A CNN contributor this week explained how Trump's announcement that we were keeping the US flag at half-staff until Aug 8 was a secret Nazi message. Kamala Harris will eliminate the filibuster when she becomes...president? Liz Warren mourned the anniversary of Michael Brown's "murder" by a police officer. The crazy never stops. Republicans look like they are finally going to cave on gun control, which is probably not what their base wants. We have a serious problem with mental health treatment in this country, and gun control won't solve it. Finally, the Chinese, as Gary Trudeu's Doonesbury character, Raoul Duke, once said, are an especially tricky people.