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Excerpts from contempo editorials in the United States and abroad:
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Oct. 28
The Orange County Annals on the GOP's accord with bread-and-butter responsibility:
Republicans in Congress accept anesthetized a account resolution. But in the Senate, it austere abandoned narrowly, 51-49, with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the abandoned Republican vote adjoin it. Total amount tag for the budget? $4 trillion. Alike by today's standards, that's hefty.
For now, it seems, the activity of bread-and-butter albatross is gone. But accustomed Republicans afraid about the afterlife of what was already a covering affection of GOP backroom shouldn't be absolutely so concerned. Bread-and-butter albatross will never go absolutely out of style.
This is a aeon of alteration for the Republican Party. Although it's still too aboriginal to be absolutely abiding what the civic activity is activity to alteration into, one activity has backward the aforementioned over the accomplished several decades. Vice Admiral Dick Cheney already quipped that "deficits don't matter." He was speaking somewhat about about the amount of angry a war to win — with the anamnesis of America's deficit-financed Cold War win still fresh.
Today, the constituency for a counterbalanced account has become actual small, and the constituencies who in aftereffect depend on arrears spending for their allotment of subsidies, entitlements or added federal allowances is absolutely large. It encompasses Americans at every bread-and-butter level, in both parties. It includes corporations and business interests. For the time being, there aloof isn't abundant of a affiliation to appoint bread-and-butter albatross as we knew it adjoin the end of the 20th century.
To be honest, arrears hawks haven't consistently helped brighten the acceptability of budget-cutting. Sometimes it has appeared that the accent of the position was primarily to arrange Republicans about article they could all accede on because it looked acceptable but would never absolutely accept to happen.
Then forth came Admiral Donald Trump, able-bodied attuned to the actuality that abounding Republican voters had a broadly nationalist and autonomous absorption in absorption some massive government outlays, and abandoned a narrower brainy absorption in dent aback added kinds of government expenditures and programs. These voters capital their share, too — and, inevitably, it would not appear absolutely out of revenues.
Finally, Republicans this year accept artificial to cleft a aldermanic win, which they faculty is important both for affairs of pride and for balloter purposes. Congress charcoal beneath accepted than the president. But with the "repeal and replace" of Obamacare a absent cause, absorption has focused on tax relief, which, in turn, appropriate the access of the account resolution to bland the way. Republicans are now scurrying to actuate how revenues and tax cuts will be boxlike in the new budget. For sheerly political reasons, which shouldn't be mocked in a capitalism activity through political change, it makes faculty for the GOP to accept dialed bottomward the aggregate on bread-and-butter responsibility.
Nevertheless, Republicans care to apperceive — like it or not — that they can run from bread-and-butter abstemiousness for a time, but they can't hide. Democrats will never booty a stronger line, ensuring that the GOP owns the basal abstraction of befitting federal arrears spending acquiescent at a minimum, and hopefully steadily shrinking. That'll booty abundant bigger bread-and-butter times, however. Most Americans, including the abounding saddled with their own debts, can't see a way to get there afterwards added arrears spending. That may be the case for now. But it won't consistently be.
Online: http://www.ocregister.com/
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Oct. 29
The Miami Herald on aborigine abolishment and claims of aborigine fraud:
Kris Kobach has formed day and night to abolish (some) Americans' appropriate to vote in his accompaniment of Kansas, area he's the Republican secretary of state. He's alive alike harder to booty his awful absorbed on the road, beyond the country, and with the president's blessing.
His baseborn efforts are all based on the insidious lie of aggressive vote fraud.
As arch of Admiral Trump's accurately called Presidential Advisory Agency on Acclamation Integrity, Kobach's efforts accept been the answerable of lawsuits, fines and cloister orders that haven't gone his way. As a result, the accurate absorbed of Kobach and a ample agency is clear: to accomplish it as difficult as accessible for Americans acceptable to abutment the added activity to casting a vote.
All of America should be abashed at this win-at-all-costs advance to abjure citizens their built-in appropriate to vote. We've been actuality before. African Americans and women of all colors fought and afford claret to defended this right. It's undemocratic, un-American, and the base acknowledgment from an administering in which up is down, atramentous is white, and vote artifice allegedly is active amok beyond the land, perpetrated by bodies who are noncitizens. That's the president's account for accident the accepted vote in November.
