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Harshith Iyer • 24 cards
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One man takes on state government and wins after passage of 3 voter initiatives (fox13seattle.com)
Big recent news is that 3 of the 6 initiatives have already passed in the State legislature, and the rest will be sent to the voters as ballot questions.
We also have a new moderate city council in Seattle that is pressing charges against protestors who
... See moreTyler Cowen • Tide Turning in Washington State?
In his first State of the Union address, Eisenhower had promised to carry out Truman’s edict and end segregation in the military and in the District, and he had kept that promise. By the end of 1953, all public facilities in the capital had been desegregated, and he could boast that in the Navy and the Air Force, segregated units were “a thing of t
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Theirs was a consciously quixotic mission. They would devote vast sums—albeit still just a small part of Bob Mercer’s many billions—to trying to build a radical free-market, small-government, home-schooling, antiliberal, gold-standard, pro-death-penalty, anti-Muslim, pro-Christian, monetarist, anti-civil-rights political movement in the United Stat
... See moreMichael Wolff • Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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Matt Mower • 4 cards
In effect, the president, quite aware of his and his staff’s inexperience in drafting legislation (in fact, nobody on his senior staff had any experience at all), decided to outsource his agenda—and to a heretofore archenemy. Watching Ryan steal the legislative initiative during the transition,