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<a class="autolink" href="http://www.aol.com/2016-election/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a>
was officially named the Republican presidential nominee during July's
Republican National Convention--but some party leaders are still not on
board with his candidacy.<br />
During the week long gathering in Cleveland, while names the likes of
Chris Christie and Mitch McConnell tossed their political weight behind
the billionaire businessman, a number of prominent GOPers not only
skipped the convention but have refused to endorse the party's ticket.<br />
Perhaps the most high-profile political snub of the 2016 election cycle came at the hands of Texas Senator <a class="autolink" href="http://www.aol.com/2016-election/ted-cruz/">Ted Cruz</a>, who was promptly booed after failing to endorse Trump during his prime-time address at the RNC.<br />
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Following the controversial speech, Cruz said he is "not in the habit
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"Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn't honor the pledge!"
Trump tweeted following Cruz's speech. "I saw his speech two hours early
but let him speak anyway. No big deal!"<br />
While Cruz made an appearance at the RNC, a few of Trump's defeated
primary rivals skipped the big Cleveland event, including the governor
of The Buckeye State <a class="autolink" href="http://www.aol.com/2016-election/john-kasich/">John Kasich</a>.<br />
When asked if he would support the Republican nominee, Kasich said,
"Why would I feel compelled to support someone whose positions I kind of
fundamentally disagree with?"<br />
Previous Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has also refused
to endorse the former reality TV star, even making a point to make
speeches voicing his disappointment with the GOP candidate. "Here's what
I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless
as a degree from Trump University," Romney said in March.<br />
Trump fired back at Romney saying he "understand losers, you can make
a lot of money with losers," adding that Romney's 2012 presidential run
was a failure because the former Massachusetts governor "choked like a
dog, he's a choker."<br />
Not only haven't previous Republican presidential nominees not backed
Trump, but both living former Republican presidents, George H. W. Bush
and George W. Bush, have abstained from supporting the 2016 GOP ticket.<br />
George W. Bush, who has supported every GOP ticket since leaving
office, has said he is worried he may be "the last Republican
president." While George H. W. Bush has made it clear that after
campaigning for his son Jeb Bush, who also refuses to back Trump, he has
no plans to endorse.<br />
Paul Ryan is one big-name Republican who eventually threw his support
behind Trump after initially saying he was "not there right now" when
asked if he would endorse the billionaire businessman.<br />
Trump recently returned the favor by saying he was "not quite there
yet" when regarding the endorsement of Ryan in the Wisconsin primary.<br />
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"I like Paul, but these are horrible times for our country."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321757863793605043noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040770062768673557.post-27823840597207608102016-05-31T22:28:00.001-04:002016-05-31T22:28:43.147-04:00Trump Assails Media While Detailing Gifts to Veterans
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<span style="font-size: large;">What word comes to mind when you see the name Donald Trump? For some
people, it might be “anger,” since he provokes it and stokes it. For
others, it might be “ignorance,” since he knows so little and, like many
unburdened by knowledge, is untroubled by facts. Some might say “fear,”
since it would take some scary police tactics to push 11 million people
over the border to Mexico. For me, none of those words suffice. I’d
choose “betrayal.”</span><br />
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It is the word that comes to mind almost on a nightly basis when I see
some Trump surrogate defend his position on one of the cable news shows.
How can you? I want to ask. Do you believe that the government should
apply a religious test to let people into this country? Christians? Yes.
Jews? Sure. Buddhists and Hindus, step this way. Muslims? Not so fast.</span><br />
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Do the people who support Trump realize that they are betraying not
merely Muslims but the principles that America stands for? We don’t
apply religious tests to anything. In that way, we are different than
some other countries. In that way, we are better.</span><br />
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It is the same with what Trump said about Mexicans being “rapists.” It
was an ugly, bigoted thing to say — and, of course, wrong as hell. So
when some Trump supporter breezes right by that statement on the way to
whoopee support of restricted trade or allowing Japan and South Korea to
get nuclear weapons, I feel betrayed. I can abide policy differences
but I cannot abide indifference to bigotry. And neither should any of
Trump’s supporters.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <span style="font-size: large;"><a class="ra-related" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/richard-dreyfuss-calls-donald-trump-famous-supporters-whores-article-1.2654923">Richard Dreyfuss calls Donald Trump’s famous supporters ‘whores'</a></span> <br />
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I felt that same, awful feeling of betrayal when Trump mocked a
physically disabled reporter for the New York Times. Did Trump’s people
notice? Did they care? How about the way he insulted John McCain? The
man was tortured and Trump belittled it. The man was in solitary for two
years, and Trump belittled it. I thought Americans would never stand
for that. This was John McCain, son of an admiral, grandson of an
admiral, United States senator. How much redder can a man’s blood be?</span><br />
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Donald Trump has taught me to fear my fellow American. I don’t mean the
occasional yahoo who turns a Trump rally into a hate fest. I mean the
ones who do nothing. Who are silent. Who look the other way. If you had
told me a year ago that a hateful brat would be the presidential nominee
of a major political party, I would have scoffed. Someone who
denigrates women? Not possible. Someone who insults Mexicans? No way.
Someone who mocks the physically disabled? Not in America. Not in <i>my</i> America.</span><br />
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When I see these Trump supporters on television, I have to wonder where
they would draw the line. Nowhere. They want to win. They want to beat
Hillary Clinton, a calling so imperative that sheer morality must give
way. Muslims and Mexicans are merely collateral damage in a war that
must be fought. What about blacks or Jews? Not yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe the talking heads on TV would draw the line at some mild version
of fascism, but would the American people do the same? Here, I must
hesitate. The easy yes of yesteryear has given way to awful doubt.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">
Trump could win. He could become President, commander in chief, ruler
of the Justice Department and head of the IRS. In other words, the
American people could elect someone who has not the slightest
appreciation for the Constitution or American tradition. When Trump
insisted that he could compel a military officer to obey an illegal
order, I heard the echo of jackboots on cobblestone.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">
It does no good to argue that Trump is just doing a shtick and means
little of what he says . His supporters do not see him that way. They
take him at his word.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">
I’d like to think that Americans really are exceptional, that we have
an exceptional faith in democracy and the rule of law. I now have some
doubt. I always knew who Trump was. It’s the American people who have
come as a surprise.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <span style="font-size: large;"><a class="ra-related" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-details-amounts-donations-veterans-groups-article-1.2655599">Trump details amounts of donations given to veterans groups</a></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html">Crossing the Line: Trump’s Private Conduct With Women</a></span></h2>
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<li>Interviews with dozens of women who encountered Donald J. Trump revealed unsettling conduct over decades.</li>
<li>They offer a complex and at times contradictory portrait of a man
who both nurtured women’s careers and mocked their physical appearance.</li>
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Monday, May 9</h6>
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The man who wanted us to be uncomfortable</h1>
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On
a rainy Friday morning in the city he called home for many years, the
Rev. Daniel Berrigan was celebrated more than mourned at a funeral mass
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
funeral for Father Daniel Berrigan, the Jesuit poet and peace activist,
was held at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan last week,
where he was praised as a hero, a holy man, even a saint, by speakers
and mourners. </span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Berrigan
was the rogue priest who, along with his brother Philip, became a
symbol of the anti-Vietnam War and Catholic peace movement. He later
protested nuclear weapons, the Iraq War and the detention of “enemy
combatants” at Guantanamo Bay. </span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">He
spent years in federal prison for his actions, which included damaging
nuclear warheads and lighting draft cards on fire with homemade napalm.</span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">He
clashed with the church — and there was a certain irony in this radical
peace activist, who was a member of the militant Jesuit order, being
eulogized in a Jesuit church that also plays host to military regimental
ceremonies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But
such are the contradictions inherent in eulogizing an activist,
controversial in life but praised after his or her work is done. </span></div>
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Making of an activist</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pete Swanson said he had been Berrigan’s student years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As
a newly ordained priest teaching at Brooklyn Preparatory School during
the 1950s, Berrigan was “electric even then,” Swanson, 77, says. “He had
an aura about him. He was on a different plane.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the teacher and pupil soon moved in different directions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Berrigan
left the school and moved on to activist work. Swanson ended up getting
drafted in 1960, mistakenly, he says. He has been afflicted with
Retinitis pigmentosa since birth, he says, a degenerative disorder of
the eyes that eventually results in severe vision impairment. But the
doctor refused to grant a medical deferment. Even in basic training, he
says he was night-blind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Father
Berrigan was against the war, I got caught up in it by mistake,”
Swanson says. While Berrigan was dodging the FBI and protesting, Swanson
says he had friends “getting blown up” in Vietnam.</span></div>
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Asking questions that are easy to ignore</h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Swanson’s
feelings are conflicted, even paradoxical. Nuclear disarmament is very
important to him, he says. But it was activists like Berrigan who pushed
disarmament to a political reality.</span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">“In hindsight, Berrigan did what he had to do.”</span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Swanson’s
reaction to Berrigan is indicative of the way activists are treated in
their own time. Some of Berrigan’s tactics might still be controversial,
but his vision seems less so today. </span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In
a note to the Xavier community after Berrigan's death, Xavier's high
school president Jack Raslowsky wrote of what some have said is the
strength of a Jesuit education: being made to feel "uncomfortable." </span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">"Dan
Berrigan was uncomfortable, and he made others uncomfortable. He was a
consistent, prophetic witness for peace and often asked questions that
were easier for most to ignore."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will
we feel the same about those who continue Berrigan's legacy in 50
years? The climate change partisans who chain themselves to each other
in oil company lobbies. The Occupiers at Zuccotti Park (who Berrigan
visited, in fact, at the end of his life). The Black Lives Matter
protesters who were once joined by throngs of supporters, but now often
continue their protests and actions alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Berrigan’s
legacy urges us to minister to the helpless and downtrodden, to those
in the jails, the war zones, the sick, the homeless, the poor. And to
minister to everyone else by pushing relentlessly for a better world.</span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">If
anything, Berrigan would likely suggest that we do not protest enough —
that insufficient questions are raised about drones and endless states
of low-level, far-away warfare.</span></div>
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</span><div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The questions might annoy, or disrupt, but someday we’ll say they were good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a
writer, teacher and longtime opponent of U.S. military involvement
abroad, whose repeated acts of civil disobedience put him at odds with
his government and the Roman Catholic Church but made him a major figure
among advocates for peace and social justice, died April 30 at a Jesuit
residence at Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y. He was 94.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The cause was a cardiovascular ailment, said the Rev. James Yannarell, a priest affiliated wtih the Fordham Jesuit community.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In
May 1968, Father Berrigan, along with his brother and fellow priest
Philip Berrigan and seven other pacifists, entered a Selective Service
office in Catonsville, Md. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They
gathered hundreds of draft files, lugged them outside and, with a
recipe of kerosene and soap chips taken from a Green Berets handbook,
burned them to ashes. The Catonsville Nine, as they became known, were
arrested and in a five-day trial in October 1968 were found guilty of
destruction of government property. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Father Berrigan wrote a play about the event, “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Our
apologies, good friends,” he wrote, “for the fracture of good order,
the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies
in the front of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do
otherwise.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The judge
sentenced Father Berrigan, then 47, to three years in federal prison.
