Is The President a Spy? By Hank Silverberg It was hard to find a topic for this week’s edition. The government remains partially shut down and the Washington region and a good part of the country was covered in snow as the week began. The President was still obstinate about getting his border wall and lying about the justification for it, and a group of 30 Democrats were on a fact finding mission to sunny Puerto Rico that included tickets to a benefit performance of “Hamilton” in San Juan. I got no inspiration from the Twittersphere where people on both sides were still throwing around inaccurate statistics on illegal immigrants, including claims that the crime rate is up (it’s not, it’s actually down) and that “illegals” commit a disproportionate number of gruesome crimes in this country (totally false-see my previous blog below). https://hanksilverberg.blogspot.com/2019/01/national-emergency-whatemergency-by.html But one story did strike my fancy. I...
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