Trump’s U.N. speech
President Trump at U.N. (Chang W. Lee / NY Times)
President Trump’s speech to the U.N. yesterday (video) has been denounced as bellicose by the New York Times, in contrast to right-of-center media, which hailed it for the unsettling effect it will have on Russia and China and for its forthright defense of nation states and their cooperative co-existence.
Natural disasters
Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico (Jose Romero-AFP / Getty Images)
Puerto Rico is being battered by a Category 4 hurricane; Mexico is frantically searching for survivors of a 7.1 earthquake. Each was hit but a few weeks before by an earlier earthquake and hurricane.
Obamacare repeal
The Graham-Cassidy bill to replace Obamacare (the Accountable Care Act) with a state-centered plan is receiving cautious but enthusiastic backing from most of the conservative press. Libertarian Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, however, opposes the bill, and his opposition is being widely condemned by other Republicans and by President Trump .
Other news
The Tax Foundation has outlined the four most important features that a pro-growth tax reform should have.
Roman mosaic found in U.K.
An important Roman mosaic has just been unearthed in the United Kingdom.
Google’s censorship of a German political party it doesn’t like — an astonishingly brazen attempt by an American company to intervene in the forthcoming German elections — is criticized by the left-of-center publication, Spiegel Online.
Obama administration wiretapping of the Trump campaign and Progressive media reluctance to cover the scandal is pilloried in the American Spectator.
The NRA rebukes a Washington Post column by Dana Milbank on gun control as condescending and factually incompetent.
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