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Charles Edward Anderson Berry on Oct. 18, 1926, in St. Louis, he grew up in a segregated, middle-class neighborhood there, soaking up gospel, blues, and rhythm and blues, along with some country music.He made a surprising announcement on his 90th birthday, Oct. 18, 2016: He was planning to release his first studio album in almost 40 years. The album, called simply “Chuck” and scheduled for release in June, was to consist primarily of new compositions.New York Times

The House round up support for the bill ahead of a planned Thursday vote, some groups are threatening to retaliate against those who do support it, including the Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation's political arm, and Americans for Prosperity, which is part of the expansive political pressure network established by the Koch brothers.Some Conservatives believe the bill does not go far enough in dismantling Obamacare and have not been satisfied by the White House’s attempts to mollify them. NBC News reported on Tuesday that 26 House Republicans oppose the bill, which would leave House Speaker Paul Ryan short of the 216 votes he needs. No Democrat is expected to support the bill. Reuters

The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, took the extraordinary step on Monday of announcing that the agency is investigating whether members of President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election NYT

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more WBRN Radio Boston. bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by  Susan Fowler https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber

Enda Kenny has repeatedly said he’s going to the White House on St Patrick’s Day to “stand up for the undocumented Irish” and insist they be given the right to full US citizenship.This is a moment of truth about what it means to be Irish in the world. We either wink at a racism that affords most of us the privilege of a white skin. Or we honour the struggles of so many millions of Irish immigrants to be accepted as equal human beings.

Mr. O’Riordain is less optimistic. He said Mr. Trump’s Irish-American supporters had betrayed their roots and has compared them to Irish-American slaveholders in the South who were admonished by the 19th-century Irish leader Daniel O’Connell.

Sherin Khankan, an academic and one of four female imams in Denmark. It is for this reason that she has set up Copenhagen’s first female-led mosque, a “feminist project” designed to facilitate worship “on women’s terms.

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Políticos de la sem Hiroshimaana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

 Democracy Dies in Darkness Washington Post

Stetson Kennedy Foundation http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/

How to watch the 2017 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boston https://www.boston.com/culture/events/2017/03/17/how-to-watch-the-2017-st-patricks-day-parade-in-boston

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

 

News and Guts from Dan Rather  https://www.newsandgutsmedia.com/

U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson found that Trump’s order violates the religious establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution.Judge Watson said that while the new order is more narrowly focused, he can’t ignore what Trump said on the campaign trail, including in a March 2016 interview in which he said, “I think Islam hates us,” and an October interview in which he said the Muslim ban has morphed into extreme vetting.Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has already said Senate Republicans will not agree to deep cuts to the $50 billion budget for the State Department and United States Agency for International Development initially proposed by the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget.WP

 President Donald Trump's explosive allegation that Barack Obama wiretapped his New York skyscraper during the presidential campaign has left him increasingly isolated, with allies on Capitol Hill and within his own administration offering no evidence to back him up.AP

Jerry Pippin nominated from Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame Class of 2017  Award https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScF09gQddeKXUg-2fRxEHWUVDNWLr2k8dtmGhkYwJN_HY82tA/viewform

Fox News Chief White House correspondent John Roberts today appeared at a journalism symposium at the National Press Club with a stern message: “We’ve got to stop whining,” said Roberts in a multi-person panel of journalists discussing coverage of the Trump White House. “We’ve got to just do our jobs and it’s … almost like working in a war zone.April D. Ryan, White House correspondent and Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, felt compelled to take issue with Roberts’s formulation. “I’m not going to look at this as whining … and I do not consider it war, even though we are considered the ‘opposition party’ by some in the administration, the president has called us the ‘enemy’ of the American people.”

One person impressed, and this had some implications for the future, was Hitler. If you read Mein Kampf, he concludes, with some justification, that Germany lost the first World War because it lost the propaganda battle.

What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream Noam Chomsky https://chomsky.info/199710__/

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center projects:."The effects are really very dramatic. We found that a typical middle-income family would get a tax cut averaging about $300, while people in the top 0.1 percent would get a tax cut of about $207,000," Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the nonprofit research group, said on Monday. (tpc.io/2n1Mdwi)

The expected benefits equal 2.6 percent of a wealthy family's after-tax income, but only 0.5 percent of the income of a middle-class household making $51,600 to $89,400 a year, including fringe benefits like employer-provided health insurance, the center estimated. The top 0.1 percent of U.S. families have income of at least $3.9 million.