ashton wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:The DOJ is going to investigate colleges and universities for discrimination against white applicants.

What will they do when they discover that it's actually Asian students who are discriminated against?

jerseyhoya wrote:

ashton wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:The DOJ is going to investigate colleges and universities for discrimination against white applicants.

What will they do when they discover that it's actually Asian students who are discriminated against?

Could be an actually useful thing for them to look into.

CalvinBall wrote:He did!

During election season, Bedminster morphed into a kind of permanent campaign rally site... As President, Trump has already made four visits to the club. He has his own cottage adjacent to the pool; it was recently given a secure perimeter by the Secret Service, leading to the inevitable joke that it's the only wall Trump has successfully built. Chatting with some members before a recent round of golf, he explained his frequent appearances: "That White House is a real dump." (A White House spokesperson denies this occurred.)

Warszawa wrote:I wonder if he can go 1 day without lying publicy

[Newsweek]
Anthony Scaramucci Defends Foul-Mouthed Rant at Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon: 'It Was Just a Joke'

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were casualties but without providing more information.

The Taliban promptly took responsibility for the attack, and a spokesman for the insurgents said the bombing allegedly killed 15 soldiers — a claim that appeared exaggerated as many similar Taliban claims have been in the past.

Lt. Damien E. Horvath, a military spokesman, could not say how many casualties there were, or provide their nationalities.

The attack came as Afghan authorities in western Herat province tightened security ahead of a mass funeral for the victims there of an attack the previous evening that killed 29.


A suicide attacker opened fire inside a mosque packed with worshippers at evening prayers, before detonating his explosives. A second explosion came 10 minutes later.


No one has claimed responsibility for that attack, but it came a day after the Islamic State group warned it would strike Shiites. The Sunni militant group considers Shiite Muslims as apostates.

pacino wrote:Poland ponders demanding reparations from Germany

Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a nationwide sweep — ostensibly designed to catch Central Americans who’d come to the US as family units — in late July. But according to the press release they sent out Tuesday, 70 percent of the immigrants they captured were merely collateral damage.

The statement said that of the 650 immigrants nationwide, fewer than 200 of those people were actually targeted in the operation: 73 members of family units, and 120 (former) unaccompanied children. The other 457 people — nearly three-quarters of those caught up in the sweeps — were simply “also apprehended” and arrested.

The sweep is something of a last hurrah for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly — who the president named his chief of staff last week. But while the staggering arrest totals seem at first to reflect a promotion-worthy immigration record, the disconnect between who ICE said they were targeting and who they originally picked up is a clue to the truth. Kelly’s management success as head of DHS — the signal policy success of Trump’s administration — is simply that he allowed immigration agents to do what they wanted: arresting whichever unauthorized immigrants they happened to find.

But the other thing that attracted Donald Trump to John Kelly was Kelly’s ability to defend the Trump administration’s policies in public — often by proclaiming that the agents carrying out those policies obviously had nothing but the safety of Americans at heart, and decrying anyone who dared to question their actions. And in that regard, his experience defending operations like last week’s ICE sweep will be crucial.

If you didn’t read DHS’s statement about last week’s sweeps carefully, you would be left with the impression that they sought out and tracked down a huge number of immigrant "absconders" who’d come from Central America and been ordered deported — not that only 30 percent of the people it had ended up arresting were the people it had set out to arrest.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Sanctions bill signed but he added a signing statement

Trump’s statement doesn’t signal any intent to bypass or circumvent aspects of the law. Instead, the president indicates he intends for his administration to carry out the law in a way consistent with his constitutional authority, language that leaves open some room for interpretation of how the law is executed.

Trump’s concerns cover four areas: encroachment on executive authority, unintentional harm to U.S. companies and business, as well as U.S. international partners, and limits on the flexibility of the administration to act in concert with allies in dealing with Russia.