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Should. Three Times. (opens the original)
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After President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, members of his administration rushed to explain that he hadn’t really banned them from covering him. The restriction concerned physical access to the White House.Vice President JD Vance was explicit: “He’s not banning media outlets.” Trump had merely decided, Vance said, “we’re not going to give you special access inside the White House.”U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz made the same distinction. Freedom of the press did not c
Testing the President (opens the original)
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President Trump has barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House because, he says, they report “FICTION and LIES.” The three organizations sued today.A president does not get to choose which news organizations cover him according to whether he likes their coverage. The whole point of an independent press is that the government does not decide what gets reported about it. There will be plenty to say about the First Amendment questions raised by that decision. But the president’s attack on
Testing Claims About Presidential Results (opens the original)
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Do you want to credit or slag a president or his administration? Apply these tests:IDENTIFY THE ACTIONSelect a specific implemented policy, not the president’s rhetoric.What changed in government policy or practice?Examples might include an executive order, a new regulation, legislation the president signed, a change in enforcement, a funding decision, a grant program, a tariff, a change in benefits or services, or a change in federal personnel or deployment.ESTABLISH THE MECHANISMExplain how th
Navel Gazing Episode Index (opens the original)
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Navel Gazing is a podcast based on the notebooks that I’ve carried in my pocket since the summer of 1990. Here are the episodes and transcripts in listening order: nine from season one, followed by the first five from season two. I’m still writing Season two. Season OneEpisode 1 — An Exploration of InklingsEpisode 2 — Sending our Son to CollegeEpisode 3 — Remembering George a
Stop Me Before I Choose Again (opens the original)
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Now that I have written about my morning reading habit, I have to stick with it. So you are stuck with it. Thank you for being there reading and commenting so that I might know the shape of my own ideas. Otherwise Anne has to hear this and you can imagine how wearing that can be.First reading1: Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke “In South Carolina they’d treated him like a beast, and he’d survived. He’d grown bigger, stronger, older, better.
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