{"id":166,"date":"2015-10-18T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-10-18T09:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:41:27","slug":"sunday-morning-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Morning Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2015\/10\/17\/texas_can_deny_birth_certificates_to_children_of_undocumented_immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\">Federal ruling allows Texas to deny birth certificates to some US-born children.<\/a>\u00a0 Not sure why the validity of the parents&#8217; identification documents matters. \u00a0These children are US citizens, whoever their parents are and whatever their status, and their birth certificates belong to them and no one else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/meet-the-press-oct11-2015\/2915631?onid=210121#vc210121=1\" target=\"_blank\">David Brat&#8217;s appearance<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Meet the Press<\/em><\/a>\u00a0last week apparently annoyed some conservatives as much as it did me, though perhaps for different reasons. \u00a0My chief complaint: his repeated claim that &#8220;the American People&#8221; support his Freedom Caucus priorities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Neiwert\" target=\"_blank\">David Neiwert<\/a> is one of the best writers out there on white supremacists, domestic terrorism and&#8230;orcas. \u00a0This <a href=\"http:\/\/dneiwert.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/how-candidates-haters-and-media-have.html\" target=\"_blank\">rundown of the way rhetoric in the US promotes Islamophobia<\/a> is worth a read. \u00a0I can also recommend his <a href=\"http:\/\/dneiwert.blogspot.com\/Rush%20Newspeak%20%20Fascism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism\u00a0<\/i>(PDF)<\/a>, an important &#8220;journalistic survey of the academic literature on fascism&#8221; how it relates to American politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomantribune.com\" target=\"_blank\">Booman<\/a> thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomantribune.com\/story\/2015\/10\/16\/143934\/85\" target=\"_blank\">Vice President Biden should run for President<\/a>. \u00a0I disagree. \u00a0The conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/berniesanders.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> has started is the one the Democratic Party needs to have, and I think he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/signup\/om-hvf-join\/?utm_medium=om2016&amp;utm_source=gs&amp;utm_campaign=lb-debate&amp;utm_content=97103011811&amp;utm_term=c\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary<\/a> are the right candidates to have it. \u00a0(Psst&#8230;Hillary&#8230;maybe a &#8220;join the official campaign&#8221; screen designed to capture my email address isn&#8217;t what you want new visitors to see when they visit your website.)<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2984729\/microsoft-windows\/windows-10-the-stealth-os.html\" target=\"_blank\">One of many reasons<\/a> why I am slowly migrating to Apple products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal ruling allows Texas to deny birth certificates to some US-born children.\u00a0 Not sure why the validity of the parents&#8217; identification documents matters. \u00a0These children are US citizens, whoever their parents are and whatever their status, and their birth certificates belong to them and no one else. 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