Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of seventy-three. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and 8:30 PM, for 15h 13m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 86.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}two hundred ninth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first day.{end-tooltip}
On this day in 1947, the Marshall Plan was drafted. On this day in 1883, William Horlick patents the world’s first malted milk.
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Jacob Carpenter reports that Milwaukee sheriff’s deputies kept an inmate shackled as she gave birth. Jurors will decide if it was legal:
The former inmate’s lawyers say the practice, authorized by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., violates her constitutional rights and unnecessarily increases the possibility of complications during childbirth.
“The practice of shackling is dangerous and risks injury to both mother and child,” lawyers for the former inmate, who’s listed in court files as Jane Doe, wrote in a legal complaint. They declined further comment last week.
Clarke has responded that the policy protects hospital staff from potentially dangerous inmates lashing out, according to court documents. Clarke said doctors can ask for the removal of shackles if it’s medically necessary, though there’s no policy for deciding whether the doctor’s request should be followed.
….The plaintiff is also suing the Sheriff’s Office and a former deputy, Xavier Thicklen, over allegations that Thicklen sexually assaulted her five times during her incarceration. Thicklen was criminally charged with five counts of sexual assault, but those charges were dropped when Thicklen pleaded no contest to a felony count of misconduct in public office.
Lawrence Summers asks if After 75 years of progress, was last week a hinge in history?:
Even for conservative statesmen such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Henry Kissinger, the idea of a community of nations has been a commonplace. Come now H.R McMaster, national security adviser, and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, who have been held out as the president’s most rational, globally minded advisers. They have taken to the Wall Street Journal to proclaim that “the world is not a global community” and advanced a theory of international relations not unlike the one that animated the British and French at Versailles at the end of World War I. On this view, the objective of international negotiation is not to establish a stable, peaceful system or to seek cooperation or to advance universal values through compromise, they wrote, but to strike better deals in “an arena where nations, nongovernmental organizations, and businesses compete for advantage.”
Stephen Hendrix writes of Blood in the water: Four dead, a coast terrified and the birth of modern shark mania:
The shark mania that grips the country each summer began July 1, 1916, when a young stockbroker from Philadelphia headed into the surf at Beach Haven, N.J. Before then, there wasn’t much fear about attacks from the deep among the innocents at the Jersey Shore.
That all changed when Charles Vansant, a 25-year-old taking the first swim of his summer vacation, struck out into the mild surf. What unfolded over the next dozen days would leave five swimmers dead or maimed and the East Coast terrified, sparking a presidential intervention and “a war on sharks” that continues to this day.
“It was the Titanic of shark attacks,” said Richard Fernicola, a New Jersey physician and author of “Twelve Days of Terror,” an account of what became known as the Matawan Man-Eater.
Jonathan Blitzer explains Why Police Chiefs Oppose Texas’s New Anti-Immigrant Law:
Last month, Greg Abbott, the Republican Governor of Texas, signed into law an anti-immigrant measure allowing local police officers to ask for the citizenship status of anyone they detain. This sort of provision—often called a “show me your papers” law—has been attempted at the state level before, most notoriously in Arizona, which passed a measure in 2010 that was subsequently blocked in federal court. In response to the new law, civil-rights groups and several Texas city governments have filed lawsuits against the measure. Earlier this week, thousands of demonstrators descended on the state capitol, in Austin, to protest on the last day of the legislative session, prompting one overwhelmed Republican representative to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), presumably so that agents could arrest and deport members of the opposition while they stood in a gallery of the statehouse.
Police chiefs have been speaking out against the bill since it was introduced in the State Senate, last fall. “It’s kind of amazing that, during the initial hearing, the senators had all these chiefs and sheriffs from across Texas speaking against the bill—and they totally ignored the people in law enforcement,” the El Paso County sheriff, Richard Wiles, told me this week. He said that his staff is overworked as it is. “My officers are too busy to waste their time doing another agency’s work,” he said. “If there is an officer who wants to do this, we can’t stop him under the new law. The only area where one of my officers could now be allowed to go out there and ignore his own bosses is on immigration. It’s crazy.”
I know that not LeBron James isn’t everyone’s favorite player, so to speak, but I think he’s been good for the game (and that going back to Cleveland was the best decision of his career). Here, he ably answers a reporter’s trite question about defending home court:
LeBron: I mean, are you a smart guy?
Reporter: I think so.
LeBron: You think so, right? So we don’t defend homecourt, what happens?
Reporter: Yeah, I know. That’s what I’m saying.
LeBron: I’m asking you.
Reporter: Well yeah, then you guys are looking at getting swept.
LeBron: All right. So, that answered your question.