Philip Berrigan, who had been charged in earlier nonviolent protests,
received six years. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In 1970,
after the appeals ran out, Father Berrigan refused orders to report to
federal prison in Danbury, Conn. He went underground, on the lam from
safe house to safe house, and spent four months dodging an FBI manhunt.
After many false leads, he was finally caught on Block Island off the
coast of Rhode Island. Days before he was captured, he spoke at a church
in Germantown, Pa., saying, “We have chosen to be branded peace
criminals by war criminals.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Father
Berrigan was a willing recidivist who was first arrested in 1967. His
rap sheet would eventually be filled with arrests and convictions from
protests at weapons laboratories and at the Pentagon. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Daniel
Joseph Berrigan was born May 9, 1921, in Virginia, Minn., the fifth of
six sons of a pro-union father and a mother who opened her home to the
poor. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In 1939, Daniel Berrigan entered the former St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson Jesuit novitiate near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">During
his years of theological training, he wrote poetry and taught at
Catholic high schools, preparing for a career of teaching or pastoring.
He was ordained in 1952. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In
the mid-1950s, he taught at Brooklyn Preparatory High School in New
York. From 1957 to 1962, he taught theology at Le Moyne College in
Syracuse, N.Y.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Over the
decades, Father Berrigan’s forays into the academy also included stints
at Cornell University, the University of Detroit, Loyola University New
Orleans, DePaul University and the University of California at Berkeley.
During the Vietnam War years and after, he believed that universities
had become tools of the government, military and corporate giants. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With
no conventional ministry, Father Berrigan operated for more than 40
years out of a small commune known as the West Side Jesuit Community on
West 98th Street in Manhattan. He aligned himself with Dorothy Day and
the pacifist Catholic Worker movement and formed a friendship with
Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk who was also moving away from
conventional priestly piety by condemning U.S. involvement in Vietnam.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In
1968, Father Berrgain traveled with Howard Zinn, the liberal political
activist and historian, to North Vietnam in a successful effort to bring
back three captured U.S. pilots. Father Berrigan was affiliated with
several Catholic antiwar groups and later ministered to AIDS patients. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In
1980, he and his brother Philip were instrumental in forming the
Plowshares Movement, a loose coalition of pacifists who were often
arrested for acts of civil disobedience at military bases and other
sites. Among those jailed was actor Martin Sheen, who once said,
“Mother Teresa drove me back to Catholicism, but Daniel Berrigan keeps
me there.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In 1965, Cardinal
Francis Spellman, a supporter of the Vietnam War, told Father Berrigan’s
Jesuit superiors to get the agitator out of New York City. He was sent
to South America, but seeing the conditions in the slums of Peru and
made him more militant, not less. He believed the Catholic Church too
often sided with the rich, and he criticized U.S. foreign policy
supporting the sale of weapons to rightist military regimes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Father Berrigan took aim at his fellow Jesuits when he wrote his “Ten Commandments for the Long Haul” (1981). </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“The
Jesuits are masters of invention,” he wrote in his provocative
manifesto. “They come out of the culture, they know how to take its
pulse, try its winds and trim their sails. Nothing extravagant, nothing
ahead of its time, nothing too fast. Consensus! Consensus!” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Father
Berrigan wrote more than 40 books, including a 1987 autobiography, “To
Dwell in Peace.” His brother Philip died in 2002. Survivors include a
sister.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In a 2008 interview
in the Nation magazine, Father Berrigan echoed a line of Mother Teresa’s
that spiritual people should be more concerned about being faithful
than being successful.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“The
good is to be done because it is good, not because it goes somewhere,”
he said. I believe if it is done in that spirit it will go somewhere,
but I don’t know where. . . . I have never been seriously interested in
the outcome. I was interested in trying to do it humanely and carefully
and nonviolently and let it go.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Colman McCarthy is a former Washington Post columnist.</i></span><br />
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</b><span style="font-size: large;">By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz</span><b> <br />
</b>32nd Senatorial District <br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: xx-small;"><u></u></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">You should know that the Mayor of
the City of New York is under fire and he is facing 5 different investigations.
It is important for you to know
that I never supported Mayor de Blasio when he was a Mayoral Candidate,
and instead. I supported Eric Salgado and Bill Thompson. For the record,
I don’t like Bill de Blasio’s policies, we have nothing in common, and
I have not met with him nor spoken with him in person since he was elected
Mayor. But as I see him being subject to what looks like selective prosecution,
I must speak out.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">It is important for you to know
that Risa S. Sugarman, who was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve
as the Chief Enforcement Officer for the Board of Elections, sent a report
to the Manhattan District Attorney regarding Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “willful
and flagrant” campaign law violations.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Ms. Sugarman’s report prompted
a criminal investigation into Mayor de Blasio’s fund-raising.</span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">According to Ms. Sugarman’s report,
Mayor Bill de Blasio and his team raised money to send to certain County
Committees in 2014 to help Democrats running for the State Senate. In a
response to Ms. Sugarman’s report, a criminal investigation against Mayor
de Blasio is underway.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">You should also know that City and
State’s Winners and Losers column for the week ending 4/29/2016 included
NY Times columnist Jim Dwyer in the Winners’ column for successfully “putting
pressure on state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman
to explain her selective investigation process.</span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">This hat-tip tip Jim Dwyer includes
his April 28, 2016 column “</span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b>Faulting
de Blasio for Walking a Beaten Path in Elections.” </b></span>
<br />
<span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Mr. Dwyer wrote:<b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">“</span><span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">In
2008, when Michael R. Bloomberg was mayor, he gave $1.2 million to the
tiny Independence Party, which used the money to help the campaigns of
two Republican senators in Queens, Frank Padavan and Serphin R. Maltese
… Mr. Bloomberg also gave $500,000 to the Republicans’ Senate campaign
committee, which supported Mr. Padavan and Mr. Maltese in their races.”</span>
<br />
<span style="color: #2f2f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">As you can see, Mayor
de Blasio’s actions are not the first time a Mayor has used his political
power and resources to influence New York State Senate races. This is routinely
done by Democrats and Republicans alike, and we all know it.</span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">I have to ask myself, how is it
that Mayor de Blasio is being investigated and has received subpoenas from
the Manatten District Attorney and the US Attorney General, and how is
it that he is being lambasted on the front pages and editorial columns
of New York’s daily newspapers, when the things he did are no different
that what Michael Bloomberg did when he was New York City’s Mayor?</span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">Why was there no outcry for investigations
and allegations made when Michael Bloomberg also violated New York’s Campaign
Finance laws by donating large amounts of money to the Republican and Independent
Parties in order to hold sway over certain State Senate elections?</span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">If everyone does it, how come only
Mayor Bill de Blasio is being held accountable?</span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;">I am Senator Reverend Rubén Díaz
and this is what you should know.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">23 April 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The leader of the Cuban Revolution gave a rare public speech during the closure of the seventh Congress of the Communist Party.
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-I.jpg" />t
constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis.
Without them, the changes would be impossible. In a meeting such as
this, which brings together more than a thousand representatives chosen
by the revolutionary people themselves, who delegated their authority to
them, for all it represents the greatest honor they have received in
their lives, to which is added the privilege of being a revolutionary
which is the product of our own conscious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why did I become a socialist, or more plainly, why did
I become a communist? That word that expresses the most distorted and
maligned concept in history by those who have the privilege of
exploiting the poor, dispossessed ever since they were deprived of all
the material wealth that work, talent and human energy provide. Since
when does man live in this dilemma, throughout time without limit. I
know you do not need this explanation but perhaps some listeners do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I speak simply so it is better understood that I am
not ignorant, extremist, or blind, nor did I acquire my ideology of my
own accord studying economics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did not have a tutor when I was a law and political
sciences student, subjects in which they have a great influence. Of
course then I was around 20 years old and was fond of sports and
mountain climbing. Without a tutor to help me in the study of
Marxism-Leninism; I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had
total confidence in the Soviet Union. Lenin's work violated after 70
years of Revolution. What a history lesson! It can be affirmed that it
should not take another 70 years before another event like the Russian
Revolution occurs, in order that humanity have another example of a
magnificent social revolution that marked a huge step in the struggle
against colonialism and its inseparable companion, imperialism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps, however, the greatest danger hanging over the
earth today derives from the destructive power of modern weaponry which
could undermine the peace of the planet and make human life on earth’s
surface impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The species would disappear like the dinosaurs
disappeared, perhaps there will be time for new forms of intelligent
life or maybe the sun’s heat will grow until it melts all the planets of
the solar system and its satellites, as a large number of scientists
recognize. If the theories of several of them are true, which we
laypeople are not unaware of, the practical man must learn more and
adapt to reality. If the species survives a much longer space of time
the future generations will know much more than we do, but first they
will have to solve a huge problem. How to feed the billions of human
beings whose realities are inevitably at odds with the limited drinking
water and natural resources they need?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some or perhaps many of you are wondering where are
the politics in this speech. Believe me I am sad to say it, but the
politics are here in these moderate words. If only numerous human beings
would concern ourselves with these realities and not continue as in the
times of Adam and Eve eating forbidden apples. Who will feed the
thirsty people of Africa with no technology at their disposal, no rain,
no dams, no more underground reservoirs than those covered by sands? We
will see what the governments, which almost all signed the climate
commitments, say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must constantly hammer away at these issues and I do not want to elaborate beyond the essentials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I shall soon turn 90, such an idea would never have
occurred to me and it was never the result of an effort, it was sheer
chance. I will soon be like everyone else. We all reach our turn, but
the ideas of the Cuban communists will remain as proof that on this
planet, working with fervor and dignity, can produce the material and
cultural wealth that humans need, and we must fight relentlessly to
obtain these. To our brothers in Latin America and the world we must
convey that the Cuban people will overcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This may be one of the last times that I speak in this
room. I voted for all the candidates submitted for election by Congress
and I appreciate the invitation and the honor of listening to me. I
congratulate you all, and firstly, compañero Raul Castro for his
magnificent effort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will set forth on the march forward and we will
perfect what we should perfect, with the utmost loyalty and united
force, just as Marti, Maceo and Gomez, in an unstoppable march. </span></div>
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rattling many of his supporters by expressing tolerance toward
transgender people, the Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump
clarified on Friday that he still opposes women who were born women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The media has, per usual, tried to blow my words out
of proportion,” Trump said on the Fox News Channel. “Just because I
happen to think transgender people deserve our understanding in no way
means that I feel that way about women who were born women.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump said that any attempt to twist his words to
apply to “women in general” was deeply offensive to him. “I have made my
views about women very clear and to suggest that I have somehow changed
those views is really, really hurtful,” he said.</span></div>
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alarmed that the candidate had seemingly strayed into something
resembling empathy were greatly relieved by his clarification.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“When you start being respectful to one group it can
kind of be a slippery slope,” Trump supporter Harland Dorrinson said.