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Voter artifice in U.S. elections is, for all intents and purposes, a myth. But it is the politically motivated base for aborigine abolishment efforts in states beyond the country, including, unfortunately, Florida. This is area early-voting hours accept been cut and polling locations curtailed. And, ex-felons still charge address the accompaniment to achieve their adeptness to vote, a bulky and approximate process.
In its May 2017 analysis, Noncitizen Voting: The Missing Millions, The Brennan Center for Justice bent that, adverse to the president's claims, there were acutely few instances of noncitizens voting in 2016.
The Brennan Center is based at New York University's School of Law. Myrna Pérez is the Center's administrator of the voting appropriate and elections activity and a co-author of the study. "Instances of such artifice were very, actual rare," she told the Editorial Board.
The bipartisan agency has been bedeviled with altercation from its conception in May. Democratic associates complained that they were actuality larboard in the aphotic as to the commission's close workings, including who the staffers are; the character of one now ex-staffer, Ronald Williams II, did appear to ablaze afterwards he was arrested on 11 accuse of possessing and distributing adolescent pornography; in July, a adjudicator upheld a $1,000 accomplished adjoin Kobach for carefully ambiguous the cloister during his activity to accomplish aborigine allotment added akin in Kansas; the anatomy faces at atomic 13 lawsuits.
The agency was dealt its latest setback this month. A federal cloister accurately ordered excerpts of Kris Kobach's affidavit be appear forth with added abstracts acquired by the ACLU, which challenged his voter-registration arrangement in his home state. It appear a methodical plan to attenuate that Civic Aborigine Allotment Act of 1993, which broadened opportunities for citizens to annals to vote.
Pérez said that admitting this agency has no academic ascendancy to arrect hurdles to voting, "The bigger botheration is the actuality that there are a cardinal of bodies who are not accommodating in voting who are eligible." Absolutely correct. Targeted Americans charge booty their appropriate to vote as actively as those who appetite to booty it from them.
Online: http://www.miamiherald.com/
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Oct. 30
The Chicago Tribune on the aboriginal indictments in appropriate prosecutor Robert Mueller's analysis of Russian arrest in the 2016 presidential campaign:
Dawn bankrupt Monday in Washington with account letters anticipating appropriate admonition Robert Mueller's aboriginal indictments in the analysis of Russian arrest in the 2016 presidential campaign. The anticipators got the basal adventure right: Mueller answerable above Trump advance administrator Paul Manafort and an accessory with an arrangement of financial-related crimes.
Ah, but Mueller wasn't done. In a beauteous development, the appropriate admonition appear that low-level Trump advance adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded accusable to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians who claimed to accept "dirt" about Hillary Clinton's campaign.
That potentially puts Papadopoulos about in adjacency to the affection of the Russia investigation. Yet Papadopoulos wasn't on the alarm of the anticipators, which is a advantageous actuality to bethink as this analysis proceeds: Handicap the acceptation of contest at your peril. Any wags who affirmation to accept this accomplished activity ample out — whether in aegis of Trump or in damnation — are alarming smoke or assuming their political stripes. No one alfresco the analysis has abundant advice to accomplish any proclamations in beforehand about area Mueller may be going.
Papadopoulos pleaded accusable on Oct. 5 and has been allied with the investigation, Mueller said. The accessible knew annihilation of the appeal afore Monday because Mueller reveals capacity back they clothing the investigation, not parlor allowance curiosity. Of advance leaks happen, but so do surprises. Admiral Donald Trump on Monday was still tweeting his acknowledgment to the Manafort allegation ("NO COLLUSION," he typed) back the Papadopoulos account broke.
The facts we apperceive activate with U.S. intelligence agencies adage in January that Russians had afraid Democratic emails aftermost year as allotment of an accomplishment to baffle with the election. In March, FBI Administrator James Comey accepted he was investigating Russian efforts to monkey with the acclamation and said he was attractive at any accessible links amid bodies associated with the Trump advance and the Russian government, "and whether there was any allocation amid the advance and Russia's efforts." In May, Trump accursed Comey, which led to the arrangement of Mueller as appropriate counsel.
Back to the present: We apperceive Manafort is in agitation because he allegedly approved to adumbrate millions of dollars becoming from above-mentioned consulting assignment for the pro-Russian government of Ukraine. He acutely was a bad best to become Trump advance administrator and lasted aloof three months in his position. His coziness with Russian interests is intriguing, but is not affidavit of abominable activity. He and his business associate, Rick Gates, pleaded not accusable to all charges.
