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Neil Gorsuch is the first member of his family chosen for a seat on the Supreme Court, but he isn’t the only Gorsuch nominated by a U.S. president to a key government post. His mother, Anne Gorsuch, served as President Ronald Reagan’s first Environmental Protection Agency administrator and the first female leader in the agency’s history. But her short, tumultuous tenure was marked by sharp budget cuts, rifts with career EPA employees, a steep decline in cases filed against polluters and a scandal over the mismanagement of the Superfund cleanup program that ultimately led to her resignation in 1983. Anne...

President Trump’s order this week for an immediate hiring freeze could hurt African Americans more than other workers because they make up a disproportionate share of the federal workforce. Black workers make up 18 percent of the nation’s 20.6 million federal workers — more than any other minority group. But they account for only 11 percent of employed civilians, a category that includes government and private industry work, and 13 percent of the U.S. population, according to government data. Government work has played an especially important role in the economic advancement of black Americans, following President John F. Kennedy’s efforts...

I apologize to Donald Trump. As Sean Spicer so wisely said at his first news conference on Monday (It was the first. The one that happened on Saturday did not happen at all, and I recognize that!), it is unfair to be so mean and negative all the time. Here is the fair and unbiased story about the inauguration written in compliance with the Trump style guidelines that we should have been obeying all along. Nothing that has ever happened or will ever happen was as great as Donald Trump’s inauguration.

From Wash Post Blogger 'Pat Rockford' 6:11 am EST:I got the straight dope here, from some chicka's daughter my kid sister know: six of the Rockettes have "a little something extra" prepared to offer at the end of their routine. Some shadow legal outfit funded by those damned bleeding hearts is apparently signed up to pay the legal fees. If they don't strip-search these gals before they step on stage, just remember: Paddy here told you so.

Don't mess with CNN. That's the unvarnished version of a message that the network's president, Jeff Zucker, delivered to President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday by New York magazine. "One of the things I think this administration hasn’t figured out yet is that there’s only one television network that is seen in Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus — and that’s CNN," Zucker said. "The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake."