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| It's Saturday and we all know what that means. It's time to turn our newsletter over to the top premium columns we posted this week. |
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| By Jonathan Turley |
| "It said Palin's political action committee posted a graphic that put Giffords' district in crosshairs before she was shot. The editorial stated, 'The link to political incitement was clear.' It was false, but the claim was used to spin the shooting of Republican members: 'Though there's no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right.'" |
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| By Maggie Rowe |
| "I am the legal representative of a 55-year-old neurodiverse woman named Joanna because of the television series 'The Golden Girls.' It started 12 years ago when my husband Jim chanced upon Joanna and her mother Sunny seated outside the charbroiled chicken franchise KooKooRoo. Jim gave the women some money for lunch and struck up a conversation with them. Sunny, with Joanna tucked tight into her side, told my husband that she used to send jokes into Readers Digest, that some of them got printed, and asked if he wanted to hear one." |
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| By Zachariah Chou |
| "What really hurts is seeing Asian Americans being used by white people like Edward Blum to attack a system that benefits ourselves and other minorities. The playbook is so old, there are numerous ways to describe what is going on: Asian Americans are being used as a racial mascot, used as a racial wedge and are being racially triangulated against other minorities by white people in their fight against affirmative action. But it doesn't have to be that way." |
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| By Jill Lawrence |
| "Their memories slide into my own: Decades later, the doomed attempt by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to 'hit the reset button and start fresh' with Russia. GOP nominee Mitt Romney's assertion in a 2012 presidential debate that Russia was the nation's 'No. 1 geopolitical foe.' Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's apology, years later, for criticizing his analysis. Then, by fall 2016, Obama telling Vladimir Putin and his election hackers to 'cut it out' and Democratic nominee Clinton predicting that Donald Trump would be Putin's 'puppet.'" |
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| By Carli Pierson |
| "It was through a global initiative that we eradicated smallpox in 1980 and, until recently, had nearly eradicated polio. The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS is aiming for no new infections by 2030. These are massive achievements in medical history. Continuing to build and support these public health institutions, as WHO Assistant Director-General Stewart Simonson explained, 'is the only way the next pandemic will be detected, mitigated and defeated.'" |
 | | Kevin Necessary, USA TODAY Network | | USA TODAY Network | |
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| By Connie Schultz |
| "From the beginning of his priesthood in 1995, the Rev. Andres Arango performed the sacred ritual of baptism. Or so he believed. For a quarter-century, Father Arango baptized thousands of children and adults in Catholic churches using this phrasing: 'We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.' It's his use of the word "we" that is at the heart of the church's latest crisis of its own making." |
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| By David Mastio |
| "With Russia attacking in Europe, China could take the opportunity to tighten its grip on the South China Sea, an energy rich region that's claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. China could build more artificial islands in the sea, where a significant portion of the world's trade passes or more heavily militarize those already constructed. More provocatively, China could begin drilling for oil and gas on territory that international law grants to other nations." |
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| By James S. Robbins |
| "President Joe Biden is now so unpopular that he has fallen a bit below even Donald Trump's dismal showing at this point in his presidency. ... 'Lower than Trump'[ is hardly the first year result the White House expected. Biden received the most popular votes of anyone elected to the presidency. 'Working class Joe' ran as a moderate who would restore sanity to Washington and move Americans forward together. He used the word 'unity' eight times in his inaugural address." |
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| By Randy Maniloff |
| "In a blockbuster lawsuit filed in New York federal court, Brian Flores, the recently fired Black head coach of the Miami Dolphins, alleged racial discrimination in the National Football League in hiring and retaining coaches and general managers. The numbers don't leave room for parsing. While Black players make up 70% of NFL rosters, there are only two Black head coaches and just a handful of minority head coaches in the entire league." |
 | | Andy Malette, USA TODAY Network | | USA TODAY Network | |
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| By James Alan Fox and Alex R. Piquero |
| "The news has been littered with tragic stories of police officers being gunned down in the line of duty. Earlier this month at Bridgewater College in Virginia, a pair of officers responding to a report of a suspicious person on campus was shot and killed by a former student. New York's finest has been hit hard by several recent fatalities, including two young officers who were killed while responding to a risk-filled domestic violence call. And just recently, nine Phoenix police officers were injured – five by gunfire and the others from flying shrapnel – when ambushed during a domestic violence incident." |
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