Tag: The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller, the scaffolding on which Tucker Carlson hung the entrails of his journalistic career, got some money quotes from an anonymous alleged employee of the administration*. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. Senior officials can reprioritize during an extended shutdown, focus on valuable results and weed out the saboteurs. The superiority complex about how families "like mine" are scrapping to make ends meet is pure modern conservatism. I don't know where the people who work with Native Americans, and especially those who work in the various health clinics that service our indigenous peoples, rank on this person's sliding scale of essential employees. Maybe this person thinks the people who work those jobs are part of the 15 percent of federal employees worth their salaries. Native American tribes rely heavily on funding guaranteed by treaties with the U.S., acts of Congress and other agreements for public safety, social services, education and health care for their members. Because of the shutdown, tribal officials say some programs are on the brink of collapse and others are surviving with tribes filling funding gaps. About 9,000 Indian Health Service employees, or 60 percent, are working without pay and 35 percent are working with funding streams not affected by the shutdown, according to the Health and Human Services department's shutdown plan. The agency delivers health care to about 2.2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

A giant leap for mankind or purely an American achievement? “The American people paid for that mission, on rockets built by Americans, with American technology & carrying American astronauts. Inevitably, the news was relayed to Donald Trump, whose response raised the affair to full-on culture-war level. “When you think of Neil Armstrong and when you think of the landing on the moon, you think about the American flag. Chazelle’s omission of the flag-planting was deliberate, but not politically motivated, the director said in response. “My goal with this movie was to share with audiences the unseen, unknown aspects of America’s mission to the moon – particularly Neil Armstrong’s personal saga and what he may have been thinking and feeling during those famous few hours … This film is about one of the most extraordinary accomplishments not only in American history, but in human history.” Chazelle was supported by Armstrong’s sons and James R Hansen, author of the nonfiction book First Man, from which the movie was adapted. Historically, space has been overwhelmingly white, male and American, in real life and in film, as seen in “serious” space films like The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 and Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys. Fifty-six years ago, in his famous Rice University speech that sought to persuade Americans to go to the moon, John F Kennedy told the US: “The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.” Hollywood has been steadily de-Americanising space, from Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity to Ridley Scott's The Martian That flag was always envisaged as being the stars and stripes – and it has always been a bit of both: part “flag of conquest”, part “banner of freedom and peace”. That was our priority.” What would Armstrong have said about all this? Armstrong was unimpeachably a patriot who loved and served his country, but he was also tight-lipped.