threat of elections, would do what it narrowly failed to do last year, and repeal the Affordable Care Act. This would cause tens of millions of Americans to lose health insurance and would in particular hit those with pre-existing conditions. There’s a reason health care, not Trump, is the central theme of Democratic campaigns this year.
But the attack on the social safety net probably wouldn’t stop with a rollback of Obama-era expansion: Longstanding programs, very much including Social Security and Medicare, would also be on the chopping block. Who says so? Republicans themselves.
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People in Trump's base are typically the greatest beneficiaries of "entitlements": Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid...
They will suffer the most... but I'm sure they will continue to applaud.....
Goodwin Sentenced to 8 Years, Ramos Gets 6 Years in Harris Attack
In May, juries in separate trials found Jacob Scott Goodwin and Alex Michael Ramos both guilty of malicious wounding.
Goodwin had claimed he was defending himself against Harris in the Market Street Parking Garage on August 12, 2017. Video footage from last year's Unite the Right rally showed the Arkansas man dressed in militia-style gear.
Thursday, August 23, a judge sentenced Goodwin to a total of ten years, but two were suspended. He must also have 20 years of good behavior and serve probation.
The same judge later handed down a prison term of six years to Ramos, as well as three years of post-release supervision.
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More Antifa violence!
oh wait......
The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools
Unlikely as it might sound, one of the most electric political meetings I have ever attended was a lecture on the Finnish educational system given by Pasi Sahlberg, the Finnish educator and author, in London in the spring of 2012. Sahlberg, who was speaking to a packed committee room 14 of the House of Commons – the most magnificent of a run of grand meeting rooms that directly overlook the Thames – has a rather laconic manner of delivery. However, in this particular instance, his flat speaking style proved the perfect vehicle for an unexpectedly radical message.
Sahlberg described how Finnish education had evolved, in the postwar period, from a steeply hierarchical one, rather like our own, made up of private, selective and less-well regarded “local” schools, to become a system in which every child attends the “common school”. The long march to educational reform was partly initiated to strengthen the Finnish nation after the second world war, and to defend it against Russian incursions in particular.
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Long form, on a topic that is ultra-duh.
The wealthy send their kids to private school, so they are motivated to have the government subsidize private schools.
The wealthy do not send their kids to public schools, so they are not at all in favot of government spending on public schools.
The wealthy decide what the government does.
Duh...
By "ultra-duh"...am I to understand that you actually favor outlawing private schools, or merely that you don't see that ever happening because the people in power have a vested interest?
I'm favorable.
It was done in Finland.
The wealthy control America.
Yeah that’s why over 90% ( and rising) of kids in the US go to public schools right?
Honestly, sometimes I wonder who you think you’re fooling Bob.
Bob and I are fast friends. I never stopped calling them “French” fries so i’m pretty sure we are good on that alone.
What part of the words "The wealthy" do you not understand?
No.
What part of “90%” don’t you understand?
Thats said, I know you hate freedom of school choice. Preferring to rather forced people to “your” choice. Thank God we don’t have that system here.
awww .... now my last feeling for you is hurt Bob ......
The wealthiest country in the world gets crappy results from its education system. I think that is not acceptable.
After all your efforts to be nice!
Really not fair, hmmm?
Duh abolish the failed public school system and keep the better thriving successful private school system.
Out of curiosity, are there ANY rights you're not willing to take away in your quest for "equality"?
Is there a "right to private school education"? I've never heard of it...
By "thriving", do you mean "making lots of money for the shareholders"?
I've never heard of that right, either.
No.
So when people have a differing opinion than you do, you consider that “not nice?”
Hhhmmmmmm ....
Thriving meaning doing well offering a great service at a good price. That's why the wealthy are choosing the better of the two choices. One is a failure the other is successful and the wealthy are smart enough to know which one is the failure.
There are many reasons for under performing schools in the US. The least of which of which IS NOT the NEA and public school systems. They are a big part of the problem.
Yeah, no good reason for that I agree.
i'm enjoying the hell out of reading the 'wingers extol the quality of a private education when their barely literate moron and totally ignorant (not to mention pathological liar) "president" is a product of that high-priced private education system--apart from 2 years at Wharton, which is a public institution but supposed to be an "elite" school of economics (where he obviously learned absolutely nothing).
I'm not surprised.
Yes. There is a right to a private school education. Americans have the right to assemble. That's not limited to batshit crazy protests.
That's because almost all the administrators and teachers are liberals. But they will claim the bad results on lack of funding.
Not necessarily.
Unicorns are nice, too.
Do you have any basis for your opinion?
... is the same as right to a private school...??
Seriously?
Isn't it wonderful that the world is so simple?
Yes.
They have the right to assemble. Notice there is no "why" qualifier on that. That's not a "right to assemble unless you're teaching algebra".
... whatever...
Yes
Would you share it, please?
Numerous reasons but the biggest is the NEA is against choice. They are against vouchers. That's enough reason right there.
I like freedom of choice and not oppression
Woman flies fighter plane through Japan air force's glass ceiling
First Lieutenant Misa Matsushima of the Japan Air Self Defence Force.
Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images
Matsushima, who holds the rank of first lieutenant in the air self-defence force, completed her training this week, just three years after Japan lifted its ban on women becoming fighter pilots.
“I have admired fighter jet pilots ever since I saw Top Gun when I was in primary school,” she told reporters on the eve of starting her new role. “I want to continue to work hard to carry out my duties, not just for myself but also for women who want to follow this path in the future.”
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Women from many countries have been flying fighters for years now...they've even gone to space!
Fact check: Trump overstates the cost of a Camaro in China - It does not cost $119,000
Bloomberg does the actual math : There's only one Camaro model available in China, with a 2.0-liter turbo, according to GM . It sells for the equivalent of $58,430 in China. A similarly equipped Camaro in the States has a starting price of $25,905. That's a pretty vivid example, even if he stuck to the facts, of what tariffs can do to car prices — and is a foreshadowing of the kinds of price increases Americans could face if the U.S. were to implement auto tariffs Trump has threatened.
Trump is not wrong, in a general way, when he said in the West Virginia speech, "When we make a car, we sell it into China and there's a 25 percent tariff and that's just the beginning. It's all taxes and taxes and taxes. We can't do that anymore."
That said, he does not mention that some of those Chinese auto tariffs were erected in retaliation for $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods that he implemented in early July.
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Holy fuck!
Trump's stupid trade war... Trump's ignorance about trade... are even being blasted in car mags, about the lowest of low-brow journalism!
"Overstates" = lies his stinking ass off
You can have my 5 seeds Bob...
That's very kind... but it doesn't work that way... and for good reason.
While everyone agrees that my seeds are systematically of the highest quality
, that isn't true of all members. The limit at five is a good thing.
My problem is that on days when I have more than five items I'd like to share, I put them in an "on hold" folder... and then at the end of the week, I delete the stuff that others have seeded, or that the flow of news has bypassed.
But sometimes... even after using the weed-whacker... the "on hold" folder still has too much stuff! Then I do an "Overflow" article. It's a compromise, with all the dissatisfaction of any compromise...
Well, they certainly are of a very “biased” quality that’s for sure.
Your seeds have failed to sprout much comment!
I don't care about Comments. I seed stuff I find interesting. I share it.
If people want to talk about it, that's fine. But not significant.