Monday, April 16, 2018

National spotlight cast on PERS, Oregon's perennial public pension problem
Scenario as crazy as Trump: President fires Mueller and orchestrates own impeachment for power grab
This Haitian American artist's image of MLK hushing Trump goes viral again
Nikki Haley finds herself under the bus as Trump shifts course on Russia
Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley’s announcement
A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash. Governments are struggling as mounting pension obligations crowd out the rest of their budgets. Oregon faces a severe, self-inflicted crisis.
Obama's stern warning for Trump
White House Bible Study Led by Pastor Who Is Anti-Gay, Anti-Women and Anti-Catholic
Prominent Gay Rights Lawyer Dies After Setting Himself On Fire In New York Park, this is so sad, yet so honorable.
Democrats Have The Wind At Their Backs, But Can They Capitalize?
Ahead Of New Book, Comey Defends Handling Of Clinton Email Scandal

Former FBI Director James Comey in today's ABC interview, describing Trump: "I don’t think he’s medically unfit to be president. I think he’s morally unfit to be president. A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they’re pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it — that person’s not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds. And that’s not a policy statement. Again, I don’t care what your views are on guns or immigration or taxes. There’s something more important than that that should unite all of us, and that is our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country. The most important being truth. This president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be president."- James Comey

The First White President
Unfit to Command
The President Is Not Above The Law. The constitutional order may soon be at stake in the investigation of Donald Trump. "The president is not a king but a citizen, deserving of the presumption of innocence and other protections, yet also vulnerable to lawful scrutiny. We hope Mr. Trump recognizes this. If he doesn’t, how Republican lawmakers respond will shape the future not only of this presidency and of one of the country’s great political parties, but of the American experiment itself." | The New York Times Editorial Board

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