Headlines

Tracking the virus may require 300,000 workers. We’re nowhere close

Coronavirus live updates: McDonald’s gives away meals to frontlines, Hertz to lay off 10,000 workers

Iowa sends National Guard troops to meat plants ...

Rashida Tlaib: ‘Corporate greed is the disease us country’

Trump pledges financial aid to oil industry

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently had surgery, could be incapacitated, US officials say

Study: Virus has mutated into 30 different strains ...

Joe Biden: I’d pick Michelle Obama for VP ‘in a heartbeat’

Farm workers to be immune to Trump’s immigration ban

March home sales drop as sellers take properties off the market — and the coming months look worse

Second night of riots in Paris ...

About 4% of L.A. county residents have coronavirus antibodies

Headlines

Trump fiercely defends killing Soleimani as he plunges U.S. deeper into foreign conflict

“Dangerous escalation”: World reacts to the US killing of Qasem Soleimani

Ex-CIA director: ‘There will be dead Americans’ ...

Nancy Pelosi complains: No notification before attack on Soleimani

Bill Gates calls for higher taxes on the rich

US to deploy 3,500 additional troops to the Middle East after Iranian general killed

Factory gauge unexpectedly falls to lowest since 2009 ...

USMC firearm policy updated to allow concealed carry for self-defense

Israel’s Netanyahu seeks immunity from corruption charges

Sales of priciest Manhattan apartments plunge almost 40% in fourth quarter

Terrorist wearing explosive vest shot dead in Paris after stabbing four people ...

Biden slams Soleimani assassination: Trump ‘tossed a dynamite stick into a tinderbox’

Headlines

Pelosi to climate change conference: ‘We’re still in Paris agreement’

In 2019, almost every investment worked

Factories extend contraction as Index misses forecasts ...

Trump restores steel and aluminum tariffs on Brazil and Argentina

Zelensky airs his grievances with Trump

Supreme Court shows little appetite for expanding gun rights in arguments over repealing New York regulation

Fed’s pumps another $98 billion [into economy] ...

[London mayor] Sadiq Kahn after terrorist attack: ‘Our strength is our diversity’

Pompeo cautions Europe not to trust Chinese firms with 5G

Cyber Monday shoppers on track to hit record $9.4 billion, Adobe says

300+ Trump ads taken down by Google, YouTube ...

Lisa Page speaks out against Trump’s ‘demeaning fake orgasm’

Civilization

“There is such a thing as too much civilization.” — Anon.

Do you get the sense that the patina of the world’s civilization is wearing thin? Watching cable TV would certainly lead one to conclude that it is ... given the barrage of insults that one hears there.  Of course the obvious culprit is President Trump who is not shy about expressing his thoughts, however hostile. This encourages his haters to wade even deeper into the wallow ... and so the back and forth.

A validation of this swing toward vulgarity is that Trump’s VP, Mike Pence, possibly one of the most honorable politicians around, hasn’t a snowflake’s chance in South Chicago of taking over from his boss in the 2024 election.

But is Trump’s behavior  a cause or a symptom? I suggest the latter. Civility is disappearing all around the world ... Hong Kong, Paris, Ecuador, Iran, Chile, London, Iraq, Venezuela, the House Intelligence Committee, etc. And Trump is but a bystander to these events.

Perhaps it is because civility must run in cycles? As civilization’s veneer is built up layer after layer with fairy-tale memes, it finally becomes too ridiculous for commoners to tolerate ... and the people revolt ... and this precious pretentiousness is scuttled.

To me, kind reader, it seems that we have hit this silliness ceiling ... which has spawned a huge partisan food-fight ... at the obvious cost of our country’s comity. Things won’t return to sereneness until all the fops are guillotined.

An Analogy

There seems an apt analogy to be drawn about a non-stop airline flight  from Paris to San Francisco ... it’s very much like an alimentary canal.

The Last Time ...

Headlines

The legal battle that could undermine law is at the center of the Mueller investigation

Market turmoil washes out Apple and Alphabet's gains for the year

Prosecutors say Trump directed illegal payments during campaign ...

Jerry Nadler vows to shut down House probe into DOJ-Democrat collusion

Trump leans on McConnell to bots on criminal justice reform

China's November export, import growth shrinks, showing weak demand

American entrepreneurs who flocked to China are returning home, disillusioned ...

Finland: Crackdown on criminal migrants because of 'evil' rape gangs

Paris police arrest hundreds in [yellow jacket] political protests again

If the Fed doesn't raise rates this month, the market could panic, Cramer says

Chinese police close down 1,100 social media accounts ...

... Police fight yellow vests at E.U. HQ as protests spread to Belgium, Netherlands

Headlines

Pragmatism vs. puglilism: Bush death highlights Trump's global isolation

LA auto show brings wave of new electric vehicles to take on Tsla, but worry about finding buyers

GOOGLE employees debated burying conservative media is search results ...

