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Believing that a country is in bad shape if it imports more goods than it exports — i.e., if it has a trade deficit — is, in most cases, a harmless error in reasoning. It’s the sort of thing that seems to make sense at first glance, but any halfway decent economics professor can train it out of students in one or two lectures. That error in reasoning becomes harmful when the person who believes it is the president of the United States, and he is willing to claim emergency powers to act on it unilaterally. That’s what Donald Trump...

WASHINGTON - The head of the Republican Party says GOP lawmakers who are guilty of wrongdoing in Washington scandals should expect to be punished whatever their political affiliation. “The public trust is more important than party,” said Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman. “Which is why the first solution to the problem is rooting out those who have done wrong, without regard to party or ideology.” Mehlman’s comments were in a speech that he planned to deliver Friday to the annual winter meeting of the Republican National Committee. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the speech. “As Republican...

MIDI - BRADY BUNCH - scroll down and click on the MIDI Here's the story of a man named Peter Someone harmed him and had harmed his family He had not known that she was...so very evil Of course, he soon would see Here's the story of the big fundraiser At the gala, two million bucks "in-kind" But, of course, all the reports were bogus The truth you're gonna find It's a story that is crying out for justice There's a woman who should not be walking free I suppose it really is no secret I think all of...