<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">For Sunday, August 19, the Today's Issues group will discuss two readings:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">1.  Thomas Friedman: "Keep Up the Blanket Coverage of Trump: AJust a little wave of disgust among Republican moderates is all that is needed to turn several key states from red to blue.," from the New York Times August 8, 2018.  It can be found online at:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opinion/keep-up-the-blanket-coverage-of-trump-it-hurts-him.html" target="_blank"> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opinion/keep-up-the-blanket-coverage-of-trump-it-hurts-him.html</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">2. Tim Weiner, "The 'Witch Hunters'", a review of three books about investigations of national security issues in the Trump administration.  This is on page 50 of the August 16 issue of the New York Review of Books.  It is available free online so I am not attaching a copy:  <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opinion/keep-up-the-blanket-coverage-of-trump-it-hurts-him.html." target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opinion/keep-up-the-blanket-coverage-of-trump-it-hurts-him.html. </a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The group meets at 9:30 in parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  Please do the readings and join our lively discussion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Please email <a href="mailto:tedgoertzel@gmail.com" target="_blank">tedgoertzel@gmail.com</a> if you have trouble accessing the readings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div>