President Obama criticizes anti-"free" traders yet again. "The prescription of withdrawing from trade deals and focusing solely on your local market, that's the wrong medicine," he says, but we don't say we should "focus solely on our local market" -- we say we should not let trade deals outsource our jobs and nullify our laws. They strain to give us the impression that they hear us, but they don't. If I said it to the President's face, I can't say for sure he'd hear it.
"Privacy activists" target Senators over measure expanding FBI's ability to get your browser history without a warrant. We don't learn who any of them are, but we do "learn" that "privacy advocates found the political wind against them after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history this month," as if subjecting everyone to more government spying would have stopped that. As an aside: they think Ted Cruz's "yea" vote for that amendment is a surprise?
Ho hum, doctors at for-profit, Southern hospitals seem to take more money and gifts from drug- and device-manufacturing corporations than doctors at other kinds of hospitals. However, New Jersey, which is not in the South, leads the way, which, though disappointing, is not surprising, as Big Pharma has virtually colonized the state. No use arguing that doctors are strong enough to not let gifts sway them, when a) the data says otherwise and b) doctors are people, after all, who might feel guilty at getting a gift and not using the product.
CNN's hiring of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandoski as a punditoid has, as you might imagine, resulted in some rather tortured argument from the "liberal" media. One anonymous-of-course CNN staffer says "insider" knowledge of the Trump campaign could be "very valuable to us" (never mind the non-disclosure agreement Mr. Lewandoski signed with the Trump campaign!), while a Washington Post reporter says he gets the "logic." This is, of course, the "logic" of the stooge, and a "value" admired only by the slothful.
Finally, Loras College poll finds Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley a mere one point ahead of his Democratic challenger, former Lt. Gov. Patty Judge. Please remember, though, that this is one poll and that Mr. Grassley is pretty good at what he does, by which I don't just mean campaigning -- if you bring up death panels and Social Security and Merrick Garland, I'll bring up his investigations into churches violating IRS rules, dead people getting farm subsidies, and the Red Cross squandering donations. Still, his last race was his closest, and it was during the 2010 wave. And "vote for Judge so we can get a Supreme Court judge" might make a good ad.
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