Bill Browder: Putin\u2019s Big Mistake in Trying To Get Me Vladmir Putin offered to let US investigators question the 12 Russian intelligence agents just indicted\u2026<\/b>
\nBill Browder: Putin\u2019s Big Mistake in Trying To Get Me
Vladmir Putin offered to let US investigators question the 12 Russian intelligence agents just indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for letting Moscow do the same to hedge funder and longtime Putin nemesis Bill Browder. And, as Browder himself writes at Time, \u201cthis is no idle threat. For the last ten years, I\u2019ve been trying to avoid getting killed by Putin\u2019s regime, and there already exists a trail of dead bodies connected to its desire to see me dead.\u201d President Trump initially said he considered this \u201can incredible offer.\u201d But Browder has been a British citizen since 1989. And that country \u201cmight have a few choice words for him [Putin] after Russian agents spread the military-grade nerve agent Novichok across the cathedral town of Salisbury.\u201d
Religion writer: Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Holocaust Blunder
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touched off a firestorm by defending the intentions of Holocaust deniers. He opposed removing their posts, because they\u2019re not \u201cintentionally getting it wrong.\u201d But as Yair Rosenberg suggests at The Atlantic, \u201cthis position is so bizarre, it\u2019s hard to know where to begin.\u201d Even if Zuckerberg were right, that doesn\u2019t \u201cabsolve Facebook of responsibility for uncritically hosting and spreading that content.\u201d But censorship alone \u201cis not an effective response.\u201d Rosenberg suggests \u201ccounter-programming hateful or misleading speech with better speech.\u201d Such as posting a \u201cprominent disclaimer\u201d on such pages warning against being \u201cmisled by propaganda\u201d and linking to the United States Holocaust Museum. Because their real targets are not other confirmed Holocaust deniers but people who don\u2019t realize they\u2019re being trolled.
Conservative: Trump Not the First To Cozy Up to Putin
President Trump \u201cis trying to do something that both of his immediate predecessors tried to do: turn over a new leaf with Russia,\u201d says Marc Thiessen at The Washington Post. Moreover, he adds, \u201cthey both failed, and so will he.\u201d George W. Bush, recall, said he was able to \u201cget a sense\u201d of Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201csoul\u201d and found him \u201cstraightforward and trustworthy.\u201d Then Barack Obama \u201ctried to appease Putin by giving in to the Russian leader\u2019s demands that we cancel our missile-defense plan with Poland and the Czech Republic.\u201d And let\u2019s not forget Hillary Clinton\u2019s giant red \u201creset\u201d button. So now it\u2019s \u201cTrump\u2019s turn to learn the hard way that Russia is an adversary, not a competitor.\u201d But however dismaying his words at Helsinki, it isn\u2019t time to really worry until \u201cTrump\u2019s actions match his rhetoric.\u201d Until then, this was \u201can embarrassment, not a disaster.\u201d
Political scribe: Parties Surrendering to the Fringe
Responsible Republican voices \u201chave lost control within the Trump White House and are unable to shape the agenda on the outside,\u201d asserts National Journal\u2019s Josh Kaushaar. But at least the GOP \u201chas an establishment that has attempted (unsuccessfully) to steer a conventional course\u201d and \u201cprevent extreme candidates from emerging in primaries.\u201d Yet \u201csome formerly reasonable members of the Democratic establishment are now eagerly surrendering to the whims of their own increasingly dogmatic base.\u201d And they\u2019re adopting tactics normally associated with far-left activists that will \u201conly undermine their chances of winning back power.\u201d Against their base, says Kraushaar, \u201cit\u2019s not yet clear whether Democratic leaders are willing to put up a fight.\u201d
Criminal-justice writer: A Tale of Two Killings
Last Sunday, reports Heather Mac Donald at City Journal, a 59-year-old woman was killed by a would-be carjacker on Chicago\u2019s West Side. The night before, a Chicago police officer killed a 37-year-old man who\u2019d been \u201cobserved behaving in a manner suggesting he was carrying a gun\u201d (and, indeed, he was). True to script, she notes, the latter incident \u201csparked violent street anarchy.\u201d But there were no protests \u201cagainst the taking of the innocent carjacking victim\u2019s life\u201d \u2014 although carjackings have tripled in Chicago since 2015. Fact is, \u201cBlack Lives Matter activists have nothing to say about this violence because it does not involve police officers.\u201d Sad to say, \u201cthe demoralization of law enforcement continues, and it is the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who will continue paying the price.\u201d
\u2014 Compiled by Eric Fettmann<\/p>\n

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