Why Did It Take the GOP So Long to Panic About Herschel Walker?

 https://www.newsweek.com/why-did-it-take-gop-so-long-panic-about-herschel-walker-1709248

Part of the reluctance is that Walker's troubled past is central to what his friends and political allies call his "transformation story." Walker doesn't deny the allegations about his past. Some, after all, are a matter of public record. He also brought some of them to the public's attention himself, in a 2008 book entitled "Breaking Free: my life with Dissociative Identity Disorder." In the book he discussed his history of mental illness, dealing with multiple personalities that he developed as a coping mechanism to deal with the teasing and bullying he endured as a young child with a stutter. The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes the disorder as "alternating between multiple identities, leaving a person with gaps in memory of everyday events." It notes men with the disorder "can occasionally exhibit more violent behavior rather than amnesia."

אחרי המעצרים: אחד החשודים בהיעדרות קליינרמן שוחרר

 https://www.kikar.co.il/424400.html

שעות אחרי המעצרים, הורה בית המשפט לשחרר את אחד החשודים במעורבות בהיעדרות מוישי קליינרמן בן ה-16 שנעדר לפני 130 יום. עורך דינו: "אין לו כל קשר לפרשה"

Aligning Jewish Values With Philanthropy and Investing

 https://www.morganstanley.com/articles/jewish-values-philanthropy-and-investing

While faith-based philanthropy may seem more familiar given its prevalence in Judaism and other faith traditions, faith-based investing can require more explanation.

The Torah offers guidance on aligning capital with Jewish values through a number of commandments and mitzvot, the Hebrew word for good deeds. Below are four ways investors can bring their faith to investing:

Three American Companies that Shamelessly Supported Nazi Germany

 https://historyofyesterday.com/three-american-companies-that-shamelessly-supported-nazi-germany-58fe33910303

During World War II, Germany was largely viewed by the American public as a pariah on the world stage — but that didn’t stop American companies from doing business with the Nazi regime. Perhaps American companies should have known better, but the German economy presented a business opportunity some corporations saw as too good to pass up. As a result, several American companies did business in Germany and some actually assisted the German war effort, at least until America itself was engaged in war with Germany.

How Nazi Germany benefitted America’s corporations

 https://www.globalvillagespace.com/how-nazi-germany-benefitted-americas-corporations/

In October 1936, the US Ambassador to Nazi Germany, William Dodd, who was previously a history professor, wrote a letter to president Franklin Roosevelt elaborating on US-Nazi business collaboration. In the letter, Ambassador Dodd revealed that “more than a hundred American corporations have subsidiaries here [in Nazi Germany] or cooperative understandings”. Dodd noted that the US chemical corporation, DuPont, has links to German companies “that are aiding in the armament business”. DuPont’s chief partner was the German chemical corporation IG Farben, which was centrally involved in strengthening the Nazi war machine. IG Farben was later implicated in slave labour practices and the Holocaust.

Lauren Boebert’s husband did jail time for "lewd exposure" in a bowling alley. She was there

 https://www.salon.com/2021/08/31/lauren-boeberts-husband-did-jail-time-for-lewd-exposure-in-a-bowling-alley-she-was-there/

Jayson Steven Boebert, the husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has complicated his wife's political career recently, after reports that the right-wing congresswoman failed to disclose Jayson's highly-paid work in the natural gas industry while she was serving on the House Natural Resources Committee, which directly oversees regulation of that business.

It appears that might not be the only thing about Jayson that Rep. Boebert doesn't want the public to know. In January 2004, when Jayson Boebert was 24, he was arrested for exposing himself to two young women at a Colorado bowling alley. His future wife Lauren Roberts (as she was then known), who was 17 at the time, was also present and was told she was no longer welcome at the bowling alley.

Jayson Boebert pled guilty to "public indecency and lewd exposure" after that incident, according to The New York Post, and was sentenced to four days in jail with a subsequent two years on probation.

Not long after that incident, Jayson Boebert found himself in trouble with the law again after a domestic violence incident (which has already been widely publicized) involving Lauren Roberts, his then-girlfriend and future wife. In February 2004, Jayson Boebert was arrested and charged with harassing and physically assaulting Lauren, and was convicted on those charges in November. He "did unlawfully strike, shove or kick ... and subjected her to physical contact," a Garfield County court clerk spokesman told The New York Post in January of 2021. Lauren Roberts had her first child later that year; it is unclear whether she was pregnant at the time of the assault.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert and husband racked up arrests in home district

 https://nypost.com/2021/01/16/gop-rep-lauren-boebert-and-husband-have-racked-up-arrests/

Rep. Lauren Boebert, the gun-toting freshman Republican Colorado congresswoman who ran on a law-and-order platform, has had several dust-ups with police, starting as a teenager.

