Saudis Admit Khashoggi Murdered
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The Saudis now admit that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. They claim he died in a fist fight.
But the Turks (no friends of press freedom either) say otherwise.
Mike Allen in Axios quotes a “Republican source” on “the reason President Trump is buying the Saudis’ story: “Constraining Iran is the priority and Saudi is a critical ally in that effort. That ‘trumps’ the horrible human rights violation.”
Political Insanity
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Lance Morrow in Thursday’s WSJ makes the point that Trump is becoming normalized, or at least people are getting used to him. Some Never Trumpers are becoming Maybe Trumpers. And even though he’s still a monster to progressives, he’s becoming “a familiar monster.”
Political Insanity
He also sees less armchair diagnosis of the president’s mental state. And, besides, he says “Trump’s peculiarities don’t seem unusual when compared with the extreme bizarreness, not to say pathology, that is routine on the left.”
John Kass calls it “the farce of identity politics gone wild.”
Morrow says people are just tired of “politics as road rage.”
Pow Wow Chow Hound
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Elizabeth Warren released a DNA test to prove her Native American bona fides. But it turns out her Indian blood count is between 1/64 and 1/1,024. Chances are good that’s less than you or me.
Kevin Williamson at National Review thinks the Senator’s Cherokee schtick is like a white person performing in black face.
Isn’t cultural appropriation supposed to be a bad thing among progressives? Isn’t blackface (and brownface) supposed to be an unforgivable sin?
The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass figures, “She’s just an old liberal white woman who wanted to be president and became a clown instead.”
Pow Wow Chow Hound
Clown or not, she contributed to a cook book titled Pow Wow Chow. And her canned tomato crab with mayonnaise recipe didn’t go down well with The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank. He pronounce her “unfit to lead.”
Return to Civility
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According to Rasmussen Voters disagree with Hillary’s endorsement of incivility while Republicans are in control.
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But, “unlike her, they don’t expect a return to civility if Democrats return to power in Congress.”
Mob Psychology
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Trump denounces Democrats as an “angry mob.”
But Democrats insist they’re not a mob.
And Hillary says they’ll stop being a mob when they get back in power.
