The Trump administration prepares the latest trade scam.

It's a neat trick.

Count all imports, but not all exports.

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Elizabeth Warren deserves praise: She "persisted."

Among others who persisted, John Quincy Adams was a true original.

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A moonless night, an operation approved over dinner, tragic death, and an invented story blaming President Obama.

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They come to us with the primal hope for survival.

If we turn away because of their religion , we give up our hope of becoming the nation we once promised ourselves.

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As with his intelligence, and his popularity, he has a reflexive, exaggerated need to defend his growling toughness.

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Those criticisms hurled at our new President are not only unfair. They are wounding in ways we, and the critics, can only begin to imagine.

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Left wingers argue that new laws should have taken away the shooter's gun.

Conservatives know what and who to blame.

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Leaders of countries once at war now spoke of peace.

The message of hatred replaced by partnership, of conflict yielding to compassion, seemed innocent, uncontroversial.

Then guilty minds became angry at imagined insult.

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