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I said: Capitalism can and does provide a rich breeding ground for psychopaths.

You said: A truly absurd opening proposition, utterly devoid of factual backup.

Obviously, the psychopath can be found all over the place and fascist/authoritarian/totalitarian regimes will be prime places to expect them to arrive.

georgeob1 wrote:

Just a couple of pages back Blatham was criticizing any suggestion that the accelerating economic growth; the surge in labor market participation and the rising stock market we have seen over the past six months could not possibly be associated with the rhetoric or policies ( both enacted and promised) of our current President and Congressional majorities.

Again, what I said was that Trump has no warrant to claim his arrival in the WH is causal in the continuance of an existing trend.

A great deal of space here devoted to very little. H0wever it is amusing t0 see Blatham's very defensive parsing of his words and the selective use he makes of statistics. It appears he protests too much.

Yesterday a forum member informed us that the Washington Post is going to be in big trouble. Yeah, I'm sure they print this stuff before consulting with their legal team....

Rosenstein ready to prosecute 'anybody who breaks the law' in effort to stop leaks

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein acknowledged Sunday that “anybody who breaks the law” -- including White House staffers and members of Congress -- could be prosecuted, as the Justice Department heightens its efforts to stop leaks of classified information.

Rosenstein reiterated what Sessions said Friday about reviewing department policies on subpoenaing reporters to force them to reveal sources.

remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents,” Cuomo says. “It’s different for the media, so everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us. And, in full discloure, here let's take a look at what is in there, and what it means.

Gutfeld: Media Is Chasing Rabbits and Missing Whales

Conservative whiners--the rare phenomenon of the sore winners. I love the way establishment Republicans are so anxious to distance themselves from President Plump.

The White House C-Words

The danger of a pop-culture presidency is that real events, including political land mines, don’t get noticed. This week, the Trump presidency had a near-death experience.


It wasn’t the health-care failure. That left the Republican Party, not Donald Trump, with one foot in the grave. The noteworthy event for Mr. Trump was the vote in the House and Senate to impose sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea.

The sanctions themselves are notable, but the big story was the extraordinary vote totals. In the House, the sanctions bill passed 419-3 and 98-2 in the Senate.

No other issue in the political firmament would produce such lopsided votes, and the reason for it wasn’t Russia. This was a no-confidence vote in a sitting American president. One Republican senator told us privately, “We just don’t trust him on Russia.” A second senator independently confirmed the vote was a hedge against Mr. Trump’s chameleon-like behavior on Vladimir Putin.

Incidentally, a short memo about that sanctions vote for the progressive celebrities still weeping about the “death of our democracy”: The American system of checks and balances works. With the Obama White House, which tried to reorder the country by executive decree, constraints came from the judicial branch. The Russia sanctions vote shows that the checks on Mr. Trump, if necessary, will be legislative.

What is happening here in midsummer is that the Trump presidential adventure has arrived at another of its routine tipping points. Indeed, Mr. Trump’s most remarkable attribute may be that he has a gyroscopic ability not to tip over completely. After caroming around for a week with White House departures, the president appointed Mr. Kelly, whose job description while leading the Marines in Iraq’s Anbar Province included getting things done with powerful tribal chiefs. He should get along fine with Donald Trump.


Far be it from me to load the future of the republic onto John Kelly, but a lot of people in government just now are in duty-to-country mode.

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4 female escorts charged with murder in death of man who stopped to fix flat tire

Four women from an escort service have been charged with killing a Missouri man who stopped to help them when their car got a flat tire, according to reports.

Deputies say Ralph Cross, 55, of Wilson City, wound up paying for his act of kindness Tuesday with a bullet to the back.

Consumer groups are making a last ditch effort to stop the Trump administration from stripping nursing home residents and their families of the right to take facilities to court over alleged abuse, neglect or sexual assault.