the sustained attack on donald trump <u+201c>clearly has its orchestrated elements,<u+201d> writes our columnist holman jenkins . he observes <u+201c>the tape leak, tax leak and the stagy cameo by the aggrieved beauty queen. then came the obama administration<u+2019>s formal accusation on friday of russian meddling in the political process. this seemed less aimed at warning off russia than at underscoring a democratic talking point that mr. trump is a russian agent .<u+201d> mr. jenkins adds , <u+201c> mrs. clinton spoke of having private and public stances on issues in one of her goldman sachs speeches. she should have mentioned a third principle: democrats run on character assassination.<u+201d> click here to receive this daily opinion summary via email. <u+201c>the most powerful un-elected man in washington finally has a boss,<u+201d> notes a journal editorial. <u+201c>we<u+2019>re referring to richard cordray, who runs the consumer financial protection bureau (cfpb) and whose job was ruled <u+2018>unconstitutionally structured<u+2019> by a federal appeals court on tuesday.<u+201d> the formerly independent mr. cordray will now report to the president. the editorial board calls it <u+201c> a triumph for democratic accountability and thus individual liberty as envisioned by america<u+2019>s founders.<u+201d>...elsewhere in our pages, thomas boyd sketches out the options for the government if it seeks to appeal. judy shelton describes how mr. trump and new u.k. prime minister theresa may are leading a revolt against central banks . <u+201c>both mr. trump and mrs. may say that the economy should work for everyone<u+2014>not merely the privileged few. a nation<u+2019>s government should act in the interests of everyday, working-class people. if fundamental reforms are needed to ensure that central-bank policies do not stratify citizens into winners and losers, so be it. money should function as a reliable measuring tool and dependable store of value<u+2014> not as an instrument of government policy .<u+201d> on yom kippur, our columnist william galston reflects on <u+201c>the injunction to set aside our daily preoccupations and see our lives from the perspective of the divine.<u+201d> he adds , <u+201c>only our greatest president<u+2014> abraham lincoln<u+2014>in his greatest speech<u+2014>the second inaugural<u+2014>came close to achieving this feat. lincoln dared to interpret the civil war as a divine punishment <u+2014>visited on all americans<u+2014>for the sin of slavery. despite the intensity of this conflict, he insisted, we must strive to act in the spirit of <u+2018>malice toward none<u+2019> and <u+2018>charity for all.<u+2019> this speech is a standing rebuke to the spiritual myopia of today<u+2019>s mean-spirited partisanship .<u+201d> <u+201c>for several years a group of conservative media types has lectured republicans that the key to their political salvation is to expand the child tax credit. well, they<u+2019>ve now found their candidate<u+2014> hillary clinton,<u+201d> writes the editorial board . <u+201c>this week mrs. clinton proposed to double the current $1,000 per child tax credit to $2,000 up to age 4 . she<u+2019>d also expand eligibility to people who aren<u+2019>t working or earning very little.<u+201d> <u+201c>the obama administration keeps stretching the limits of the nuclear deal with iran to provide the type of sanctions relief the mullahs believe they are owed, no matter what the deal says. so what better way to repay white house<u+2019>s generosity than by firing on u.s. ships ?,<u+201d> asks another editorial . <u+201c>that<u+2019>s one way to understand sunday<u+2019>s incident off the coast of yemen, when the uss mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and the uss ponce, an amphibious ship, were attacked by two chinese-built c-802 cruise missiles fired from territory controlled by iranian-backed houthi militia .<u+201d> is political correctness hurting the blind? jim knipfel says few young people now understand why he walks with a white cane. he suspects it<u+2019>s because in popular culture <u+201c>it became verboten to portray the disabled, particularly the blind, in anything perceived to be an unflattering light. in a blink, bumbling characters with white canes, once a mainstay of slapstick films, cartoon shorts and comic strips, vanished. what blind characters we did get now had superpowers or were masters of the martial arts, and rarely had any use for a white cane, even as a signifier. as a result, children who once grew up with images of characters with white canes no longer saw them, and so the common understanding of the blind and our symbology began to fade .<u+201d>
the <u+2018>orchestrated<u+2019> attack on trump - wsj
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