Trump's Controlled Chaos

------=_Part_36133857_1089119011.1521231873807 Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [SUBSCRIBE - Get Print and Full Digital]( [View in your browser](%%view_email_url%%) March 16, 2018 [An Ode to a Disappearing Portland]( Talk about a Friday news dump: Chopsticks III, the “How Can Be Lounge,” a Portland, Oregon, karaoke institution will close this weekend, it was... [Read More]( [Trump's Controlled Chaos]( Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren discusses the recent tumult and turnover in the Trump administration: From the... [Read More]( [White House Watch: Is McMaster on His Way Out, Too?]( President Trump is moving closer toward shaking up his administration in a big way, according to sources familiar with his thinking. The... [Read More]( [TWS CRUISE 2017 FALL]( [Fact Check: Did an Astronaut's DNA Change in Space So It No Longer Matched His Twin's?]( Nowadays the term “fake news” is usually associated with politics, but it’s worth remembering that no field is immune to the spread of... [Read More]( [At Tax Time, Don't Forget Your Bitcoin Gains]( It's been a tumultuous year for the digital currency markets. Now that we're a few weeks away from tax day, a friendly reminder: Don't forget your... [Read More]( [Free Flag Pin]( Afternoon Links Happy Friday! We have [a lovely new issue out]( with the cover story by former TWSer, current Free Beacon bigwig, and Weekly Substandard podcast co-host Sonny Bunch. It’s about [the abundance of television #content]( available to people in the present day. Will any/much of this content endure, or is most of it … well … shit? [Read Sonny]( who is always right. I don’t want to spoil it for you. Depending on your age, jump back a decade, two, three, or four ago. What was your entertainment / news diet like? Better? Worse? Will there be more #content? Or are we at peak #content? Since it’s Friday, and many of our readers are observing Lent, here’s a neat look at the nearly dead restaurant chain [Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips](. I am not a fish eater, despite being Catholic, but I didn’t realize the last remaining scraps of this chain [are in my hometown]( of Cleveland, Ohio. (I was more a fan Long John Silver’s and their beer battered chicken planks, and that brand is slowly dying out, too, sadly.) Like with Pizza Hut, it’s always interesting to see what the abandoned buildings of these well-known chains have become. Down in Woodbridge, there is a Pizza Hut church. By me, an Arthur Treacher’s that was open when I moved to Virginia 11 years ago [is now a pupuseria](. Florida Bridge Collapse Part of Shoddy Stimulus Program. Haste makes waste, they often say... and the folks at Reason have identified that the pedestrian bridge collapse Thursday in Florida [was part of the TIGER grant program](. A program, the magazine reports, that has “come under fire for putting politics ahead of technical concerns.” Eve of Chernobyl. There is a woman in Ukraine who has created a YouTube following for her [risky behavior in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone](. I guess that’s one way to go... Karl Marx’s Jew-Hating Conspiracy Theory. And now, for your must-read Jonah Goldberg column of the day, at Commentary, [he explains why]( “Marx didn’t supplant old ideas about money and commerce; he intensified them.” Save the date! Join us at the 2018 Weekly Standard Summit. This May 17-20 at the historic Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, join Stephen F. Hayes, Fred Barnes, and Michael Warren and special guests Bret Baier and A.B. Stoddard as they discuss the future of American politics. [Book your tickets now](. —Jim Swift, deputy online editor. Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. —30— This email was sent by: The Weekly Standard A MediaDC Publication 1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20005 We respect your right to privacy - [View our Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( ------=_Part_36133857_1089119011.1521231873807--