~ Why The Statue Smashers Will Never Stop

~  Shinzo Abe: Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat

~  Don’t worry about short-term deficit “A corporate cut would initially reduce federal revenues, but over time companies would build more U.S. factories, bring foreign profits back home, and evade taxes less. The tax base would expand and reduce any resulting deficits over time.”

~ Tamny: Jamie Dimon Is Right That Bitcoin Is A Fraud, But Doesn’t Know Why

~  Trump’s message for the United Nations: Reform

~ Tillerson Considers Closing Embassy in Havana Where Diplomats Mysteriously Got Sick

~ US flies stealth fighters and bombers over Korean peninsula in a show of force as North Korea warns sanctions are a ‘hostile act’ that will spur the country to ‘complete nuclear force’

~  Senate GOP tries one last time to repeal Obamacare

~ Democrats trying to turn Orange County blue, one house at a time

~  LAUSD to try out sex ed classes for fourth-graders

~ Union power on display in California’s just-completed legislative session “Even as fewer than 1 in 5 California employees has union representation, labor engaged on many of the more than 2,500 bills introduced this year, supporting some and opposing others – and often achieving the desired outcome.”

~  Democrats’ road to winning back the House goes through California, and it won’t be as easy as it seems

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