The Trump Cabinet 1
Tillerson and Senator Manchin
Looks like Exxon won the election
Hearings will begin for Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state tomorrow and according to today's Politico, Democrats will be pushing Tillerson on climate change. Timed appropriately, the Center for American Progress (a liberal think tank) released a report today on the possible financial gains . . .
Reading the Sunday Opinion Section
Plastics
In The Graduate (1967) Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) gets advice from a friend of the family: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word. . . . Plastics." I thought of the movie as I read Friday morning's Intelligencer front page. You may have been as stunned as I was that the top story was
Ohio . . .
Congressman gets a pass from the "locals"
How difficult would it have been to ask McKinley how he voted?
Representative David McKinley frequently makes it into the pages of our local "newspapers." For those new to this blog, McKinley is an Ogden Newspaper favorite and is regularly featured on the front page for addressing veteran's groups, winning bogus awards, supposedly saving hundreds of thousands of jobs, and going shopping. . . .
2016 Wrap-up
Local Awards for 2016
Worst Editorial
Winner: "Shoe on Other Foot On ‘War on Women’"
The only thing that was truthful in this editorial were the first two sentences about the attempt to recognize World War II women pilots. The rest of the editorial contained one lie after another about the role played by . . .
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A very slow news day?
Local "newspapers" report that congressman's family goes shopping and target shooting
You may not have noticed it because "McKinley" wasn't in the headline but both of today's "newspapers" carried yet another article that featured the locals' favorite congressman, David McKinley. The headline told us the urgent and important news:
. . .Post-Christmas Shoppers Take to Highlands
Posted in: david mckinley
Fake news and vendettas
End of the week editorials
Friday morning - drawing conclusions from one example and mislabeled "fake news"
The Friday Intelligencer tells us in its lead editorial, "Deterring False ‘Hate Crime’ Claims," without a shred of evidence that:
Many of the “hate crimes” Americans are accused of never happened. Preventing real crimes . . .
Senator Manchin wants to bring back the seventies' "war on drugs"
On Tuesday, Senator Joe Manchin discussed what to do about the nation's drug problem with CNN's Jake Tapper:
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called for a new "war on drugs" Tuesday to combat the opioid crisis striking his state of West Virginia, eagerly adopting the language of the now much-criticized . . .
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