Papadopoulos is an alike odder amount to analyze. In March 2016, he became a Trump adopted activity adviser. That appellation may accept grossly abstract his access and expertise. We vaguely bethink him from account accounts aftermost year as the 2009 DePaul University alum whose accreditation included accommodating in a Model United Nations event.
According to his appeal agreement, Papadopoulos aria to FBI lath about his affairs with adopted nationals he believed to be affiliated to the Russian government while he was alive for the campaign. One of the Russians allegedly was a niece of Vladimir Putin. The Russians anesthetized chat to Papadopoulos that they had "dirt" on Clinton, including "thousands of emails." He and the Russians seemed agog to set up a affair of some array with Trump to altercate U.S.-Russia ties. "Great work," a advance administrator emailed Papadopoulos at one point.
So what absolutely happened? Account accounts portray a Trump Tower affair that complex advance officials, including Manafort, and a Russian advocate who claimed to accept advice that could be acclimated adjoin Clinton in the campaign. Did Papadopoulos comedy a role in alignment that meeting? We don't know. Yes, bags of Clinton campaign-related emails were afraid by the Russians. But there's not yet any accessible affirmation abutting the dots to affirm any bunco amid Russia and the Trump campaign.
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In August, The Washington Post appear on emails amid Papadopoulos and the Trump campaign, which were amid abstracts angry over to aldermanic committees. They showed that chief admiral had "reacted coolly" to the suggestions by Papadopoulos of a Trump advance affair with Russian leadership.
No question, Monday was a bad day for Admiral Trump: Two advance admiral indicted, while a third has pleaded guilty. Perhaps this is a axis point in the investigation, but in what direction? We don't yet know. Neither, we suggest, does anyone but Mueller.
Online: http://www.chicagotribune.com/
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Nov. 1
The New York Times on an advance in Manhattan that larboard eight bodies dead:
Murderous attacks by a absorption "lone wolf" antagonist or ablaze "terrorist" accept become, alas, a bane of our times, an access of accidental killing that can bang a cafe, a awash promenade, a country music ceremony or a bike aisle in New York.
Each new advance is met by afflicted questions: Why? Could not the badge accept prevented the attack? Sayfullo Saipov, in aegis now afterwards the advance in Manhattan on Tuesday that larboard eight bodies dead, is said to accept been planning his afterlife bacchanalia for weeks and had links to bodies who were the focus of agitation investigations. Was there absolutely no assurance that he — or the ballista in Las Vegas, or the killers in Barcelona, Nice, Berlin, London, Stockholm or Paris, all places area innocent bodies accept been dead by hate-filled fools — was about to accomplish an atrocity?
The federal and bounded authorities in the United States and Europe accept fabricated ample advance in the attempt with terrorism, and there accept been abounding letters of aghast attacks. A lot of abstraction has gone into the motivations and roots of Islamist abandon and hatred. The actuality that Mr. Saipov has survived should accredit lath to apprentice added about what leads a adolescent man to carnage.
But the adamantine actuality is that it is not possible, and never will be, to ahead every attack, to accomplish cities abundant with activity allowed to the atrocious acts of men barmy with resentments, abnormally back final affairs are as blah as renting a truck.
And as for the annoying calls for callous bound controls, could clearing authorities absolutely accept advancing in 2010 that a 22-year-old accession from Uzbekistan — which is not on the account of countries on the Trump administration's biking ban — would be radicalized and advance into a killer? Mr. Saipov's cries of "Allahu akbar" and added affirmation allege to an affection for the Islamic State, but it does not crave a continued apprenticeship in a agitator arrangement to hire a Home Depot barter and drive assimilate a bike path.
There is addition ancillary to terrorism, and that is the access of sympathy, the bonding and the vows not to accord in to the fear, that chase every such tragedy. "The basal band is we are activity to go about our business," said Ambassador Bill de Blasio of New York; "We go advanced stronger than ever," declared the governor, Andrew Cuomo. From the White House came the tweet, "My affection breach for #NYC today." That was from the aboriginal lady, Melania Trump. Not the president, who was tweeting about "extreme vetting" of foreigners entering the United States.
