{"id":766,"date":"2018-07-15T03:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maybegoosefeathers.com\/wp\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-07-15T03:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T03:19:58","slug":"saturday-6-pack-july-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maybegoosefeathers.com\/wp\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY 6-PACK: July 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A weekly listing of articles, audio clips, and other tidbits I\u2019ve encountered that seemed interesting, insightful, or otherwise useful <\/em><\/p>\n

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I’ve been on vacation … and then the usual catch-up when back at work.\u00a0 Wow, has there been a lot happening!\u00a0 There’s so much to pick from, but this is what I came up with<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court pick … First, there was much speculation that turned out to be all wrong.\u00a0 Then the prime-time, made for “reality” TV tastes (I’m sure …. which is why I avoided it) reveal.\u00a0 After that, the real games begin.\u00a0 Here are two pieces that caught my eye with some intriguing points for consideration of the latest nominee:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/u-s-supreme-court-nomination-brett-kavanaugh-is-uncommonly-partisan-research-shows\/487825491\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/oh-come-on-no-one-s-a-strict-originalist\/487912351\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then there’s the trade war and what it might mean … Monday mornings on NPR, one of the regular hosts, David Greene this time, and Jonah Goldberg, Senior Editor at the National Review<\/em>, discuss recent events, trends, and perspectives.\u00a0 This time the major point is one of the very few areas where the current occupant has been consistent for decades: protectionist trade policies.\u00a0 But this may not go the way he wants or expects it to …<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/09\/627190257\/there-are-worries-a-trade-war-could-cost-gop-its-majority-in-congress<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then it was on the the NATO summit.\u00a0 First up, a tutorial about the history of NATO and a quick fact-check (necessary because the current occupant and verifiable facts are not well-acquatined):<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/14\/629058526\/a-short-history-of-nato<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/11\/628137185\/fact-check-trumps-claims-on-nato-spending<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just as the current occupant blustered and pouted his way through the G-7 summit a few weeks ago en route to his rendezvous with the leader of North Korea, his performance at he NATO summit was more of same.\u00a0 This is an opinion piece, but the source has immense experience with NATO and a good working knowledge base.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/13\/628789350\/opinion-the-problem-with-trumps-wrecking-ball-approach-to-nato<\/a><\/p>\n

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A local attorney wrote this piece for the Star Tribune<\/em> a few weeks ago, when the most recent immigrant crisis was the focus of the news, those heart-wrenching accounts of children being ripped from their parents … and the galling attempts by the architects of those policies to justify them.\u00a0 The specter of Hitler and his Nazis has been invoked so many times in the past decades it’s become a sort of boy-who-cried-wolf situation.\u00a0 Would we consider things enough to recognize it if it were happening now, to us?\u00a0 Is it, really?\u00a0 I don’t know, but it’s something to think about …<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/good-germans-good-americans-where-are-we-headed\/486320971\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Who are we now? Who … what do we aspire to be?\u00a0 How much has been lost?\u00a0 Can we rebuilt what has been torn apart?\u00a0 I don’t know\u00a0 … but Leonard Pitts offers much to chew on and ponder:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/leonard-pitts-jr\/article213879189.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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