Rodney Dangerfield

Interesting piece, in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, about Rodney Dangerfield:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-rodney-dangerfield.html

The FBI Director vs. The GOP Memo

"FBI chief has 'grave concerns,' clashes with Trump over GOP memo"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/nunes-memo-law-enforcement/index.html

New York Times editorial: "Poland’s Holocaust Blame Bill"

A good editorial, in the Times, which says, at the outset:

"It is baffling why Poland’s nationalist-controlled Parliament would mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp on Polish soil — with a needless, foolish and insulting draft bill that would penalize any suggestion of complicity by the Polish state or the Polish nation in the Nazi death machine."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/opinion/poland-holocaust-bill-parliament.html

Senatior Flake's Wednesday speech, on the floor of the Senate

Senator Flake's remarks, today, included the following: "For without truth, and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts... our democracy will not last."

From CNN.com, analysis of the speech by Chris Cillizza ("Jeff Flake's 20 most damning lines about Donald Trump's assault on the press"):

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/jeff-flake-trump-press-speech-analysis/index.html

And from The Washington Post, Senator Flake's full speech, with annotation by Amber Phillips:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/17/our-democracy-will-not-last-jeff-flakes-speech-comparing-trump-to-stalin-annotated/

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King was a great and remarkable man.

Here is a story about him, from Time magazine, which recalls a 1966 appearance he made in Chicago--during which he was attacked.

http://time.com/5096937/martin-luther-king-jr-picture-chicago/