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Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin and Trump defender Ann Coulter were as far apart as possible as they signed their books at the East Hampton Library fund-raiser on Saturday but it had nothing to with their antithetical politics.
We try to break up the well-known people who will create bottlenecks, said a spokeswoman for the event. It worked out well for everyone. I dont think their paths crossed at all.
It was a glorious day in the center of the plebeian resistance, and I emerged unscathed! Coulter, who was signing In Trump We Trust under the watch of her bodyguard, told me.
Holly Peterson took a break from signing copies of her novel It Happens in the Hamptons to meet Coulter.
I shook her hand and asked her who she was just to annoy her, Peterson said. She handled it mildly well. But Coulter may have been less cordial when two others played the same trick.
Peterson said the gambit is a good elegance monitor especially good when you are seated next to a megalomaniac at a dinner party.
The most striking of the 100 authors in the steamy tent was interior decorator Peter Marino in his trademark black-leather ensemble, complete with biker cap. The dark fetish outfit stood out in the sea of light pastels.
Notable among the 2,000 guests were shoe designer Steve Madden, actress Tovah Feldshuh, Gov. George Pataki, architect Peter Cook, candy mogul Dylan Lauren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
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The current issue of Newsweek (yes, its still in business!) has a picture of President Trump sitting in a recliner, with snacks and an iPad in his lap, pointing his TV remote at the viewer, blazoned with the headline, Lazy Boy.
Liberals only wish.
Last week, the president joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) to announce legislation that would make seminal changes to our immigration laws for the first time in more than half a century, profoundly affecting the entire country.
The media have chosen not to cover the RAISE Act (Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment). This bill is their worst nightmare.
Instead of admitting immigrants on the basis of often specious family ties, the bill would finally allow us to choose the immigrants we want, based on merit, with points granted for skills, English proficiency, advanced degrees, actual job offers and so on.
Most Americans have no idea that we have zero say about the vast majority of immigrants pouring into our country. Two-thirds of all legal immigrants get in not because we want them or even because Mark Zuckerberg wants them but under idiotic family reunification laws.
The most important provision of the RAISE Act would define family the way most Americans think of it: your spouse and minor children.
Unfortunately, thats not how the Third World thinks of family. In tribal societies, family means the whole extended clan adult siblings, elderly parents and brothers-in-law, plus all their adult siblings and elderly parents, and so on, ad infinitum.
Entire tribes of immigrants are able to bully their way in and, as legal immigrants, are immediately eligible for a whole panoply of government benefits. Suddenly, theres no money left in the Social Security Trust Fund, and Speaker Paul Ryan is telling Americans theyre going to have to cut back.
At some point, American businesses are going to have to be told they cant keep bringing in cheap foreign labor, changing the country and offloading the costs onto the taxpayer. But thats not this discussion. Business owners want cheap workers not the disabled parents of cheap workers.
In a sane world, merely introducing such an important bill with the imprimatur of a president elected on his immigration stance would force the media to finally discuss the subject they have been deliberately hiding from the public.
Has Trump personally endorsed any other legislation like this? He harangued congressional Republicans on Twitter to pass some Obamacare replacement, but he never endorsed a specific bill.
But, you see, theres a reason the media dont want to talk about immigration.
With a full public airing, Americans would finally understand why recent immigrants seem so different from earlier waves, why income inequality is approaching czarist Russia levels, why the suicide rate has skyrocketed among the working class, and why all our government benefits programs are headed toward bankruptcy.
As Stephen Miller, the presidents inestimable speechwriter, said, some legislative proposals can only succeed in the dark of night and some can only succeed in the light of day. This is a light-of-day bill.
So, naturally, the media refuse to mention it, except to accuse Miller of being a white nationalist for knowing hate-facts about the Emma Lazarus poem not being part of the original Statue of Liberty. (Its the Statue of Liberty, not Statute of Liberty, media.)
They ignore this bill so they can get on to the important business of Trumps tweets, whos up and whos down in the White House, and Russia, Russia, Russia.
According to my review of Nexis archives, there was only a single question about the RAISE Act on any of the Sunday morning shows: Chris Wallaces last question to his very important Republican guest. Unfortunately, his very important Republican guest was amnesty-supporting nitwit Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who sniped about Trump employing foreign guest workers at Mar-a-Lago.
