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Forbes: U.S. Moves Closer To Digital Dollar
On June 30th, 2020, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on the future of the digital dollar. The pressures to create a digital USD are mounting as China recently began testing its own digital currency – the DCEP, which will be included in popular applications like WeChat and AliPay. Of particular concern is widespread adoption of a digital yuan in emerging markets and in international trade.
The idea of a dollar-backed digital currency gained mainstream media attention last year during the Libra congress hearings, where Facebook introduced a new type of digital unit backed by a basket of currencies and commodities.
Although David Marcus insisted that Libra users will not have to put their trust in Facebook and that Libra was a decentralized currency, regulators weren't buying it and expressed concern over the long-term threat to the traditional financial system. On July 9, 2019, regulators requested a moratorium on the project.
In December, Libra released a new roadmap, proposing several digital-fiat currencies deriving their values from the USD, British Pound, Swiss Franc and others, thus creating an efficiency layer on top of the current financial system. Users would be able to access these digital currencies through a wallet installed on their phone, and potentially through WhatsApp chat and Facebook Messenger.
Distribution issues of the $1200 COVID stimulus checks, created new momentum for the digital dollar (and a more efficient financial distribution machine). It is no secret that many are still waiting for their stimulus checks, while $1.4 billion in stimulus was sent to dead people.
Most recently, Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced a new stimulus proposal of $2,000 per month to residents through the Automatic BOOST to Communities Act (ABC Act). Under the ABC Act, Congress would authorize the Federal Reserve to create "FedAccounts," or "Digital Dollar Account Wallets," which would allow U.S. residents and business to access financial services through an app on their phone.
Building on this momentum, the Senate Banking Committee continued the discussion of the digital dollar yesterday.
Some highlights from the hearing include:
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) stated, "The U.S. needs a digital dollar…The U.S. dollar has to keep earning that place in the global payments system. It has to be better than bitcoin … it has to be better than a digital yuan."
Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) expressed concerns of regulator oversight for stable-coins.
Charles Cascarilla of Paxos testified advocating for stable-coins, stating that they address the "antiquated plumbing" of our financial system as well as financial inclusion. "Blockchain based stable-coins allow everyone access".
Nakita Cuttino, visiting assistant professor of law at Duke University, discussed the friction in the current payday cycle and the rising demand for costly advanced-payment apps which could be resolved with digital currencies. "In the absence of public policy addressing open access payments and real-time payments, low-income and moderate-income Americans will continue to have limited resources needed, whether by traditional fringe services like payday loans or some novel fringe service."
Former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo and head of the Digital Dollar Project, emphasized the "social and national" benefits such as increased speed, lower costs and issues of financial inclusion. "Darwin said the most adaptable survive. And I think that is true when we transition to a new architecture. To adapt to it, will help bring benefits to the society at large."
It is unclear how soon the digital dollar will come into existence, although increasing competition from China may be the push U.S. regulators needed.
Source: www.forbes.com
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What Will a Post-Trump G.O.P. Look Like?
And consider, what will it take for the Republican Party to begin to heal itself?
If Donald Trump stages another come-from-behind victory in November — helped, in all likelihood, by the collapse of public order in American cities — the Republican Party will become an oddity for the Trump Organization: the only entity it owns but does not brand. Not only will Trump remain in office for another term, but the Trumpers will also dominate the G.O.P. for another generation.
Look for Tom Cotton to be the likely nominee in 2024 (with — why not? — Laura Ingraham as his running mate).
And if Trump loses? Then the future of the party will be up for grabs. It's time to start thinking about who can grab it, who should, and who will.
Much depends on the margin of defeat. If it's razor thin and comes down to a vote-count dispute in a single state, as it did in Florida in 2000, Trump will almost surely allege fraud, claim victory and set off a constitutional crisis. As Ohio State law professor Edward Foley noted last year in a must-read law review article, a state like Pennsylvania could send competing certificates of electoral votes to Congress. Interpretive ambiguities in the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 could deadlock the House and the Senate. We could have two self-declared presidents on the eve of next year's inauguration.
Who controls the nuclear football in that event is a question someone needs to start thinking about right now.
But let's assume Trump loses narrowly but indisputably. In that case, the Trump family will do what it can to retain control of the G.O.P.
Tommy Hicks Jr., the current Republican National Committee co-chairman, is one possible candidate to move up to become chairman, and run the R.N.C., but the likelier choice is Hicks's good friend Donald Trump Jr. The Trumpers will make the argument that NeverTrumpers cost them the election and are thus responsible for everything bad that might happen in a Biden administration, from crime on the streets to liberal Supreme Court picks to some future Benghazi-type episode.
Something unpleasant might come of this. It tends to happen whenever a large mass of conformists convince themselves that they've been betrayed by a nonconforming minority in their midst.
Then there's the third scenario: An overwhelming and humiliating Trump defeat, on the order of George H.W. Bush's 168 to 370 electoral vote loss to Bill Clinton in 1992.
The infighting will begin the moment Florida, North Carolina or any other must-win state for Trump is called for Joe Biden. It will pit two main camps against each other. On the right, it will be the What Were We Thinking? side of the party. On the further right, the Trump Didn't Go Far Enough side. Think of it as a cage match between Marco Rubio and Tucker Carlson for the soul of the G.O.P.
Both sides will recognize that Trump was a uniquely incompetent executive who — as in his business dealings —
always proved his own worst enemy,
always squandered his luck,
never learned from his mistakes,
never grew in office.
Both sides will want to wash their hands of the soon-to-be-former president, his obnoxious relatives, their intellectual vacuity and their self-dealing ways. And both will have to tread carefully around a wounded and bitter man who, like a minefield laid for some long-ago war, still has the power to kill anyone who missteps.
That's where agreement ends. The What Were We Thinking? Republicans will want to hurry the party back to some version of what it was when Paul Ryan was its star. They'll want to pretend that Trump never happened. They will organize a task force composed of former party worthies to write an election post-mortem, akin to what then-G.O.P. chair Reince Priebus did after 2012, emphasizing the need to repair relations with minorities, women and younger voters. They'll talk up the virtues of Republicans as
reformers and problem-solvers, not
Know-Nothings and culture warriors.
The Didn't Go Far Enough camp will make the opposite case. They'll note that Trump
never built the wall,
never got U.S. troops out of the Middle East,
never drained the swamp of Beltway corruption,
ended NAFTA in name only,
did Wall Street's bidding at Main Street's expense, and
"owned the libs" on Twitter while losing the broader battle of ideas.
This camp will seek a new champion: Trump plus a brain.
These are two deeply unattractive versions of the party of Lincoln, one feckless, the other fanatical. Even so, all who care about the health of American democracy should hold their noses and hope the feckless side prevails.
As with the Democrats after Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980, it will probably take more than one electoral shellacking for conservative-leaning voters to appreciate the scale of disaster that Trump's presidency inflicted on the party and the country. It will probably also take more than one defeat for the party to learn that electoral contests should still be waged, and won, near the center of the ideological spectrum, not the fringe.
But everything has to start somewhere. A decisive Trump loss in November isn't a sufficient condition for the G.O.P. to begin to heal itself. It's still a beginning.
Source: www.nytimes.com
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Making Sense of the New American Right
Keeping track of the Jacksonians, Reformicons, Paleos, and Post-liberals.
