[NR] Jill Abramson, the erstwhile executive editor of the New York Times, argues in a forthcoming book that her former employer abandoned objectivity in its White House coverage in an effort to pander to its liberal readers.
In the book, Merchants of Truth, Abramson, who served as the Times’s first and only female executive editor until she was fired in 2014, accuses her successor Dean Baquet of allowing the paper’s purportedly straight news coverage to become infected with anti-Trump bias, according to Fox News.
"Though Baquet said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump. Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis," Abramson writes. She further suggests that such biased news coverage is driven by younger staffers who feel the negative implications of the Trump presidency have rendered the journalistic status quo obsolete.
"The more ’woke’ staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump’s presidency obviated the old standards," Abramson writes.
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What are these "dangers of Trump’s presidency" they keep talking about? Less regulation? More personal liberties? Less obeisance to the imperial "press"?
[Aljazeera] Hitchhiking through Venezuela some years ago, a friend and I availed ourselves of the novel opportunity to receive free medical care at health clinics established by late President Hugo Chavez, a much-vilified enemy of the international capitalist order.
I had never experienced the danger of free healthcare in my own homeland - that glorious vanguard of capitalism known as the United States - which was too busy waging wars and otherwise facilitating obscene corporate profit accumulation to be bothered with basic human rights. At one Venezuelan clinic, a female doctor from Cuba appropriately remarked that, like the US military, Cuban medics also operated in global conflict zones - but to save lives.
A December 2017 statement from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights notes that, while the US manages to spend "more [money] on national defence than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined", US infant mortality rates were, as of 2013, "the highest in the developed world".
The Special Rapporteur provides a barrage of other details from his own visit to the US, during which he was able to observe the country's "bid to become the most unequal society in the world" - with some 40 million people living in poverty - as well as assess "soaring death rates and family and community destruction wrought by prescription and other drug addiction".
Capitalism, it seems, is a deadly business indeed.
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Yes, USA has a high infant mortality rate because we don't simply abort-away problems, we try to save them which doesn't always work. Only a scoundral would use that stat.
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I did a lot of research on the Cuban health care system working on my PhD in Heathcare Administration.
The biggest kicker to their system is they don't treat doctors like royalty. They expect them to do their residency in public health clinics providing free care to the low ecostrata and they spend a lot of time and effort on preventive medicine and prenatal/post partum health care.
If we can ever get these snot nosed kids in medical school to not expect to make $500K a year as soon as they graduate, it would be a start.
Ask the people seeking medical care (Cuban or otherwise) in VZ right now how much they like it.
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..its that 500K a year that draws the sharks lawyers who are able to play on that greed. Given the 'profession' does a lousy job of self policing, the fall back is often the tort system. All of which end up adding even more costs to medical care. The socialist don't have the same expensive 'legal' system either (or Bill of Rights therein).
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If we can ever get these snot nosed kids in medical school to not expect to make $500K a year as soon as they graduate, it would be a start.
In the UK they have to import doctors from the third world because not enough locals want to spend the long hours studying their butts off for an average paycheck.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump pointed to a 10-foot security wall around the Obama’s "mansion/compound" as he called for a wall along the U.S. border Sunday.
"President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound," Trump wrote. "I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version!"
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President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version!
The federal government is in the midst of a partial government shutdown as Congressional Republicans and Democrats have failed to produce a funding bill that would include monies for building a southern border wall and border security. The partial shutdown officially began after midnight the Friday before Christmas, but the first several days of it included weekend and already schedule holiday days off including Christmas Day.
President Trump made clear that he will not sign a bill that fails to include border wall funding that he said Congressional Republicans promised him before he signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus funding bill earlier this year. He has called for a compromised $5 billion in border wall and border security funding that Trump requires in order to sign a bill to end the partial government shutdown.
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Slate Mag had a damage-control piece that Oblahblah's was not a Wall-Wall. Just a wall with fencing and a guard shack - around the entire perimeter
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Oblahblah's was not a Wall-Wall
As soon as Obama's personal wall was mentioned, you just knew a storm of logic-chopping and hand-waving about how a wall to keep people out is not the same as a wall to keep people out. Let's throw in a gratuitous reference to the Berlin Wall too, because Wall Bad!
(and if you are thinking about the Great Wall of China, just shut up!)
BLUF:
[Townhall] Romney criticized not only Trump's foreign policy, of course, but his character as well.
To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation. A president should unite us and inspire us to follow "our better angels." A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect. As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit. With the nation so divided, resentful and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable. And it is in this province where the incumbent’s shortfall has been most glaring.
Brad Parscale, who runs Trump's re-election campaign, suggested that the incoming senator is just jealous that Trump succeeded where he couldn't.
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The Left has always been angry. All they have to sell is hate. You think you can reason with them? It's about power. Everyone is expendable to achieve that goal. That is why Mr. Trump is the president you couldn't be. Enjoy the Quisling McCain Memorial Senatorial seat.
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Romney hates the Evangelicals who voted for Trump but that didn't turn out for him and make him President because they thought his religion was a bit weird.
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Hmmm...both came from family money. One could talk to the working people, the other talks only to the ruling caste. One is actually doing something for the working class, the other is pandering to the ruling caste. I think we can explain why one became president and the other did not. This one is going to follow the Bushes (among the ruling caste) model. Probably decent personable people, but dropping that mask when the time comes to call on which center of power they orbit.
Poor Senator Romney. Had he not returned to Washington, DC, he never would have known he ought to spend his time where he’ll be appreciated, Still, he’s a pragmatic man — perhaps he’ll decide to come to terms with the current reality.