However that may be, guest workers have absolutely nothing to do with the RAISE Act, which, as Miller heroically tried to explain to clueless reporters, concerns only green-card holders, i.e., lawful permanent residents not guest workers, not illegal aliens and not a poem Scotch-taped onto Lady Liberty in 1903.
At least the media arent deluded about the popularity of their position. Discussing immigration is a total loser for them. They know what they want is not supported by anyone.
Low-wage workers dont want hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants being dumped on the country every year. Employers dont want the deadbeat cousins of their cheap workers. Americans on public assistance dont want foreigners competing with them for benefits. Boneheaded Scandinavian communities that welcomed refugees dont want to turn their entire town budgets over to various foreign tribes.
In a recent Numbers USA poll of voters in 10 swing states with vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, only 22 percent of respondents thought immigrants should be allowed by right to bring in family other than spouses and minor children.
Make the senators vote, Mr. President!
Donald Trump was elected president, beating the smartest, most qualified woman in the world, by proposing to put Americans first on immigration. This bill makes good on that promise.
Theres a reason the media wont discuss it. If Trump were smart, hed talk about nothing else.
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The EU wants an agreement on how the exit bill will be calculated before talks on the UKs future relationship with the Brussels bloc can move on.
But Brexit Secretary David Davis said it is likely the divorce settlement - to be paid in euros - will still not be agreed by October or November this year.
And he suggested the EU has had a difficult time in the negotiation over the deal, although insisted talks were going well.
Mr Davis said: "We're going to talk it through very, very carefully, so at this stage we're not going to commit.
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There won't be a number by October or November, whenever it is.
The Brexit Secretary added any transition period should be concluded by the date of the next British national election, due by May 2022.
However he added it was likely to last for about two years.
Mr Davis said: It's got to be done by the election. I would say the most likely is something like two years, maybe a bit shorter.
We're going to talk it through very, very carefully, so at this stage we're not going to commit [to a brexit bill deadline]
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However Brussels chief negotiator Michel Barnier insisted talks on future relations between the European Union and Britain, including a free trade agreement, cannot begin until it has been decided that sufficient progress has been made on separation issues such as the exit bill.
EU leaders are due to make that assessment at a summit in October and Mr Davis said Britain would meet any real international obligations.
However Mr Davis failed to give a definitive answer about whether the European Court of Justice be the arbiter during for an interim customs deal but said Britain would next week set out its proposals on post-Brexit international arbitration.
Todays comments come after Mr Davis also refused to rule out making payments to Brussels for temporary customs arrangements after leaving the EU.
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David Davis and Michel Barnier give a press conference at the end of a meeting at EU Commission in Brussels
In a series of broadcast interviews, Mr Davis suggested the temporary arrangements could allow Britain to negotiate trade deals with other countries for when it leaves, as current rules bar members of the EU customs union from making their own deals outside the bloc.
Pressed on whether the UK would have to pay, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I am not going to do the negotiation on air.
What we are not going to do, let's be clear, we are not going to continue the 10billion a year net contributions we currently have."
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Asked if money could be a part of the negotiations, he said: "I didn't say that. Wait and see."
Mr Davis also told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "We sell them, the Europeans, about 230 billion euros of goods and services a year.
"They sell us 290 billion euros. So there are a lot of things there."
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All poultry eggs in Hong Kong imported from European Union countries are to be held for inspection, the citys food watchdog announced on Monday evening.
Effective immediately, the decision by the Centre for Food Safety is the latest precaution taken locally since eggs from Dutch farms were found earlier this month to contain unsafe levels of an insecticide. The scandal spread as tainted eggs were found in 15 EU states and Switzerland as well as Hong Kong.
A centre spokesman said it had been closely monitoring the matter. Last week, eggs imported to the city from the Netherlands were found to exceed the local legal limit for Fipronil, a highly toxic pest control chemical banned from the production of food.
The centre will hold poultry eggs from EU countries for testing as soon as they are imported, and they will only be released to the market for sale if test results prove satisfactory, the spokesman said.
Inspection had already been tightened for poultry eggs imported from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. The spokesman called the latest move prudent.
Other than the unsatisfactory Dutch eggs it identified and announced earlier, the centre has not found any additional bad samples.
All the recalled Dutch eggs in the city were to be sent to landfill for disposal under the supervision of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
Poultry eggs from the EU account for less than two per cent of all poultry eggs imported to the city.
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