Politics

Is this the new state of Britain, or just a temporary response to the voting results?

To steal an election that uses electronic voting machines, you just need a good hacker. To steal an election that uses paper ballots, you need people with wheelbarrows.

Donald Trump is a distraction from the fact that the mainstream media has pretended the GOP is a normal party with values just to the right. Now the country is paying the price.

The real nightmare is likely to emerge in 2020 or thereafter, if a far more capable politician than Trump embraces similar retrograde positions rides America B into Washington.

TransCanada recently filed a lawsuit against the United States because of the U.S. rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

“Britain’s withdrawal from the eurozone will damage not only the international banking system, but hamper Washington’s aggressive policies toward Russia and the Ukraine.”

So, brace for reams of critical Brexit analysis, implying the UK cut off its nose to spite its face. And let’s never forget Trump’s high-risk, gambling world is “winning take all.” That means “losers gets nothing.” Hardly a great model for parenting, let alone large-scale, global business planning or trade or health for complex, modern nation-states. Gambling for adults works when betting disposable dollars on transient sporting events when the results are instantly known. Will voters in November here not add false flummery about Brexit shortfalls as another crack-brain spoke in Trump’s broken-down political wheelhouse?

Take it from the Tweezerman: Turning employees into owners is great for business.

“The bill, introduced Thursday by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), would increase funding and improve cooperation among federal agencies that are working on getting pollinator numbers back up.”

Any bill on GMO labeling that would result in anything less than mandatory on-package labeling is unacceptable.