Russia is not "any" country.  It's an oligarchic quasi-dictatorship with 1,800 operational nuclear warheads on ICBMs and nuclear-powered submarines, run by a former KGB agent who has consolidated his stranglehold over 17 years through blackmail, violence and intimidation, and is dedicated to the weakening of democratic governance and alliances.  Further, this entreaty of Kushner's dates to the early transition, well before the IC determined the national interest required selective leaking of this administration's wildly irresponsible and damaging sabotage of our security.  And third, to repeat, why on earth would Kushner suggest we use *Russia's* communication system -- sequestered from our ability to track it -- to "do government business" with Putin's Russia?  Even Kislyak, their ambassador, was taken aback is suggestion, as it would expose otherwise secure Russian communications architecture to the president's son-in-law and senior advisor.  Why not route through a third country?


I (well my wife) owns a Mazda3. I have never encountered understeer and I have pushed it pretty hard. Maybe it's the tires you had on it or had a wonky suspension. Personally I don't like Honda engines for everyday driving because they have low torque at lower RPM. You have to get them up high in the RPM band to perform and for daily drives that isn't optimal.


It's interesting that you cannot distinguish between humans and wild animals.


Spend a day out in the fields picking tomatoes at $15.00 an hour and you'll fold like a cheap suit after one day.


A former mayor of Portland has sex with a 17 year old campaign aid.  Did anything happen to him?  Of course not.


Yep, the Dems engineered this whole sale including setting the give way price.

Yes, the Elliott is often a yarding show rather than a cheaper tractor operation in Farmer Johns scattered second growth patch. But the stands ( and I've measured as well as walked more than a few)  being yarded are often 80 MBF to the acre instead of Farmer John's 20 MBF. Plus you get 6MBF on a truck instead of 4MBF. Yarding heavily stocked mature timber with plenty of lift ends up not being all that more expensive.

Since the Elliott's mission was to uniquely fund K12, not to supply local mills, why, pray tell, didn't the state export the 12o year old premium JSort logs for three times the average per MBF price they were getting from Scott or Seneca... both of whom have supposedly "sustainably managed" vast forest of their own?

I followed a couple of truck loads into Roseburg with a logger a few months ago and we both agreed the high grade 1oo year old logs should have been going to Coos Bay's docks.


Maybe our negotiations would be going better if Trudeau hadn't invited Harper toady Rona Ambrose onto the team.

Harper truly excels at making enemies.


Typical. Like a kid caught red-handed with their mitts in the cookie jar.
"It wasn't me, Mom! That darned cookie jar jumped right at me and clamped onto my arm!!"


Hey, Look!

China Joy Ambassador disagrees with truth!


I am so glad that cancer Obama is gone.


Yeah women doing it all by themselves. No men involved, right?


Don't tell the people of Walkerton.


Are universities really the best place to be teaching 'vocations'?  Can you just imagine the farce of some tenured university professor (who has never worked a day outside of academia) standing there lecturing to a bunch of bored 20-somethings on the ins and outs of customer acquisition and contract bargaining?

Colleges and polytechnic institutes are much better positioned to hire experienced sales people as faculty (sans the PhD) to teach the basics of these concepts and barring that, companies simply need to hire bright and eager young folk and provide some training at Dale Carnegie or some other similar on-the-job program.

Universities in general do an inadequate jobs of teaching applied knowledge.  They just do it to generate more and more seat revenue; in other-words they are great at sales but poor at delivery.


I wouldn't bet against him winning another term. He is a change agent. And if he succeeds bringing back jobs much as Bernie Sanders as espoused, he will be very popular with the working and middle classes.


Thanks for this, RegularJ.  Yup: slow day at the editorial offices.
Editor 1: Well, nothin`much happening on the Trump front.
Editor 2: "Trudeau`s old news right now.  What say we stir the immigrant pot a little..."
Editor 3: "...maybe do something with the international kids, hmm?
Editor 1: Good one!
Editor 3: Who`s on Education beat these days?
Editor 2: Simona Chiose.
Editor 1: Yeah.  Get her on it.
Editor 3: (doubtful) Hmm, maybe not much there.
Editor 1: Maybe not. So, keep it soft.  You know, stats to show increases in--
Editor 2: Not in enrollment, per se...
Editor 3: Just in foreign students.  Yeah.
Editor 1: Safe. But looks bad.  Gets the blood up, eh?
Editor 2: So let`s check out on line comments, see how many start jumping around...
(Chuckles around the table.)
Editor 1: OK, guys, look, gotta put a little disclaimer at the bottom about `displacement,`OK?  Cover our butts a bit.  Near the end.  Most of the jumpers won`t read that far...


It is a shame she did not address the extremely high taxation rates in Canada by all 3 levels of government. Taxes on taxes on taxes are the new norm. People in Canada are becoming poorer by the year and it can only get worse under this Liberal government. We could have 3 pipelines on the go now. The Trans Mountain, the Northern Gateway and Energy east. This would provide  Canadians with jobs and prosperity for decades to come. $100's of billions of dollars worth of prosperity are going down the drain as a result of our 3 levels  of government. Seems our energy policies are developed to protect the oil producing middle east nations now. Tanker traffic and off shore drilling are only allowed on the East Coast of Canada.  Liberals are purposely shutting down Western Canada prosperity. They should be ashamed of themselves.


Women who are engaged in “countless pregnancies” are either in captivity, and we have laws dealing with that, or need to change behavior.

No one can demand that a person prove that he “cares about people” by demanding that he endorse killing the innocent.

Slogans do not constitute arguments.


And sad it is.


Breaking news - Survey finds water wet


Chump change for Jughead. Big spender, big man.


Liu Xiaobo, RIP.


The victim's prior involvement with Methamphetamine and his own Creswell background is also interesting as this case unfolds.


"I don't know, am I my brother's keeper?"


I love our western colleagues - my standard of living is infinitely higher with them in the mix. So far, Gomer's new products, resourcefulness & virtue signaling are ringing up "no sale."


There aren't any Americans who support the Registries.  The un-Americans who do need to explain to the rest of us how is it even conceivable that they have so massively failed to get the rest of their nanny big government Registries created. There are no excuses that it wasn't done decades ago.  The Registries are for harassment.


...exposed yourself when you breathlessly announced the night of Trump's speech that you cried and cried and ran to the mailbox and sent him a donation that he won't even notice.


250,000 Canadians die every year without health care.


Mr. Barron:  Indeed, it will be nice to see some statistical analysis of any "possible" impact of Bascom Village on the safety of the surrounding neighborhoods.  When you're the victim of a crime, it's very easy to "strike out" (think boxing, not baseball) against some target.  First, you may fantasize what you "would have done", had you caught the perpetrators "in the act."  Next, you may blame the act on the easiest target....Obviously, for Mr. Graff that's the residents of Bascom Village whom he didn't want in the "neighborhood" to begin with.

I'm a firm believer in the First Amendment.  That said, I really regret the impact of a letter like Mr. Graff's.  Bascom Village, like any affordable housing development, faced NIMBY issues.  All reports I've read and heard from persons living near such developments have been positive,  from some folks positive, combined with pleasant surprise.  Mr. Graff's is extremely negative and, IMO, extremely unfounded....that's too bad.  Gary


Your a creepy progressive Eva, nobody wants to stalk you, you probably look like HRC.


Probably because it is.  Theft at the point of a gun by mob rule.  Don't believe it?  Try not paying the taxes you owe, while there are people on the welfare system living better than you do who pay no income taxes and very little payroll taxes.


It's pretty well-known in political circles that Comey has been toying with the idea of running for president one day, and involving himself in numerous political scandals was part of the strategy.  He built up much more name recognition than any of the past directors in modern history, which is what you need to run for the big seat.  Agency directors with huge name recognition can definitely run for POTUS (think GHWB), so Comey rolled the dice, pushed a little too hard and this time he lost.

But don't go feeling sorry for Jim.  He a month he'll be sitting on the boards of numerous defense and intelligence corporations, having gone from a low six-figure salary to a high-seven, and if he really plays his cards right and pens an expose tell-all on what he learned about Bill and Hillary, the mere advance on that bad boy is going to make an eight-figure man.

When you fire an agency director you're truly doing him/her a favor.  He'll be smiling on Fox News next week.


Yeah you tell 'em brother, wait, What did Assad do to America??? #MAGA


Watch batting practice the next time Votto is in town.  Votto spends it sending line drives according to where the ball is pitched.  Cargo spends it trying to mash the ball.


Didn't Trudeau say "We will rebuild our reputation in the global arena" By turning us into another war monger? Repairing our veteran's respect before you start droning other nations.


Proof? You do realize this astonishingly dumb theory makes zero sense (amongst the non-dog brained of society). Why would an illegal alien try to vote illegally in a foreign election and risk deportation? Most of them hide from ICE and Border Patrol, obviously. I think your ignorance and fear has been milked by a "certain" media outlet. Hmm, let's see here, what was it called again? It slipped my mind. But they love to milk/manipulate the fear of the uneducated small-town kooks and anti-social folks with personality disorders across the rural voids of the US.


BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


this would make a crazy party even more crazy


The best device to take to the woods is the Garmin Inreach. You can set it up so someone can find you even if you are incapacitated. It can tell where you are within a few feet. I never go off the grid without it. Works everywhere on the planet.


‘Trump trauma’ on the way out? Political anxiety appears to be fading, says psychiatric survey.   Approval at 48% now.


Dear Globe editorial board, you forgot to mention his hair.


Trump's unrelenting attack on the fourth estate (media) is unprecedented....in America. However it was a common ploy used by dictators in Europe over the last 100 years. Destroy the credibility of the media ; blur the lines around fact and fiction; encourage conspiracy theories; and treat any criticism by the media as heresy.
His performance today was more alarming because the rest of the world seems to have ignored it.