I like to start my classes on conservative intellectual history by distinguishing between three groups. There is the Republican party, with its millions of adherents and spectrum of opinion from very conservative, somewhat conservative, moderate, and yes, liberal. There is the conservative movement, the constellation of single-issue nonprofits that sprung up in the 1970s —
gun rights,
pro-life,
taxpayer,
— and continue to influence elected officials. Finally, there is the conservative intellectual movement: writers, scholars, and wonks whose journalistic and political work deals mainly with ideas and, if we're lucky, their translation into public policy.
It's a common mistake to conflate these groups. The Republican party is a vast coalition that both predates and possibly will post-date the conservative movement. That movement has had mixed success in moving the party to the right, partly because of cynicism and corruption but also because politicians must, at the end of the day, take into account the shifting and often contradictory views of their constituents. The conservative intellectual movement exercises the least power of all. You could fit its members into a convention hall or, more likely, a cruise ship.
Ideas matter. But the relation of ideas to political action is difficult to measure and often haphazard. The line between shaping a politician's rhetoric and decisions and merely reflecting them is awfully fuzzy. The conservative intellectual movement, in addition to generating excellent writing, has had seven real-world applications since its formation after the Second World War:
originalism and
supply side economics in the 1970s;
welfare reform and
crime policy in the 1980s and '90s;
educational choice and reform over the last two decades;
James Burnham's anti-Communist strategies that found expression in the Reagan Doctrine; and the
counterinsurgency plan known as the "surge" that prevented the defeat of American forces in the second Iraq war.
There have been other successes, for sure, but also plenty of setbacks. What's important to remember is that liberals as well as Republicans, conservative activists, and conservative intellectuals contested every single one of these policies.
The story goes that, for many years, American conservatives adhered to a consensus known as "fusionism." Economic and social conservatives put aside their differences. Freedom, they decided, was necessary for the exercise of virtue. The struggle against and ultimate defeat of the Soviet Union was more important than domestic politics or intramural disagreements. Conservative intellectuals eager to privilege either freedom or virtue like to attack this consensus, which they often describe as "zombie Reaganism." The truth is that the strength of fusionism always has been exaggerated. The conservative intellectual movement has been and continues to be fractious, contentious, combustible, and less of a force than most assume.
Episodes of division and strife are far more common than moments of unity and peace. The more you study the history of American conservatism, the less willing you are to describe it in monolithic terms. There isn't one American right, there are multitudes, every one of them competing for the attention of politicians and policymakers. The most prominent and politically salient varieties, as expressed in
William F. Buckley Jr.'s National Review,
Irving Kristol's Public Interest,
Norman Podhoretz's Commentary, and
William Kristol's Weekly Standard,
have weakened or disappeared altogether. One of the reasons the intra-conservative argument has become so personal and acrimonious is that nothing has replaced them.
Indeed, the situation today is awfully similar to that which confronted conservatives in the 1970s. Then, the Buckley consensus had to find a modus vivendi with neoconservatives as well as with the Catholic integralists around Triumph magazine, against the background of a populist revolt that called out failing elites while relying on racial and ethnic appeals that sometimes crossed the border of decency.
The campaign and election of Donald Trump complicated this already cloudy picture. The debate over Trump's character and fitness for office opened, or poured salt on, wounds that have not and will not heal. Moreover, the varying opinions of Donald Trump the person became hard to disentangle from divergent assessments of his program. Fights over his rhetoric and behavior morphed into struggles over his economic and foreign policies, then changed back again. It became all too easy to score points by associating one's opponents with either Trump's most radical supporters or his most vociferous detractors.
Trump's victory seemed to favor one side over the other. But such vindication may turn out to be just as much a mirage as the "zombie Reaganism" straw man. It does Trump supporters no favors to ignore the facts: The president did not win a majority, captured a smaller percentage of the popular vote than Mitt Romney, and took the Electoral College thanks to 77,000 votes spread over three states. It is also the case that to date, President Trump has been most successful when he has adhered to the traditional Republican program of
tax cuts,
defense spending, and
judicial appointments.
The rise of Donald Trump, Brexit, and nation-state populism throughout the world certainly suggest that something has changed in global politics. American conservatism ought to investigate, recognize, and assimilate the empirical reality before it. The trouble is that no one has concluded definitively what that reality is.
Not for lack of trying. Beginning in 2016, intellectuals who favored Trump have been searching for a new touchstone for conservative thought and politics. These writers are often described as populists, but that label is hard to define. Broadly speaking, they have adopted the banner of nationalism. They believe the nation-state is the core unit of geopolitics and that national sovereignty and independence are more important than global flows of capital, labor, and commodities. They are all, in different ways, reacting to perceived failures, whether of Buckley conservatism, George W. Bush's presidency, or the inability of the conservative movement to stop same-sex marriage and the growth of the administrative state. And they have turned away from libertarian arguments and economistic thinking. Not everything, these thinkers believe, can be reduced to gross domestic product.
This emphasis on the nation as not only an economic but a political entity is apparent in the title of the "National Conservatism" conference to be held by the Edmund Burke Foundation next month in Washington, D.C. It is best articulated in Christopher DeMuth's essay in the Winter 2019 Claremont Review of Books, "Trumpism, Nationalism, and Conservatism." The Claremont Institute and its affiliated publications, including the new website The American Mind, have taken the lead in attempting to develop a pro-Trump conservatism in line with the principles of the American Founding.
Like populism, however, nationalism is a capacious idea that encompasses many subsets of opinion. Claremont may be the main site of nationalist conservatism, but it is not alone. Within the nationalist camp, broadly defined, are four schools of thought. Each is associated with a young Republican senator. The lines between these persuasions blur — some of the senators I name could fit into different categories, and others might not accept the labels I am about to bestow on them — but the conservative terrain has become so difficult to navigate that it's useful to have a map. Let me take you through this new territory.
The Jacksonians
Some conservatives — myself included — see Donald Trump through the lens of Jacksonian politics. They look to Walter Russell Mead's landmark essay in the Winter 1999 / 2000 National Interest, "The Jacksonian Tradition in American Foreign Policy," as not only a description of the swing vote that brought us Trump, but also as a possible guide to incorporating populism and conservatism.
The Jacksonians, Mead said, are
individualist,
suspicious of federal power,
distrustful of foreign entanglement,
opposed to taxation but supportive of government spending on the middle class,
devoted to the Second Amendment,
desire recognition,
valorize military service, and
believe in the hero who shapes his own destiny.
Jacksonians are anti-monopolistic.
They oppose special privileges and offices.
"There are no necessary evils in government," Jackson wrote in his veto message in 1832. "Its evils exist only in its abuses."
This is a deep strain in American culture and politics. Jacksonians are neither partisans nor ideologues. The sentiments they express are older than postwar conservatism and in some ways more intrinsically American. (They do not look toward Burke or Hayek or Strauss, for example.) The Jacksonians have been behind populist rebellions since the Founding. They are part of a tradition, for good and ill, that runs through
William Jennings Bryan,
Huey Long,
Joseph McCarthy,
George Wallace,
Ronald Reagan,
Pat Buchanan,
Ross Perot,
Jim Webb,
Sarah Palin,
the Tea Party, and
Donald Trump.
The Jacksonians believe in what their forebears called "The Democracy." They are the people who remind us that America is not ruled from above but driven from below. Irving Kristol captured some of Jacksonianism's contradictions when he described the movement as "an upsurge of revolt against the moneyed interests, an upsurge led by real estate speculators, investors, and mercantile adventurers, which spoke as the voice of the People while never getting much more than half the vote, and which gave a sharp momentum to the development of capitalism, urbanism, and industrialism while celebrating the glories of the backwoodsman."