“I’m just glad he cleared it up, is all.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When educated rich
people who used to vote Republican now increasingly lean toward
Democrats and older working class whites who were staunch Democrats now
cheer Donald Trump, when traditional American optimism
has given way to fear for the future and 49% of the public say
“America’s best days are behind us,” social scientists are hard-pressed
to understand the spirit of the times. What is worse, they fail to
understand either the causes or remedies of the problems
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> American
airports, bridges and highways, once a source of national pride, are
now a cause of embarrassment. American primary and secondary education,
once the world’s best, now rate poorly. America’s
health care expenditures, the world’s highest per capita, show
unimpressive results. The deforming role that gerrymandering and
unlimited campaign contributions play in political life is clear.
Unfunded pension liabilities of U.S. states exceed $3 trillion
and estimates of unfunded federal liabilities on Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid go as high as $100 trillion. Foreign economies
like China and India, once patronized, are now regarded with
apprehension. Viewing the world morosely, the American public
has lost confidence in its political leaders and trust in our
‘establishment.’</span></div>
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extent are public anger and feelings of betrayal justified? The record
is mixed. America has recovered from the Great Recession of 2008-2009
better than all other advanced economies and
its growth rate, a feeble 2%, is higher. Its unemployment rate (below
5%) is low and its violent crime rates are declining.</span></div>
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other hand, median wages stagnate even as incomes at the top soar. Blue
collar workers feel displaced by globalization and no longer feel
catered to by politicians. Millennials face rising
college debt and diminishing employment opportunities. White
Christians, now a minority, feel they have ‘lost their country.’ Wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan have been inconclusive. Fear of terrorism has
grown and America is no longer the sole superpower it
was after the collapse of the Soviet Union.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The
traditional view Americans had of themselves — cheerful, optimistic,
hardworking, ambitious and family- minded in a society that essentially
worked well and would be even better for their children
— no longer applies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Fearful,
threatened societies often turn to demagogues as saviors — Mussolini
made the trains run on time, Huey Long proclaimed ‘every man a king!’
But such times can also produce a Lincoln or
an FDR, who strengthen institutions and rally the public around shared
goals for the common good. They can create a ‘new normal’ that works,
one that draws on our own experience and on the lessons to be learned
from the experience of other nations. (For
example, the criminal justice system of every other advanced nation
focuses on crime prevention and the rehabilitation of malefactors. Only
the U.S. focuses on imprisonment and punishment, with off-the-scale
mass incarceration and horrendous recidivism rates.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Our ‘new
normal’— barring unforeseen factors — can be what we make it.
Pessimists predict continuing stagnation; others (I am among them)
believe future American economic growth, greater social
equality, greater operational efficiency, restored confidence in our
institutions and revived public morality can be ours, if we make a
national commitment to achieve them. Not big government nor small
government but smart government and fair government
is what the public demands.</span></div>
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will be an end to the paralyzing political polarization that has made
Congressional governance ineffective and has accounted for our
disappointing economic performance. ‘Dysfunctional’ is
the term commonly applied to Congress today, where efforts to build
consensus around shared national goals seem futile. Any compromise is
considered a betrayal of fundamental principles, and extremists believe
it better to shut down government rather than
permit objectionable legislation to pass. Opposing parties don’t meet
together or eat together and do not work together on common goals. Two
separate visions, two separate agendas are prevalent, with vitriolic
attack and counter-attack and zero effort at
national problem solving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our first President
had liberal Thomas Jefferson whispering in his left ear and conservative
Alexander Hamilton whispering in his right ear as they worked together
to create our nation. In 1981, Republican
President Ronald Reagan and a Democratic-controlled Congress passed the
Economic Recovery Act, which dropped the top tax rate from 70% to 50%;
they later worked together to reduce the top rate to 28%. More
recently, President George H.W. Bush negotiated the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and his successor,
President Clinton, was determined to see it through. In a famous Rose
Garden event, Presidents Carter, Bush and Clinton stood shoulder to
shoulder, calling for — and achieving — NAFTA’s passage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The governance we
had in the past we can have again. To achieve it, we must revitalize
what Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called The Vital Center, consisting of
‘Citizens’ rather than ‘Taxpayers;’ and we should
pledge to vote against the election of any Senator endorsed by
extremists of either the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street. Joint
problem-solving, not short-term political advantage, must be the aim of
elected political figures.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The new paradigm we
need will reflect the achievable goals of continuing economic growth,
increasing economic and social equality, personal accountability of
individuals responsible for ‘making things work,’
renewed confidence in our institutions and a renewed spirit of public
morality. With fresh ‘outside the box’ thinking, our new paradigm could
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indefinitely spend what it does not produce; and productivity — the
output each worker generates — is a crucial factor in growth. Without
increases in efficiency and productivity, workers
can’t get paid more and the economy cannot expand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Increased investment
— of human capital, industrial capital, financial capital and social
capital — must be focused on increased productivity, with national
investment in education and training heading the
list. By 2020, it is estimated, 65% of U.S. jobs will require
post-secondary education, and we must be ready.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Economic growth, with the benefits more equally shared than at present, must be a major and continuing public goal.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">B) Increasing Equality</span></b></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Economic and social
disparities will exist as long as incentives and rewards are necessary
to galvanize human activity. A public sense of a fair relationship
between rewards and merit (or luck or contribution
to the common good) is necessary for social harmony. The current
economic imbalance between the 1% at the top and the 99% of the rest is
not sustainable. Universal opinion demands that it must be re-cast. We
can grow and we can distribute increasing benefits
more fairly, and the public must feel reassured that the system is not
rigged against them. As the common law phrase has it, “Justice must be
done and must be seen to be done.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Thoughtful
re-examination of our tax laws, elimination of obvious loopholes (such
as the widely deplored ‘carried interest’ exemptions) and consideration
of new sources of revenue are widely demanded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
A modest Value Added Tax (V.A.T.) on consumption, in addition to a
graduated income tax, is widely applied in every other advanced
economy. It is less easily evaded than other forms
of taxation, and with exemptions or ‘ceilings’ for the poor on food,
clothing, housing and healthcare, it is fairer. If the proceeds from a
national V.A.T. were strictly dedicated to a fund for an infrastructure
bank, scientific research and advanced academic
training, the benefits to society would be profound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Social equality is a
more complex problem. We seek a society with level playing fields in
which everyone has a fair chance to achieve his or her potential.
Equality of result is impossible but equality of
opportunity — primarily through education — is a realistic goal, as
demonstrated today by the educational record of the Scandinavian
countries.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Education is a sensitive subject, but some unpopular comments are necessary:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">i) Because
American public schools are financed by local property taxes, the poorer
districts that need better services do not receive them, while richer
neighborhoods receive services they could
afford to pay for privately. Someone, somehow, should move to have
quality public schooling paid for by state taxation rather than through
the local property tax.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some states, like
California, have made progress along these lines, but states must be
ready, able and willing to spend more on education.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ii) ‘Dumbing
down’ the national educational enterprise — with lower standards, fewer
Advanced Placement courses, denigration of objective student evaluation
— is not the way to help disadvantaged students.