Interesting, informative, entertaining.  Thanks for this piece Mike Dunham. I hope you do more history pieces.


Great article!


Chin should resign and fly to New York to defend this guy Pro Bono.


Put them away for a long, long time. We don't want scum like this running around loose. And I agree with Hockeytown, why no pictures?


May I add Prince William Soundkeeper.  www.pwsoundkeeper.org  A tiny citizen advocacy group that has been working on the topics of the Chugach Management Plan, the Navy War Games, the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and other environmental issues affecting the water quality and ecology of Prince William Sound for over a decade with no support from the Alaska Center for the Environment, and with extremely limited (and dwindling) support from other environmentally-minded foundations and entities.  The lack of funding and support is hitting southcentral AK orgs hard, making it all that more difficult to bring awareness and work effectively on these important issues.


...and the amateur hour continues.


Free speech is only one of the liberties we enjoy in this Country, but perhaps some people who have exercised that right are learning there are justified boundaries to tolerance.


And I answered you but you ignored me.

Here it is again-

"But not all shooting activities are normal, as guns are also used for self defense John.

The need may arise for the average American to reload quickly if he were defending his home from multiple assailants.

But let's put that aside and look at the bigger picture which is of course the right and the ability to defend one's self, and the importance of what that really means to the average American.

We can illustrate this importance with one direct question.

Would you wish you were carrying a gun if you and your family were in that church?

A simple yes or no will do John, and then you can embellish all you want."

Let's hear your answer to that question John.

Or will you blatantly dodge it once again?


A 100 dollar meal isn't much of a bribe ... it's the "strokes" that go along with it, which inflates ones sense of importance that sways.  The best salesmen know how to "stroke" their customer to get them to part with their money.  Lobbyists, by the nature of their job, have to be really good salesmen.  In the legislators case, the "strokes" get them to part with valuable legislation.


Yes, let's all laugh at future generations of Canadians who have no hope of ever owning real estate in their home country, and will instead be burdened with a lifetime paying rent to wealthy offshore investors. Bahahahaha! Nothing like the misery of others to make one feel better.


Its about time somebody stood up to the corrupt euro trash called the IOC. Too bad that it had to be Bettman who is hard for any Canadian to like.


Jacking up minimum wages is just window dressing for politicians.

Ontario is not cranking out decent private sector jobs and that's because it's not seen as a good place for tech, manufacturing and R&D to plant their roots. The job market for individuals, allowing them a pool of private sector possibilities to better their pay by moving on, barely exists anymore. So if they get into government directly, or into an area that floats on government funding, they stay for life.

Manufacturers and processors are leaving, or not coming to Ontario because of the high costs (especially hydro) and the uncertainty about  the Liberals next self-bailout.

Like I said earlier- keep your eye on Chrysler. If it goes to the Chinese, it might be the final nail for auto as a major sector in Canada.


Lukecanada, have you considered making some civil contributions instead of just using pejoratives like "loser" and "ignorant" against people whose opinions differ from yours? If you give it a try you will see it's not so difficult.


In fact, you are being both snarky and argumentative.  You think you have a clean soapbox when you preface your statement like that?  In fact, you, tRump and tRumpytes should just let Hillary get on with her life and stop with your unmitigated and baseless hate of her. You just love to get riled up, huh?  You don't know what or why, just that you join the crowd.  It is all the mob mentality where any rationality or humanity is lost in the rage of the mob.  Think about it.  That is your statement and it is unacceptable and, yes, deplorable.


Why are the chiefs in the meeting? They have the same opportunity to vote provincially & federally that I do. Electoral double dipping?


Okay, therefore I assume they were Red Tories.


Just because the property increased in value doesn't mean his income went up by the same amount so think about this for a minute if you can.


I agree with you that the SJW snowflake mindset is too much, but unfortunately there's a lot of votes there.   I think Raitt can walk the fine line of not causing significant divisions on either side of the spectrum, but rather focus on key issues of finances, health care and transportation that virtually no one would argue are not priorities.


You would think the POTUS would have more important things to do than defend his daughter's clothing line.  He even has Spicer addressing it.
What a total PUTZ!


a_r:  You might be right about it being included in the budget but that makes little difference.  The budget is underfunded and results in cutting 99 teaching positions to help balance it.  I argue it is a nice to have expense not a must have expense.  Further the proposed budget is larger than the current budget and will require increased property taxes to balance it.  Which government employees get free HC?


Whether you like Trump or not, I do not seem to remember a US (or for that matter any other) politician who invoke "fairness", or being "treated unfairly" as much as he does..
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What I do recall, is anytime past lower school, being essentially shut down, anytime I strayed into using being treated "unfairly" as a reason/excuse I had for under-performance, a foul-up or whatever, that ultimately was all or partly my fault..(think of all the tv shows were one kid gets the extra scoop of ice cream for being good - "NO FAIR" - cries the misbehaving one..oh wait, speaking of an extra scoop of ice cream.....)

It is a troubling sign of immaturity.....and a lack of willingness to take at least partial ownership for why things are the way they are...


Fixed the quote! Thank you for the heads up JadedJade.


Perhaps the biggest difficulty in understanding the Falun Gong movement is that there's really only two sources of information: Falun Gong itself, and the Chinese government. Getting unbiased information on the group isn't easy, however I recommend this lecture given by Benjamin Penny, an Australian authority on religions in China.

https://www.nla.gov.au/benjamin-perry/the-past-present-and-future-of-falun-gong

According to Benjamin Penny, the leader of Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, considers himself a divine being, one who is offering salvation to mankind. Mr. Li calls his followers "disciples." If they follow his teachings they too can acquire his god-like abilities of precognition, clairvoyance, the ability to transform one kind of object into another, remote sight, and so on. Mr. Li considers himself a prophet, stretching back through Nostradamus and beyond.

Anastasia Lin is one of Li Hongzhi's disciples. She won a privately-owned beauty contest and doesn't represent Canada in any way.


I see Walker having a balanced approach to a reality. The alternatives to that approach is, #1, permafrost is not melting, shorelines are not encroaching on Arctic villages, the Arctic Ice is not receding, #2, Oil and gas development in Alaska is the direct cause of the contrarian to #1. Which camp are you in.


If the game is safe, surely it makes sense to put out players who you can afford to lose if they get injured? Would be pretty dumb if one of their best forwards got hurt in the last two minutes of the game.


You moderate Republicans need to be replaced ASAP. You give illegals more respect you support these Muslims that want to come into our country and literally want to kill us. People wake up, this extremism is moving fast and if we keep people like these yahoo's, our freedom will be gone. Yes you spineless snowflakes, it will be gone and never recovered. We are at a "Y" in the road. We better put new people in office. Let's not let the democrats and moderate republicans ruin Alaska. One of the last great states. Please, let's get together and replace these socialists.


The only meaningful promise which the PM has kept was missed by the author here, is restoring the mandatory census, which PM Harper was foolish to cancel.


American cons will blame this on Hillary. I'm sure there are already deplorables, perhaps even on Fox News itself, making claims that HRC pushed him from behind causing Ailes to fall, thereby resulting in the blood clot.


Would you share who you believe is a 'well regulated militia' in the state of Oregon?   What is their stated goal, what is their membership, what tells me they are 'regulated' in any way at all?


Full employment with the lowest employee participation rate in decades doesn't sound as good as you would like it to. Using the government formula if every person stopped working and looking for work our unemployment would be zero.


Where employers (and landlords) are the victims? It hardly exists. Further, like I pointed out, Ted Bundy and Charles Manson once had "clean" records. When they acquire criminal records it's not called "recidivism," but it's crime just the same, a concept lost on tough-on-crime Republicans. How long do we need to wait before Tim Allen and Martha Stewart re-offend? Shouldn't they be unemployed, collecting welfare, while we wait? What a great system Republicans have contrived. How much longer till Jesus gets here? Inquiring minds want to know.


I remember Ralphie V's first run at the Spring Game. She got loose from all but one handler who held on for dear life as she dragged him around the field! Spunky then, spunky now. Run, Ralphie, Run!


Calling Betsy DeVos a luminary is so ridiculous that I stopped reading as soon as I came across that 'gem'.


You are correct on the amount of the costs but wrong about the ignorance of the council: it was fully aware of them but decided to go ahead anyway. I was part of a group that included many prominent architects who (many are retired) had no financial  interest in the issue. Councilor Alan Zelenka was the most vocal cheerleader for the rapid demolition; he appears to have a conflict of interest, at least implied: he has close ties to the local purveyors of high-energy efficient technology (read very expensive and somewhat untried). He also misrepresented the condition of the "old" City Hall, repeatedly.


Now that 2017 has arrived we have a lot of problems which Trump will totally solve. One of which is my career. I had a job as a union recycling collector but due to the greedy liberal unions taking all my money in dues I had to retire with a fat pension. For example in my rookie year as a union recycling collector I earned a salary of $123,000 but then I had to pay $203,000 in union dues, so I actually came out behind on the deal if you can believe that. Then I found out the publisher of ADN, a noted friend of Obama, is going to charge $9.99 to read the paper online. Per month! So I was totally set to retire and start my new gig commenting positively about Trump, for which I was to be paid several Macedonian dollars per post. But now due to this paywall my dreams of economic freedom are imperiled. Thanks Obummer!! So if you would please contribute some bitcoin or Macedonian money to my kickstarter or gofundme or whatever I would really appreciate that.


NEA 2, these are called public private partnerships, which the Canadian Government engages in, with numerous private parties, to facilitate an objective or policy. Both parties to the PPPs, as they are called, invest resources to fulfil the obligations of their mandate. In this case, His Highness the Aga Khan invested $26 million for the extensive renovations to the building, which would have otherwise sat dormant due to high amounts of asbestos it contained.


What again?


I was very saddened to hear of Mickey's passing. We were in school together from K thru 12. He was a good friend and fellow athlete. I sat next to him for four years in band as second chair trumpet. He was a great guy and my condolences go out to his entire family. I'm sure he will be greatly missed. May he Rest In Peace.


