“I don’t know who coined ‘Kate’s Law,’” Jim Steinle, her father, told me Friday. “It certainly wasn’t us.”

In fact, the Steinles’ views on immigration policy are far more nuanced than the debates that dominate the screamfests on cable news. As they explained in an interview with me in September 2015, the Steinles are not opposed to sanctuary cities. They recognize the value of allowing otherwise law-abiding immigrants to report crimes or go to a hospital without fear of deportation.

pacino wrote:far leftists on twitter today are very upset at all of your russian fear mongering!!! the trump administration's repeated lies about meeting with various government leaders of this right-wing petrol state are of no concern, and if anything it is the #resistance's fault that they even have to lie about the meetings.

i bet you all want a Cold War 2.0! you can't simultaneously believe in diplomacy and also that the current administration is probably not the best one to administer it!

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

pacino wrote:far leftists on twitter today are very upset at all of your russian fear mongering!!! the trump administration's repeated lies about meeting with various government leaders of this right-wing petrol state are of no concern, and if anything it is the #resistance's fault that they even have to lie about the meetings.

i bet you all want a Cold War 2.0! you can't simultaneously believe in diplomacy and also that the current administration is probably not the best one to administer it!

you can find people on Twitter saying anything. it seems like you use it as a tool to discredit whole groups

HARRISBURG, Pa.— Pennsylvania's 8-day-old budget stalemate was hanging Saturday on closed-door negotiations over legislation to authorize another big gambling expansion in the nation's No. 2 commercial casino state, as anti-tax lawmakers hoped for hundreds of millions of dollars from the industry to narrow a yawning deficit.

Heavily lobbied legislation under construction behind closed doors involved a jumble of concepts, including authorizing up to 10 more mini-casinos around Pennsylvania with hundreds of slot machines and table games. The legislation offers a combination of license fees and taxes on gambling losses designed to prop up the state's tattered finances, including the biggest one-year shortfall since the recession.

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, said there was “more or less” a deal among negotiators on the gambling legislation, though a draft of the legislation had not been made public. However, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, said there was no agreement, and rank-and-file House Republicans reported hearing little from Reed and other House GOP leaders on the subject.

House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, said gambling legislation would only be agreed to as part of a larger deal that solves the state's money problem.
“We've been kicking the can down the road for six years, we've been borrowing and we've been using smoke and mirrors to balance budgets for far too long,” Dermody said Saturday.
Many Republican lawmakers who otherwise might oppose an expansion of gambling see it as a better alternative than a tax increase.
“I hate it,” said Rep. Stephen Bloom, R-Cumberland. “I just hate it less than taxes.”

JUburton wrote:Gambling is brilliant for republicans since it gets to tax the poor without making it overtly obvious. Genius!

pacino wrote:far leftists on twitter today are very upset at all of your russian fear mongering!!! the trump administration's repeated lies about meeting with various government leaders of this right-wing petrol state are of no concern, and if anything it is the #resistance's fault that they even have to lie about the meetings.

i bet you all want a Cold War 2.0! you can't simultaneously believe in diplomacy and also that the current administration is probably not the best one to administer it!

pacino wrote:I'm not sure what you think that negates of what I said.

azrider wrote:

pacino wrote:I'm not sure what you think that negates of what I said.

Ahhhh... it doesn't!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/listen-liberals-russia-is-not-our-enemy_us_58a4ba39e4b0fa149f9ac0c8

pacino wrote:Trumpy's boy

But the people interviewed by The Times about the meeting said the expectation was that she would do so.

In a statement on Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. said he had met with the Russian lawyer at the request of an acquaintance. “After pleasantries were exchanged,” he said, “the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.”

He said she then turned the conversation to adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act, an American law that blacklists suspected Russian human rights abusers. The law so enraged Mr. Putin that he retaliated by halting American adoptions of Russian children.

“It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting.” Mr. Trump said.

When he was first asked about the meeting on Saturday, he said only that it was primarily about adoptions and mentioned nothing about Mrs. Clinton.

azrider wrote:Seriously, the Russian narrative is the story of the boy who cried wolf. It is losing the America people not only on what may or probably happened but ultimately the message from the left. After eight years of obstruction, the republicans have ZERO plan. Jobs, healthcare, environment... the issues and a straight forward plan will win. Time to focus on that.