The Jacksonians have extended their conception of the in-group to include Americans of every ethnicity and race. The somewhat slippery distinction they make is between American and foreigner. I say slippery because sometimes it is hard to tell when Jacksonians decide to accept a legal immigrant as fully American. Jacksonians emphasize borders. They are happy to see the government direct benefits to the middle class. They don't want to reform entitlements. They are willing to accept short-term sacrifice if it ends up benefiting the people. They are skeptical of preemptive war, but if a conflict arises, they want to finish the job quickly and ferociously. "The very faults of the persuasion as a guide to prudent statesmanship," wrote historian Marvin Meyers, "may have been its strength as a call to justice. For a society inevitably committed to maximizing economic gains, this persuasion in its various forms has been the great effective force provoking men to ask what their nation ought to be."
The Jacksonian in the Senate is Tom Cotton. He's taken the lead on conservative immigration reform. A supporter of the president, he is also a national security hawk. He was perfectly Jacksonian when he said a conflict with Iran, should it erupt, would be swiftly concluded due to overwhelming American force. A native of rural Arkansas and an Army veteran, his new book Sacred Duty describes the Jacksonian code of honor and sacrifice. If you want to know where this key swing vote in American politics is headed, watch Cotton.
The Reformocons
Reform conservatism began toward the end of George W. Bush's presidency, with the publication of Yuval Levin's "Putting Parents First" in The Weekly Standard in 2006 and of Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party in 2008. In 2009, Levin founded National Affairs, a quarterly devoted to serious examinations of public policy and political philosophy. Its aim is to nudge the Republican party to adapt to changing social and economic conditions.
In 2014, working with the YG Network and with National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru, Levin edited "Room to Grow: Conservative Reforms for a Limited Government and a Thriving Middle Class." The report was the occasion for a lot of publicity, including a Sam Tanenhaus article in the New York Times Magazine asking, "Can the GOP Be a Party of Ideas?"
Trump both hindered and aided reform conservatism. He dealt it a setback not only because reform conservatives opposed him in the primary (and many in the general) and he knows how to keep a grudge. He also defeated the reform conservatives' most promising champion, Marco Rubio. And he did it in part by emphasizing two issues, trade and immigration, that were missing from "Room to Grow."
But that is not the end of the story. Trump also obliquely aided reform by smashing the status quo and proving the Douthat and Salam thesis that support from whites without college degrees is essential to Republican victory. After the election, Rubio kept advocating for democracy and human rights, but jettisoned supply side orthodoxy. He fought successfully to expand the child tax credit in the 2017 tax bill. He proposed a paid parental leave policy and criticized stock buybacks. In 2018 he delivered a speech arguing for a "new nationalism" based on "an economy built on the dignity of work," the family as "the most central institution in society," "working together in community," and "the belief that every human being is endowed by God with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Rubio has cited Oren Cass's The Once and Future Worker (2018). It's worth noting that Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where Salam recently became president. Meanwhile, Levin's follow-up to his Fractured Republic (2016) is a call for rebuilding institutions crucial to the formation of character. Reform conservatism, in other words, is far from being a spent force.
The Paleos
Where the paleoconservatives distinguish themselves from the other camps is foreign policy. The paleos are noninterventionists who, all things being equal, would prefer that America radically reduce her overseas commitments. Though it's probably not how he'd describe himself, the foremost paleo is Tucker Carlson, who offers a mix of traditional social values, suspicion of globalization, and noninterventionism every weekday on cable television.
Carlson touched off an important debate with his January 3 opening monologue on markets. "Culture and economics are inseparably intertwined," Carlson said. "Certain economic systems allow families to thrive. Thriving families make market economies possible. You can't separate the two."
Carlson's indictment of America's "ruling class" and "the ugliest parts of our financial system" was remarkable for several reasons. First, he delivered it on a network whose opinion programs normally laud American capitalism and free enterprise. Second, the speech was wide-ranging, criticizing everyone from Mitt Romney to Sheryl Sandberg to parents who let their kids smoke weed. Third, Carlson offered a theory of the case. Social decline, he said, is related to the loss of manufacturing jobs. It happened in the inner cities. Now it's happening in the Rust Belt and in rural America. When jobs disappear and low-skilled male wages decline, family formation breaks down.
While Carlson noted in passing that wage income is taxed at a higher rate than investment income, he did not make any specific proposals. "I'm not a policy guy, I'm a talk show host, but I sincerely believe that no problem is solved unless you have a clear image in your mind of what you want the result to be," he told Michael Brendan Dougherty at the National Review Institute conference in March. Earlier this month, he welcomed John Burtka, the chairman of the paleo journal The American Conservative (TAC), on to his program. Burtka argued for treating the social media giants as monopolies. Carlson loved it.
In a separate piece for TAC, Burtka offered a defense of "economic nationalism." He advocated a national industrial strategy, without providing many details, though presumably incorporating some mixture of tariffs and government-directed investment. This reluctance toward nuts-and-bolts legislative proposals is widespread. "We still need to figure out a lot of the details for how this vision of conservative politics, a pro-family, pro-worker, pro-American nation, conservatism actually looks in practice," J. D. Vance told a recent TAC gala. We're waiting!
Paleos have brought renewed attention to the condition of American communities. Tim Carney of the American Enterprise Institute and Washington Examiner devotes his new book, Alienated America, to the frayed bonds that barely connect working-class Americans to each other. Like Carlson, Mike Lee might not accept the paleo label, but he best represents this mixture of traditionalism, communitarianism, and nonintervention in the U.S. Senate. His social capital project is a major effort to assess the strengths and vulnerabilities of American society. He's worked with Rubio on parental leave, though it should be said that unlike paleos he opposes Trump's trade policies. Paleos might not have exact answers when it comes to domestic policy, but they are certain American foreign policy should be restrained, within constitutional bounds, and prioritize diplomacy over military force.
The Post-liberals
Here is a group that I did not see coming. The Trump era has coincided with the formation of a coterie of writers who say that liberal modernity has become (or perhaps always was) inimical to human flourishing. One way to tell if you are reading a post-liberal is to see what they say about John Locke. If Locke is treated as an important and positive influence on the American founding, then you are dealing with just another American conservative. If Locke is identified as the font of the trans movement and same-sex marriage, then you may have encountered a post-liberal.
The post-liberals say that freedom has become a destructive end-in-itself. Economic freedom has brought about a global system of trade and finance that has outsourced jobs, shifted resources to the metropolitan coasts, and obscured its self-seeking under the veneer of social justice. Personal freedom has ended up in the mainstreaming of pornography, alcohol, drug, and gambling addiction, abortion, single-parent families, and the repression of orthodox religious practice and conscience. "When an ideological liberalism seeks to dictate our foreign policy and dominate our religious and charitable institutions, tyranny is the result, at home and abroad," wrote the signatories to "Against the Dead Consensus," a post-liberal manifesto of sorts published in First Things in March.
"The ambition of neoliberalism," wrote the editor of First Things in the spring of 2017, "is to weaken and eventually dissolve the strong elements of traditional society that impede the free flow of commerce (the focus of nineteenth-century liberalism), as well as identity and desire (the focus of postmodern liberalism). This may work well for the global elite, but ordinary people increasingly doubt it works for them." The result, he said, has been populist calls for the "strong gods" of familial, national, and religious authority.
The post-liberals are mainly but not exclusively traditionalist Catholics. Their most prominent spokesman is Patrick J. Deneen, whose Why Liberalism Failed (2018) was recommended by that ultimate progressive, Barack Obama. Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony's Virtue of Nationalism(2018) is another important entry in the post-liberal canon. Hazony has contributed essays to both First Things ("Conservative Democracy") and American Affairs ("What Is Conservatism?") making the case for conservatism without Locke, Jefferson, and Paine.