[National Review] Insulated coastal elites, impoverished immigrants, and a fleeing middle class
California ranks first among the states in the percentage of residents over 25 who have never finished the ninth grade‐ 9.7 percent of California residents, or about 4 million Californians. It also rates 49th in the number of state residents who never graduated from high school ‐ or about 18 percent of the current population.
In other words, about 7 million Californians do not possess a high-school diploma, about equal to the size of the nine counties of California’s Bay Area, roughly from Napa to Silicon Valley. In some sense, inside California, there is a shadow state consisting of high-school dropouts that’s larger than 38 other U.S. states.
Yet California also is home to some of the most highly educated municipalities in the United States. In fact, Palo Alto claims that 40 percent of its city population has an M.A, degree or higher, making it No. 1 among American cities with a population above 50,000.
In the same ranking of wealthiest communities, two other California municipalities, nearby Cupertino and Mountain View, were also in the top ten. How can a single state be calibrated as both so educated and so uneducated?
In many global ratings of world research universities, California has four universities (Cal Tech, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UCLA) in the top 20 ‐ more than any other single nation except the United States itself. Yet the 23-campus California State University system ‐ the largest university in the world ‐ has a student body in which about 20 percent are not proficient in English. The remediation rate (unable to meet minimum college admittance standards in math and English) of incoming freshmen was about 35 percent ‐ at least until such gradations, along with required remedial education, were recently considered archaic, offensive, or worse, and thus scrapped. This is one of Hanson's longer rants. Read the whole thing at the link. One of my favorite parts that debunks the liberal plague theory...
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This reinforces my intention to never set foot in CA again.
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Since posting this piece by Hanson I've been thinking about some of my own observations of California farms vs Midwestern farms. I've spent some time in the Midwest. When you drive through the Midwestern countryside you see a lot of farms and most of them have a nice, big farmhouse where the farmer and his family live. These are family farms. I've even visited some of these farms, I have relatives who are farmers. I didn't see many immigrants there.
In California's Central Valley and also around Salinas I see vast fields where they grow fruits and vegetables. But it isn't pretty like in the Midwest and I see no farmhouses, not like the ones in the Midwest. The houses I see are...well, not shacks but not pretty. They're small stucco affairs and kinda dirty looking. Actually, some of them are shacks. I can't imagine a prosperous farmer and his family living in such a dump and yet these are vast, highly productive farms. I suspect the people who live in these places are not the owners of the farm but hired hands. I think the owners are all big agribusiness corporations whose shareholders live in cities. Without cheap, imported labor the California farms would simply not work. It's a whole different kind of operation from the Midwestern farms. I have no idea which method produces the most food but it's easy to see which ones look nicer from the road.
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Further, in California's coastal cities, there is still a thriving middle class. The worker bees must work hard and they must work smart to sustain themselves but when they do it's a pretty nice place to live. We don't live in mansions but a lot of the suburbs are very nice. The weather is unbeatable and the ocean is just down the street.
Please forgive me for being a Californian. I am politically conservative and I know other people who are too. Please don't shoot me when your army gets here. I'm on your side. Really.
Also, there is a price to pay. The taxes are high. The housing costs are astronomical. The commutes are horrendous. The other day we had to kick a homeless bum off of our front lawn. I'm sorry but the homeowners's association employs immigrants to mow the front lawn. I'm told they're here legally and I take care of my own back yard.
I know a lot of people who have either left or are planning to leave. Mrs. Uluque and I have talked about moving but all of our friends and relatives are here. I could never get her to leave.
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The democrat party was founded as the party of slavery. Serfdom is slavery by other means.
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I know a lot of people who have either left or are planning to leave. Mrs. Uluque and I have talked about moving but all of our friends and relatives are here. I could never get her to leave.
A lot of people of a minority faith had the same position in pre-War Germany. Unfortunately for them, the way out wasn't quite as easy as it is here to cross borders (so far).
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Abu Uluque -- I have seen a fair number of dwellings alongside the Ohio Turnpike surrounded by what appear to be gigantic fields. They don't look like typical farmhouses, not as elegant, but basically decent housing. In the summer I have seen families coming & going in the yards, they look like they could be Hispanic. Lots of clothes of various sizes hanging on the clotheslines nearby. I suspect these are for migrant laborer families. I was moving too fast to see the license plates on the vehicles.
[Aljazeera] Twenty days after 15 miners were trapped in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya state, the search for them goes on.
Magurmari, Meghalaya - The only tangible mementoes that Shefali Begum, 18, and Nafisa Begum*, 16, have of their husbands are the 'salwar kameez' (common dress in South Asia) the two brothers had brought for them shortly before heading off to work in an illegal coal mine in northeastern India.
Now, the two women fear they may never see their husbands again.
The brothers Omor Ali, 26, and Shirapat Ali, 25, left their village Magurmari in West Garo Hills of Meghalaya in the first week of December to work at a mine in Ksan on the other side of the state in East Jaintia Hills.
Days later, on December 13, Shefali and Nafisa were told their husbands were among the 15 men trapped in the illegal mine at Ksan when floodwater from a nearby river poured into it.
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sorry, could not get past 5 minutes with that stupid music in the back ground; sort of like a warped good humor driver (insert jack nickolson from the shining here)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NR] Jill Abramson, the erstwhile executive editor of the New York Times, argues in a forthcoming book that her former employer abandoned objectivity in its White House coverage in an effort to pander to its liberal readers.
[Aljazeera] Hitchhiking through Venezuela some years ago, a friend and I availed ourselves of the novel opportunity to receive free medical care at health clinics established by late President Hugo Chavez, a much-vilified enemy of the international capitalist order.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump pointed to a 10-foot security wall around the Obama’s "mansion/compound" as he called for a wall along the U.S. border Sunday.
[Aljazeera] Twenty days after 15 miners were trapped in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya state, the search for them goes on.
