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Why Won't Steve King Assimilate and Embrace American Values?

The Iowa Republican retains an Old World outlook on race and ethnicity that is anathema to those who support the principles of the American founding.
Mar 14, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/steve-kings-failure-of-patriotic-assimilation/519450/ [with comments]


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Tillerson used email alias at Exxon to talk climate: New York attorney general

Mar 14, 2017
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp, used an alias email address while at the oil company to send and receive information related to climate change and other matters, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
The attorney general's office said in a letter on Monday that it found Tillerson had used an alias email address under the pseudonym "Wayne Tracker" from at least 2008 through 2015.
Wayne is Tillerson's middle name.
The letter was sent to a New York state judge overseeing Schneiderman's investigation into whether Exxon misled shareholders and the public about climate change.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tillerson-climatechange-idUSKBN16L06J [with embedded video]


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Defense Secretary Mattis withdraws Patterson as choice for undersecretary for policy

Anne Patterson testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 28, 2015.
March 14, 2017
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has withdrawn retired senior diplomat Anne W. Patterson as his choice for undersecretary for policy after the White House indicated unwillingness to fight what it said would be a battle for Senate confirmation.
U.S. officials said that two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), were strongly opposed to Patterson’s nomination because she served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 2011 to 2013, a time when the Obama administration supported an elected government with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that was ultimately overthrown by the Egyptian military.
The withdrawal leaves Mattis with a still-empty bench of Trump-appointed senior officials, a situation that stretches across the administration as Cabinet secretaries have not chosen, or the White House has not approved, nominees. Although Obama administration holdovers remain in a few jobs, after eight weeks in office, President Trump has not nominated a single high official under Cabinet rank in the Defense or State departments.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/defense-secretary-mattis-withdraws-patterson-as-choice-for-undersecretary-for-policy/2017/03/14/dd5ec8bc-08b6-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html [with comments]


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Everything We Know About Trumpland’s Ties To Russia, From Start To Finish
It’s a convoluted history that raises a lot of questions.
03/14/2017 [will be ongoing updates]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-timeline_us_58c2eec2e4b054a0ea6a744e [with embedded videos]


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San Antonio Morning Show Host Called Out on 'Last Week Tonight'

Mar 13, 2017
http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/03/13/san-antonio-morning-show-host-called-out-on-last-week-tonight [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5j05pwsTE [embedded; with comments]


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