Kudlow: Trump-Xi trade talks went 'very well'

Despite bitter family rivalries, Bush wanted Trump at his funeral

Trymp's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen adds to avoid prison time after plea deal in Mueller probe

'Yellow vest' protesters battle riot police in Paris; 200+ arrested

Putin urges 'necessary' Trump talks ...

House lawyer: Comey lawyer is legitimate

Facebook is making a huge mistake if it abandons its election wae-room, says former Obama official

Cohen [plea] deal intensifies scrutiny on Traimp business dealings ...

[Trump] cancels G-20 presser 'out of respect' for Bush, family

Headlines

Trump's dire climate report hands ammunition to Democrats

Trump's trade talks with China could snap markets out of their funk

Beijing to judge every resident based on behavior by the end of 2020 ...

Merkel: EU [nations] must give sovereignty to Brussels

European Union and China break ultimate trade taboo to hit back at Trump

Bitcoin tumbles again, loses a quarter of its value Thanksgiving week

WSJ: Trump expresses dissatisfaction with Treasury Secretary ...

Report: Kelly, Nielsen oppose broadening military powers at border

Why is the SEC looking to boost big bank profits?

New York state judge rejects Trump's claim he can't be sued because he's president

Mass riots turn Paris into warzone ...

Sports network ESPN loses 2 million subscribers in 2018

Headlines

Trump's 2018 rallies hint at 2020 plan

A private survey shows China's factory activity unexpectedly grows

Oprah set for rallys with Stacey Abrams in GA ...

Koch brothers: 'Against our principles' to end anchor baby policy

Florida Democrats call n Bernie Sander's to turn out college voters

Western universities may be inadvertently helping China's military: Report

Israel silent after Iran hit with violent computer virus ...

Jewish-Americans flock to firearms training in wake of synagogue attack

From Paris to Pittsburgh: Politics of terrorism shift against Trump

Tech stocks plunged in October, suffering their worst month since the 2008 recession

Italy plan to reward female families with state land to boost birth rate ...

Mayor Bill deBlasio forgets to honor NYC terror attack victims at memorial

Hradlines

Pelosi: Tuesday was Trump's 'day of reckoning'

New home sales fall to 9-month low

Trump's tweets on SAfrican land seizures draws gov't ire ...

U.S. in longest bull market ever

'Thanks Mr. Trump': Chinese state media mocks the president

Beijing retaliates as $16 billion of tariffs on Chinese goofs kick in

Life expectancy declines in USA ...

Manafort juror: One holdout prevented conviction on all counts

Cuomo: Pardoning Cohen should prompt impeachment

Trump says stock market would crash if he were impeached, 'Everyone would be very poor'

The welfare generation? 52% of kids living in households getting government assistance ...

'Alihu Akbar': Paris mass stabbings, suspect known to police

Headlines

Liberal secret-money network hammers House GOP

Trump threatens government shutdown if Democrats don't support immigration reform

UK: Tech firms should be made libel for 'fake news' on sites ...

Koch network blasts Trump over tariffs, immigration

California housing crisis collides with 2020 presidential race

Global auto makers plotting a response to Trump's threatened auto tariffs

Austin, TX considers name change to shed legacy  ...

Firearm-related homicides surged during Obama's last two years in offie ...

GOP goes it alone in Kavanaugh documents fight

Three dead, seven injured in New Orleans shooting

300,000 illegal immigrants crammed into one Paris suburb ...

Illegal aliens close Florida streets, 'We want ICE abolished'

Headlines

Germany's Merkel endorses idea of joint  European defense force

US is isolated at G7 as allies express 'unanimous concern and disappointment' at Trump's trade policies

President's legal advisers: Misleading journalists is not a crime ...

Bill Clinton shock: Press went easy on Obama -- 'because he's black'

China warns Trump tariffs could impede trade talks

Purdue Pharma knew its opioids were widely abused

New Italian gov't vows to create jobs, deport migrants ...

One year after Paris: Trump brake the spell of the Climate Change mania

Trump to host Ramadan dinner

Dairy farmers are struggling as they are squeezed out of a changing milk market

Angry protests rock Jordan ...

Republicans turn on Nerflix

Headlines

The arc of history bends a knee word Colin Kaepernick

North and South Korea are is using a possible non-agression pact

Massive blaze at German theme park ...

Mayor who honored Stormy Daniels settled $500,000 sexual harassment claim in 2016

Schiff: Trump spy theory 'a piece of propaganda'

Why America has fallen out of love with NASCAR

Who killed Bobby Kennedy? RFK Jr. believes second gunman ...