A musher wouldn't be disqualified for his team and sled being out on their own for an hour? Isn't he supposed to be taking care of them?


Try a bright laser pointer.  It annoys them a lot.


"Normal" women in this country are much different in stature than "normal" women in some other cultures.  Travel a tad, and you'll see the difference.

And, since you only know the guy through a short write and have never seen him, passing judgement by making assumptions (like him thinking he's perfect) is full of fault.


Here's what happens when somebody who acts without thinking gets to make decisions. I blame the thoughtful voters from swing states who for some reason stayed home on Election Day. Here we go.


If my potential abortion is your business, your children and family and religion are my business. Either people have privacy rights, or they don't.


Not a conflict of interest my foot, when I worked at the Klawock Lake Fish Hatchery I was refused a permit to participate in the Herring Impoundment fishery by Ron Sommerville, or get fired. I don't know if some of the locals got his ear, he is from PWI, or what but that was not a high dollar deal, although I did lose 10,000 grand by having to sell my seine and other gear for half price.
Isn't this Mlyarick some sort of law enforcement? So is he running for AG or wants to be Chief of Police so he can force his ideas on the laid back folks that did't think there were Nazi's on the force.
Republicans "the party of of individual rights", so much winning.


You are aware that the President of the US suggested that a private organization to punish those that exercised their 1st Amendment right. Wouldn't that be more worrisome? It's almost like the government is forcing punishment onto those who dissent.

Tebow has the right to pray before the football game, and so does the other players. The protests aren't even shown on TV. The President made it a bigger deal than it already was. The government should not tell a private organization to punish those that dissent. This is not North Korea.


"Americans already think she is qualified to be president..."  I know no Americans who think this.  Especially opposed to this line of thinking are the active duty military folks I know...they fear her being Commander in Chief of our military.


This is just part of the "global conspiracy" against Trump. If this keeps up it will become a intergalactic conspiracy against him. Mark my words.


No they won't because the right wing scream machine has them convinced of "facts" that have little basis in reality.


"None of the three siblings, now ages 24 to 30, knew the book was in the works."
 Not notifying the (now adult) siblings beforehand of the upcoming publication of her book seems rather insensitive of the author.


Kudos to Leitch's press team.  You got her ahead of the pack, onto the G&M online front page.  Never mind that she still comes across as "unbalanced".  Any press is better than no press, right?


Why do the GOP/far righties continue to say that there is nothing, when it is obvious that Mueller is closing in?
As to Trump's ppl, they have shut up and are simply working together to try and stop the investigation. It is not going to work.


It's a cash grab. Just like charities do when a community or group suffers - they go and solicit the cash froma  public that feels bad, then they pay themselves and then hand a teensy little bit out to those whoactually  suffer. This city council is doing just that. They are opportunistic and predatory. That extra tax along with all the extra tax gets built in year after year and each subsequent increase is based on compounding that tax increase / cash grab. Vancouverites are getting played for fools.


So why does Mulcair continue to try to pretend to be Perry Mason? How about asking  some real questions?


By posting here you are essentially "subscribing" to NCR.  Traffic here leads to higher advert rates.


Lets end the you can if you want to and Morneau can introduce legislation that all politicians, federally and Provincially at least, have to put all assets into blind trusts and they have to disclose all their holdings and assets within a week of being elected.  No more personal decisions to do it or not.


Sorry but I have to revise the slogan so it's fit on a bumper sticker. "Ige put the Honu in Honolulu".  Hope that's not considered sarcastic by Da Guv.


This session's legislative majority is the most embarrassing group of bone heads to date. They do not seem to care that state government is paralyzed and essential services like road maintenance is barely being performed. The Richardson Higway for example from Sourdough to Glenallan looks like it has been carpet bombed and other than a few band aid repairs here and there there is supposedly no money to fix it. Rep. Gattis and the other right wing wackadoodle legislators need to move to Mississippi where their selfish political agendas are more acceptable.


What is the reasoning that women must be elected to a board?

It is difficult to make a rationale for discrimination on an outward trait that is still founded in meritocracy.

There can be a rationale for more diversity.

Diversity is not in physical terms - but rather in ideas. If boards are comprised of "yes men" who are proxies for certain interests, as opposed to being comprised of independent thinkers who offer unique perspectives, experience, and knowledge which are relevant and enrich the quality of business decision making, this could benefit the organization, and contribute to the strength of the Enterprise.

However, such independence must still be vested in the success of the company and contribute to stability in Corporate governance.

They should look at Board nominations, supporting more open nominations, facilitate shareholder due diligence, and ensure minority shareholders can organize their votes to nominate a Board representative of all shareholders.


SO:  Of course you do.  No one wants to own the ACA with its flaws but those who created it, the Dem's, own it no matter how much you or they wish that were not true.  The Dem's can either offer serious reform or they can watch it die.  By the way I don't think think the R offered plan was any better but since that is no longer on the table it is back in the Dem's court.


But but but the Telegraph said it was a Chechen like right after it happened.  Duke, WHY IS THE CANADIAN MEDIA HIDING THIS FROM US?!?!?!


As for that list of things - yes thats why libertarians say they despise them -but not a single one of those accusations are true. You exist as part of society, you benefit from that membership - and thus have a responsibility to pay towards it's upkeep. If you don't want to pay your fair share of taxes, move somewhere without a society and you won't be expected to contribute to the society that isn't there. You want police protection ? You want roads ? You want courts and judges to resolve disputes ? You want sewage systems to keep the shit from piling up in your yard ?
You pay your share of their costs.
The other things really DO decrease the power of the wealthy, which is why libertarians REALLY hate them. Anything that allows people to access any of the requirements of life WITHOUT subservience to a rich owner reduces the power of rich owners.  Without these things all freedom is the EXCLUSIVE prerogative of the rich, owning class.


Anyone else like to see our president run over by Clay Matthews?


It's frightening when you think about it, isn't it? That "Just in Time" system works well for manufacturing and retailing. But if those big trucks don't come rolling into the local Safeway every night, we'd get hungry pretty quickly. Our system is fragile.


America = taxed to death,  let's clarify this - we are taxed 3x for the same thing in this case: 'Roads' are paid for via Gas Tax + Property Tax + Vehicle registration (which is 10x the cost here than other states) - thus, "where has the money gone?", is a valid question indeed.   It disappears into self-voted raises by the County Commissioners, erroneous waste by ADOT, and ludicrous purchases of ugly eyesores of these atrocious roadside sculptures.   (btw: the price of gasoline in Iraq was 5 cents per gallon at the time of  our invasion ...uh, I mean "desert storm" to secure a resource war by lying to the public to its purpose.  US Citizens are being robbed by deceit and excuses.  Oregon Government Officials, we hired you to do a job! SPEND WITHIN YOUR BUDGET ! as the rest of us do, and stop thieving every chance you get:  and best keep in mind, that US Citizens have the right to overthrow a corrupt government... which you are proving to be day by day.


Perspective is all: Republicans vowed even before Obama was sworn in that he would find no support among them. They continued the birther nonsense and other malicious lies ("He's a Muslim!") even after it was shown time-and-time again to be a lie.
So, in that kind of national landscape, could the President rescind any part of it? Imagine if he had and any attack had happened: Republicans would accuse him of a high crime.
BTW: please notice that Obama kept us safe for 8 years. No large-scale terrorist attacks on US soil.
Repaired the economy, made the US a safe country, nailed OBL, installed Obamacare that has saved many, many lives.  NO scandals. None.
Greatest president in modern times.


What makes you think that it is the exact same people who are protesting against Trans Mountain expansion and who are happy to accept softwood lumber money?


The miscegenation and homicide are occurring just off frame. Next to the jazz and dancing. ;)


This government is on autopilot ... is it going to simply coast for 4 years? No big initiatives and no follow-through on campaign promises.
Democratic reform? Nope
Cannabis Legalization? Backburner
Infrastructure? Nope
Tax reform? Nope
More ethical government? Neutral

How does the middle class benefit? Who knows.


And I want it back  .-)


You know, Annie, I think that she's one of our regulars who usually posts under a different name and often complains that others are mean to her.  Maybe not, but it seems so....


It's not just Democrats that want illegals. So do the RINO's. Republicans haven't lifted a finger to stop illegal immigration and they will continue to fight Trump and our Big Beautiful Wall.


If the North Koreans cave in to the US does it not threaten the end of the current regime? - and reaching the end in that country has a history of full and total finality. So would it not make sense to go out with a bang? - meaning a string of nuclear bangs hitting South Korea, Japan, US bases and maybe more? Hundreds of millions might die.  And it won't be good for the markets anywhere. It won't even be good for Trump in US polls. It isn't just the North Koreans whose logic worries me.


Ask Shisaisama.


Bob Mould was born and raised in upstate New York, however, so he's technically not a Minnesotan. /nerd


Why are we importing ahi in the first place? We should support our local fishermen.


You take a vacation in the Caribbean in hurricane season, you take your chances.  How is it that my tax dollars are to be used to get you home?  Really, the big problem is that you haven't been able to shower and you're eating granola bars?  Talk about first world problems.


I really,  really,  believe that Homeland Security cannot vet the number of proposed refugees that the Obama administration is talking about in the time available.

In 2015, one month prior the  San Bernadino debacle a HS spokesman said: "the U.S. refuge application process  takes 18-24 months. He said the U.S. vetting process includes an initial screening by the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, security checks by the both the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a medical screening, an in-person interview, and additional security vetting for young Syrian and Iraqi males."

As of November 2015  "governors in at least 17 states have moved to suspend or restrict the refugee resettlement, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin."

No doubt all of them are Muslim hating conservatives...or maybe not.