Aiding them effectively to meet the higher standards is. Inculcating
high aspirations early in life and providing the tools for their
achievement should be our goal for all children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">iii) The
trade union movement has historically been a plus in American life in
negotiating better pay, benefits and working conditions for its
members. It has been a minus in insisting on indefensibly
low professional entry standards and impossibly high barriers for
removing incompetent practitioners. For both school teachers and police,
higher entry standards would increase the respect in which the union
members are held (which is important to them) and
would also encourage the public to approve higher pay and benefits,
which good teachers deserve. More reasonable and efficient means of
eliminating the dysfunctional few (say, the worst 3%) would be a win-win
game for society, as the relatively few ‘bad eggs’
have undermined public confidence in the rest. (One percent of all
doctors account for 30% of all malpractice suits, and they should be
disqualified as well.)</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">iv)
Transparency, full disclosure and common sense must prevail in dealing
with education questions. That 25% of total U.S. K-12 expenditures go
for ‘special education’ for the handicapped and less
than 1% for programs for gifted children demonstrates the impact of
‘special interest’ influences. An aware, informed public might wish for
a different balance.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Finland, which
boasts the world’s best performing students, also has the world’s most
highly qualified and respected and most highly paid teachers, and this
is not a coincidence. Finland’s public high school
teachers come from the top 10% of the national academic pool. New York
City public school teachers come from the lowest quartile of our least
demanding public colleges and receive lifetime tenure two or three years
after starting. It is difficult to remove
the worst, and New York’s academic results reflect it.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">v)
Retraining older or displaced workers for the five million unfilled U.S.
jobs must become a higher American priority. The U.S. spends 0.1% of
GDP on job retraining, apprenticeships and job search
assistance, while Germany spends 0.8% of GDP and Denmark 2.3% of GDP on
them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Improved
employment prospects for older workers would have a dramatic impact on
American morale. The rising rates of depression, poor health and
suicide among older workers would be reduced by
the opportunity for meaningful, satisfying work and the self-respect
that comes from being self-supporting.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">vi) Changing
college athletics competition from inter-collegiate to intramural would
dramatically improve American higher education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No athletic
scholarships to distort the college admissions process, no expensive
football stadiums and huge athletic budgets to deform college economics,
and less wasted time for students would provide important
benefits with no loss!</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">vii) The case
for free quality education for the poor is a strong one, and the public
must be reminded that ‘education does not cost, it pays!’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Post World War II
studies of the G.I. Bill are perfect examples. In cases of identical
twins, one of whom was a G.I. Bill college graduate and the other of
whom was not, the graduate’s lifetime earnings and
lifetime income tax payments were greater. The differential in tax
receipts was the government’s excellent return on its tuition
investment. Only the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Purchase of
Alaska (1867) were better federal investments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">viii)
For-profit college ‘drop-out mills’ that saddle unsophisticated students
with strangling debt and worthless credentials should be severely
regulated (and receive no government aid) and for-profit
prisons (which bribe legislators to impose severe mandatory minimum
prison sentences and anti-parole practices) should be made illegal.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ix) Prudent
‘entitlement’ reform — reflecting wisdom, justice and thoughtful
examination of who should get what and when — is long overdue. Positive
incentives and negative incentives reflecting fairness
and commonsense in adjudicating between competing demands — all deserve
careful consideration by panels and commissions of informed private
citizens selected from our “best and brightest,” who bring to their
deliberations knowledge, character and a long term
perspective.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">x) The
increase in U.S. heroin deaths (up 300% in the last decade) can be
fought by addressing the “supply” (through police and government) or the
“demand” (through community social pressure). Police
efforts have failed; now the community must become involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> “New
users of drugs are stupid; they are killing themselves. Drug addicts
are sick; they must be helped medically. Drug sellers are evil; they
are destroying our community and they must be disgraced,
humiliated, ostracized.” These are messages that should be conveyed by
teachers, ministers, journalists, public officials and emphatically by
parents. Narcotics are a curse and must be recognized as such; those
who profit from them must be seen as public
enemies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>C) Accountability vs. Regulations Gone Wild</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> At a time when America’s physical infrastructure (graded D+ by the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> American Society of Civil Engineers) is a national disgrace, when
borrowing interest rates are at a historic low and
our economy desperately needs jobs, our government cannot mount a major
infrastructure development program. The reason? Paralysis by red tape
has become the most serious ailment in America.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The average length of environmental reviews for highway projects is
over eight years, according to the Regional Plan Association; and the
review of the NY/NJ Goethals Bridge improvements
has now taken over ten years. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> For reasons of national security and economic stimulus, we clearly need
a new national electric grid, but there is no current plan under
consideration. Why? New transmission lines
would go through forests and across deserts and somebody is sure to
object.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
Today in America, anyone can say “no” — halt, delay, re-study. No one
can say “yes” and “I will take responsibility for a reasonable
outcome.” Other advanced nations are guided by
principles enforced by commonsense. In the U.S. ‘rule of law’ has
become perverted to a regulation-bound mindset resulting in paralysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
In his important book “<i>The Rule of Nobody</i>,” Philip Howard describes how
American nursing homes and childcare facilities are strangled by
regulations, whereas in Australia and in Germany
agreed upon principles are interpreted by commonsense and implemented
by individuals accepting responsibility for desired results. Police in
Scotland — unarmed — achieve better results through commonsense
application of general principles than do American
police following detailed regulations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Two final thoughts
merit serious consideration: first, the application of ‘sunset
provisions’ on all important government regulations; and secondly, the
greater use of independent, impartial civilian commissions,
such as those used to determine the closings of military bases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Automatic expiration
of major government regulations after 15 or 20 years and their full
re-consideration before re-institution would dramatically modernize
government operations, as would the appropriate
use of independent civilian commissions to replace now-prevalent
political log-rolling. The increase in public confidence in government
would be palpable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">C) <b>Time For A Moral Re-Awakening</b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
As of February, 2016, 81% of respondents tell pollsters they believe
the U.S. government is corrupt. 61% believe most Congressmen will sell
their votes for cash or campaign contributions.
The New York City Council just voted itself a 32% salary increase “to
remove temptations to corruption” (that’s what they said!) and the U.S.
Attorney in Manhattan has publicly called the state government in
Albany ‘a cauldron of corruption’! The United
States ranks below every major European country on the Corruption
Perception Index of Transparency International. After the economic
explosion of 2008, many financial institutions were fined heavily for
fraud, but no one has gone to jail, and the fines are
widely seen as ‘the cost of doing business.’</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> An
aroused public should demand a renewed sense of probity from individuals
in all areas of public life, with shame, ostracism and prison for those
betraying the public trust and admiration and
respect for those performing “above and beyond the call of duty.”
Public officials convicted of major fraud should be dealt with as social
pariahs, not merely as individuals who ‘made a bad bet.’</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> America
has had Great Awakenings in the past and we are ready for another. This
one must emphasize not theology but morality, not life in the next
world but life in this one, not the role of the
individual but a sense of community and public spirit. Its theme can
be, “Yes, I am my brother’s keeper!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>\Conclusion</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The strengths of
American society are real, but so are its weaknesses; both can be
addressed frankly and imaginatively. We must re-think our values and
our goals, re-consider the standards by which we judge
ourselves and our fellows and act accordingly. Financial corruption
and spiritual corruption are cancers destroying us, but they can be
overcome by an outraged public.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">America’s ‘fall from
grace’ has been traumatic for many, resulting in the standard reactions
of denial, anger, bargaining and depression. Acceptance, the final
stage, can prove constructive if we demand it.
</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul Valery noted that “the future is not what it used to be.” If we apply wisdom, energy and determination, it can be better.</span></div>
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General Eric Schneiderman said that his office’s case against Trump has
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<span style="font-size: large;">New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Sunday rejected
suggestions that his office’s case against presidential candidate Donald
Trump’s defunct “Trump University” was at all political.<br />
“This is a straightforward fraud case. We never had any idea in 2013
the guy was going to run for president,” Schneiderman said on John
Catsimatidis’ “Cats Roundtable” program on AM 970. “This is not a
political case. This just a case where a lot of New Yorkers were ripped
off.”<br />
“There were thousands of folks who thought they were going to learn
from real estate experts who were handpicked by Trump and that they
would learn his personal secrets,” Schneiderman said. “Thousands of
people (who) paid as much as $35,000 to $45,000.”<br />
Schneiderman’s office filed suit against the now shuttered school in
August 2013 after getting almost 70 complaints from students who said
they were deceived into paying thousands of dollars for investment
advising services they never received after getting lured in for “free”
seminars.<br />
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A flyer advertising “Trump University.”</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">
But after years of stalled litigation, a state appeals court last month
gave a green light to the civil fraud claim against the GOP
front-runner and his former education business.<br />
In a unanimous ruling, a four-judge panel of the state Appellate
Division said the state attorney general’s office was “authorized to
bring a cause of action for fraud.”<br />
Schneiderman had charged Trump University, which operated between 2004
and 2010, was a scam that ripped off its students. Through “their
deceptive and unlawful practices, (Trump and the school) intentionally
misled over 5,000 individuals nationwide, including over 600 New
Yorkers, into paying as much as $35,000 each to participate in live
seminars and mentorship programs with the promise of learning Donald
Trump’s real estate investing techniques,” the AG’s office said.<br />
Lawyers for Trump and his now-defunct school had contended that the
suit should be tossed, pointing to a statute of limitations they say
expired.<br />
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In the room where it happens</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of "Hamilton," spent this week making headlines in Washington. But he's not new to politics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by MARK CHIUSANO</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOW ARRIVING</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a particularly political week for Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the blockbuster musical "Hamilton."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miranda
was in Washington to perform at the White House. While in town, he met
with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, later tweeting that Lew said "you're
going to be very happy" with the new $10 bill. That tweet brought a
surge of attention to the proposed redesigned currency, which treasury
hopes can include a woman's portrait for the first time without angering
Hamilton supporters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He
also lent his support to a bill providing bankruptcy protection to
debt-strapped Puerto Rico, standing alongside members of Congress and
another political force: his father.</span></div>
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Meet me inside</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luis A. Miranda, Jr. isn't just a supporting character in <a href="http://newsalertsnewsday.com/a/hBW69$3B8YqkKB9HblmNszGuTOH/expr2" target="_blank">an epic toast from his son's wedding</a>. He is a longtime powerbroker in New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A
founder of the political consultancy MirRam Group, the elder Miranda
has been on all sides of the political ecosystem: An adviser to Mayor Ed
Koch; an early contributor to the campaigns of Sen. Chuck Schumer,
Hillary Clinton, and Fernando Ferrer; and a founder of the Hispanic
Federation, an advocacy and social services group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luis
Miranda says he can't remember a time when he wasn't involved in
politics, dating to his time in Puerto Rico. And in Puerto Rico, all
politics is tinged by an ultimate, portentous decision, says Miranda.