The post-liberals have put forward two contradictory political strategies. The first, advanced by Rod Dreher, who is Eastern Orthodox, is the Benedict Option of turning away from the secular world and shielding, as best you can, spiritual life. The second, as put by Sohrab Ahmari also in First Things, is "to use these values [of civility and decency] to enforce our order and our orthodoxy, not pretend that they could ever be neutral."
Another post-liberal, Gladden Pappin of American Affairs, says,
Rather than asking the question, 'What should conservatives/progressives do?' considerable advances can be made through certain purely practical considerations: 'How can the integrity of the national political community be assured?' 'How can commercial activity and technological development continue to be turned toward the common good, and toward our own strategic advantage?' 'What can we do with the reins of power, that is, the state, to ensure the common good of our citizens?'
The closest the post-liberals have to a spokesman in the Senate is freshman Josh Hawley, who attends an evangelical Presbyterian church. Not six months into his term, Hawley has already established himself as a social conservative unafraid of government power. He has picked fights with the conservative legal establishment by criticizing two of President Trump's judicial appointments. He has identified Silicon Valley as a threat to traditional values and proposed legislation to begin to rein in the tech industry. And in a little noticed commencement address to King's College, he inveighed against the fact that
For decades now our politics and culture have been dominated by a particular philosophy of freedom. It is a philosophy of liberation from family and tradition; of escape from God and community; a philosophy of self-creation and unrestricted, unfettered free choice.
This "Pelagian vision" — Pelagius was a monk condemned by the Church fathers as a heretic – "celebrates the individual," Hawley went on. But "it leads to hierarchy. Though it preaches merit, it produces elitism. Though it proclaims liberty, it destroys the life that makes liberty possible. Replacing it and repairing the profound harm it has caused is one of the great challenges of our day."
The post-liberals say that the distinction between state and society is illusory. They argue that, even as conservatives defended the independence of civil society from state power, the left took over Hollywood, the academy, the media, and the courts. What the post-liberals seem to call for is the use of government to recapture society from the left. How precisely they intend to accomplish this has been left undefined. (Though the levy on large university endowments included in the 2017 tax bill is a start.)
Another question is whether the post-liberal project is sustainable in the first place. The post-liberals, like other nationalists, may have over-interpreted the results of the 2016 election. Trump is many things, but it is safe to say that he is not an integralist. Prominent online and in my Twitter feed, the post-liberals might also misjudge their overall numbers. Before they recapture the state, much less re-moralize a nation of 300 million and hundreds of sects and denominations, they must first convince their co-religionists.
Appeals to the common good are rhetorically powerful, but they often run up against the shoals of America's constitutional structure and overwhelming emphasis on individual rights. That is one potential reason the post-liberals seem more interested in European philosophy and politics. It also could be why many of them are eager to abandon the term "conservatism."
Which might be for the best. Fusionism's critics say that it was historically contingent on the unique situation of the Cold War. But if you read the best expression of "fusionist" conservatism, the Sharon Statement of 1960, you see that its ideas of freedom and constitutionalism are deeply embedded in American intellectual traditions. "There is only one American political tradition," wrote Irving Kristol, "and every political movement must obtain its sanction, invoking the same memories, the same names, the same archetypal images, even the very same quotations." A conservatism that does not incorporate the ideas of freedom and civil and religious liberty that imprinted America at its birth not only would be unrecognizable to William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan, Americans themselves would find it alien and unappealing. And rightly so.
Source: www.nationalreview.com
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The Trump veto threat: Another presidential temper tantrum
Actually it is the president who abandoned the DACA kids. He was offered a deal by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) — money for the border wall in exchange for DACA relief — but senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, along with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) nixed it. Or does Trump not remember?
.. Whatever his intention, Trump is communicating to Congress and the entire world that his word is worthless, that when you think you have a deal, you really don't.
What then are the Europeans, in discussion with the administration over his threatened exit from the Iran nuclear deal, the South Koreans, the North Koreans, our trading partners and just about everyone else on the planet supposed to think?
.. "With Bolton, [Joseph E.] diGenova and [Mike] Pompeo feeding Trump's worst instincts, we're entering incredibly dangerous times."
(He could add to the list Peter Navarro, Cotton, the right-wing echo chamber and his favorite Fox News propagandists — all of whom egg on Trump without regard for the catastrophe that might await us if he followed their advice.)
.. Trump is never going to get better, and chances are he'll get much worse. Everyone should act accordingly.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Tags: border-wall, broken-word, chuck-schumer, daca, joe-digenova, john-kelly, mike-pompeo, peter-navarro, stephen-miller, tom-cotton, trump-veto, worst-impulses
Tom Cotton, David Perdue, and the Trap of Lying for Donald Trump
In denigrating anyone who called the President out for his slurs, Senators Cotton and Perdue (pictured here in August) show their willingness to humiliate themselves on his behalf.
.. According to the Post, "Three White House officials said Perdue and Cotton told the White House that they heard 'shithouse' rather than 'shithole,' allowing them to deny the President's comments on television over the weekend." Is that how people sleep at night in Trump's Washington?
And they are poisonous.
.. It should be clear that the house/hole distinction, should it even have existed, would not count as "allowing" Cotton and Perdue to deny the President's remarks on any terms. But the ones on which they did so are particularly egregious, because they offered themselves as witnesses to other senators' supposed dishonor.
.. Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, had confirmed the reported phrase "shithole countries" publicly; Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, had backed up the press accounts more obliquely but unmistakably. Senator Tim Scott, his Republican colleague, who is African-American, told reporters that Graham had confirmed the essentials of the report to him; Graham didn't dispute that. Graham had also publicly said that there was a racial aspect to the remarks, which he said he'd called the President on, saying, by his account, "America is an idea, not a race."
.. Cotton, appearing on Sunday news programs, specifically disparaged Durbin's credibility. "I didn't hear it, and I was sitting no further away from Donald Trump than Dick Durbin was,"
.. Cotton told John Dickerson on CBS's "Face the Nation." "And I know, and I know what Dick Durbin has said about the President's repeated statements is incorrect." He also said that Durbin had a history of dishonesty.
.. When Dickerson asked Cotton about the thrust of the remarks, as opposed to the President's word choice, Cotton said, "I did not hear derogatory comments about individuals or persons." Perhaps there was another rationalization in there: he was being derogatory about whole populations, not individuals!
.. in the next sentence, Dickerson made the terms of Cotton's lies clear when he asked, "So the sentiment is totally phony that is attributed to him?"—meaning to the President. Cotton answered, "Yes."
.. At the same time, Perdue was busy on ABC's "This Week," telling George Stephanopoulos, in even more categorical terms, that Durbin was guilty of a "gross misrepresentation" of Trump's remarks, saying that such "language" was simply not used.
.. When Stephanopoulos noted that there were multiple sources who said otherwise—indeed, the President himself reportedly called friends to brag about what he had said
.. Congressmen Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, who is the House Majority Leader and has not commented (but, as the Washington Post noted, stood quietly next to the President when he denied the reports on Sunday; Trump also called himself the "least racist person"
.. members of his Administration at first thought that the controversy could be settled in the shady realm of "do not recall,"
.. They were caught by surprise when he started tweeting about how the accounts of his language were outright false.
.. But perhaps he also listened to what the other Republicans were saying, and had an insight that they would, indeed, back him up. It was a bully's triple play:
first, he got to slur whole nations.
