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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

New York Times Editorial Board | Why Are Republicans Covering Up Brett Kavanaugh's Past?




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New York Times Editorial Board | Why Are Republicans Covering Up Brett Kavanaugh's Past? 
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: AP)
The New York Times Editorial Board
Excerpt: "Judge Brett Kavanaugh's supporters have spent the last month lavishing him with acclaim. He's a legal superstar, they say, one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees in history. So why are Senate Republicans so afraid of letting Americans learn more about him?"
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Soldiers walk by Tiananmen in Beijing, China. (photo: AP)
Soldiers walk by Tiananmen in Beijing, China. (photo: AP)

Alfred McCoy | Beijing's Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump
Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch
McCoy writes: "As the second year of Donald Trump's presidency and sixth of Xi Jinping's draws to a close, the world seems to be witnessing one of those epochal clashes that can change the contours of global power."
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Prison inmates lay water pipes on a work project outside Oak Glen Conservation Fire Camp #35 in Yucaipa, California, November 6, 2014. (photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
Prison inmates lay water pipes on a work project outside Oak Glen Conservation Fire Camp #35 in Yucaipa, California, November 6, 2014. (photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

US Inmates Stage Nationwide Prison Labor Strike Over 'Modern Slavery'
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "On Tuesday, America's vast army of incarcerated men and women - at 2.3m of them they form by far the largest imprisoned population in the world - will brace itself for what has the potential to be the largest prison strike in US history."
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Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)
Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock)

I Just Hacked a State Election. I'm 17. And I'm Not Even a Very Good Hacker.
River O'Connor, Politico
O'Connor writes: "It took me around 10 minutes to crash the upcoming midterm elections."
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Businessmen on Wall Street. (photo: AP)
Businessmen on Wall Street. (photo: AP)

Why Do American CEOs Get Paid So Much?
James K. Galbraith, Guardian UK
Galbraith writes: "A new report from the Economic Policy Institute calls attention to the hardy perennial of how much America's corporate titans make: bosses of the top 350 firms made an average of $18.9m in 2017."
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600 Rohingya have been arrested over the past year for their role in the drug business, authorities say. (photo: Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera)
600 Rohingya have been arrested over the past year for their role in the drug business, authorities say. (photo: Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera)

'I Carry Yaba to Survive': Rohingya and Bangladesh's Meth Trade
Linah Alsaafin, Al Jazeera
Alsaafin writes: "Bangladesh has for years struggled to cope with a surging drug epidemic, at the heart of which is a wildly popular meth pill smuggled into the country from neighbouring Myanmar."
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Extreme heat waves are frequently cited as one of the most direct effects of man-made climate change. (photo: WLFI)
Extreme heat waves are frequently cited as one of the most direct effects of man-made climate change. (photo: WLFI)

Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due to Arctic Warming
Jonathan Watts, Guardian UK
Watts writes: "Summer weather patterns are increasingly likely to stall in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, according to a new climate study that explains why Arctic warming is making heatwaves elsewhere more persistent and dangerous."
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