Perhaps it is because like Islam all over the world, they seek to dominate the local population, not getting along with them? The complete lack of reporting on Muslim-generated conflict is getting tedious.
Religion, especially a political one like Islam, is not above reproach nor severe criticism and condemnation for it's basic, quite totalitarian principles.


Ok... Where do you suggest they find said  solid, established QB?


Trudeau decides it’s just not worth appeasing Trump in foreign-policy shift
-----
the lap dog rebels ?
so Justin will continue to admire China
and visit Cuba?


Regarding:" Didn't he have his credentials as a Catholic theologian cancelled 35-40 years ago?"
- Kung's theological and scholarly credentials, his ordination, and his faith were not cancelled.
- Thus, still plenty to learn even if  one does not attend to his position on infallibility.


...and old enough to know that the PF was started as a rainy day fund when oil revenues began to drop, not to solely pay dividends to residents.  Alas, I don't live the dream life you suggest.  I don't have student loans because I couldn't afford college.  My wife and I both work full time to make ends meet, I have a mortgage and pay full property tax.  I'll take the $1022 and be thankful seeing as it's a $1022 more than any other state paid its residents.  There are great comments here on both sides of the issue and it's educational to read everyone's perspective.  I still say Gov. Walker is at least trying to do something while our legislature did nothing except worry about reelection instead of what's best for the State and its residents.


Nothing is hidden from Our Sacred Father; nothing.


Actually, I find it boring.  I would much prefer citizens and the media to push dialog on important matters like health care, taxes, infrastructure and so on.  We do not need to leave the generation of policy to politicians.  We citizens can force them to do what's best for the country, but only if we gather constructively to decide what exactly should be done in each policy area.  So some might get visceral pleasure out of the "investigation," but it contributes nothing, seriously nothing, to the welfare of the country and its citizens.


Don't count on it. This would make financing EU companies more expensive.


Just wondering, how many homeless vagrants do you let stay in your own backyard?


There are much greater unseen and un-sensed, ultra-dimensional forces at play here, testing our humanistic worthiness and spiritual enlightenment on this speck of star dust, on a daily basis. All have the power to understand and appreciate this unknown, if they lay to rest, their daily fears and conflicted emotions. May each and every living soul, forever, accept that change is possible to advance civilization and social change for the betterment. R.I.P. fallen souls and may your lives and spirits, never be forgotten.


Yo, ho,ho,ho.


Globe and Mail or National Enquirer? In this age of fake news and media bias you might want to consider actual journalism.


Correct itself? Just how do you mean. More Corpses?


Adam, Adam Carroll how is it going in the war room these days?


Jerry: nothing worse than a sore winner.


Now I get...You're upset because he got to say it in public and Trumpers have to hide and say it...If it helps, I give you permission to say it in public too...#MAGA


It's not currently a violation of indigenous rights, it has received all the permits from the regulatory regime. Any alleged violations will be handled by the courts in due course. You simply don't agree with the current state of the law and would like it changed by an undemocratic process instead.


Khadr doesn't either


I thought they were reviewing these cases to determine why so many women had made false allegations and to consider prosecuting the complainants.


And the " Darwin Award" goes , again this year to,,,,,Opiod users.


Don't forget all those fish he killed.


President Manbaby is as dense as a lead balloon, or are you in favor of a "joint cybersecurity task force" with Russia? Hint: He's already backtracked on that one, after one of the few sane members of his administration probably whispered in his ear that the idea is insane and Congress would have his guts for garters if he tried such a thing.


Obamacare is the stepping stone of a one payor medical insurance system.  Look at Canada and England's system.  Some good many bad conditional choices for the people.  Why is it that the elected politicians does not institute a medical health plan like they have for themselves and have the American people have the same thing.  If they cannot give the people what they have then they should do away with their special health plan and join Obamacare if it is so good for the people.

We the people need to get ownership back into our hands by having the system overhauled.  The system sucks due to the running of it by life time politicians.


Its political... the legislature wants political insurance that rail will not harm their chances for re-election.


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KK,
If you don't like paying taxes, you're welcome to move to a state or country that doesn't have them.


Good article - thanks !


Interesting article! How much energy/money is expended to turn sand into silane oil?  I hope it is a viable energy source, but the big energy companies (as far as we know) don't seem to want to invest in it, and energy is their specialty!  We can hope, though!  Meanwhile, sand is a significant contributor to Natural gas production, as it is used in the fracturing process.  In this area of the world, no fracturing, no well.


Prediction: Carrick will regret this column. I'd bet my credit score on it.


I think Ozawa wants them to be City Parks rangers. Their jurisdiction would be for city parks. I know what would happen,  homeless just going move to State Parks or other areas where there is no enforcement. They would just be moving the problem around,  just like what city cops do now if they are forced to respond to a complaint.


Hef did not cause consumerism. The post-war generation demanded it and capitalists were more than happy to provide. Washers, driers, TVs, AC and the modern refrigerator made all of our lives easier, both housewives and single men. Consumerism is what makes continued capitalism without revolution possible, and during the Great Depression, many flirted with revolution. Unionism and consumerism took the pressure off, along with governmental Social Security and unemployment.

The Depression and the War were a time of stoicism, into which moral stoicism naturally was magnified, especially in the expanded role of the Catholic Church in securing that morality. It was not to last, nor should it have. Hef helped bring back Epicureanism, as did the Beat Poets and many others. His movement was not amoral, although it was hedonistic and humanism is hedonistic. American culture had experienced enough pietism. If Hef had not come forward, we would have had to invent him.


This guy is a moron. Belongs in a padded room


Your people ignited WW1 which caused the deaths of over 20 million. In the more recent past You've killed many Slovenians, Croatians, Bosnians, and Albanians. What is it with you war mongers?


Um, incorrect. There are, in fact, independents in the Senate. They caucus with the Democrats.

I think you are the one who doesn't know how the senate works.

And it's been said before, but this inane "seniority" argument didn't come into play for Ohio Dan so why drag it out now? We all know that it's BS.


What eventually became the "dossier" was triggered by a right-wing group doing broad oppo research on all the GOP candidates. But, when Trump became the nominee, the Democrats picked up this nascient research and hugely expanded its scope. Dems hid behind their attorneys, so they could plausibly deny/obfuscate knowledge of these efforts to the public and even the Senate Intelligence Committee.  The kicker is that while Dems have been trying to pin Russian collusion on Trump - it was these attorneys (with likely knowledge and participation of high-level Dems) who were ACTUALLY colluded with Russians in preparing the dossier.

I bet we see Mueller indict Manafort on Monday for money laundering or something. But I wonder if we'll later see indictments of high-level Democrats for their involvement in this - and lying about it to Congressional investigators. Pretty scummy stuff.

Then the question becomes ... will anyone care about this Dem treachery?


Personally, I'd rather be shot than hung, or drown, or burn to death, or be stabbed and bleed out, or be strangled .....


You say "The vast majority of our population is neither racist or bigoted."  But it's my opinion that we all carry prejudice within ourselves.  Skin color, race, sex, weight, age and so forth will always be factored in by person A when judging person B.  This is an unfortunate flaw of human nature.  As such, the important thing is for each of us to minimize the degree to which we pre judge others - and yes, I agree that the vast majority of our population does well in this regard.  Not so for the radical losers (such as the white supremacists) who use violence and coercion to further their hate philosophy.  Lastly, I didn't vote for Trump nor am I a fan, but his point is that it takes 2 to tango.  And there were cases where the anti hate group side instigated the violence.  Like it or not, hate speech is protected by our constitution, whereas violence against the hate speakers is a crime. Still, I agree that Trump's emphasis should have been mostly about our nations opposition to hate.


But of course, people of your ilk believed Iraq had WMD.


My part-time gardener has a policy through Covered California for himself and his family. They pay $850 mo. for the policy. (He makes a good living with his business.) His wife recently went to Urgentcare. The first time, she paid the $75 co-pay and $375 for tests. The second time, she paid $225 for the visit and more for tests. From this point on, the policy pays next to nothing until the bills reach $7,300.

They should be able to get better insurance than this for $850 mo.


Hillary doesnt care about women, or women's issues. She cares about her power and that is about it. What a hypocritical putrid human she is, to put it nicely.


"Haha, you should have put a trigger warning before your comment. All the libs can't handle it."

...or maybe rational people simply blasted her inane comment out of the water with facts.  But continue on and call everyone who disagrees with you names.  Most of us have moved beyond grade school.


What a stupid country.


JM:  I'm assuming that by getting "80 million from those folks ALONE" you mean via an income tax.  That works out to $20,000 per worker.  I don't think they make enough to pay that much state income tax.  So you are willing to collect a small amount from non-resident oil slope employees and also tax the 200,000 Alaskan wage earners who would also pay an income tax.  And yes I think 4000 non-residents are "insignificant" to 200,000 Alaskans.  Further, most non-resident employees are seasonal and work mainly in the seafood processing and hospitality industries and do not make enough to pay an income tax.  What about the million tourists who pay nothing for the state services they benefit from?  Who do you think utilizes more state services, 4000 non-resident slope workers or 1 million tourists?


I have heard reliably that when first faced with insourcing demands, the universities were all going to hold the line against it. Then UCT unilaterally broke ranks and agreed to it. Reaping? Sowing?


Prove me wrong then, you think your life here is not paid for by others? Bet.


deduct a business expense? probably 2 or 3 times...


Wrong, wrong, wrong.
What has trump done to protect the US?
What has he actually achieved?
Nothing!
The party of NO knee-capped immigration reform in 2013.
Now the party of NoCanDo will do the same.
trump will 'revisit' and cave.
There's the lie.
He promised to end daca on day one
AND build a wall.
He's done nothing and achieved nothing except to sell you
on another round of lies.


Since the Catholic Church measures change in centuries, I suppose the idea of adult faith is fairly "new."  200 years ago, the average lay person did not have advanced education, psychological theory was basically unknown, and most people spent decades bearing children and doing grueling physical labor, then died relatively young.


