Sunday, August 27, 2017

The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda



Guest:   Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.........we will look at another turbulent week for President Trump.......a pardon for the Sheriff in Arizona......another person leaves the Trump team........is this chaos or is President Trump listening to Chief Of Staff Kelly..........North Korea back with a few missiles this week...........the Democrats and the politics of Confederate symbols plus identity politics...............and other stories...........

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Saturday's show: The storm in Texas and a few other thoughts



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Friday's show: A look at the politics of Washington with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor



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Thursday's show: What happened to those US diplomats in Cuba and other stories of the day.



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Wednesday's show: Lee & ESPN, Trump in Phoenix, the Browns and other stories..


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Tuesday's show: Afghanistan speech, Clinton 2016 & Post Office plus others



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Monday's show: A refugee surge in Canada with Brian Lloyd French



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Terror in Barcelona & other thoughts with Javier Hurtado-Mira



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Down goes Macron, down goes Macron


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A few months, I predicted that President Macron’s approvals would drop in a year.    I was wrong:  They’ve dropped in months.    More people disapprove than approve!
According to news reports, President Macron is facing public backlash over “…labor reform, a standoff with the military and cuts to housing assistance.”  
To be fair, governing is hard and France faces serious structural problems, i.e. too many taxes and regulations!
How can you create jobs for young people with such high taxes and regulations?  The simple answer is that you can’t.   
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Too much “identity” in Democrats’ politics these days

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 We’ve been talking about “identity politics” for some time.   We’ve seen how “identity politics” has divided Americans and made conversation impossible.
Well, it’s good to see that one Democrat is warning his party about it in a brand new book by Professor Mark Lilla.
In a recent book review by Peter Berkowitz, he summarizes the thesis like this:   
Last November, shortly after the election, he called in the New York Times for fellow liberals to face up to their party’s portion of responsibility for Trump’s victory, which Lilla traced to the rise “identity liberalism.”
His contention that “American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force capable of governing” provoked outrage on the left
Let’s hope that serious Democrats take a little time off from “the resistance” or bringing down monuments, and read this book.     It may help them win a few elections.
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