Congress Taking Aim At China Over Currency Valuation

“Nineteen … and counting,” the New York Times reports. “That’s the number of former Fox News hosts, commentators, on-air medical experts, producers and other personnel who are poised to occupy roles in the second administration of President-elect Donald Trump.” “Never before has a single media organization exported so many alumni to a president’s day-one cabinet and staff.

Peter Baker: “More than 30 miles of anti-scale fencing are being erected all over the nation’s capital. Concrete barriers are being placed at key junctures. Certain roads have already been closed to traffic. Surveillance drones will flood the skies.” “But if Washington looks like a war zone again, it does not necessarily feel that way.

“President Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation last week that an oligarchy is taking shape in America. In Washington, the oligarchs are already here, buying big houses,” the New York Times reports. “Counting President-elect Donald Trump himself, there are at least a dozen billionaires among his cabinet picks and those headed for senior roles in the new administration.

“The president-elect’s immigration advisers have warned Republicans that it will take time and money from Congress to carry out the mass deportation effort he has promised to execute immediately,” the New York Times reports.

Patty Griffin is such a remarkably gifted songwriter who outdid herself with this song for Martin Luther King Jr. -- whose birthday we celebrate on Monday! (By the way, there's also a beautiful version by Kelli Clarkson.) Some days I look down Afraid I will fall And though the sun shines I see nothing at all Then I hear your sweet voice, oh Oh, come and then go, come and then go Telling me softly You love me so The peaceful valley Just over the mountain The peaceful valley Few come to know I may never get there Ever in this lifetime But sooner or later It's there I will go Sooner or later. read more