Then he got his guys to gang up on anyone who called him out for it, which produced the final prize:
the acknowledgement that the Republican lawmakers were his guys, subordinate and willing to humiliate themselves on his behalf.
.. What is notable is that, at first, Cotton and Perdue had tried, in a joint statement, to hedge by saying that they did "not recall the President saying these comments specifically." But, as his lies escalated, so did theirs, to the point where they were backing up the idea that the media was involved in a fake-news conspiracy.
.. But it is, apparently, hard to lie halfway for Trump; he won't let you.
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Kelly calls some of Trump's campaign pledges on immigration and wall 'uninformed,' meeting attendees say
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that some of the hard-line immigration policies President Trump advocated during the campaign were "uninformed," that the United States will never construct a wall along its entire southern border and that Mexico will never pay for it, according to people familiar with the meeting.
The comments were out of sync with remarks by Trump, who in recent days has reiterated his desire to build a border wall that would be funded by Mexico "indirectly through NAFTA."
.. "Certain things are said during the campaign that are uninformed," Kelly said.
"One thing is to campaign, another thing is to govern. It's really hard," he added later, according to attendees.
"A concrete wall from sea to shining sea" is not going to happen, Kelly said. Instead, "a physical barrier in many places" is what the administration is requesting. Kelly used the term "physical barrier" several times during the meeting, attendees said.
.. Instead, "we need 700 more miles of barrier," Kelly said — a concession that a physical barrier does not need to stretch the entire length of the border.
.. "Concrete wall would be good in only certain places," he added, saying that manpower and drone technology should suffice in some parts.
.. Kelly also said that there will be no wall "that Mexico will pay for."
.. "In one way or another, it's possible that we could get the revenue from Mexico, but not directly from their government," he said.
.. "Drug cartels will always find a way to get their drugs in so long as there's demand in the U.S.," Kelly said.
.. Kelly seemed unimpressed by the deal, attendees said, telling the group that Graham and Durbin have always agreed on immigration matters. What would be more impressive, Kelly suggested, is if Hispanic Caucus members worked with conservatives like Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who introduced a conservative-backed proposal on immigration reform last week.
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Is Tom Cotton the Future of Trumpism?
The junior senator from Arkansas is a hybrid of insurgent and old guard.
At forty years old, Cotton is the youngest member of the Senate
.. when we hear that kind of ridicule, we hear them making fun of the way we look, and the way we talk, and the way we think."
.. It was, on one level, a breathtaking leap—to equate mockery of a louche New York billionaire with attacks on the citizens of this small, conservative city, which lies across the Arkansas River from Oklahoma.
.. "Next to Trump, he's the elected official who gets it the most—the economic nationalism.
.. Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, whose term is not up until 2020, said that, by threatening journalists, Trump was violating his oath to defend the Constitution.
.. "The President puts things sometimes in a way that I would not," he said in early October. "But he was still nominated by our voters and elected by the American people to be our President, and if we want him to accomplish our agenda we need to set him up for success."
.. From the beginning, Tom could play to both the establishment and the Tea Party. Everyone recognizes he's got a firm set of conservative principles, but that makes him a polarizing figure. There are a lot of people here, too, who hate him and think he's the Antichrist. The only thing everyone agrees on is that he wants to be President someday."
.. To make that next leap, Cotton expresses the militarism, bellicosity, intolerance, and xenophobia of Donald Trump, but without the childish tweets.
.. He and his supporters see Trump and Trumpism as the future of the Republican Party.
.. He was the one who told us about John Kelly," the former Marine Corps general who is now Trump's chief of staff
.. after Cotton spoke out against a quick deal to protect the Dreamers, Trump made a formal proposal to Congress that attached many strings Cotton had demanded.
.. Trump gave Cotton a victory on the touchstone issue of his Senate career by decertifying Iran's compliance with the nuclear-arms deal
.. "Putting aside the issue of technical compliance or noncompliance, it's clear that the agreement is not in our national interest."
.. "One thing I learned in the Army is that when your opponent is on his knees you drive him to the ground and choke him out." In response, a questioner pointed out that killing a prisoner of war is not "American practice." (It is, in fact, a war crime.)
.. in North Korea, Cotton supports Trump's brinkmanship with Kim Jong Un
.. one recent report suggested that the President would name him director of the C.I.A. if Mike Pompeo, the current director, were to replace Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State.
.. Cotton would ratify the President's instincts. He offers Trump a certainty that matches his own
.. "The Democratic Party has drifted away from them," Tom told me, as his parents sat nearby. "Bill Clinton would be repudiated by his own party today.
.. I wrote against sacred cows, such as the cult of diversity, affirmative action, conspicuous compassion and radical participatory democracy. I wrote in favor of taboo notions, such as Promise Keepers, student apathy, honor and (most unforgivably) conservativism."
.. The letter combined outrage, overstatement, and savvy politics in a manner that Trump would perfect a decade later.
.. " 'God, guns, and gays'—social issues—were driving white conservatives to the Republicans all along
.. It is impossible not to see race as a central element in the fall of the Democratic Party here
.. "It took a black President to bring out the threat."
.. "I would always say to my liberal white friends, 'Oh, come on, surely it's gotten better.' And they'd say to me, 'Oh, no, it hasn't. You can't believe what white people say about Obama in private—he's Kenyan, he's Muslim, they'd call him unprintable racial epithets.' "
.. I think a lot of people in Arkansas thought he was 'uppity,' to use the old smear."
.. Cotton also benefitted from enormous outside spending by conservative groups, including some affiliated with the Koch brothers
.. outside groups spent twenty-three million dollars for Cotton, compared with fourteen million for Pryor.
.. Democrats in Arkansas had a special reason to disdain Obama: "It wasn't because Barack Obama was black, it was because Barack Obama stopped the Clinton restoration."
.. About three hundred thousand people, which amounts to more than ten per cent of the state's population, have taken advantage of the law to obtain health insurance.
.. The program is not called Obamacare but, rather, Arkansas Works.
.. "If you live in a big city and you work in an office building, immigration is almost an unalloyed good for you. . . . It makes the price of services that you pay for a little bit more affordable—whether it's your nanny to take care of your kids for you, or landscaping your yard, or pedicures, manicures, that sort of thing. And you get a lot of exciting new fusion restaurants as well.
"But if you live and work in a community where they have a large illegal-immigrant population
that's straining the public school,
that's clogging up the emergency room when you're trying to get care,
that makes it more dangerous to drive in the roads because people don't have driver's licenses or they don't have insurance,
or if they are bidding down the wages or even taking jobs away from you, then it doesn't look nearly so good,"
.. Most economists believe that immigrants, legal and otherwise, add more to the economy than they take from it, and that their presence in the labor force does not lead to lower wages over all.
.. "He probably knows more about geopolitics than most senators."
.. In March of his first year in the Senate, Cotton wrote an open letter to the "Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran," which was co-signed by forty-six other Republican senators, warning the mullahs that Congress might undo any agreement they reached with Obama. The letter was denounced by Executive Branch officials as an attempt to interfere in a diplomatic initiative, but Cotton regards it as a triumph.
.. he boasted about the letter
.. You simply cannot neglect security, and without security there cannot be political compromise and reconciliation, there cannot be good governance, there cannot be economic development, there can't be anything."
.. If Rand Paul is the leading Republican isolationist in the Senate, Cotton, in short order, has become heir to the opposing wing of the Party, the one associated with Senator John McCain, whose efforts to increase the defense budget Cotton has championed.