I know, right?

I saw Trump's tweets come up on my feed this morning as he posted them and just could not believe it. It's beyond idiocy, the guy is losing it.


You got lucky with your truck.  TDWfromTPM can tell you how crappy they can be,

"I would also stay away from dodge due to inferior handling ect."
"Toyotas rust quicker then Chryslers. They tend to have structural failure due to rust as well. None of the American three suffer that affect to the same extent."
" Body components coming unglued from their picks is also a problem that another friend had. "


Unfortunately people are just too stupid, lazy and irresponsible to manage their own lives. They have become dependent on Government and only want to live for the moment.


This is like listening to a government spokesman talking about how well the ARVN forces are doing in Vietnam. I guess we'll just keep doing these pointless military adventures until we're flat broke.


I have moved overseas a number of times, for work and with my husband.  There are huge issues around getting a work visa in a number of countries if you do not have a job or are not married and some visa conditions do not allow for the wife/husband/partner to work at all.  I am  a little confused as to why you have to wait 6 more months....that seems strange to me.

You say you are making plans but this is huge, if you can not get work, will you be able to study, how does this impact on your career  here if you go overseas...its all great when things in the relationship are great but get your head out of the clouds and get a bit more practical, moving overseas without a long term commitment from your boyfriend, unless you are 22, is a huge ask, so do your research, have a back up plan and money in the bank to head home if you need and then go and enjoy what the world has to offer - its amazing and a wonderful life experience.


This is how 1%'ers think.....


It defies logic.


Yes, but not only the lloss of life but very serious disruption to many lives as well as property loss
where many have lost everything.  In addition to the fire and smoke damage, lots of extensive
damage due to water.


Carpa - you constantly make stuff up.....  Obama was anything but lazy.

"Obama explains his typical day:
"I'm a night owl. My usual day [is]: I work out in the morning; I get to the office around 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.; work till about 6:30 p.m.; have dinner with the family, hang out with the kids and put them to bed about 8:30 p.m. And then I'll probably read briefing papers or do paperwork or write stuff until about 11:30 p.m. and then I usually have about a half hour to read before I go to bed . . . about midnight, 12:30 a.m. -- sometimes a little later."


Sewing chaos is an integral pillar of the Zuma Inc corrupt project strategy .  It keeps the opposition focussed on "the sideshows" while he and the entire ANC get on with looting the state under the guise of the NDR.


You forget it was this government alone that let the debt and costs spiral out of control.

To use doctors as pawns now is disgusting, especially since wynne just said they would be opening the floodgates for public servants when it came to bargaining.

So why is it okay to give teachers a one or two per cent raise, but claw back money from doctors.

If they are overbilling or fraudulently billing, nail em for it. But they deserve it a heck of a lot more than a teacher or bureaucrat...


Does Mr Vrable believe the upcoming pay to play event at the fairgrounds with "independent GOP" candidates is a far right event?


As long as there is full disclosure and the ability for others to compete, I don't see a problem.

It is better than the union-sponsored system I saw in State Government where the final person is pre-selected before the announcement is even made.

Or the new person is forced on an organization because they e on their 3rd Work Improvement Program and are going to be fired unless the union can find them a place to further vegetate.  Saw that several times in State government and locally here at Duck U one of my relatives has had the same incompetence rewarded in her organization.

That's the sort of thing that deserves 'gross shame' in my opinion.


"Then how about less money spent on the military industrial complex to instead care for its casualties"?
_mongoose000

How about YOU spending YOUR tax dollars instead of suggestions on how to spend MINE?  Here's YOUR chance to stop the "crusade that could lay irretrievable waste to the planet". Step up and take the lead - we're anxiously standing by. Digging deep, are you? I didn't think so.

Funny how advances made by science over the last century are great - as long as someone else pays the tab.


Sex is a pre-requisite for dating if you daughter allows it to be.  She needs to learn to say no to men she does not want to have sex with, or does not want to have sex with yet, or she needs to let the men she dates know that she is waiting until marriage.  Many men find a virgin exciting so no one has to do anything.  She may lose some men who are unwilling to wait but God has the right person for her who is willing to wait.
Greater freedom always requires greater fortitude and self control but I would not wish for less freedom.  I have no desire to go back to the ways of the past.
You are correct that a marriage should not depend on sex always being great or readily available as there are times due to illnesses etc. that spouses male and female go thru periods of impotency.  Hopefully, for most, these times are temporary.
But that does not mean couples should not enjoy sex to the fullest when they can and people often seek more sex, not less, with age, and especially women do.


A lot of good people are for Trump. I despise the man (and Hillary too), but respect his supporters. The world is always changing. It has changed for me. I adapted, sometimes against my own grain. When Henry Ford transformed this country with his Model T and Model A and the assembly line, there were a lot of disenfranchised carriage makers. Some of them adapted (and sometimes against their own grain) and some didn't - thus the echo chamber. So it goes....


I agree 100%. Unfortunately, the OMA is controlled by the high billers, and the only way they will ratify a deal is if the high billers get more and the regular GPs get less!


The guideway is wide enough for the self driving cars of today and tomorrow.  Today we have self guided buses that are very small.  In the next few years, electric transit buses will be a regular site.  Turning the guideway into a self driving Managed Lane is the best solution.  The guideway as planned does not make good use of  the space.  24 rail cars per hour on an elevated two lane highway is wasteful.  Combining self driving transit vehicles and Managed Lanes will be superior to rail in every category - speed, capacity, lower cost, safety etc.  Adding self driving vehicles for emergency use, and personal use will increase guideway usage and decrease vehicles from H-1.  Self-driving transit buses can provide all the transit that is needed in a TOD development as well.  A self-driving vehicle Managed Lane is the smart green choice.


You don't know a thing about me, Bubba.


What % of votes did Merkel get?
What % of votes did the non-Merkel parties get?


Excellent, thanks! I fear that the ANC deployees to parliament are not into examining their consciences bar a few.

 However, it only needs 1/4 of them to screw up their little bit of courage for Parliament to re-establish its supremacy over the executive, its deployees.


Religion has ALWAYS involved rituals.


You are going to blame Clinton for that? Like that hadn't always been going on since the invention of the school bus?


Inspiring wannabe grifter, dictators worldwide.


I heard during a winter outdoor football game something like "There's no bad weather, there's just bad clothing." And above all make yourself visible!


My goals are mostly political in nature.  Some revenge against a Pastor who insulted me. I don't recognize his "spiritual" authority so I treat him as I would any person who insulted me and my friends.

Hopefully, I change a reader's mind.  Not yours.  I don't want to change yours because I think removing a supernatural god from your worldview would be intense.

And once again: I judge Imago Dei for being judgmental.


The United States welcomes legal immigrants and refugees who do not pose potential threats already. No one is against legal immigrants and refugees who will become productive and beneficial citizens and residents of this country. It is common sense to take precautions to ensure that any immigrant or refugee will meet these criteria. Unless the birth rate increases in this country it will need more qualified immigrants to care for its increasely aging population and add to its tax base.


Why is global warming bad for the Canadian Arctic?
anyone?


Actually, Dennis, it was both. She was informed about adolescents in general and she was informed about the victim in particular. There are several quotes out there with respect to the latter, offering specific details about this victim.


My God Shore, it is the afternoon and not even Christmas eve and you are already drunk.


Trouble is that the finish line Meyer refers to keeps moving further into the future and out of reach. But, we need to see if this visit with potential buyers bears fruit. If it does, then it MAY be possible to move a project ahead. The best near term solution to getting use out of our stranded natural gas on the North Slope is to convert the gas at the well head to energy and transmit that energy via HVDC to Alaskans.


Imagine that.... someone's using my name to like what I say, you can't like yourself twice... to prove it check out my previous post... yup TWO likes by me. Some snowflake likes what I say!!! Awesome


Sigh.  Human Rights Tribunals don't 'convict.'

If you don't like a decision of a Tribunal, you can apply for judicial review.

If you refuse to pay the money they order you pay the complainant, you might have your wages garnisheed or your office furniture sold.

If you refuse a direct non-monetary order of any civil court or tribunal - after exhausting all avenues of judicial review and appeal -  yes you might be found guilty of contempt, and, who knows, it might lead to jail.  It's called the rule of law and it applies to any of the thousands of different types of tribunals and civil courts in Canada.

If there is a trial for contempt, it will be in a court, and will use the criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

I happens rarely in Canada.  The only one I know is a Terry Tremaine, who had been posting the most disgusting hate against  "persons of the Jewish faith, blacks and other non-white minorities" and continued posting it.


I feel rather sorry for you, to be honest.


Attorney General Chin, quit wasting our money and the court's time! It took me approximately 30 seconds to look up what is already the law regarding immediate family members. Here is how the USCIS categorizes them:
    The spouse of a U.S. citizen;
    The unmarried child under 21 years of age of a U.S. citizen; or
    The parent of a U.S. citizen (if the U.S. citizen is 21 years of age or older).
My guess is you are attempting to get one of the courts to make a ruling and CHANGE what is already the law, which would be blatant legislating from the bench. Hawaii has so many issues to deal with that are much more pressing than your campaign to bring in refugees. Maybe it's time for a phone campaign to the Governor's office to have you removed from office.


When you kick the Lord and His Word out of our schools, government, and everywhere else you get the devil and dumbed down judges and the charter of rights instead of the Ten Commandments. Thou shall not kill Omar and at almost 16 you knew what you were doing.  Ten years was too little for you and now you get rewarded with millions for your terrorism.


Most likely...nothing. Too much effort for the C&C to take care of.


Yes.


Janhoi,
I agree.  While some seem to think cleaning up financials is easier, I'm not so sure.  This (scandal) is about will, not law.  If the bishops wanted to assure the laity of their sincerity and demanded the pope put in place accountability, including tribunals for involved bishops, it would be done by now.

Whether the pope himself has the power, almost doesn't matter.  Collectively the bishops clearly don't want to be held accountable, period. But they were OK with financial cleanup, especially as their local finances continue to be rocked by the effects of their own handling of the scandal.

Am I glad the financial mess is getting cleaned up?  Of course, and Francis get credit.  But I can't shake the sense that the scandal simply remains little more than under storm for the bishops: annoying in that it's messing up their afternoon plans, but little more...


What do you have against a rural Native village doing something to build jobs and an economic base?  You understand that they are also taxpayers?  That this is no different than the millions that go to farm subsidies across the nation?  Your comment lacks nuance, understanding, and depth.


No Arab is an ethnicity and a culture. Palestinians share neither. And your other claims are untrue as well due to lack of consideration for context. The "desire to eradicate Israel" is a false statement if you ignore the enormous brutality by Israel. Anybody starts murdering your community at that rate you will hate them and want them gone too.
The only viable solution is their own country where Israel does bot interfere.i  other words for Israel to acknowlefge that palestinians deserve the same right they claim to justify founding Israel in the first place.
It was a relic of colonialism to allow the establishment of Israel in Palestine. It was a terrible injustice. We cannot undo that now. But we have to acknowledge that injustice if we are to solve the consequences. The Palestinian homeland was stolen (by Britain) to create Israel. The Palestinians deserve a new homeland.


The bold innovation needed is a fair distribution of the fruits of higher productivity.

The Industrial Revolution, followed by Henry Ford’s groundbreaking assembly line approach, rendered the six day work week a five day one.  With better wages.

This was possible because less human capital was needed to produce higher output.  Business realized that without a reasonably paid workforce, there would be insufficient demand.

We need to re-learn this lesson.  A burger flipping robot isn’t any good to anyone unless someone can afford to buy the burger.

When the 1% realizes that they need to share the largesse to make their own lifestyle sustainable, increased leisure time and wages are sure to follow.  Until that time, I think we can expect a certain amount of turmoil.  It’s happening now, with the waves of populism sweeping Europe and the US.


and the economy gets pumped, and jobs, and wages for all, and quality of life etc, all pumped up thanks to conservatives


The guy in the photo above reminds me of my St Anthony medal -- except for the "saintly" part.

How about we IMPEACH now, then we can think about REPLACING later.


What excactly do you mean Payrollgirl?  "After what just happened to Hillary Clinton...."


Rather than sending a tweet that implicitly attacked Trump when the temporary immigration ban was announced Trudeau should have issued a careful policy statement talking about possible repercussions for Canada and how we would deal with them. This was one of them. His cavalier attitude risks derailing the Beyond the Border and Regulatory Co-operation Council initiatives set up by Harper and Obama in 2011. Perhaps that is Trudeau's object. He doesn't seem to want to leave anything around that Harper could claim as a legacy, however beneficial it might be to Canadians.


Will never forget or forgive trump for spending the past eight years questioning the very legal immigration status of the duly elected POTUS. And he lied about having the evidence to prove it at an event only intended to suck a gullible press into attending  the opening of his new hotel in DC. More free press from the infotainment above substance media. Oh and by the way why have the trumps never released Melania's immigration papers? We know now that she worked illegally in America before receiving proper papers but what about the rest of her road to citizenship. Shouldn't the trumps be proud of her path to becoming a legal American?
  Thanks for the informed comparison Mr. Baitsholts. There is a studied tilt to the medias history of Cuba under Castro.


Hell, I saw a declawed cat back down two red foxes


JSelover, what a smart remark indeed, good for you.  Do not judge me or my skills, shame on you!  You keep looking at the eyes only and enjoy life!  I think however my skills are more than adequate; I do think I have the right to voice my opinion without getting nasty.


I really think the Globe should create a while new category for the poster known as "oh no you don't", as the current possible reactions don't even come close to fully  categorizing what this poster fills these sites with. As yet undetermined is whether or not they are deliberately obtuse enough to be funny, or whether they are the creation of a truly uninformed mind.


Monica, I kind of think the reason they don't know what the problem is or how to fix it is due to the fact they live among themselves and just reinforce their own weltanschaung (I've always loved that word, thank you for giving me the opp to air it out!).  I think married men will, by necessity, be more in tune with the ways of the world, how it works, and how to change things.  For what it's worth, I think this "viri probati" crap is just that...only married "proven men" can be priests??? They cannot possibly screw things up any more than the current collection, many of whom went to pre-seminary high school when they were 13 years old and have not been out in the world since.  If anything it should be a man with no real world experience who should be the "viri probati." (Hey you, you who've never accomplished anything in life to date, why should we ordain you?)


OR have  Liberal brownshirts hammering on your door if you don't agree with their philosophy.


What about the $350 million 'loan' that Haper's 'government' gave to Bombardier? Did you also oppose that?


The internet SHOULD be treated as a public utility and we should have a choice of internet providers and I don't mean a choice between a duopoly who have bought and paid for politicians.

There is no free market unfortunately.


Uh, Point Hope is not part of the Northwest Arctic Borough...but I suspect that you know that already.


it should also globally be declared a crime against humanity and all proceeds and assets of trafickers seized and given to all of the nations whose children are exploited in canada, which is well documented by the trafickers and their liasons. This bill has to ensure that even parents or guardians or foster parents or schools or churches can also be sued since so many sex traficking offenses occur with their knowing and also children under 22 should never have to testify. With the pinpoint accuracy of texts, telephone signals and locations services in the vast digital records to prove the stipulations of the acts there should also be no kind of time limit. A child of four has to be able to sue everyone exposed incluiding UBER drivers, taxi companies and the many others, like the commuhnitcation companies who make it so easy to do this in canada. they all owe a huge debt to countless women, children, families and nations all around the worlds and must have nothing left when done.


Trump made a deal with Saudi Arabia to sell the Saudis about $110 billion worth of weapons.

I think Trump made a good speech and it was well presented in Saudi Arabia.

Trump wants the Muslim countries to join in the fight against extremists.

I wonder if the Saudis will use the weapons from the U.S.A. to fight against Daesh (ISIS/IL) extremists in Iraq and Syria.

If the Saudis don't use their new weapons against  Daesh (ISIS/IL) extremists, who will the Saudis use those weapons against?

And I wonder if the other Muslim countries and leaders liked Trump's speech, agree with Trump and will help fight against Islamic extremism and terrorism.


Oh, and I forgot to say in my earlier post:  4 of the 5 by-elections sent women to the House to replace an outgoing male  MP (three Liberals, one Conservative), which is unambiguously good for the country, as we inch closer to a more gender-equal representative government.


Dave's friends may say that he is self obsessive but enough about them.
With a Masters degree in English from University Toronto he still writes like an undergrad whose thesis doesn't begin before the essay is half over.
Madam, most of the little things in living together have to be work. You  should have traveled or lived together prior to getting engaged to be married. Now you know. Your best sex together is behind you.
Marriage is definitely a package deal, no one is perfect, we all have our foibles, some are more annoying than others. They get old fast too.
Dump him now, amicably if you can, before alimony and child support rear their ugly heads.
Be happy


Hey guess what we have the RIGHT  TO PROTEST LADY.. ITS CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH... what your doing is brainwashing your poor kids to an AGENDA.. Good job bad mom of the year


Hirono conveniently forgets a lot.

1. Hawaii's Prepaid Health Act, that use to cover nearly 80% of Hawaii's workers and their families, has been severely and adversely impacted by Obamacare.  ACA mandates that should never have affected the HPHA have driven up costs to the point where workers are losing coverage, jobs and hours because employers cannot afford the double digit increases each year for the last five years.  Part time jobs now the norm.

2. The ACA is not healthcare, it is a new taxation system to provide expanded benefits of a social welfare program, in essence a massive expansion of Medicaid.  Not only did the Democrats raid Medicare, they created new taxes to pay for this new program. The taxes are the 40% Cadillac Tax on union workers overly generous benefits, an Excise Tax on Medical Devices (driving up the costs for medical services), an Income Tax on investments of people saving for retirement and college educations, and a couple of other sneaky little taxes..


"Canadian film funding offers far more writer-directors the chance to make a first feature film than a fourth or fifth."

So  Denis Villeneuve goes to work for Hollywood and gets an Oscar nomination,  and Xavier Dolan goes to France.

Meanwhile, I think only 3 out of the 2017 Canada Top Ten movies are English language movies without subtitles. Not exactly a big draw, even in English Canada.


What they saw on Fox News is what the so-called comedians think of them, not what the Left thinks of them.


My tax money already goes into a black hole called public education. We keep dumping money in and getting less in return.


Lol, obviously, Trump is as great a leader, as great of an American, as he is a Christian.


As if we needed more, here is more proof that Trudeau doesn't have a clue.  He doesn't understand the Canadian economy, he cares not for Canadians' prosperity.  His duplicitous carbon tax will erase any middle class income tax roll-back that he promised, and cost plenty more.

This knot-head of a prime minister will cost us all dearly by the time we get rid of him in 2019.  Just wait till he has to go toe-to-toe with Trump, when Trump is steering our largest trading partner's economy in one direction and Jr. is determined to head in the other.

Sunny Ways indeed!


The legislature should have said no in 2015.    Kirk would have raised property taxes and right now we would have a new mayor and city council.   Let the mayor and city council put some skin in the game.


I'm imagining two evangelical Christian law graduates, each holding the same views on sex and marriage. The first grad comes from the U of T, the second comes from TWU. Their qualifications to be lawyers are equally shining. However, LSUC might accept the first but would automatically reject the second. Why would LSUC engage in such discrimination? Because it disapproves of a discriminatory rule at TWU.

I get it that a portion of LSUC's membership wished to make a political statement on TWU's policy. And had it just been a statement, no harm would've been done. But now harm is being done. It will be up to the Supreme Court of Canada to determine which harm, TWU's or LSUC's, is the greater.