You're casting a vote on Puerto Rico's future: Independence,
commonwealth, or statehood. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In America, that's a Civil War- or American Revolution-era choice, which his son captures so well in "Hamilton." </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Miranda
says that upon arriving in America it took him a while to find his
place in the Democrat-Republican divide. Since then, he's been engaged
in "politics with a big P" —mostly electoral campaigns.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Angelo
Falcón, founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy and another
mainstay of the NYC political scene, says he's been "busting his chops"
for years and has had disagreements with Miranda's political choices,
but says he respects Miranda's establishing a "real powerhouse"
political consultancy in MirRam group.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Falcón
remembers the father-son team when Lin-Manuel was a kid, and he
appreciates that now, the Hamilton creator remains engaged in political
issues.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">"What's
happening in Puerto Rico is a humanitarian crisis," says Falcón — an
issue that goes "beyond politics" and necessitates involvement from the
wider community, particularly artists. "Sometimes we don't see our
artists speaking out as much as they should."</span></div>
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History has its eyes on you</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lin-Manuel
is an exception to that unfortunate rule. He has been steeped in local
politics from an early age — he wrote the music for political jingles
for some of his father's campaign work, including Ferrer and Eliot
Spitzer. He was adept at ensuring that the "intended audience was
identified in the music," says his father — a light salsa touch, for
example.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Today
he "reads like a madman" and "can talk to you about what happened in
the debate last night." Though he's inevitably performing during the
debates, he devours coverage. But politics was never what he wanted to
do. "My son has never been a very political person" — as in big p
Politics, says Miranda.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Lin-Manuel
has become comfortable advancing political causes important to him, his
father says, noting artists like Marc Anthony or those who boycotted
the Oscars who have done the same.</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
elder Miranda makes a distinction between his and Lin-Manuel's advocacy
in the morning and the afternoon on the D.C. trip. Tuesday started by
addressing media and supporters, already receptive to their cause.
Later, they met quietly in Senate offices where they weren't always
preaching to the choir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In
a meeting with amateur violinist Sen. Orrin Hatch, they discussed music
before moving on to Puerto Rico, Lin-Manuel adding his "perspective
from a personal view," his father says. </span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The
younger Miranda is learning how to use his celebrity to advance
selective causes: "He's not going to be in the room negotiating," his
father says. Instead he's figuring out what he can "realistically do to
move the conversation."</span></div>
<div style="font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, learning to have an impact whether or not he's in the room where it happens. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321757863793605043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040770062768673557.post-29143456031851192142016-03-14T09:56:00.002-04:002016-03-14T10:00:27.118-04:00Trump's Not Hitler, He's Mussolini: How GOP Anti-Intellectualism Created a Modern Fascist Movement in America<br /><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></strong><img alt="Donald Trump. (photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)" height="195" src="http://www.readersupportednews.org/images/stories/article_imgs20/020238-donald-trump-031316.jpg" width="430" />
<br /><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic;">Fedja Buric, Salon</span>
<br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Buric writes: "In an interview with
Slate, the historian of fascism Robert Paxton warns against describing
Donald Trump as fascist because 'it's almost the most powerful epithet
you can use.' But in this case, the shoe fits. And here is why."</span>
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<div class="txtauthor">
<b>By Fedja Buric, Salon</b></div>
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<div class="date">
<b>13 March 16</b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-I.jpg" />n
an interview with Slate, the historian of fascism Robert Paxton warns
against describing Donald Trump as fascist because “it’s almost the most
powerful epithet you can use.” But in this case, the shoe fits. And
here is why.</span><br />
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Like Mussolini, Trump rails against intruders
(Mexicans) and enemies (Muslims), mocks those perceived as weak,
encourages a violent reckoning with those his followers perceive as the
enemy within (the roughing up of protesters at his rallies), flouts the
rules of civil political discourse (the Megyn Kelly menstruation spat),
and promises to restore the nation to its greatness not by a series of
policies, but by the force of his own personality (“I will be great for”
fill in the blank). </span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">To quote Paxton again, this time from his seminal “The
Anatomy of Fascism”: “Fascist leaders made no secret of having no
program.” This explains why Trump supporters are not bothered by his
ideological malleability and policy contradictions: He was pro-choice
before he was pro-life; donated to politicians while now he rails
against that practice; married three times and now embraces evangelical
Christianity; is the embodiment of capitalism and yet promises to crack
down on free trade. In the words of the Italian writer Umberto Eco,
fascism was “a beehive of contradictions.” It bears noting that
Mussolini was a socialist unionizer before becoming a fascist union
buster, a journalist before cracking down on free press, a republican
before becoming a monarchist.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Like Mussolini, Trump is dismissive of democratic
institutions. He selfishly guards his image of a self-made outsider who
will “dismantle the establishment” in the words of one of his
supporters. That this includes cracking down on a free press by
toughening libel laws, engaging in the ethnic cleansing of 11 million
people (“illegals”), stripping away citizenship of those seen as
illegitimate members of the nation (children of the “illegals”), and
committing war crimes in the protection of the nation (killing the
families of suspected terrorists) only enhances his stature among his
supporters. The discrepancy between their love of America and these
brutal and undemocratic methods does not bother them one iota. To
borrow from Paxton again: “Fascism was an affair of the gut more than of
the brain.” For Trump and his supporters, the struggle against
“political correctness” in all its forms is more important than the fine
print of the Constitution.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">To be fair, there are many differences between Italian
Fascism of interwar Europe and Trumpism of (soon to be) post-Obama
America. For one, Mussolini was better read and more articulate than
Trump. Starting out as a schoolteacher, the Italian Fascist read
voraciously and was heavily influenced by the German and French
philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Marie Guyau, respectively. I
doubt Trump would know who either of these two people were. According
to the Boston Globe, Trump speaks at the level of a fourth grader.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">There are other more consequential differences, of
course: the interwar Italy was a much bigger mess than the USA is today;
the democratic institutions of this country are certainly more
resilient and durable than those of the young unstable post-World War I
Italy; the economy, both U.S. and worldwide, is not in the apocalyptic
state it was in the interwar period; and the demographics of the USA
mitigate against the election of a racist demagogue. So, Trump’s
blackshirts are not marching on Washington, yet.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Also, as a historian I have learned to beware of
historical analogies and generally eschew them whenever I can,
particularly when it comes to an ideology that during World War II
caused the deaths of 60 million human beings. The oversaturation of our
discourse with Hitler comparisons is not only exasperating for any
historian, but is offensive to the memory of Hitler’s many victims most
notably the six million Jews his regime murdered in cold blood.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, rather than explaining it, historical
analogies often distort the present, sometimes with devastating
consequences. The example that comes to mind is the
Saddam-is-like-Hitler analogy many in the George W. Bush administration
used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which was an unmitigated
disaster. The overuse, or misuse, of a historical analogy can also make
policy makers more hesitant to act with equally disastrous
consequences: the prime examples are Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s when
the West attributed their inaction to stop the slaughter in each
country by arguing that these massacres were “not like the Holocaust.”</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, for a historical analogy to be useful to us, it
has to advance our understanding of the present. And the
Trumpism-Fascism axis (pun intended) does this in three ways: it
explains the origins of Trump the demagogue; it enables us to read the
Trump rally as a phenomenon in its own right; and it allows those of us
who are unequivocally opposed to hate, bigotry, and intolerance, to
rally around an alternative, equally historical, program: anti-fascism.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Very Fascist Origins of Trumpism</b></span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">That white supremacist groups back Donald Trump for
president of the United States, and his slowness to disavow the support
of David Duke, all illuminate the fascistic origins of Trump the
phenomenon. In fact, Paxton acknowledges that while Fascism began in
France and Italy, “the first version of the Klan in the defeated
American south was arguably a remarkable preview of the way fascist
movements were to function in interwar Europe.” That the KKK was drawn
to the Trump candidacy, and that he refused to disavow them speak
volumes about his fascistic roots.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Like Fascism, Trumpism has come about on the heels of a
protracted period of ideological restlessness. Within the Republican
Party this restlessness has resulted in a complete de-legitimization of
the so-called GOP establishment.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Benito Mussolini came to the scene in the 1920s at a
time when all the known “isms” of the time had lost their mojos.
Conservatism, which since the French Revolution had been advocating for
monarchy, nobility, and tradition, was dealt a devastating blow by the
First World War, which destroyed four major empires (Ottoman,
Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and German), made universal male suffrage
(mostly) the norm, and eliminated a generation of aristocrats. Although
initially seen as victorious, liberalism, in its emphasis on equality,
constitutions, parliaments, and civil debates, quickly proved unable to
solve the mammoth problems facing Europe after the war. To the millions
of unemployed, angry, and hungry Europeans, the backroom politicking
and obscure party debates seemed petty at best, and deserving of
destruction at worst. Shoving millions of Europeans into nation-states
they saw as alien to their ethnicity created huge minority problems and
sparked irredentist movements including fascists and their many
copycats. The success of Lenin’s Bolsheviks in Russia and their
protracted, terrifying, civil war made Communism unpalatable for most
Europeans.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Enter Fascism. Fascism promised people deliverance
from politics. Fascism was not just different type of politics, but
anti-politics. On the post-WWI ruins of the Enlightenment beliefs in
progress and essential human goodness, Fascism embraced emotion over
reason, action over politics. Violence was not just a means to an end,
but the end in itself because it brought man closer to his true inner
nature. War was an inevitable part of this inner essence of man.
Millions of European men had found this sense of purpose and camaraderie
in the trenches of the First World War and were not going to sit idly
by while politicians took it away from them after the war (famously,
after the war Hitler was slow to demobilize and take off his uniform).
Fascists’ main enemies were not just Marxist politicians, or liberal
politicians, but politicians in general.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">It is therefore no coincidence that the most common
explanation Trump supporters muster when asked about their vote is that
“he is no politician.” Trump did not invent this anti-politics mood,
but he tamed it in accordance with his own needs. Ever since the
election of Barack Obama the Republicans have refused to co-govern.
