Getting ready for the world’s biggest poker game. Will show up the retiring boy president for the amateur he is. You have to wonder how good a community organizer he was, at that.

President-elect Donald Trump suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia and wasn’t committed to a long-standing agreement with China over Taiwan.

Keep-’em-guessing Trump, they called him. Good.

Source: Trump Open to Shift on Russia Sanctions, ‘One China’ Policy – WSJ

John Kass answers a whodunit, among a dozen other episodes listing this:

It wasn’t the police that sat on the video of Laquan McDonald, the black kid shot 16 times by a white cop until dead. It wasn’t police that refused to release the video until Emanuel was safe and had won a tough re-election.

Whodunit? The pols, Kass argues, and who are we to disagree?

Source: Who shaped cop culture laid out in DOJ report? They weren’t saints. – Chicago Tribune

Absurd statement by Congressman gets appropriate slap-down. As a young man, he did brave things. As a seasoned citizen . . . 

Source: Trump rips John Lewis: Worry about your ‘crime infested’ district | TheHill