LSUC has tied itself to a position that is legally and ethically questionable, if not hypocritical. They'll be lucky if the Supreme Court bails them out of the mess by ruling against them.


Nacissistic rave in Phoenix.

All the enablers gather to celebrate the meltdown.

GOP is backed into a corner.  They cannot rationalize that.


Actually THatcher, they claimed they were over there doing charity work.
Talk about twisting facts....


Morneau is using the left wing buzzword "fair".  Thus whole exercise is about inflamming opinion in the hope that the " soak the rich" crowd votes liberal instead of ndp, which makes your position particularly hypocritical


A trenchant point which I suppose will be ignored.

As you know the Church's infallibility conceit makes it difficult to abandon "the relics of bad theology."


nope. I know patients who require four lbs. a year or more and this requires at least 25 plants assuming one crop grown outdoors in southern Canada and yielding 2-3 oz per plant.


You really should brush up on how our govt works. Are you one of those imports who move here just to scream about trump.


"At least 27 oil trains have been involved in major derailments, fires or oil spills in the United States and Canada in the past decade, according to an AP analysis of accident records."

 It is non-intuitive for me, but apparently pipelines are not necessarily safer.

There have been over 200 oil-pipeline accidents in the United States since the year 2000, the causes of which ranged from natural disasters to negligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century


Whoa!  Where did you get this nonsense? Oh, from an unnamed source."


I just received their fundraising e-mail .Sweet!!


I have no problems with religious hospitals and hospices, filled with great people doing great work.

But you only have to glance briefly at history to see numerous examples of these wonderful institutions inflicting and prolonging horrific pain and suffering on their patients because 'it is God's will'.

Religion fought antibiotics tooth and nail, pushed hard against insulin, and many are still trying to stop vaccines of all types. Think of the lengthy and still ongoing religious fight against women's health. Remember when Catholic bishops went on TV telling parents it was a sin to give their girls the cancer-fighting HPV vaccine - that wasn't a one-off. In lots of countries religion fights to keep abortion illegal even when the woman's life is in jeopardy.

History has taught us that taking religion out of medicine makes our hospitals more ethical, not less. And the less say my priest has on my end-of-life decisions, frankly the more right my decision will be for me.


And people celebrate St. Patrick's Day every March 17, but you don't complain about that.


Just for starters:
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel" is often sung incorrectly by too many parish music leaders who have no training in reading music. What happens is that they put a long rest after Emmanuel  in the line "Rejoice, rejoice, Emmanuel shall come to thee O Israel." I hope people remember not to do this in the approaching Advent season.
Re recessionals, they should be fairly simple tunes which can be sung by the congregation and in the case of recessionals, as they are leaving the church (a recessional is after all just that - a recessional).
Far too often the "recessional" turns out to be a six or even seven stanza hymn which goes on and on and congregation look at their watches after the fourth stanza wondering how long this is going to go on for - completely spoils it.
(I will discuss my pet hate - the song "Here I am to worship" in part 2).


Fish farms are a really bad idea.
Environmentally, and nutritionally.
It may look like salmon, but it sure isn't. You are what you eat.
Farmed salmon eat a lot of unnatural chemicals that you don't want your children eating.


50,001 homeowners claims.  Adjuster just inspected my home today.  Yowza....it got nailed.


You forgot Chretien.


Five comments and you've come to a conclusion.  I hope you don't work for a polling firm.


In your world, when one doesn't sell land, but merely the right to buy it, it should be taxed as if it were a land transfer?  That defies logic.  Any profit made by selling a right-to-purchase is taxable under present income tax rules.  But if you don't sell land, how can you charge a land transfer tax?

Using your logic, if you buy pork belly futures on the stock market, you'd have to pay GST on the value of the hogs you have the right to buy, even though you haven't bought any hogs.


Bombardier is a $16-billion high-technology company on a growth path to $25-billion..
Then why do you need government support?


I had no idea pot was selling for those prices!  (BTW, welcome to Eugene...and life!, George) since the day I got here 40 years ago, I've been in a circle of folks living a lifestyle copacetic to growing marijuana. (hugs if I know you) not necessarily involved, but I never paid  for what was some of the earliest, best damn sensimilla available (yeeHA! had to explain to people what it meant, and yes - big boast)  these folks were some of the innovators.  it was the women who "suggested" cloning - we'd nicked plant starts forever.
++++
 I would guess the money to be made by the dispensaries was excellent at first, slowed down and now is shrinking slowly.  there are so many, some owners are their own suppliers and  there is a lot of garbage in the dispensaries.  with the hub bub of dispensary owners not paying that 25% tax to the gov, I went to several...smelling bottles and chatting.  no -one knew anything about a tax not being paid and there was one passing crap as a "thai stick".


"We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence....But the answer is that the law does all that is needed when it does all that it can, indicates a policy, applies it to all within the lines, and seeks to bring within the lines all similary situated so far and so fast as its means allow. Of course so far as the operations enable those who otherwise must be kept confined to be returned to the world, and thus open the asylum to others, the equality aimed at will be more nearly reached."
Judgement Affirmed
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/274/200.html


So why were the comments shut down on the article about the altercation at the Gay Pridefest event?


I am not certain what is worse:  The fact that there are clearly cash for access opportunities for Ministers on government projects or the fact that, at $1500 a plate, that Ministerial access can be procured so inexpensively!


Disagree.  I think the Liberals made this meeting intending it to fail.  The annual increase used to be 6% and is flexible for the first time in a decade.  The provinces would accept 5.2%, the feds offer 3.5%, refuse to negotiate and can now give a 0% increase and blame it on the provinces.

The PR phrasing has already begun with Phillpotts' whiny "kids with mental health problems" line; the Libs came into this with a marketing strategy to distract from it really being a cold calculated act to help out their budget.


I'm sure they Ryerson Student's union (not the vast majority of students) would love to see the name of the University changed to 'the indigenous, gender fluid, communist institute'.

Seriously, Ryerson aside from it's journalism program is pretty much the last resort for students with marginal grades, guess most of the student union fall into this category as they are already working on a career as activists shaking down taxpayers so they can lead a life of leisure and high pay under the guise of scholarship.

This is what it boils down to, they want other people to pay them, and pay them well as they are not qualified to do anything.  Why do you think they attack science and facts so vigorously?


Good for Bennet.
He got it right.
Rs need to learn how to chew gum and walk at the same time.
Investigate the election hack to its conclusion (find the blue dress) and act on the evidence.
meanwhile, the country needs leadership and action on the issues that were obstructed for so long by regressives.
Rs need to learn how to govern for the people now that they've caught the bus.


While this is cool, it still lacks that person teaching in the moment.


ANMC already has plenty of access, and there are no documented cases of "congestion" impacting health care at that facility or Providence. Yes, UAA is a cluster in between classes, but convenience isn't worth the impact on wildlife and residents, nor the fiscal burden during a massive budget crisis.


Yes the climate has been changing for billions of years and will continue to change for billions more give or take a few million years.


Why do so many people view Trump's withdrawal from an agreement that would cost the U.S. over two trillion dollars, as him saying that the U.S. won't continue to curb emissions?  He never said we would stop cutting emissions; he said we would not pay for other countries' rulers to take our money and not put it towards the intended purpose.
I like having a businessman looking at, and cutting, our expenditures!


Who cares what was said, reading into the sentence a little bit?  As I asked, what would have been your response?


aa miller again!,, cant refute or make an argument on his points so as usual you lunatic lefties can only insult! proving as usual how empty and pathetic the left is


That's generally my philosophy, but a cup of cream cheese in the mashed potatoes?


Will Rogers said "The ethics of a nation are only as good as its leaders -- never better."

Given the example of unconstitutional, illegal killing (even of American citizens) our presidents have established as precedent by now we shouldn't be surprised there are so many domestic terror incidents, but why there aren't more. It IS all connected.


Putin's grandfather was Stalin's loyal servant, his father was a secret policeman (NKVD), and Putin, the president for life of the so-called Russian federation, was a KBG officer (and is now a billionaire, since he is more corrupt than anyone else in that region) and you are worrying about Freeland's grandfather? Putin didn't fall far from the tree. He IS the tree, from the roots up - a legacy of mass murder, genocide, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, persecution, and imperialism.


Working-class parents often come home too tired to help their kids with school work, if they even have the background to do that. They cannot afford all the activities that middle-class parents enroll their kids in, and drive them to, to enrich their educations. It is also hard to have aspirations beyond those of your parents when you haven't lived that life growing up. We tend to go towards what feels "normal" to us and be tense with what doesn't.

I grew up in a home that went back and forth economically between working-class and poor. My mother had a high school education. My father had two years of college but never made much money. But they were both heavy readers and there were always a lot of paperbacks around the house. By the age of 12 I was reading their books, plus whatever I got elsewhere, and the habit was established. In my opinion reading is the key to knowledge. It is difficult to understand anything without reading.


just as good as you.

  The powers that be in America and around the world do not want change. That's why change doesn't happen. It's a continuous drift to the right wing.
  First, Obama was beholden to Wall Street so he wasn't the left winger he pretended to be. You can't blame his failed presidency entirely on the Republicans.
  Second, Trump won power by attacking parts of the establishment and pretending to be the friend of workers, but he is very much part of the establishment. The establishment doesn't want change and Trump doesn't want change. His crazy ideas are mere entertainment for his supporters. The illusion of change is election bait for voters like a lure for fish.
  Third, Michelle Obama and George Dubya Bush are now buddies. The establishment is like a giant vending machine that doesn't give change.


Gross.
Water, barley, hops and yeast.

That is all you need to make a great beer. Quit putting garbage in beer.