.. But Cotton has gone well past McCain in his swaggering belligerence.
.. "In my opinion, the only problem with Guantánamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now," Cotton said. "We should be sending more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. As far as I'm concerned, every last one of them can rot in hell, but as long as they don't do that they can rot in Guantánamo Bay."
.. skirted the edge of demagoguery. "I don't think any Republicans want legislation that is going to let out violent felons, which this bill would do,"
.. Cotton made his name in the Senate in a more personally poisonous way. In his first year, Cotton placed a hold on Obama's nominations for the Ambassadors to Sweden, Norway, and the Bahamas, because of an unrelated dispute regarding the Secret Service.
.. "There is a point where winning a political battle isn't worth it."
.. "How many guys in town can give a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations and also get kudos in the pages of Breitbart? The answer is, one guy."
.. Cotton has carved out a clear Trumpism-without-Trump agenda:
limits on immigration through legislation,
deportations, and a wall;
longer prison sentences for American convicts and suspected terrorists abroad;
a bigger budget for the Department of Defense.
.. The question is whether he has the charisma to sell that agenda to a broader public.
Source: www.newyorker.com
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Kanye West gives pro-Trump speech at concert
'This is my platform and I'm going to talk about the paradigm shift that's happening right now'
Published November 18, 2016 at 9:30am
(INDEPENDENT) Kanye West has always been something of a provocateur and a nihilist, and is staunchly anti-political correctness.
Last night he stirred a maybe unprecedented level of controversy, however, declaring at a Saint Pablo Tour show in San Jose: "I would have voted on Trump".
"This is my platform and I'm going to talk about the paradigm shift that's happening right now," he said at the top of a 40-minute political speech that came at the cost of several songs.
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Five people, including two from Florida, were arrested in connection with an investigation into the trafficking of cocaine and heroin in Hancock County.
Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland says 57-year-old George Pickard and 42-year-old Christopher Abbott of Franklin were arrested this week in Franklin. Pickard is charged with trafficking in heroin, while Abbott is charged with trafficking in cocaine. Abbott's wife, 37-year-old April Abbott of Franklin was also in the vehicle at the time of her husband's arrest and was charged with possession of heroin.
The investigation into these arrests led police to determine that suspects from out of state would be delivering additional cocaine to the area. With assistance from the State Police, a Mercedes sedan was stopped on Route 1A in Dedham containing two people from Sanford, Florida. Police recovered over 125 grams of cocaine from passenger 33-year-old Sydnee Atwater, who was concealing drugs inside her body. She and the driver, 37-year-old Marc Atwater, are charged with aggravated trafficking in cocaine. Three young children, who were in the vehicle with the couple, have been placed by DHHS Child Protective Services.
Also arrested in April of this year, as part of this investigation, was 29-year-old Joseph Steele of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Agents seized 57 grams of crack cocaine and 30 grams of heroin from his rental vehicle during a traffic stop in Newport. MDEA officials say it's believed the drugs were headed to Hancock County for resale. Within days of when he arrived at the Penobscot County Jail, guards found him with a homemade weapon and he now faces a felony trafficking in prison contraband charge, as well.
This investigation has focused on a group of people involved with importing and distributing cocaine and heroin, specifically, in the Franklin area of Hancock County. Officials say more arrests are possible.


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PokerTracker 4 imports text hand histories that are saved to your computer by the People's Poker client. Once imported, these hands are stored within PostgreSQL and made available for review and analysis in your PT4 database. This process must be correctly configured so that PokerTracker 4 can retrieve these hand histories and also display the Heads Up Display (HUD) on your People's Poker table(s) correctly.
This guide is intended for users who wish to manually configure PokerTracker 4 to important hand histories from People's Poker; alternatively you may choose to use the automated Setup Assistant. Both options (manual configuration and the Setup Assistant) are simple, but users may prefer using the Setup Assistant for initial configuration. For general information on the initial setup of PokerTracker 4, please consult the PokerTracker 4 Quick Start Guide.
For most users, configuring People's Poker by using the Setup Assistant will be the most efficient method of preparing PokerTracker 4 for use with People's Poker. The Setup Assistant was created to help users automate the configuration of PokerTracker 4 without the need to manually configure your poker environment. To begin the Setup Assistant, simply click Tools > Setup Assistant from the main menu. Click the Configure Sites option and turn People's Poker to Yes.
There are a couple of steps for configuring People's Poker using the Setup Assistant.
Step 1: You must tell PokerTracker 4 where People's Poker saves its hand histories. You can use the Auto Detect option to let PokerTracker 4 automatically find where the hand histories are being written. This can be also done manually by going to "Add" and pointing PT4 to the People's Poker hand history folder on your computer. Once this is configured correctly, click Next.
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A preferred seat is the seat location you automatically sit at when you sit down at a table. PokerTracker 4 must know your preferred seat to ensure that the HUD correctly displays while you are playing.
PokerTracker will import the preferred seating selection for you from People's Poker; if you need to override the detected values then simply push Change next to each table type and select the seat in the graphical interface where you automatically sit at while playing.
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In the People's Poker lobby, open the Language menu and select English.
You might choose to use the Preferred Seat option in your People's Poker client (so that you are always placed in the same seat location at every table).
From the People's Poker lobby, click Options > Seat Configuration.
Set your preferred seat at each table size that you play.
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Make sure Get Hands From Site While Playing is selected, or if you do not play on People's Poker then you can select Hide Site From Lists to hide it from view. Next, click Auto Detect to populate the path of the People's Poker Hand History Directories. Finally set up your preferred seating if applicable.


I write this as I am flying somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean as I make my way to Israel. I can't believe that this trip is finally here. In typical Rozella fashion, I was running behind this morning and almost missed my flight out of Chicago. I don't know if it was God, luck or fate, but I made it. The only thing that I forgot was my bathing suit. Considering how absentminded I can be, I will recognize this as a major accomplishment.
And this leads me to fear. Fear isn't always a bad thing. It can cause us to be cautious in the face of danger. It can jumpstart adrenaline and move us out of harms way. It can also be paralyzing and this is what I want to overcome. For so much of my life I was called "scary". This term was used to describe my fear of everything and unwillingness to ever do anything that I perceived to be risky. From not riding roller coasters to not participating in high adventure courses to not learning how to swim until I was 21, fear has played a huge role in how I viewed myself and how I viewed the world.
I know that every experience in our lives equip us to deal with what happens next. As I remember this, a calm comes over me that I can only attribute to the peace of God. I don't understand it. The fear isn't erased. But my resolve to act in spite of my fear and anxiety is strengthened.
One of the most oft repeated phrases in all of scripture is this: Be not afraid. As I go on this journey, this is my mantra.
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Genot "Winter Elk" Picor has certainly embraced his Metis' voyageur ancestry. He has performed in every corner of Michigan, from Rockwood to Ironwood, from Sault Ste. Marie to Niles and beyond. His storytelling style, like those of the mixed-blood people of the Great Lakes region from whom he is descended, combines Native reverence for the earth with French animation and embellishment. His engaging show, "Stories, Songs and Dances of the Metis' Voyageur," brings forth all the skills this master storyteller can employ; Native American sign, interactive stories with hand puppets for children, sing-a-longs, tall tales and simple audience dance numbers. Picor acts as a scout with audience as his charges in a journey along Michigan's waterways and into the interior.