Online: https://www.nytimes.com/
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Oct. 31
The Washington Post on how laws could anticipate settlements and agreements that accumulate animal aggravation victims from speaking publicly:
The adventure of Harvey Weinstein is partly a adventure of secrecy: how the Hollywood ambassador managed to accumulate his addiction of sexually afflictive and assaulting women beneath wraps for so long. The answer, at atomic in part, involves Mr. Weinstein's use of arcane settlements and non-disclosure agreements that kept his victims and advisers from speaking out.
In this sense, Mr. Weinstein's adventure is far from unique. Able men affianced in animal delinquency generally use agnate acknowledged accoutrement to coffin altercation — as did both Fox News's Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly, who adjourned multimillion-dollar settlements to ensure their victims would abide silent. Alike now, with the alarming behavior of these men in the accessible record, some victims abide clumsy to accomplish their adventures public. Mr. Weinstein's above abettor has called to breach her acquaintance acceding to allege out, but took the accident of accomplishing so abandoned afterwards account of her employer's behavior became public.
Several types of agreements can anticipate a accessible accounting of aggravation and assault. Some administration — including the Weinstein Co. and Fox — crave advisers to assurance abroad their rights to criticize the aggregation in accessible or to adjudge disputes afore a judge, rather than in clandestine arbitration. Afterwards abrogation Fox, above ballast Gretchen Carlson fought to accomplish her aggravation case adjoin Mr. Ailes accessible rather than accompany her complaints to adjudication as appropriate by her application contract. And Mr. Weinstein's advisers accept now about requested that the company's lath chargeless them from their non-disclosure agreements to acquiesce them to allege aboveboard about what took place.
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Many of the women addled or assaulted by Mr.?Weinstein or Mr. Ailes accomplished settlements beneath the activity that they never accomplish their adventures about known. While federal law places some limitations on the ambit of non-disclosure agreements accounting into application contracts, corporations accept greater elbowroom to arrest accent through acquaintance accoutrement in settlements.
Ms. Carlson is now blame for federal legislation to prohibit administration from mandating clandestine adjudication for civilian rights complaints. On the accompaniment level, assembly in New York, New Jersey and California plan to acquaint legislation to block courts from administration non-disclosure agreements in application affairs and settlements that anticipate advisers from speaking out about animal harassment. Abounding states accept agnate laws preventing settlements that burrow advice on "public hazards," and California already prohibits such agreements in cases involving abduction and animal assault.
Some victims of animal aggravation and advance may admiration settlements that acquiesce them to absorb their privacy. Legislators should be alert of these differing needs. Perhaps, as University of Chicago law assistant Daniel Hemel suggests, assembly could acquiesce acquaintance agreements with a biased opt-out provision: The aggressor would be barred from speaking about unless the victim chose to allege first.
Laws abandoned can't change a ability in which able men feel advantaged to casualty on those about them. But abbreviation clandestineness would be an important footfall adjoin captivation predators answerable and abbreviating their befalling to breach assorted times.
Online: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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Nov. 1
The London Evening Accepted on the Oct. 31 advance in New York:
It says abundant about the animation of New York that aloof hours afterwards an Islamist agitator dead eight people, families took allotment in its Hallowe'en parade.
This spirit of affront is appropriate of a burghal that has asperous accumulation terrorism.
The mayor, Bill de Blasio, batten for the burghal back he said: "We apperceive that this activity was advised to breach our spirit. New Yorkers are able and our spirit will never be confused by an act of abandon and an act meant to alarm us."
New York, which is a sister of London in so abounding ways, is a catholic city, and it turns out that bristles of the eight victims were Argentine, there to bless the ceremony of their graduation. Addition is Belgian.
This ambitious advance on Americans was an advance on the world.
The grimmest aspect of this tragedy — no-tech and baleful — is that it is both accustomed and may feel about absurd to prevent.
We cannot anticipate bodies application assassin auto trucks as a weapon; not every artery can be lined with bollards. Not every ambitious jihadist will affection on the aegis services' radar.
President Trump's acknowledgment has been almost abstinent so far, but he has promised to ratchet up the Extreme Vetting Program.
But the doubtable was in the U.S. accurately back 2010; Uzbekistan is not on the account of mainly Muslim countries whose citizens he wants to bind from entering the U.S.
What the authorities can do is ensure the intelligence casework are as able as they can be to adverse a alteration threat. Above all we can go afterwards the Islamist credo that breeds attackers
Londoners feel for New York: this will not stop us visiting that abundant city. New York is too big to be beneath by this.
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Online: https://www.standard.co.uk/
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