POTUS (not pro tem either, as resisters cling to bitterly) defends son, reasonably:

President Donald Trump defended his eldest son, saying on Thursday that “most people” would have taken the June 2016 meeting with the Russian lawyer that has enveloped Donald Trump Jr. in controversy this week.

“I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. It’s called opposition research or even research into your opponent,” Trump said during a press conference in Paris. His son said he took the meeting because he was told the lawyer, who has been alleged to have ties to the Kremlin, had information that could be detrimental to Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/13/trump-most-people-would-have-taken-russian-lawyer-meeting-240509

Meanwhile, it passes belief that resisters hop on this while clinging (bitterly) to supposed results of oppo research by Dems on POTUS.

Tsk, tsk.

Registered ghosts.

Five qq, five wrong answers, you’re outa here.

It’s how they do it in Argentina.

Lie down with dog, come up with fleas.

Years with messy NBC, what else to expect?

He had a way with words.

St. Pius X

“…the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. […] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”

​Brexit:​

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the real elephant in the room at the G20. The Europeans are smarting from the British decision — made by the people and ratified by the Mother of Parliaments — to secede. Europeans seem determined to take out their humiliation on America. The best strategy for Mr. Trump and our own Congress would be to get on with our tax reform so that American profits trapped overseas can be brought home to ignite the jobs boom for which Americans voted in 2016.

​Yes, yes.​
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​It’s a function of his punditry.​

"I also thought many times to this problem and came to the conclusion that, not only but also for this reason, Europe must take as soon as possible a federal structure," the pope said, according to the Google translation of the La Repubblica article

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Talking to a newsman, putting finger in yet another pie.

Illinois’ budget impasse is over, but financial challenges remain — even with new tax hike​​

​No. ESPECIALLY with the new tax hike.​

​High marginal tax rates can discourage work, saving, investment, and innovation, while specific tax preferences can affect the allocation of economic resources. But tax cuts can also slow long-run economic growth by increasing deficits. The long-run effects of tax policies thus depend not only on their incentive effects but also their deficit effects.

​And you did not read this in a daily newspaper or on network TV . . . ​

Trump in Warsaw.

2017 version of "Mr. Gorbachev – tear down this wall."