" McCain is one of few Republicans willing to stand up for the American story."  Unfortunate that Brooks couldn't resist partisanship.  It is that very partisanship that provides the foundation of our currently dysfunctional political environment.  McCain is an American first, a republican second.  Whereas Brooks is apparently the opposite, i.e. a democrat first and an American second.  It is hard to imagine how the modern liberal came into being.  The liberals who view Americans first as members of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender groups rather than as simply Americans.  The modern fake liberal is death to universality and solidarity.  Some day they will have all of us fighting between our little perceived groups, white supremacists, white males, feminists, blacks, illegal aliens, gays, and the list goes on.  Identity with the little group rather than as Americans.


that sort of loyalty has been dead for a long time


Admired is right, but don't let the facts bother you.  Sheriff deputies in Denver are not POST-certified.


@The G&M monitor= why “censured” this comment ?
The “Montréal Peace Treaty” provided a framework for relations between the signatory Aboriginal nations and its terms remained fresh in their collective memory.
The chiefs of these nations often had occasion to evoke the terms of the treaty, even at the very end of the century, and recall all the advantages that it had bestowed.
The magnificent splendour of this ceremony highlighted the importance of this treaty, which has become one of the great pages in the history of Canada (aka New France), the First Nations and North America.
See images and the original French and 40 tribes pictograms signatures (on Google)= The Great Peace of Montréal
(PS...but no one from the 13 British warrior colonies/
preparing the Ohio Valley’s “invasion” against First Nations ?)


They are trading the coal fired plants for some solar panels, rice, and tea.


This lazy, poorly written article cites no sources. The most authoritative source for pollen levels in Eugene provides objective counts which differ from the levels described in the article.
http://www.oregonallergyassociates.com/pollen-counts.html


China is literally building new territory for itself in the South China sea and is not paying any attention to international laws in this regard.  Donald Trump is a strategist and he has a plan with regard to the direction of foreign affairs, particularly considering he intends to cancel America's participation in the TPP.   The "stuck in the mud" and two-faced approach of the USA together with the dysfunctional United Nations both need change and a fresh approach.  And you need only look at the evolution of the middle east mess as just one example of that.


When they finally see the light and ordain women. Gay Bishops and Cardinals will then be less insecure and stop the self hatred.


Oh Boy, Hollywood strikes again. You know how many times I've been stopped by the COPS while I was walking in the last 10 years? 4 Times! 1 guy, 1 time, patted down pants and asked me why they were damp near the ankles - turns out I'd walked through a patch of grass 1/2 an hour after a rain shower, and that was Suspicious? Whatever. Do you know how many times I've been mistaken for an Employee at Loblaws, Bestbuy, or Leon's? More times than I can count on 1 hand. 1 time 20 odd yrs ago I was sitting in a Psychiatric interview session with an old friend who'd been hospitalized after a suicide attempt, and I'd told the (white) shrink about how I was aiming to get the highest Grades in at least 5 of my Grade 13 (OAC) classes, and she said quite incredulously (& rudely): You think you're smart enough to do that? So... the only difference is, that I didn't immediately attribute all this to my Whiteness, I guess since Hollywood hadn't Clobbered me over the Head with Race-War-Histrionics.


Hi James:    "...  PP isn't an arm of the federal government anymore than General Dynamics ..."  OK, I think that we're making some progress here.  :)  And just like a Federal contract with, say, Halliburton, there is nothing in the law that says said contracts ought to be extended infinitely into the future and never come up for renegotiation, or indeed, termination.  Right?

"... you ask the absurd question ..."   Why absurd?  In many ways, taking PP fully 'private' as a charitable foundation makes eminently good sense.  As EN noted, quite a share of PP's funding already comes from such entities as the Gates Foundation or the Pew Charitable Trusts.  Take it all the way to 100% by dunning the stable of rich liberals I mentioned (who all could easily afford to fork up a few $10s of millions each - most of them, every year!), and look at the advantages.  Free of any remaining Federal restrictions.  Out of the crosshairs of the Culture Wars.  In the friendlier state jurisdictions ...


Dogs teach us so much, about resilience, about love, about life. You are lucky to have found each other. Thanks for writing this piece.


Bill,

Since I do not know you I have only the energy, persistence and tone of your criticisms of others by which to measure your motives. Often the difference between one who suggests others might want to leave the church and one who persecutes others is not having the power to actually do it.


We are speaking about Eugene's homeless, not a national situation. Yes, I am aware of studies of homeless, but Eugene's situation is radically different: you seem aware of many studies but not the one recently conducted about the homeless situation in your very own city's downtown. I suppose you wish to conduct this discussion on a superficial plane, but I would ask you consider reality for a moment. My entire discussion is centered on OUR situation, not the state or nation.


So your 91 year old dead beat neighbor has nothing to do with Paul22's point.


Actually, current estimates put the total unfunded pension liabilities closer to $400-Billion.  That's money the private sector taxpayer is on the hook for.

I've seen our future, and it looks much like Greece.


What's good for the goose is good for the gander.


Translation, you believe in God and perhaps Creationism and are offended.  That is your right.  Supporting science in all aspects is hers.

And by the way, you are now being nasty.


Is it only me, or does anyone else find it ironic that Equifax is trying to make up for their boo-boo by offering identity theft protection?

If it weren't for their lax security, nearly 145M people would have little to worry about!

Given that we have no say in whether our personal information is collected by such firms, I think a class action lawsuit would be appropriate if they aren't forthcoming with quick and generous restitution to anyone who is victimized through their carelessness.


I moved to Denver 30 years ago with some time away and every so often I heard about the redemption of the Five Points neighborhood. One who has read these stories along the way has to hope they are finally true. You can call me a skeptic yet.


First, I don't lie.

I never said you complained about an individual poster, did I? I said you complained. And you did. If I recall the circumstance correctly, you were chastised for uncivil remarks or excessive down voting- I don't remember which.

When you came on a while ago to make your grand farewell, you were so gracious to posters who said " I am going to write to them on your behalf." Don't you think that encouraged people? And you have encouraged posters to write to CC on issues such as blocking.

Let's stop this now. It is disruptive to the actual conversation. It only seems to encourage the one who was corrected, the one I did complain about, the one I told I would complain - for I do nothing behind-the-back - to join in the attack.. It is not fair to the other posters. Have a nice day


Yes, that's a good point, inlanikai.  Maybe they get there with that, but HART wouldn't release their most recent projections, and that makes me wonder about their current estimates.


I'm not a lawyer either, but from what I've read about Marbury vs. Madison, the issue of judicial review was tangential but also consequential. Also, it seems judicial review is addressed in some detail in Article III of the Constitution and pretty much defines what the courts can review. Basically, the courts are authorized to review laws.
As to lower courts erring in their decisions, the 9th Circuit seems to hold the record for reversals.
Finally, I think President Trump acted entirely within his authority and within the law to issue restrictions on immigration and that Judge Robart and the other judges who placed temporary restraining orders on President Trumps executive directive exceeded their authority.


Thanks for the comments, Frank. The whole agreement has been posted. Not sure why you couldn't see the first three pages.


I am not sure I understand your statement, "gun-enforced government coercion of redistribution".  Can clarify or elaborate?


In fact, that was also said about many earlier waves of immigration by short-sighted angry nativists.


The problem with Amazon is that it forces prices to the very bottom even if they have to sell below cost to take market share.
The only way to succeed is to be the manufacturer selling directly to the consumer. That eliminates all of the companies and jobs in between the two. You can say that's good  - it certainly results in lower prices - but when there are no retail stores from which to see, select, buy and obtain service I think it will not end well.


Stiff Upper Lip: "it was all just pillow talk" . Perfect summary of Trump's campaign.


Marcus Kauffmann and M.S. Dunne are volunteer members of INDIVISIBLE Eugene. We are all passionate about our mission and were shocked and horrified by the election of Trump.


Canada has an ILLEGAL dairy market, If DeBeers people try to enter the States they would be arrests for a monopoly market by hoarding product and only supplying enough to keep the price as high as they can.We do the same for milk .America and most coubtries have laws that stop this practice Milk and all Dairy boards lobbies in Ottawa and won over peoples rights.Dont give me that crap what Canada does is legal or ethical


Yes, I'm sure the anti-ruralism and condescension coming from your particular class plays no role in their animus whatsoever.


"I don't understand the progressive left.."
WALLe, excellent question.  At the risk of collecting scowls I'll  suggest some  answers--
As  a  liberal I do find some of the practices of Sharia objectionable, and if someone were actually trying to force Sharia on us I'd be out in the streets protesting with you.  However, as no such threat exists, I'd say the American thing to do when it comes to religion is "live and let live."
Not all Islamic societies enforce Sharia or similar values, though Saudi Arabia, Trump's current friend, unfortunately does.
More important, one can find similar teachings  in the Old Testament used by Christians or the similar Tanakh used by Jews.  Some horrific stuff-- stoning of adulterers, wayward sons and non-believers; God's command to trick another tribe's men into circumcision so they could slaughter them, etc....
But such  fundamentalist abominations are not  practiced by most America's Jews and Christians, just as with most America's Muslims today.


Please don't insult 11 year olds.  I would have been seriously upset with my kids if they'd acted that way at age 11.


To answer your claim that Hillzilla wasn't fired I will agree from the Snopes link you provided that appears to be the case. It would seem
Jerry Zeiman, another democrat member of the Judiciary committee who later claimed he fired her, appears to have the same revisionist memory problems that Hillzilla did when she remembered coming under fire in Bosina. It's a good illustration of situational ethics at work...  that she must defend the facts in her favor in one case while mis-remembering the facts to curry favor in another.

Focus on one and hammer it because you don't want to address the rest then? I'm intensely interested, please document the inaccuracy of the rest of the laundry list of dangerously egregious (at worst, embarrassingly pedestrian at best) acts of corruption and manipulation this oh so outstanding candidate has following her around...Travelgate, PayforPlay, Looting WH, Whitewater, IRS Gestapo, Emailgate, Filegate, Chinagate, Pardongate, Tysongate etc etc ad nauseam.