Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Things You May Have Missed

In case you missed the OTHER assaults on democracy, we have this nuggets:

A reporter was arrested for asking HSS Secretary Tom Price questions.

Trump met with the Russian Foreign Minister and excluded American press but allowed Russian press into the room.

Right now the only safeguards against Trump's abuses of power are the press and the courts.  Trump has taken aim at both.

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