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Garrison Keillor | Winter Is Winter, It's Not the Tribulation
Garrison Keillor, Garrison Keillor's Website Keillor writes: "It irks me, the notion that winter is a dreadful tribulation. Weather forecasts delivered in funereal tones as if two or three inches of snow were an outbreak of typhus, a front-page story about a snowstorm 'lashing' New England." READ MORE Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, was upset after the president ordered him to write the memo, according to Andrew McCabe's book. (photo: Leah Millis/Reuters)
Rosenstein Did Not Want to Write Memo Justifying Comey Firing, According to New Book
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK Swaine writes: "The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered by president Donald Trump to write the notorious memo justifying the firing of the FBI director James Comey, according to Comey's former deputy." READ MORE Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Doug Mills/Getty)
The Supreme Court Just Handed Down a Truly Shocking Attack on Muslims
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress Millhiser writes: "The issue in this case is not whether Mr. Ray may be executed, it is whether a Muslim inmate is entitled to be treated exactly the same way as a Christian while that inmate is being executed." READ MORE Native American protesters marched to the National Butterfly Center in South Texas this morning to oppose border wall construction. (photo: Gus Bova/Facebook)
"We've Had Enough": Native Americans and Environmentalists Are in a Last-Ditch Fight Over a Border Wall in Texas
Claudia Koerner, BuzzFeed Koerner writes: "Environmentalists, landowners, and tribal members say a 30-foot-tall barrier will cause irreversible disruption in the Rio Grande Valley." READ MORE Workers protest against Google's handling of sexual misconduct allegations and gender equality at the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters in November. (photo: Noah Berger/AP)
New Trump Policy Makes It Easier for Big Tech to Discriminate, Insiders Say
Sam Levin, Guardian UK Levin writes: "The Trump administration is making it easier for tech companies to discriminate against workers, with a policy that impedes efforts to close the gender pay gap in Silicon Valley, current and former US labor officials said." READ MORE Market in Venezuela. (photo: EPA)
US Media Ignore - and Applaud - Economic War on Venezuela
Gregory Shupak, FAIR Shupak writes: "The US media chorus supporting a US overthrow of the Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country's economic crisis as a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US has strangled the Venezuelan economy." READ MORE Excavation equipment is used to search for an oil leak close to where the TransCanada Corp's Keystone oil pipeline runs through northern St. Charles County off of Highway C on Thursday, February 7, 2019. (photo: David Carson/St. Louis Dispatch)
Keystone Pipeline Shutdown After Leak Near Mississippi River in Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Excerpt: "TransCanada said Friday its Keystone pipeline is likely the source of an oil leak in St. Charles County." READ MORE |
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Garrison Keillor | Winter Is Winter, It's Not the Tribulation
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