Senator Mitch McConnell’s vow that his main purpose would be to deny the
president a second term was only the first of many actions by which the
Republicans have retreated from politics. The Tea Party wave meant an
absolute refusal to compromise on even the most essential issues, which
were central to the economic survival of the government if not the
entire country (the Debt ceiling fiasco anyone?!). But since then it
has gotten worse: now even the establishment Republicans who had been
initially demonized by the Tea Party, such as Mitch McConnell, have
openly abrogated their own constitutional powers by refusing to exercise
them. This has been most evident in their blanket refusal to even hold
a hearing for a Scalia replacement on the Supreme Court. In other
words, the Republicans themselves, not Trump, broke politics.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">The anti-intellectualism of Trump has also been a long
time in the making. It was the Republican establishment that has for
decades refused to even consider the science of climate change and has
through local education boards strove to prevent the teaching of
evolution. Although not as explicit as the Fascists were in their
efforts to use the woman’s body for reproducing the nation, the
Republican attempts at restricting abortion rights, and women access to
healthcare in general have often been designed with the same purpose in
mind. Of course American historians have pointed to this larger strand
of anti-intellectualism in American politics, but what is different
about this moment is that Trump has successfully wedded this
anti-Enlightenment mood with the anti-political rage of the Republican
base.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Still, for a fascist to be accepted as legitimate he
has to move the crowd and from the very beginning of his candidacy Trump
has done this by stoking racial animosity and grievances. It is no
coincidence that the Trump phenomenon emerges during the tenure of the
first black President. It bears remembering that Trump’s first
flirtation with running for office was nothing more than his insistent,
nonsensical, irrational, and blatantly racist demand that President
Obama show his birth certificate and his Harvard grades. This was more
than a dog whistle to the angry whites that the first black President
was not only un-American, literally, but that he was intellectually
inferior to them, despite graduating from Harvard Law. If one considers
this “original sin” of Trump then the KKK endorsement of his candidacy
and Trump’s acceptance of it seem less strange.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Like Mussolini, Trump is lucky in his timing. When
Mussolini created his Fascists in 1919 there were numerous other far
right, authoritarian movements popping up all over Europe. As Robert
Paxton reminds us, by the early 20th century Europe had gotten “swollen”
by refugees, mostly Ashkenazi Jews who had since the 1880s been
escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe. Culturally and religiously
different they caused reactions amongst the Europeans that are
strikingly similar to the way in which many European politicians have
reacted to the influx of Muslim refugees and migrants from the Middle
East and North Africa. The Hungarian government’s building of a fence
to prevent Muslim migrants from coming in and its rhetoric of foreign,
Islamic, invasion is just one of more noted examples of Islamophobic
euphoria sweeping rightwing and fascistic movements into power all
across Europe. As Hugh Eakin points out in the New York Review of
Books, even Denmark, the beacon of civilized, tolerant, Europe has
become susceptible to the xenophobic fear mongering: hate speech now
passes for mainstream discussion (the Speaker of the Danish Parliament
claims Muslim migrants to be at “a lower stage of civilization”). The
head of the newly elected right-wing party in Poland, Jaroslaw
Kaczynski, has described migrants as “parasites” who bring diseases.”
Thus, it is no coincidence that Trump often references the refugee
crisis to point to the ineptitude of European politicians and to
simultaneously warn of a yet another jihadist terrorist attack. Trump
would feel perfectly at home in the company of the new generation of
European authoritarians like Viktor Orban of Hungary or Vladimir Putin
of Russia. He does not care that Putin considers America Russia’s
historic enemy because for Trump the real enemy is within.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Trump Rally: An exercise in community building</b></span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">If we historicize Trump in such a way, his rallies
become much easier to read. For Trump’s supporters, the pushing and
shoving, and even the outright violence, against protesters, and the
menacingly carnivalesque atmosphere are, to an extent, an end in itself.
Just observe how groups at Trump rallies spontaneously come together to
roughen up a protester. The sheer emotional intensity of their facial
expressions shows us precisely why they support Trump and why no policy
proposal from any of his competitors can ever come close to diminishing
Trump in his supporters’ eyes. Violence is electrifying and community
building as much as it is devastating for those on the receiving end.
Action over politics.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">But it bears reminding that the crowds have
transformed Trump as well. At the beginning of the campaign he seemed
taken aback by protesters, but recently he has begin to egg them on
(“I’d like to punch him in the face”). Simultaneously, he has gotten
more confident on stage, bolder in his outrage proposals (ban all
Muslims from the U.S.), and more theatrical.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">This transformation brings to mind a moment in the
history of another authoritarian, the former Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic whose ascent to power wrecked the country of Yugoslavia and
caused a series of vicious civil wars that killed hundreds of thousands
of people and displaced millions. When Milosevic first appeared on TV he
did so as a mid-level member of the Communist party and spoke with the
dry jargon of a Marxist intellectual. In 1987, party bosses sent
Milosevic to the volatile Serbian province of Kosovo to quell a riot by
Serb locals who were complaining that the majority Albanians had been
perpetrating violence, and even genocide, against them. Feeling
abandoned by the government, the Serb nationalists surrounded Milosevic
telling him that Albanians were beating them. Milosevic hesitated. He
began to employ the party jargon of national unity and promised to solve
their problems, but the crowd grew rowdier and at one point, Milosevic
looked scared. That’s when he uttered the phrase that would transform
him from an anonymous politician to a Serb nationalist leader: “no one
can dare to beat you!” The crowd erupted in cheers, propelling his
career during which he destroyed not only his own party, but also the
country at large. He would die nineteen years later in a prison cell at
the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands.</span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">This is not to say that Trump will cause a civil war
in the U.S., or that he will commit war crimes (although he did promise
to do the latter). But the destruction of the GOP looks all but
imminent should he be the nominee. We should be warned that fascist
demagogues are often made on the sly, almost imperceptibly, and that the
fires they stir up tend to spread rather quickly. The pull of history
on individuals is often inexorable. In his excellent portrayal of
Nazification of German life, the historian Peter Fritzsche recounts a
story of Karl Dürkefälden, a German living in the town of Peine during
Hitler’s ascent to power. An opponent of Nazis, Karl expressed in his
diary a profound sense of shock at how quickly his whole family—mother,
father, and his sister—underwent a conversion to Nazism during the early
1933. In one particularly poignant scene, Karl is standing at the
window of his house alongside his wife looking at the Nazi May Day
celebrations, in which the entire, now Nazified, community participates,
including his father. He struggles to remain on the sidelines not
because he is a convinced Nazi, but because his entire community is
caught up in what he called Umstellung, “a rapid…adjustment or
conversion to Nazism,” in the words of Fritzsche. </span></div>
<div class="indent">
<span style="font-size: large;">Individuals who successfully resist historical
Umstellungs are unfortunately few and far between. This is why we
celebrate them. Those who succumb to them are much more common. The
case of a young man by the name of Drazen Erdemovic from the Bosnian war
is telling in this regard. Born in a mixed Croat-Serb family, the
twenty-four year old Erdemovic found himself in 1995 a part of the
Bosnian Serb firing squad executing Muslim men around the town of
Srebrenica: by his own admission, he personally murdered seventy
Muslims. After surrendering to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague,
Erdemovic said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have lost many very good friends of all
nationalities because of that war, and I am convinced that all of them,
all of my friends, were not in favor of a war. I am convinced of that.
But simply they had no other choice. This war came and there was no
way out. The same happened to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“They had no other choice.” “This war came and there
was no way out.” Once unleashed, the demons of history are too
difficult for any individual to resist on his/or her/ own no matter what
their backgrounds or political beliefs of the moment. This is why
resistance to such atrocities always requires a movement, a community,
and in fighting Fascists this was Anti-Fascism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Branding Trumpism Fascist has the political benefit of
mobilizing disparate forces in the fight against him just like the
antifascist coalition of World War II led to unprecedented alliances
between ideologically disparate forces (the Soviet-American alliance
being the primary example). In the American context, seeing Trump as a
2016 reincarnation of Mussolini can unite Democrats, Republicans,
independents, Naderites, neo-cons, constitutionalists, and others, into a
broad anti-Fascist coalition which would bring Trump down and save our
democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In conclusion, the Fascism analogy is admittedly not a
perfect fit. When it comes to ideologies, no analogy is. This is
because ideologies change through time. The religious anti-Semitism of
the Middle Ages was very different from its racial reincarnation during
the nineteenth century, the latter of which was picked up by the Nazis
(although religious anti-Semitism still remained a part of it). The
anti-imperial, liberal, nationalism of the first half of the nineteenth
century was very different from its more virulent, expansionist, and
repressive kind at the beginning of the twentieth. Stalin’s Bolshevism
was much scarier and arbitrarily deadlier than Lenin’s. In other words,
just like the overuse of historical analogies should not make us too
quick to embrace them, a search for a perfect ideological replica of
interwar Fascism should not blind us to its ugly re-emergence in 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, the echoes of Fascism are all too audible to
anyone willing to hear them. Having lost one country, Yugoslavia, I
really don’t want to lose another one.</span></div>
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- Commemorations are being held today to mark the 50th anniversary of
the death of Pedro Albizu Campos, popularly known to many as Don Pedro,
the former head of the Nationalist Party and leader of the Puerto Rican
independence movement. Albizu Campos spent some 26 years in prison for
organizing against U.S. colonial rule. He was born in 1891, seven years
before the U.S. invaded the island. He would go on to become the first
Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School. Once he returned to
Puerto Rico, he dedicated the rest of his life to the independence
movement, becoming president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in
1930. It was a position he held until his death in 1965. In 1936, Albizu
Campos was jailed along with other Nationalist leaders on conspiracy
and sedition charges. His jailing led to protests across Puerto Rico. On
Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, police shot and killed 21 Puerto Ricans
and wounded over 200 others taking part in a peaceful march to protest
Albizu Campos’ imprisonment. The event became known as the Ponce
massacre. After his eventual release, Albizu Campos was arrested again
in 1950, just days after a Nationalist revolt began on October 30. Pedro
Albizu Campos would spend almost the rest of his life in prison, where
he repeatedly charged that he was the subject of human radiation
experiments. We hear Albizu Campos in his own words and speak to three
guests: Rep. José Serrano (D-NY); Nelson Denis, author of the new book,
"War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s
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+Klas K Aren't you using YouTube right now???? Doesn't that come from the USA?? Are you using the Internet right now????? You're telling me those two things have screwed up Latin America??? SMH!!!</div>
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Shit on his grave? What would that do? How bout collecting all the back taxes the corporations didn't pay in Puerto Rico along with the wealthy families in the USA who benefitted and rebuild this exploited and raped island back to its natural beauty and their people, back to their independence and freedom? Wouldn't that be beautiful? One less colonized people, one less apartheid state in this world, one less injustice.I hate to say this but I've only heard Bernie Sanders speak about Puerto Rico once and it flew by in conversation. He couldn't face the camera! He briefly turned away. This shows how clueless he is on the topic. This shows he can't look you in the eye and lie. He is even against reparations. I hope he reads "War Against All Puerto Ricans"!!! It would certainly change his mind. The torture parts are pretty awful. You better have a strong mind as well as stomach to read it.</div>
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Here the the Deceiver should be judged by the internatinal courts for the invasion of Puerto Rico, the abuse, the persecutions of Puertoricans, the assassinations of Puertoricans and many many atrocities done to the people of Puerto Rico since the invation of Puerto Rico in 1898.