Genot's experience as a Teacher Consultant has multiple benefits for schools. His programs are thorough and affordable, addressing benchmarks and GLCE's in core curricular areas set forth by the Michigan Department of Education. Prior to each visit, Genot works with hosting teachers to make sure the program reinforces these core concepts. Picor will spend an entire day in a school, usually with third or fourth grades, working with individual classes to keep the groups small. The school program focus on the life of a French orphan who comes to work in the Great Lakes fur trade. Along with his mentor Avant-Voyageur Jean-Paul, Picor canoes his way to the land of the Mitchigaamii, meeting the People of the Three Fires, learning their stories and eventually marrying into an Ojibwa clan. He also brings along trade goods, archeological artifacts (Picor was recently awarded a grant to bring archeology into the schools) and furs to illustrate how the arrival of the Europeans brought new tools and textiles to the First People of this region.
Library programs are also affordable to promote literacy. Prior to any library program, Picor designs his show to meet a general theme. If possible, librarians are encouraged to place books around the performance area so that patrons can read about the theme that is addressed in the program.
Festivals and museums are given a variety of options from which to choose. In September, 2007, Picor founded La Compagnie, a musical/dance troupe consisting of five other members. A festival/museum show can also be designed to meet a theme (Great Lakes sailing, lumbering, French and Celtic music and dance) or emulate the veillee, a French social gathering. The veillee was filled with interactive music, stories, songs and dances for all ages. Tap or feet, clap your hands, howl or join in the dance…you're all part of the family.
Genot "Winter Elk" Picor has studied voice and movement at the prestigious Stratford Festival Theater in Stratford, Ontario. He holds a BA in English and Speech Communication and two Master's Degrees (Education and Psychology). He is also a staff writer for the Great Lakes Pilot and contributing writer to Smoke and Fire Magazine. Among his most recently performed venues are the Traverse City Film Festival, the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Center for French Colonial Studies (South Bend, Indiana), The Bay City Tall Ships Festival and the Jackson, Michigan Storyfest. Picor has also performed as other characters, such as Johnny Appleseed, a lumberjack and deck hand on a Great Lakes coal hauler and a civil war soldier. Regardless of the character, you're in for some fun and a lively educational experience.
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Jack Dumbacher
Jack Dumbacher's interests include the ecology and evolution of birds and molecular ecology. While he's traveled the world to study birds, his most recent expedition focused on the round-eared elephant shrews of the Namibian desert.
Namibian Desert
One of the harshest places on earth is the desert of Namibia. Stretching a thousand miles along the coast of the Atlantic in Southern Africa, it contains some of the highest sand dunes in the world. Almost completely barren and largely uninhabited by man, the desert is one of the oldest in the world. Animal populations have evolved in the pristine isolation of the Namibian desert for approximately 55 million years.
That's precisely why curator Jack Dumbacher wanted to go there.
As forbidding as it is, Namibia is an ideal place for a field research expedition since it is relatively undisturbed by man.
Dumbacher has spent much of his time in this inhospitable environment looking for the round-eared elephant shrew. This tiny creature, about the size of a gerbil, feeds entirely on ants and was incorrectly thought to be the relative of shrews, moles, and hedgehogs.
While humans have hunted large mammals and encroached upon their habitat, they've overlooked the tiny elephant shrew. This creature is particularly interesting to Dumbacher because understanding the genetics of small animals like the elephant shrew can can help us learn more about evolution in Africa.
Dumbacher went to Namibia to see if the different colored elephant shrews that existed in different parts of the country were the same species. On the coast, the animal tends to have reddish fur. In the high desert escarpment, they are darker in color. Dumbacher wondered if the color types interbred—if they exchanged genes—or if they were different species.
On his expedition, Dumbacher caught a number of elephant shrews and collected DNA samples. Back in the lab, Dumbacher sequenced the DNA to look for gene flow between populations, working to broaden his understanding of the species boundaries.
Once thought to be the relative of moles, the elephant shrew is recognized as a solitary offshoot on an ancient African branch of the evolutionary tree. Their closest relatives include elephants, sea cows, and aardvarks. In an unexpected twist, the elephant shrew of Namibia is more elephant than shrew.
Evolution and Math
Dumbacher began his scientific career with a background in math, a passion that still informs his study of evolutionary biology. In college one of his favorite classes used mathematical models to explain altruistic behavior and cooperation. The ability to boil down the complexities of life using a simple mathematical construct appealed to Dumbacher. He says that´s what led him to seek out the math geniuses and population geneticists at the University of Chicago.
Mathematical models can reconstruct the evolution of organisms. The basic organizing principle of evolutionary biology, the so-called tree of life that explains the genetic relationships of living things, is essentially a mathematical construct.
Math can be used to understand evolution, diversity, and the spread of species. The same patterns Darwin saw can be explained and predicted in a mathematical equation. Scientists use gene sequencing to track the evolution of a single gene through time. The mathematics that underlie these genetic sequences enable them to see how traits are inherited from one generation to the next, and how a gene moves through a population or even an entire species.
Mathematics can boil down the complexity of evolutionary biology into simple constructs. Has the gene been selected or not? A mathematical model can examine slight variations in selection over hundreds of generations and can make accurate predictions about gene frequency. Statistics and regression analysis provide an elegant way to measure and predict genetic selection in great detail.
Mathematics makes for a rigorous way to refine models and make better predictions, which ultimately leads to better understanding. Combined with molecular genetics, chemistry, and biogeography, mathematics is just one of the tools and techniques scientists use to understand evolution, biodiversity, and the distribution of animal populations on the planet.
As Dumbacher says, "The more we understand how animals evolve, the more we understand how we are evolving. The forces that are pushing animals to evolve push on us, too. The more we know about nature, the more we know about ourselves. The more we know about ourselves, the better we can make decisions about our future."
A Poisonous Bird
Some of the best discoveries in science are completely serendipitous. Jack Dumbacher discovered, quite by accident, that common New Guinea birds use potent poisons for protection. While trekking in the bush with a tribesman in Papua New Guinea, Dumbacher released a jay-sized songbird called a "pitohui" from a mist net. In doing so, he cut his hand and developed a burning sensation. Dumbacher popped the cut in his mouth. Soon his lips and tongue began to tingle and burn. "The effect lasted for hours," he says.
Later, in the interest of science, Dumbacher gamely popped a pitohui feather in his mouth. Immediately, he felt the same burning sensation, just as if he had placed a nine-volt battery on his tongue.
He asked his guides about the pitohui, and was told that they were rubbish birds, good for nothing. "You can't even eat them," his local helpers said.
Dumbacher realized he was onto something. He thought this might be the only case of a poisonous bird ever found, and began a study of the chemical defenses of the pitohui.
Dumbacher had known of chemist John Daly's discovery of the Colombian poison dart frog in the 1960s. Many schoolchildren learn that monarch butterflies are poisonous, using their brightly colored orange-and-black wings as a signal to birds to stay away. Dumbacher thought the pitohui might use a similar defense mechanism. If that were the case, it would be the first—and only— known case of a poisonous bird ever discovered.
At a University of Chicago speech, Dumbacher brought along his bag of feathers, and passed them out among the audience. Butch Brodie, a behavioral neuroscientist, was in the audience. He tasted a feather, immediately recognized it as a poison, and passed a sample along to one of the nation's premier chemists, John Daly, at the National Institute of Health. Daly was the same man who isolated the poison in the Colombian poison dart frog in The '60s.
Using direct probe mass spectrography, Daly mashed the feathers into a potion, dried the substance, put a sample on the tip of a probe and bombarded the mass until it broke down into its chemical constituents. Daly discovered batrachotoxins identical to the poisons found in some species of frogs. According to Dumbacher, "No one else in the world had the machinery and the know-how to recognize this as a batrachotoxin."
