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There’s Too Much Virtue in Politics (WSJ)
George Orwell wrote a letter in 1938 to the poet Stephen Spender, in which he in effect registered his regret at having finally met Spender. The reasons for this might amuse. Before their encounter, Orwell reports, he had disdained Spender as a “parlour Bolshie because a. your verse, what I had read of it, did not mean very much to me, b. I looked upon you as a sort of fashionable successful person, also a Communist or Communist sympathiser, & I have been very hostile to the C.P. since about 1935, & c. because not having met you I could regard you as a type & also an abstraction.” [Read More]
Baltimore Police trying to recruit ‘millennial, local, minority, female’ officers (WJLA)
Baltimore officials want to attract “millennial, local, minority, female” candidates to fill 90 officer vacancies in its troubled police department.
The Baltimore Sun reports the city is seeking bids from marketing firms by Aug. 15 to create a social media marketing campaign. [Read More]
At Stratford Hall in Virginia, birthplace of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a group of K-12 teachers gathered recently to talk about slavery and how to teach it.
How do you convey the horror without horrifying the kids? How do you help them see the inhumanity of the past and its effect on the present? How do you explain the unexplainable to a child when many adults can hardly bear to look? [Read More]
Trump urges Attorney General Sessions to end Russia probe (Fox News)
President Trump called Wednesday for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation “right now,” alleging bias on the investigative team and complaining about the trial of his former campaign chairman.
“This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further,” Trump tweeted. “Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!” [Read More]
Noncitizens across U.S. find it easy to register to vote, cast ballots (The Washington Times)
A Russian national or any other noncitizen can easily influence a U.S. election by simply registering to vote in California — just ask Elizaveta Shuvalova.
Ms. Shuvalova said she didn’t even know her name was added to the San Francisco voter rolls in 2012, when she was a 21-year-old Russian citizen living legally in the U.S. but ineligible to vote.
“I’ve never registered for anything in my entire life,” said Ms. Shuvalova, who became a U.S. citizen early last year. “This is news to me.” [Read More]
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