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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. A Quick Trip to Mississippi

 

For some reason, my wife’s triathlon got cancelled over the weekend. Since we both had taken the week off, we decided to do a road trip instead. She wanted to go to the beach and found an inexpensive Airbnb™ in Gulfport, Mississippi.

We had not visited Mississippi before, so this was an adventure. Unlike a certain other state, there were not signs at the border glaring out unenforceable diktats written by semi-literate government employees. Still, there are strict rules at the beach:

David French of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are amused by the media frothing over President Trump allegedly trying to have Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired seven months ago, while largely overlooking the fact that Mueller wasn’t fired. They also discuss President Trump’s major concessions on amnesty in his his immigration legislation framework – concessions that haven’t stopped his critics from accusing the president of being a white supremacist who is tearing apart families. And they throw up their hands as the majority leader in the California State Assembly proposes penalties of six months in jail or $1,000 fines for any waiter who gives a customer a plastic straw without being asked.