Extremely rare in nature, the toxin attacks the nerves and muscle membranes. The toxin disrupts the firing mechanism of the nerve, which results in a tingling sensation and numbness. In higher doses this can result in paralysis, cardiac arrest, and death. Gram for gram, batrachotoxin is the most potent neurotoxin in the world. And it was located on the feathers of a pitohui. The pitohui—half a world away from Colombia—shared the same potent neurotoxin as poison dart frogs.
The response to the discovery of a poisonous bird made a huge splash. Dumbacher's claim—that this was the first known poisonous bird—earned enormous attention in the field of ornithology. The bird became famous, and interest in the field rose. Today, Dumbacher has identified five more species of poisonous birds and, in another first, may have discovered the source of the bird's poison. Turns out the pitohui eats a beetle chock-full of the same poison. Now Dumbacher can add to his list the first insect species ever identified as a carrier of batrachotoxin.
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Gero (* um 900 in Sachsen; † 28. Juni 976 in Köln) war von 969 bis 976 Erzbischof des Erzbistums Köln.

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Seine Herkunft ist nicht mit Sicherheit geklärt. Er war vermutlich der Sohn des Markgrafen Christian von Serimunt und dessen Frau Hidda, der Schwester des Markgrafen Gero.

Über seine Ausbildung und den größten Teil seines Lebens ist nichts bekannt. Die Person des Gero ist wahrscheinlich identisch mit einem 966 genannten gleichnamigen Presbyter am Kölner Dom. Er war Kölner Domherr und Domkustos in Köln und Kaplan des Kaisers. Vor 969 stiftete er den Gero-Codex. Neben der Sorge um sein Seelenheil spielte dabei möglicherweise auch das Ziel eine Rolle, sich Vorteile im Wettbewerb bei einer künftigen Erzbischofswahl zu verschaffen.

Im Jahr 969 wurde er zum Erzbischof von Köln gewählt, was zunächst bei Kaiser Otto I. auf Ablehnung gestoßen sein soll. Dies berichtete jedenfalls Thietmar von Merseburg. Inwieweit dieser Bericht authentisch ist, bleibt umstritten. Schließlich stimmte der Kaiser 970 der Wahl zu.Offenbar hat sich die Einstellung des Kaisers gegenüber Gero geändert, da er ihn mit einer wichtigen Mission betraute. 971 brach Gero nach Konstantinopel auf und brachte die Prinzessin Theophanu als Braut für den Thronfolger Otto (den späteren Kaiser Otto II.) von seiner Reise mit nach Rom. Zugleich brachte Gero die Reliquien des heiligen Pantaleon mit nach Köln; sie befinden sich seit dieser Zeit in der Kirche St. Pantaleon. Im Jahr 972 nahm er an der Synode von Ingelheim teil und leitete zusammen mit dem Erzbischof von Magdeburg 973 die Beisetzungsfeierlichkeiten für Otto I. in Magdeburg. Abgesehen von der Gesandtschaft nach Konstantinopel hatte er weder unter Otto I. noch unter Otto II. eine bedeutende Rolle gespielt. Er war 975 bei einem Reichstag in Weimar anwesend.
Auch nach seiner Wahl bewies er persönliche Frömmigkeit. 970 stiftete Gero gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder, Markgraf Thietmar I. von Meißen, das Kloster Thankmarsfelde im Harz bei Ballenstedt. 974 gründete er zudem die Benediktinerabtei Gladbach. Für den Kölner Dom ließ er nach 971 das berühmte Gerokreuz anfertigen.

Er starb um den 28. Juni 976 in Köln und wurde im Kölner Dom begraben. Seine Grabtumba wurde um 1260 in der Stephanskapelle des Doms errichtet.

Gero gilt in der katholischen Kirche als Heiliger. Sein Festtag (Namenstag) wird an dem Tag nach seinem Todestag, am 29. Juni gefeiert. Der Geroweiher, ein Weiher in einem Park unterhalb des Mönchengladbacher Münsters, wurde nach dem Kölner Bischof benannt.

Literatur
 Ludwig Berg: Gero, Erzbischof von Köln 969-976. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1913

 Christoph Nohn: Auftakt zur Gladbacher Geschichte. Die Gründungsgeschichte der Abtei Gladbach und das politische Spannungsfeld Lotharingiens im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0510-8, S. 205–214.
 Friedrich Wilhelm Oedinger: Geschichte des Erzbistums Köln. Band I. Köln 1972

Weblinks
 Der Alte Kölner Dom im Hillinus-Codex
 Gero im Portal Rheinische Geschichte

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Römisch-katholischer Bischof (10. Jahrhundert)
Domherr (Köln)
Erzbischof von Köln
Person des Christentums (Mönchengladbach)
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NEIL Lennon tonight revealed he is determined to continue as Celtic manager - despite the Parkhead club falling 13 points behind Rangers in the Premiership with a 1-1 draw at home against St Johnstone.
The Scottish champions, who only earned a point when substitute Mohammed Elyounoussi cancelled out Chris Kane's opener with six minutes remaining, have now won just two of their last 12 matches.
The result this afternoon saw the Glasgow outfit go five games without winning at their own stadium for the first time since 1958.
Fans gathered outside Celtic Park last Sunday following their Betfred Cup defeat and exit to Ross County and called for Lennon to be sacked – but the board of directors gave the Northern Irishman a vote of confidence.
The 49-year-old, whose team can complete the quadruple treble if they win the Scottish Cup final on Sunday week, is hoping that his position is unaffected by their latest disappointing result.
Asked if he sensed his second spell in charge of Celtic was nearing an end, Lennon said: "I can't answer that. I don't want to pre-empt anything. I want to keep working to try and turn it around.
"It is hugely concerning and I am not going to shy away from that. It is hugely concerning that we can't keep a clean sheet, when we looked very comfortable in the game. We let people run in behind us and it's not good enough.
"I understand the fans' frustrations when we are not playing well, and not getting results. But there are ways and means and some fans are more irate than others. But right now I agree with them that our performances don't equal the quality that we have, and if that falls on me then so be it. If there is going to be a change then so be it."
Asked if he thought the St Johnstone draw would change Celtic directors' attitude towards him, Lennon said: "I don't think so. I don't want it to change either. I want to keep working. I have got good people behind me. I just need to get the players back to the levels that they're capable of.
"Do we look at our training? Do we look at our routines? Do we look at our set ups? We have analysed all those things to death. The players have to look at themselves as well. We are better than this.
"We need to find a solution to this as quickly as possible. It is too tentative. The play is too tense. We are taking too many passes to get the ball forward and there is not enough quality in the final ball."
Asked if he would resign if he felt he was unable to take Celtic any further, Lennon said: "That is a hypothetical question so I am not going to answer it."
Lennon refused to accept that Celtic's hopes of catching Rangers, who beat Ross County 4-0 in Dingwall to stretch their lead in the Premiership, and completing 10-In-A-Row in the 2020/21 campaign are finished.
"Listen, we need to be realistic," he said. "I wouldn't say it's over, but we are making it more difficult for ourselves. We need to start winning games and winning them well. As far as the season goes, we are making it very, very difficult for ourselves to get back into it.
"We need a bit of swagger back in the team. It is missing at the minute. Some players aren't fit enough and that has been the case for a long time. Some players are just not in good form. They need some respite at some stage and they need some support from me.
"But, again, it is a two way thing. The players have got to play better. We have tried everything we can to get the performances right."
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