#S.E.Cupp, "I'll vote Biden because his a good person: that matters," The Albuquerque Journal, September 12, 2020.
#"But this year, it feels like merely being a good person takes on more weight. After four years of a corrupt, unethical, narcissistic, racist, sexist, bullying, shaming, vengeful, spiteful, greedy, needy, lying jerk in the White House, goodness has been gone far too long." "Trump's lack of goodness is evidenced by his knee-capping and silencing of his critics, including in the media. It's in his sexist attacks on women. It's in his shameful smears against his own public servants, military heroes and American heroes -- even dead ones."
"Trump's disregard for goodness has seeped into the fabric of the nation, as he has encouraged Americans to turn against Americans, to blame our neighbors for our hate, to hate the media, the establishment, the left, the right, immigrants, foreigners, the NFL, the FBI, and anyone else who makes a useful target for him." Goodness matters more than ever now. I know his fundamental goodness will guide him -- and the country -- down a better path."
#Mike Konczal, "A Serious Plan," The Nation, September 7/14, 2020.
"According to the Tax Policy Center, Biden's plan would raise upwards of $3.7 trillion over 10 years, similar to the amounts that would be raised by a wealth tax." "It would also remove the cap on Social Security payroll taxes on those making above $400,000, generating revenue for this vital program for low-income retirees."
"Biden's plan would tax the capital gains and dividend income of those earning more than $1 million as regular income at the increased 39.6 percent rate." "All told, Biden's plan would reduce that after-tax income of the top 1 percent by about 17 percent." "Taxes don't just raise revenue; they also structure the income distribution. And raising taxes on the rich would stop the economy from simply channeling income to executives and owners."
#Amy Davidson Sorkin, "If You Know Joe," The New Yorker, August 31, 2020.
"[In] speeches that grew darker and darker as the week progressed [about a month ago], Trump pounded on the same theme: Biden was a 'puppet,' a 'Trojan (sic) for socialism, 'the smiling, cognitively unsound prop of a left-wing mob intent on tearing the country down.' "
"Standing onstage in the empty Chase Center, on the Wilmington waterfront, delivering remarks that were both genial and forceful, Biden said that Trump has put America on 'a path of shadow and suspicion. Instead of protecting the country, he had projected it to his deviousness, his bigotry, his selfishness, and in his botched response to the pandemic, he had [revealed] his deadly incompetence.' "
#Evan Osnos, "Man in the Middle," The New Yorker, August 31, 2020.
Osnos says of Joe Biden: "To be born in America in 1942 as a white heterosexual male was, generally speaking, to win a cosmic lottery. Because of low birth rates during the Depression and the war, the generation was exceptionally small -- the first in American history to be smaller than the one before it. Its members enjoyed more attention and resources from their parents, small class sizes, and high rates of college admission. The New Deal and the G.I. Bill gave the benefits, loans, and federal work programs, which thrust millions of white Americans into the middle class."
#Nicholas Goldberg, "Using prison to silence Cohen," THE WEEK, August 17, 2020.
" 'Jailing citizens who dare to criticize the dear leader happens in authorization countries, not the U.S.,' said Nicholas Goldberg. But President Trump's long-time fixer, Michael Cohen, was hauled off to prison as 'retaliation' for writing a tell-all memoir about his former boss, federal District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled in early September."
#Elie Mystal, "DOJ v. Affirmative Action." The Nation, September 7/14, 2020.
"The Department of Justice has not filed a single case to defend the Voting Rights Act during the Trump era. And it all but stopped conducting investigations into biased policing, and greatly reduced the number of investigations into hate crimes and disability rights cases."
"The argument against affirmative action is never really about merit or fairness, or any of the buzzwords conservatives use to mask their racism. It's always about promoting the chances of white kids over everybody else." "At this point, [Attorney General William] Barr will have opened up another opportunity for some conservative judge to issue a sweeping ruling that would end affirmative action, thereby throwing various university programs into disarray, and wait for the conservative-controlled Supreme Court to sort out the mess."
"Moe than a third of those admitted to the Harvard Class of 2022 are legacies."
ADDENDUMS:
*Sheelah Kolhatker, "Dollar for Dollar," The New Yorker, July 20, 2020.
"Many early cases of COVID-19 were later shown to have come into the U.S. from Europe." President Trump has said many times that the major source of the virus infection was from Chinese travelers.
"Kolhatker also writes that there were 'problems with the [CARES legislation] implementation, including the fact that may large companies and chains received funding that had been intended for small businesses.' "
*The Navy is considering a fleet size increase resulting in 480 to 534 warships. Although Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the ships will be smaller in size, the increased cost will still be in the billions.
*U.S. District Judge John D. Bates concluded that the Trump commission on law enforcement be halted for failing to include members with outside views, and open meetings to the public.
*Trump said on "Fox and Friends" on September 15,that he previously wanted to order the assassination of Syria's President Basher al-Assad, and "had it all set," but [Defense Secretary James] Mattis opposed the idea. Two years before, Trump said an assassination "was never contemplated, nor would it be contemplated."
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