Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Sunday, 12 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The drama in Washington continues, the most recent victim being NY Federal Prosecutor Preet Bharara, who refused to resign along with the mass of other Federal Prosecutors who …
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The Cars of Spring
Paying Attention: A short visual review of the Geneva Auto Show. See anything you like? Embed from Getty Images The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of our friends at Getty Images, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century on file. This is the first GettyImages slide show for the site. We appreciate …
The Nightshift: 11 March 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Saturday, 11 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The Justice Department has asked for the resignations of 46 Federal Prosecutors who were political appointments of the Obama administration. At this point, the career attorneys in the Department are not …
The Nightshift: 10 March 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Friday, 10 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Washington is in full-on debate form over the proposed replacement/revision of Obamacare. The new bill apparently has a long way to go before it’s enthusiastically advanced. Look for …
The Nightshift: 9 March 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Thursday, 9 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The administration presented their take on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act (i.e. Obamacare) and other than the people who wrote it, it wasn’t received with any …
The Nightshift: 8 March 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Wednesday, 8 March 2017, International Women’s Day, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Washington is dealing with more leaks. This time they are allegedly very serious and not from the White House or “informed sources” but from Wikileaks, …
The Nightshift: 7 March 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, 7 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. More fallout from the President’s weekend tweet-fest. Predictably, the White House doubled-down on what seems like a giant mistake. There’s no evidence to back up the President’s assertion …
The Amazing Chronicles of Dr. Seuss
Paying Attention: Embed from Getty Images March 2nd was the birthday of Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel) , who was born in 1904 and died in 1991. He would be 113 years old this week, but he’s really ageless and time does not affect our affection for him. Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated forty-four children’s …
The Nightshift: 6 March 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Monday, 6 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The weekend cleanup from Washington and the White House is over and so we start a new weekly news cycle which, no doubt, will be complete with …
The Nightshift: 5 March 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Sunday, 5 March 2017, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. More drama from Washington and The White House, as the current President accuses the former President of wiretapping him/Trump Tower. All drama all the time in American politics now. In sports, Carolina …