America’s latest round of hostilities with Iran has sparked a renewed debate about the limits of executive power in war and foreign policy, and in so doing has exposed a dangerous philosophy on the neoconservative right: the notion that the president can initiate a war without congressional approval.
Upon delivering two articles of impeachment to the Senate on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that Mr. Trump was guilty of “an assault on the Constitution of the United States.”
Like most other government programs, universal health care would entirely miss the mark as it pertains to its intentions, leaving us with devastating unanticipated repercussions.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is the leading choice of 48 percent of all black voters seeking to defeat President Trump in the 2000 election.
The Trump administration is working to create jobs, raise wages, help families and hit back at countries that don’t play by the rules of international trade.
You’d think the Dems learned in 2016 to scrap the junk. Ordinary Americans, after all was said and done, chose Donald Trump, didn’t they?
Much ado has been made by MSNBC and The New York Times and the left and the Democrats about the latest, newest, glitziest, golden boy hoped-for impeachment witness, former Rudy Giuliani business associate Lev Parnas. But this guy is a dud like all the rest.
What did the wine and cheese industry do to the United States? Well, nothing really. So what’s the point? Long story short, President Trump is annoyed with France.
“Elections have consequences,” President Obama reminded House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia in January 2009, just three days into his presidency, adding: “And at the end of the day, I won.”
When House Democratic managers tromp to the Senate Wednesday to caterwaul their contempt for President Trump, saddened onlookers will wonder this: Where's the Democratic Party we once knew, and to which some of us once belonged?
Once again, of the top ten anti-Christian countries of the world, eight slots go to nations with predominantly Islamic populations. And once again, the news of Islam's radical tendencies will very likely fall on deaf Democrat ears.
Peter Robinson's fictional character Detective Superintendent Alan Banks has been the protagonist of a long series of popular crime novels, beginning with 1987's "Gallows View." Originally a detective working in London, Banks grew disillusioned with the big city and transferred to a fictional English town near Yorkshire called Eastvale.
Not to add to apocalyptic associations with the year 2020, but we now find ourselves officially in the Year of the Rat, according to the Chinese calendar -- characterized by chaos. Thanks only to my obscure interest in the Balkans, sparked in 1999 by the shock that a war could be started by the world's superhero nation and my family's refuge from inhumanity, I learned the Serbian word for war: rat.
While U.S.-Russian relations keep sinking in a seemingly bottomless ditch, optimists aren't ready to give up and wonder whether there is anything to reverse or at least to stop this process before Armageddon.
Eminem, also known as one rap world's most violently, vulgar lyricists -- and whitest -- just dropped a surprise new album on the music community, accompanied by a video in which he makes a plea for gun control. It's hard to take seriously a guy who makes a living off selling violence as a form of art also calling for an end to violence.
Impeaching a president is somber, sober, history-making, nation-shaking business. So why is Adam Schiff an impeachment manager?
Considering that I've heard many Democrats say they wanted more witnesses to see whether President Trump was hiding anything, I'm surprised that they haven't asked for a presidential colonoscopy, too. Nevertheless, I think the taxpayers of this country should be reimbursed by the Democratic Party for the full cost of the phony impeachment hearings that were based on nothing but hearsay, innuendo and unfounded accusations.
In "Cornel West warns against Bernie Sanders rivals' attempt to sow division" (Web, Jan. 16) writers Seth McLaughlin and David Sherfinski quote Adilka Pimentel, a Bernie Sanders supporter and Make the Road Action member, as follows: "We have been organizing to survive and organizing to live, but now we want to organize to transform society and transform our lives."