France announces imminent evacuations of Paris migrant camps ...

Rubio: North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons

US warships sail near South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing

France's far left leads protests against Macron

Visa cuts Morgan Freemam from commercials after harassment claims

Headlines

Hold the Nobel Prize: Kim is setting a trap for Trump

Grassley flags 'apparent contradictions' in Comey's testimony about Mike Flynn

Apple CEO lauds gun-control activists ...

Italy lifts ban on Berlusconi holding political office

Bernie Sanders: Trump administration 'heartless' toward immigrants

Iraq votes in its first election post-ISIS- -- and everything is on the line

DENVER [POST]: This is how a newspaper dies ...

Hyperhype: Tesla with Autopilot slams into truck stopped at red light

Deadly Paris knife attack treated as terrorism

Family carries out suicide attacks on 3 churches in Indonesia's 2nd largest city

95 apartments promised affordable rent in San Francisco, 6,580 people applied ...

Facebook faces class-action lawsuit for saving text and call logs of users

Headlines

Republicans trash their candidate in Pa. special election

Breaking news: Sessions sets the wheels in motion for second special counsel

Mueller fishing in Seychelles

Red wave? Midterm poll shows five Senate Democrats in serious trouble

Tillerson: U.S. a long ways from direct talks with North Korea

California senators won't even meet with ICE director

JPMORGAN co-president warns of 'hard correction' for stocks: 40%?

Sri Lankan emigrants scalps man and cuts off his arm inParis restaurant

DC snubs Russian ambassador

The Ninth Curvuit Court just allowed clildren to sue Trump over global warming

Update: White South Africans face genocide ...

Brexit Boom: British exports strongest since 2010

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from The Daily Caller?

Activists view post-Charlottesville surge in Virginia

Trump begins Asia trip with unmistakable warning to Kim Jong Un

NBC: Mueller has enough evidence to charge Flynn ...

Jerry Brown: World needs 'brain washing' on climate change

Poll: 65 percent say that Trump has accomplished little

Hillary's campaign accuses Donna Brazile of spreading 'false Russian-fueled propaganda'

Book: Bushes bash Trump ...

Feds hiding MLK salacious gossip in JFK assassination docs reeks of cover up

McConnell says no need to pass bills protect Mueller

Donna Brazile considered replacing Hillary after campaign trail fainting spell

40 tourists robbed in Paris hotel tear gas attack ...

Death toll from typhoon in Vietnam rises to 27

Headlines

All from Internet news sires. Guess which from Politico?

DNC enters 2018 in cash panic

CIA kill teams ready to wreak havoc in Afghanistan after Trump lets them off chain

NFL stadiums nearly empty as backlash continues ...

RNC beats DNC in September fundraising by $6 million

California Republicans gaga for Trump

Trump says that there will be no changes in 401(k) plans

Jimmy Carter unleashed: Russians didn't alter election ...

... Winning: Most signatories 'ignoring' or 'abandoning' Paris agreement

Japanese prime minister [Abe] coasts to election win

[Saudi] Prince Alwaleed says Bitcoin will implode: 'Enron in the making'

Venezuelans use Bitcoin 'mining' to avoid inflation ...

Pope condemns aborting babies with disabilities

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Politico?

Theresa May heads to Canada to seek trade deal

Hurricane Maria barrels toward battered Caribbean islands, Jose to lash the East Coast

White man arrested in Louisiana killing of black man ...

... Mexican guv denies cartel violence -- despite 32 executions in days

McMaster rejects report that U.S. will remain in Paris deal as 'false'

Merkel!s election victory looks assured -- but the real test comes after

U.S. may close Cuban embassy after 'attacks' on diplomats ...

Trump shares meme of him hitting Hillary with golf ball

Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe

Japanese Prime Minister: 'Dialog with North Korea' is 'a dead end'

Macron wants to remind world France nuclear power too ...

Feinstein: Russian probe could rake another 'year-and-half'

Headlines

All ftom Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Trump takes on Bannon in Alabama Senate showdown

Weaponizing sound: Could sonic devices have injured [U.S.] diplomats in Cuba?

Iran claims to have 'Father of all Bombs' ....

Hungary builds wall, cuts illegal immigration by over 99%

The Left warns Pelosi, Schumer: Don't get too close to Trump

Pittsburgh's self-driving car boom means $200,000 pay packages for robotics grads

Montana snow 60 days early ...

Bill Maher: None of Trump's properties were damaged by Irma -- 'There is no God'

Cassidy says he is close to having the votes for passing Obamacare repeal

Suffolk Downs, Flower Exchange viewed as possible Amazon [Boston] HQ site

WSJ: Trump will NOT withdraw from Paris climate deal

Report: Former Wasserman Schultz staffer allegedly uploaded DNC data to private dropbox