The 34-year-old lawmaker, who beat her district’s very conservative Rep. Scott Tipton in a primary upset last June, has a rap sheet unusually long for a member of Congress.

And her track record of thumbing her nose at the law continued this week after she tussled with Capitol Police officers over her refusal to walk through newly installed House metal detectors.

Lauren Boebert Says Venezuelans Eat Dogs Because They Have No Guns

 https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-venezuela-guns-assault-rifles-eating-dogs-banned-newsmax-1729932

While speaking to Newsmax's Sebastian Gorka on Monday, Boebert, a far-right Republican, reflected on her confrontation with 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.

Before Boebert had taken office, she confronted O'Rourke during an event in Aurora, Colorado in September 2019 after he announced his commitment to taking citizens' AR-15s.

Speaking about the importance of guns in America, Boebert told Gorka Americans would begin eating dogs, like in Venezuela, if guns are taken away from citizens.

Lauren Boebert: Venezuela dog eating 'started because they do not have firearms'

 https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-dog-eating/

“In Venezuela, they eat the dogs and it started because they do not have firearms to protect themselves, to defend themselves against a tyrannical government,” she added.

As 'Woke' Businesses Face Right-Wing Wrath, Culture War Capitalists Cash In

 https://www.newsweek.com/2022/08/12/woke-businesses-face-right-wing-wrath-culture-war-capitalists-cash-1730249.html

The issue has taken center stage recently as a number of high-profile companies—including Disney, J.P. Morgan, Levi Strauss and Microsoft—announced plans to cover travel expenses for employees seeking an abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade. That followed other headline-making cases of businesses speaking out on social issues, such as Disney taking a stance on legislation in Florida restricting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and dozens of companies from Silicon Valley to Wall Street pledging to fight racial injustice after George Floyd's death in 2020.

Presidents and the US Economy: An Econometric Exploration

 https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20140913

The US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican, almost regardless of how one measures performance. For many measures, including real GDP growth (our focus), the performance gap is large and significant. This paper asks why. The answer is not found in technical time series matters nor in systematically more expansionary monetary or fiscal policy under Democrats. Rather, it appears that the Democratic edge stems mainly from more benign oil shocks, superior total factor productivity (TFP) performance, a more favorable international environment, and perhaps more optimistic consumer expectations about the near-term future. (JEL D72, E23, E32, E65, N12, N42)

Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html

A president has only limited control over the economy. And yet there has been a stark pattern in the United States for nearly a century. The economy has grown significantly faster under Democratic presidents than Republican ones.

It’s true about almost any major indicator: gross domestic product, employment, incomes, productivity, even stock prices. It’s true if you examine only the precise period when a president is in office, or instead assume that a president’s policies affect the economy only after a lag and don’t start his economic clock until months after he takes office. The gap “holds almost regardless of how you define success,” two economics professors at Princeton, Alan Blinder and Mark Watson, write. They describe it as “startlingly large.”

The Republican War on Economics

 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/the-republican-war-on-economics.html

On Meet the Press Sunday, Chuck Todd asked Susan Collins how she could support a huge tax cut after having complained about excessive debt. “Economic growth produces more revenue and that will help to offset this tax cut and actually lower the debt,” she calmly replied. An incredulous Todd asked Collins how she could defend such a claim when every study has concluded the opposite. She cited Glenn Hubbard, Larry Lindsey, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin.

Jennifer Rubin got ahold of two of the three, Hubbard and Holtz-Eakin. Both economists denied having ever claimed the Republican tax cuts would produce enough growth to recoup the lost revenue.

Graduate sues uni after essay is failed because it didn’t blame Israel

 https://www.thejc.com/news/news/graduate-sues-uni-after-essay-is-failed-because-it-didn't-blame-israel-11XsFCMbfm3AGDA5SivwHO

Danielle Greyman claims her essay about crimes committed by Hamas against Palestinians was failed because it did not pin blame on the Jewish state.

After a review, an external examiner recommended that her assignment mark be improved, giving it a passing grade instead of a fail.

Ms Greyman, who had never before failed an essay at university, was forced last year to resit the module, which she subsequently passed.

However, because she had to wait almost a year for the result of her appeal, the student was unable to take up a place on a Master’s course at Glasgow University.

Her lawyers have now issued a legal claim against Leeds University for negligence, discrimination and victimisation.