Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Freedom to be screwed, 2017 edition:
• Politico creates an “unauthorized” White House visitors’ log: Since the Trump regime has decided not to release its own visitor logs publicly, the news site decided to make note not just of visits to the White House, but in-person meetings with the pr*sident at Mar-a-Lago and other places, his appearances at events and documented phone calls with foreign leaders and other politicians. So far, the log includes Our log includes 1,688 interactions Donald Trump has had with 1,224 members of the public, politicians, foreign leaders and others.
• New study links environmental quality to elevated cancer rates:
"Our study is the first we are aware of to address the impact of cumulative environmental exposures on cancer incidence," said Dr. Jyotsna Jagai of the University of Illinois, who led the research team.
For the study, the researchers cross-referenced the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program's state cancer profiles with the Environmental Quality Index (EQI) and determined that the average cancer rate in roughly 2,700 counties was about 451 people in every 100,000 between 2006 and 2010.
But in counties with poor environmental quality, the researchers found a 10 percent higher incidence of cancer cases—or an average of 39 more cases per 100,000 people. The higher numbers were seen in both males and females, especially prostate and breast cancer.
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• Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome uninjured in hit and run driver: But his bike totaled. He was training near Monaco when the incident occurred. Froome tweeted a photo of his crumpled bike, and confirmed that he hadn’t been hurt. He said: "Just got rammed on purpose by an impatient driver who followed me onto the pavement! Thankfully I'm okay. Bike totaled. Driver kept going!"
• Economic Policy Institute says cutting corporate tax rate will not produce more jobs:
While U.S. statutory tax rates are higher, the effective tax rate paid by corporations is in fact roughly equivalent to the effective tax rates of our peer countries, due to loopholes in the U.S. tax code. Further, we find that even if the effective corporate tax rate were higher (if loopholes were closed), economic theory and data do not support the idea that cutting these rates would encourage further investment in the U.S. or benefit Americans in general; we find that such cuts would primarily benefit a small number of high-income capital owners while increasing the regressivity of the tax system overall.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: High & low-lights of Yates testimony. And Comey’s, too. Yeah, that’s back in the news. NJ Kushner project loses its big tax break. Blue slips: the next Senate battle over judges, explained. Big name gun writer’s suicide. Sadly, Kimmel learns, no, we don’t “all agree.”
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