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From Andy Borowitz:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Reaching the opposite conclusion of many of their committee peers, Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that the Japanese did not meddle in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

“After an exhaustive investigation, we have come to the conclusion that there was no attempt by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service to influence the outcome of Pearl Harbor,” Rep. Mike Conaway, a Republican of Texas, said.

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From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

Growing in malevolence and more and more prone to violence, the American Church is becoming a safe haven for those who have contempt for the very people Jesus spent his life caring and advocating for; the poor, the invisible, the outsiders, the marginalized. It is no longer sanctuary for disparate souls looking for refuge—but a hospitable greenhouse for white supremacy and isolationism.

Yet, it isn’t the radical fringes of the Christian Right alone that have been responsible for this commandeering of the tradition of Jesus of Nazareth here in America.

They’ve had lots of help from the Center and the Left.

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From Green Eagle:

And let us be clear about this: there is not one single person on the House intelligence committee, Democrat or Republican, who does not know the true nature of Trump’s crimes. The destruction of the means to uncover the evidence shows that the Republicans know the monstrous crime in which they are accessories.

And all of this accompanied by Trump’s staging of the closest thing he could manage to a Nuremberg rally in Pennsylvania this week; an open display of hatred, racism and barely suppressed violence that is, finally, truly deserving of comparison to Nazi Germany.

It has taken a little over one year from the Republican ascent to total power to reach this point.

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Wondering why a few conservative friends fail to be impressed.

 
From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, a Democratic candidate for governor, says in a fundraising email he is so opposed to teachers being able to defend themselves and their students that he is willing to go to jail.

“Instead of acting to reduce gun violence, Republicans want to give guns to teachers,” Evers wrote. “As a lifelong educator, I can say without any hesitation that I’d rather go to jail than arm teachers in our schools.”

There is no current Republican proposal in Wisconsin to “give guns to teachers.” There are proposals to allow teachers that have had the training to allow them to carry guns to defend themselves, including a proposal by state Attorney General Brad Schimel who has even offered to provide training.

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From Jon Perr at PERRspectives:

The May 2012 update to a 2008 Bush administration assessment concluded that 82 percent of the benefits of a corporate tax cut would go to capital and only 18 percent to labor. That forecast wasn’t just a damning indictment of the $1 trillion corporate tax cut from 35 to 21 percent at the heart of the GOP’s $1.5 trillion, 10-year plan. That predicted windfall for wealthy shareholders also made a mockery of the comical claims by Trump administration mouthpieces like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that workers would win big:

On Fox News, Mnuchin claimed that “most economists believe that over 70 percent of corporate taxes are paid for by the workers.” At an event in Kentucky, he declared that “over 80 percent of business taxes is borne by the worker.”

Mnuchin’s tall tale wasn’t just well outside the consensus of most economists and the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. Two months into the new tax regime, a survey by Morgan Stanley found that “only 13% of companies’ tax cut savings will go to pay raises, bonuses and employee benefits” while “43% will go to investors in the form of stock buybacks and dividends.”

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From Tommy Christopher:

Anchor Savannah Guthrie asked DeVos why Trump’s school safety plan did not include raising the age limit to purchase assault weapons.

“Well, the plan is really the first step in a more lengthy process,” DeVos said, covering for the Trump administration’s total surrender to the NRA. “The proposals that the president has put forward really encompass a lot of things that are supported on a broad, bipartisan basis…”

“But Secretary DeVos, can I just jump in on that?” anchor Savannah Guthrie interrupted, pointing out Trump’s unambiguous statements in support of age limits. “So what happened, what changed?”

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

Climate change is real and humans are partly responsible? Even if “primarily” responsible—i.e., more than 50% responsible—so what? It doesn’t say they agree there is a threat of catastrophe. It doesn’t say they agree that fossil fuels and other life-giving activities should be curtailed or eliminated. The question implies no moral evaluation at all. So why do environmentalists and their political allies keep regurgitating the 97% statistic? Because they want to establish the “big lie” that climate change in and of itself is bad if caused by human activity. They are anti-human race.

Environmentalists believe that human-caused environmental change—not negative change, but change as such—is bad and thus human impact must be curtailed at all costs. But non-impact is an anti-human flourishing standard, and we should reject it. Humans survive and thrive by changing the Earth from a danger-filled environment to a place hospitable to human life and flourishing. Life is better with climate change and fossil fuels than without either. Humans don’t need a stable climate. We need plentiful reliable energy and the freedom to produce it, in order to drive all of the industries that improve our lives. Climate change is not the threat. The Environmentalists’ war on energy and industrial development is the real threat.

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Wondering why a few conservative friends fail to be impressed.

 
From Jonathan Bernstein:

We’re coming up on another U.S. House special election, this time in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. It’s a fairly solid Republican seat, but Democrat Conor Lamb appears to have a fairly good chance to defeat Republican Rick Saccone. Some Republicans are already spinning the possible loss.

Naturally, there’s a lot of media hype surrounding it. Every election is important. This one is just a lot less than most.

While special elections in the aggregate can give some indication of what might happen in future general elections, it’s not clear how much they tell us beyond other indicators such as presidential approval rates or generic ballot polling. Regardless, special elections don’t tell us much. We already know that special elections in general have been trending strongly in Democrats’ favor; a little more or less here won’t change that.

Still, heavy hype can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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