All they have done is deceive, steal and kill to destroy and humiliate Puerto Rico. I am not the one saying that, history says so.</div>
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GREAT LEADER ..STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT'S</div>
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So when does a communist revolutionary's life matter??? It doesn't! He does not represent me, he does not represent my family, and he does not represent my ancestors. Screw him and the communists!</div>
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Anybody can say they've studied any sort of book on the Caribbean or even taken classes. It doesn't impress me, especially with what's been coming out (both good and bad).What was suppressed, filtered by the media and lied about is emerging.The history of the Caribbean is much more complex than most people can imagine. Information comes out all the time.Like I keep mentioning, read War Against All Puerto Ricans. Otherwise you're misinformed. Just the fact that you're against reparations means you're against justice. If you do serious wrong to someone you're in trouble usually and am obligated to pay that person back return their possessions to their original state, like in an auto accident for example.If you do damage to an entire nation with its own peace and economy. Their own currency and turn their land upside down with violence and colonization, don't you think those effects which can still be felt today, should be corrected in the best way possible?I see some people choose to take the easy way out and just stick their head in the sand, pretending reality doesn't exist.</div>
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Campos led a strike that increased wages ???
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Siendo 100% honesto, creo que el PIP no es nuestra salvacion al buscar la independencia... El ideal esta correcto, pero el problema es que siguen siendo un partido que lleva recostado tantos años haciendo MIERDA! Un candidato independiente CON EL MISMO IDEAL del PIP seria una mejor opcion en mi opinion, alguien que no puede ser manipulado por un partido...</div>
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The truth be told about the abuse, DOMINO sugar and American invasion</div>
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There are very few of us left. The US has brainwashed almost every Puertorrican here at home and has put us puertorrican nationalist on the list of potential terrorist once again this is outrageous. They have destroyed our country by putting our people on welfare, making our country addicted to debt, destroying and rewriting our true history and culture, shooting down and killing us all the times they new an uprising was imminent. And people are dumbed down through worthless indoctrinating style education. We don't want a fight with the American people they are loving and good. We just want our country back through peaceful means and the truth to come out of the mouths of those in charge for the whole world to here. We just want to live in peace.</div>
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Well 60% of the island has 60% Taino DNA. So if Puerto Ricans have most of their DNA as indigenous then they should be deserving of all the rights of all natives and indigenous peoples. This includes independence and even reparations. It wasn't just the physical war and conquest of the island but the labor exploitation and levels of brutality were enormous, this includes economic exploitation, environmental destruction and pollution......I read the book "War Against All Puerto Ricans". Anyone who does and has any sense of decency and humanity will be outraged!What the US did to Puerto Rico was so violent and disgusting and with such goddamn nerve. Honestly, if I'd I met an old guy who took part in the atrocities there, I'd strangle his fucking ass.</div>
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instead go to Macon, GA and shit on somebody's grave (the master mind of the massacre).</div>
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+Miriam Warrior JFK signed the Social security Administration funds into the claws of the gov. .. Learning is power...</div>
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Martin Luther King, Malcon X etc.</div>
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400 de Espana y 100 de USA. Nunca Libre! Prefieren darle 380 Billones a Iran y para que? Mas armas??? Cuba recibio 300 millones de la gente Americana para Obama poder dejar su legacia....LMAO. Y PR que se joda!!! Ya los pesos se hicieron para los ultra ricos...Y el ELA se comio todos los fondos con su fuego popular. La infra estructura obsoleta, crimen fuera de liga y siguen pasando el peso al proximo...Ay bendito, PR esta' jodio!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11321757863793605043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4040770062768673557.post-56397523447641908592016-02-29T18:21:00.000-05:002016-02-29T18:21:00.899-05:00Trump Won't Condemn KKK, Says He 'Knows Nothing About White Supremacists'
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-O.jpg" />n
the Sunday morning talk shows, Republican presidential front-runner
Donald Trump refused to condemn endorsements from a prominent white
supremacist and former KKK leader, and said he retweeted a Mussolini
quote because "it's a very good quote."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/28/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists/index.html" target="_blank">The extended conversation about white supremacists</a> came on CNN's <em>State of the Union, </em>where
Jake Tapper asked if Trump would distance himself from an endorsement
by David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke has <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/david-duke-urges-his-supporters-to-volunteer-and-vote-for-tr#.flvLXw4b2" target="_blank">told his radio audience</a> that voting against Trump would be "treason to your heritage."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trump refused to condemn that endorsement or say he didn't want the support of white supremacists — four times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I don't know anything about David Duke. I don't
know what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white
supremacist. I don't know. I don't know, did he endorse me, or what's
going on?" he said. That prompted a back-and-forth that went, in part:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Trump:</strong> I don't know what group you're talking
about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing
about. ... If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research
on them and certainly I would disavow them if I thought there was
something wrong.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Tapper:</strong> The Ku Klux Klan?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Trump:</strong> You may have groups in there that are
totally fine and it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the
groups and I'll let you know.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Tapper: </strong>I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Trump:</strong> Honestly, I don't know David Duke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can watch the full exchange <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/28/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As several people swiftly pointed out on Twitter, Trump hasn't always claimed ignorance of David Duke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2000, when he ended his presidential campaign,
Trump cited Duke's participation in the Reform Party as one reason he no
longer wanted the party's nomination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr.
Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. [Pat][ Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. [Lenora]
Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep," he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/us/reform-bid-said-to-be-a-no-go-for-trump.html" target="_blank">wrote in his statement</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also on the Sunday show circuit, on NBC's <em>Meet the Press, </em>Trump declined to distance himself from a Benito Mussolini quote he had retweeted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gawker <a href="http://gawker.com/how-we-fooled-donald-trump-into-retweeting-benito-musso-1761795039" target="_blank">has since posted</a>
to announce that the account that first tweeted the quote — unsubtly
named "@ilduce2016" — was a bot they designed with the express purpose
of tricking Trump into retweeting a line from the fascist Italian
dictator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the ploy succeeded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Chuck Todd pointed out that "it is better to
live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep" is, indeed, a famous
Mussolini quote, and asked if Trump knew that, Trump said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It's OK to know it was Mussolini. Look, Mussolini was Mussolini. ... It's a very good quote. It's a very interesting quote."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Todd asked if Trump wanted to be associated
with a fascist, Trump said, "No, I want to be associated with
interesting quotes."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He then pointed out he has millions of followers on social media, and that they appreciate his interesting posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Hey, it got your attention, didn't it?" Trump said.</span></div>
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The late Supreme Court judge graduated from Xavier.</div>
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In
the 1950s, Xavier High School was a home for the discipline of God and
man, where military training was a compulsory part of the curriculum,
and students proved their rigor by poring over the Bible and Latin
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Coming
to class with the wrong haircut could result in "jug"punishment, from
the Latin "jugum," or "burden," sometimes thought of as the abbreviation
for Justice Under God. </div>
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This Xavier experience greatly influenced Antonin Scalia, a sharp teenager from Queens who graduated in 1953.</div>
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The context of his textualism </h2>
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As
the partisan debate over replacing Supreme Court Justice Scalia shows
no signs of abating, many have turned to the justice's jurist's own
strict textualism to claim that Scalia himself would have had no
patience for the argument that Article 2 of the Constitution no longer
applied to a president in his final year in office. </div>
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This
faith in original sources and love of the discipline inherent in fully
investigating them is deeply rooted in Scalia's eight years of Jesuit
education, at Xavier and later at Georgetown University.</div>
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Xavier
opened its doors as a college in 1847, and became a high school in the
early 20th century, run by members of the Jesuit order, known for their
scholasticism and military focus.</div>
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In
the pre-Vatican II 1950s, when Scalia attended the school, religious
instruction was focused on the catechismmemorizing what the church
teaches as opposed to why. This catechistic teaching was paired with an
"academic analysis" of biblical texts, remembers Philip Lacovara, who
graduated from Xavier after Scalia but met him later in Washington, D.C.
