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Thanksgiving anxiety: How to avoid political talk at the dinner table (Fox 8)
Holidays often provoke stress, especially in families strained by emotional tensions, economic challenges, or grief. After the 2016 election, however, that stress metastasized into a full-on cultural disorder: American Thanksgiving Anxiety.
Although I’m pretty sure I’m the first to name it, there is real evidence of such a disorder. Social scientists Keith Chen and Ryne Rohla discovered that Americans significantly shortened Thanksgiving dinners in recent years, especially when spending the holiday with relatives of the opposite political party. Democrats celebrating Thanksgiving in Republican areas spent 20-40 minutes less time over the meal; Republicans visiting Democratic relations reduced holiday visits by 50-70 minutes. [Read More]
Most Americans would agree that Congress needs to do more to get our nation’s finances under control.
But Congress critters aren’t most Americans.
The Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform unveiled draft legislation this week that would only require Congress to pass a new budget every two years. [Read More]
Trump says US stands with Saudi Arabia despite journalist Khashoggi’s killing (CNBC)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the U.S. stands with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In a lengthy statement — punctuated with eight exclamation points — Trump said that “we may never know all of the facts surrounding” Khashoggi’s death, but “our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
Trump said that U.S. intelligence agencies are still assessing all the information surrounding the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi royal family, in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October. [Read More]
The original founder of the Women’s March, Teresa Shook, demanded that the organization’s four co-chairs ― Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, Tamika Mallory and Bob Bland ― step down for allowing “anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric” to become part of the organization’s platform.
In a Facebook post published Monday afternoon, Shook wrote that the four public faces of the Women’s March should resign because they have strayed from the group’s goals.
“I have waited, hoping they would right the ship. But they have not,” Shook wrote. “In opposition to our Unity Principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs.” [Read More]
The timeout technique, used by parents for decades, exploded into the public domain in the early 2000s thanks to TV’s “Supernanny” Jo Frost, who rebranded it as the “naughty step” technique. Supernanny may have left our screens, but many parents still rely on timeouts when their kids misbehave. A growing number of experts, though, advise against it. [Read More]
Latest Presidential Proclamation Enjoined in Northern California (CIS)
In a November 9, 2018 post, I synopsized the mass migration presidential proclamation and asylum interim final rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) on that date. In essence, together, the proclamation and rule render ineligible for asylum aliens who enter the United States illegally, between the ports of entry. The purpose of the two was to channel aliens claiming credible fear to the controlled and orderly ports of entry for “credible fear” processing. On November 19, 2018, however, Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide temporary restraining order of that rule in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Trump. That order is indicative of the problems associated with nationwide injunctions in the field of immigration. [Read More]
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