Lacovara had a distinguished career in his own right, as special
counsel to the prosecution during the Watergate trial. He successfully
argued the Supreme Court case that forced Richard Nixon to turn over the
White House tapes.</div>
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Jesuit rigor</h2>
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In
their Xavier education, the focus was on what was being said and what
the author meant: students learned "to be faithful to the text that was
being studied as the operative document."</div>
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Scalia
thrived in this academic atmosphere, but years later he would say that
his fondest memories of the school came from the Regiment, the school
military unit which was compulsory for students at the time. Scalia was
the commanding officer of the Regiment's marching band, and a member of
the JV rifle team, requiring him to carry the weapon on the subway with
him from time to time, between school and home in Elmhurst, Queens.</div>
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But shifting political currents during the Vietnam era convinced Xavier
to make membership with the JROTC group optional, a decision with which
Scalia deeply and publicly disagreed.</div>
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In
a speech at the Xavier Regiment honors ceremony in 2011, Scalia
identified a biblical basis for the benefits of military service: Jesus'
"advice to [the Roman soldiers] was not 'Throw down your arms,' but be
content with your wages," admonitions that fit in the deep military
traditions of the Jesuits. </div>
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But
Jesuits from Daniel Berrigan-the counter culture priest--to Pope
Francis have tapped into their customs of questioning and probing to
pushed for peace. The "Plowshares Movement" that Berrigan was a part of
took a different textual approach, adopting the biblical admonition that
swords be beaten into farming tools.</div>
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'Faith can grow through doubt'</h2>
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Xavier
and its alumni have tracked the changing fortunes of Catholics in New
York City, a route that Scalia himself outlined in his 2011 address.</div>
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When
the nativist American Protective Association proposed barring Catholics
from office or armed forces command posts in the 1890s, Xavier began
holding military masses to underscore its simultaneous commitment to
service and religionofficers at the front pews, swords unsheathed.</div>
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The
Xavier regiment became a mainstay at St. Patrick's Day parades, but
also more traditionally American events, such as the 1932 march honoring
the bicentennial of George Washington's birth. During WWII, 1,500
Xavier men served in the armed forces, that gradual assimilator.</div>
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Soon
a Catholic would become president, and the rest is history. Scalia's
ascension to the highest courtas a second-generation Italian-American
kid from Queensunderscored arrival at mainstream acceptance.</div>
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Surely
Scalia would hope his successor would approach the world as he did,
through reference to unchanging founding documents, carefully examined
and extrapolated, a technique the justice was already learning at
Xavier.</div>
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"Xavier
and Jesuit education writ large," says the school's current president,
Jack Raslowsky, "has always prided itself on teaching kids how to think,
not what to think."</div>
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"Faith can grow through doubt." Republicans in Congress, take note.</div>
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Republicans in Congress, take note.</div>
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A<span style="font-size: large;">fter the sudden death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia, President Obama has the opportunity to move the country’s
highest court toward the left by tapping a more liberal-leaning
successor.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Immediately after news of Scalia's death broke, diverse options for the
top job were being floated along with a debate online among Senate
leaders about whether lame duck Obama should be the one to nominate the
next justice.</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/senate-play-politics-scalia-successor-article-1.2531013">SENATE GOP CANT PLAY POLITICS WITH SCALIA SUCCESSOR </a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next
Supreme Court justice," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
said Saturday in a statement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Therefore this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) quickly fired back saying
that "it would be unprecedented in recent history for the Supreme Court
to go a year with a vacant seat."</span><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/scalia-love-hate-left-mark-american-law-article-1.2530833">SCALIA: LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM LEFT HIS MARK ON AMERICAN LAW</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of
the Senate's most essential Constitutional responsibilities."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Legal experts think Republicans might block an Obama appointee until
he's out of office, leaving the court with a gaping vacant seat for
nearly a year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"I think Republicans will make every effort to block the nomination,"
Stephen Wermiel, Professor of Law at American University Washington
College of Law told the Daily News. "Even to the point of shedding blood
in the aisles of the Senate if they have to."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Obama said Saturday that he intends to be the one to choose Scalia's replacement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here's who's on deck:</span><br />
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</span><b>Sri Srinivasan</b></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">The 48-year-old moderate D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, has
already been labeled Obama’s “Supreme Court nominee in waiting,” by <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-court-nominee-in-waiting" target="_blank">The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Widely seen as the most likely choice, he would be the first Indian-American justice on the highest court.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Srinivasan is poised to be chosen for the Supreme on the D.C. Circuit
Court, the second-highest court where John Roberts, Antonin Scalia,
Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all were nominated from.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Lawrence, Kansas native most famously argued against the Defense of
Marriage Act while he was the Obama Administration's principal deputy
solicitor general.</span><br />
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Paul Watford</h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Watford, a 48-year-old African-American Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge who Obama said “has displayed exceptional dedication to the legal
profession throughout his work,” after his 2012 confirmation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was nominated with broad bipartisan support to the Ninth Circuit Court in 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Even Daniel Collins, Antonin Scalia's clerk at the time, praised Watford's confirmation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"I don't think he'll approach the job with any kind of agenda other
than to do what is right and consistent with precedent as he understands
it," Collins said in 2011, according to the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/18/nation/la-na-obama-nominates-judge-20111018" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times.</a></span><br />
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David Barron</h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David Barron would be a controversial choice for Obama.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Barron notoriously authored a secret memo which justified Obama's
decision to order drone strikes on Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen
who became a radicalized Islamic militant living in Yemen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/drone-memo-cometh" target="_blank">ACLU called the memo a "disturbing"</a> legal precedent for drone strikes.</span><br />
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Merrick Garland</h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Garland is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit, and is known for having lead prosecutions in the
Oklahoma City bombing and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski cases while he was
the Associate Deputy Attorney General from 1994 to 2013.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"His name has been kicking around for a while. He's not an extremely
liberal Democrat, he's sort of centrist," Wermiel, the American
University law professor, said.</span><br />
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Loretta Lynch </h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Obama has already nominated two female Supreme Court justices early on
in his presidency--in 2009, he picked Bronx-native Sonia Sotomayor and
in 2010 he chose New Yorker Elena Kagan.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Why not more women on the highest court?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Loretta Lynch was recently nominated and confirmed with bipartisan support to be the U.S. Attorney General in April 2015.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She came out swinging in her new role, already filing a discrimination
lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri and indicting nine FIFA
executives for the match-fixing scandal.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Lynch, who was the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney before her recent promotion, would be the first black woman as a justice, to boot.</span><br />
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Patricia Ann Millett</h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">D.C. Circuit judge Patricia Ann Millett, another Harvard Law School
alum, has spent most of her career practicing corporate law at the firm
Miller & Chevalier</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She has argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and holds a
second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, according to her profile on the
U.S. Court of Appeal site.</span><br />
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T<span style="font-size: large;">he sudden and
shocking death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia opened a new
and incendiary front in the already red-hot 2016 presidential race, one
that promises to divide Democrats and Republicans and, perhaps,
Republicans from themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The vacancy on the court,
which is now evenly split 4-4 between its conservative and liberal
wings, had Republicans calling on President Barack Obama to refrain from
choosing a successor to the right-leaning Scalia while Democrats urged
Obama to do as the U.S. Constitution requires and put forward a
candidate to face confirmation in an albeit hostile Senate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The prospect of such a battle drew swift and furious comment from candidates vying to be elected president in November.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Facing off in a debate only
hours after the 79-year-old Scalia's death was announced, some
Republican presidential candidates seized the moment to caution voters
that their party's front-runner, billionaire businessman Donald Trump,
could not be trusted to nominate a stalwart conservative.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"If Donald Trump is
president, he will appoint liberals," charged U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of
Texas during the debate in South Carolina, which holds a Republican
nominating contest next Saturday.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Two branches of government
hang in the balance, not just the presidency, but the Supreme Court,"
Cruz said. "If we get this wrong, if we nominate the wrong candidate,
the Second Amendment, life, marriage, religious liberty, every one of
those hangs in the balance."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Senator Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina also took a shot at Trump. "Donald Trump is not a
conservative, so I don't trust him to pick a judge," Graham said before
the debate. A real estate mogul, Trump has supported Democratic
politicians in the past.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Trump, who also has taken
several positions at odds with Republican orthodoxy, joined other
candidates at the debate in insisting that Senator Mitch McConnell,
Republican majority leader in the Senate, stand by his promise to block
any Obama high court choice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"It's up to Mitch McConnell
and everyone else to stop it," Trump, a former reality TV show host,
said. "It's called delay, delay, delay."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Under the U.S. system, the
president nominates justices for the nine-member court and the Senate
confirms them. The last justice to be approved by the Senate of the
opposite party during an election year was Justice Anthony Kennedy in
1988.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Obama has already indicated
that he intends to send a choice to the Senate in coming weeks, meaning
that the nominee will be heavily scrutinized by presidential candidates
in both parties - and more than likely be opposed by the majority of
Republicans.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"The court may genuinely be a
major issue this year," said David Axelrod, a former top political
adviser to Obama. "It will be a hell of a fight."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>SOCIAL ISSUES ON DOCKET</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Criticism of the court, which
in recent years has upheld Obama's sweeping healthcare plan and
legalized same-sex marriage, has already been a thread running through
several Republican candidates' campaigns.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The conservative majority on
the court had appeared poised to invalidate Obama's immigration and
climate-change policies. The loss of Scalia, considered to be a lodestar
of conservative legal thought, and the potential swing of the court to
the left, ensures that whatever drama plays out in the Senate this year
will be mirrored on the campaign trail.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"There is no more clarifying
debate in politics these days than when it comes to Supreme Court
nominees," said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former aide to
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada. "This now is for all the marbles."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Reid was majority leader of
the Senate when it confirmed previous Obama court nominees Sonia
Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Manley called McConnell's threat not to allow
a vote on a potential Scalia replacement "completely beyond the pale."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton seemed inclined to make McConnell's threat a campaign issue.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"The Republicans in the
Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for Justice Scalia's
seat to remain vacant dishonor our Constitution," Clinton said in a
statement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Axelrod said that the issue could help Clinton, locked in a tight race with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"I think it will make electability and experience in this realm more important," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>OBAMA'S OPTIONS</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Rick Hasen, a law professor
at the University of California, Irvine, and a longtime observer of the
Supreme Court nomination process, said Obama likely has two options.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"He could nominate a more
liberal candidate who would have no real chance of getting through a
Republican Senate - in which case this would become a salient political
issue in 2016," Hasen said. Or he could nominate a more moderate
candidate who might gain enough Republican support to gain approval, he
said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are risks to both
approaches: A Republican obstruction of a liberal nominee would animate
the Democratic Party's progressive base in an election year but would
leave the court without a potentially tie-breaking vote for perhaps a
year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That same Democratic base
might view a moderate nominee as a betrayal, while conservative
Republican voters likely would frown on any senator who voted to approve
an Obama choice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Manley said that McConnell
has already shown that he is unwilling to support any choice made by
Obama and that the White House must act aggressively. "The president
should go forward and nominate the most liberal candidate possible," he
said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Given the need to fire up its most passionate voters, that might just be exactly what Republican candidates want as well. </span></div>
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