Presidents have ways to get things done that speakers of the House don’t, a lesson that Nancy Pelosi is just now learning.
There are reasons for concern about a second U.S.-North Korea summit. If there is no tangible movement on denuclearization, public support for dialogue with North Korea will erode quickly, with the potential for a return to a policy of “maximum pressure.” If this were to happen, it would be a major diplomatic failure with far reaching consequences.
It has become increasingly difficult to start and maintain a small business. While this may have happened by accident, it was the result of policy decisions — policies that can and should be reversed.
My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention had sexually abused as many as 700 people in 400 churches, including victims as young as 3, was “how could they?” It was the same reaction I had when news of predatory priests in the Roman Catholic Church, and the cover-up that followed the sexual abuse allegations, surfaced.
Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning.
The crisis in Venezuela that has ruined my country’s economy has been building for years as Nicolas Maduro and his Cuban partners have been building a totalitarian infrastructure they were sure would protect them from the growing unrest their policies have created. They were wrong and with U.S. and international opposition mounting in support of his domestic opponents, Mr. Maduro’s days may be numbered.
While the public discourse has been consumed over the realization that abortion physicians actually let viable babies who survive late-term abortions die — as well as whether President Donald Trump or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will blink first over the issue of congressional authorization for building a wall at the country’s southern border, to say nothing of the race-and-sex-infused mess at the top of the government in Virginia — a profound free speech issue has been bubbling below the radar.
The Digital Age demands a workforce capable of defending us from modern threats. Americans today face cyber threats not only from hostile foreign nationals, but also from hackers, child pornographers, spies and thieves invading our homes and businesses through our computers.
The danger to Democrats from rising liberalism is nowhere clearer than in their diminishing conservatism. Their danger is both quantitative and qualitative. On one hand, it threatens Democratic numeric ranks, which is itself consequential. On the other, it threatens the ameliorating mooring keeping Democrats concerned with America’s mainstream.
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to free up funding and build his long-promised border wall. And on the other side of town, Beto O'Rourke -- Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke -- says let's bust 'em all down. The campaign lines for 2020 couldn't be any clearer.
So President Donald Trump announced he was poised to declare a national emergency at the border, setting leftist tongues a-waggin' about the "egregious" lines of power he was crossing, and "egregious" bypass of Congress he was committing, and "egregious" political precedents he was setting. Hmm. Can you say Barack Obama?
Company executives told Bloomberg News that they're considering cutting from their pages any news that undercuts vaccinations -- meaning, anyone who disagrees with the government about the need to vaccinate kids will see one of their key platforms completely shuttered.
What so-called power brokers do not understand, however, is that they can say "Hail yeah" to Redskins and "Hail no" to the Redskins and still come out on top.
The only thing President Nicolas Maduro has to offer the Venezuelan people now is more Marxist cruelty. He has plenty of that. His country is slowly starving to death, with vast stocks of food (and medicines) awaiting delivery from Colombia and Brazil just next door. The groceries have collected there, a gift from the largesse of the United States and dozens of other nations.
If each hour in a 40-hour work week equaled $100 billion, it would be equivalent to the $4-trillion annual U.S. budget. In that 40 hours, $1.375 billion allotted for the border wall is equivalent to 50 seconds.
A Washington Times headline yesterday read, "McCabe admits DOJ talked Trump removal, says he ordered obstruction of justice probe" (Web, Feb. 14). Merriam-Webster defines a coup d'etat as "the overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group." There are currently American men and women in our armed forces in harm's way all over the globe fighting the global war on terror. Put the pieces together and we have men and women at the Department of Justice who have actively engaged in the overthrow of a lawfully elected president of the United States during a time of war.
Soon after Elliott Black arrives in Prague from small-town Indiana in the 1990s, his shoes are stolen. That's understandably distressing -- and the more so when he finds them a few days later exhibited in an art gallery.
President Trump appeared by mid-week to be edging closer to accepting a scaled-down bill, at least momentarily, in the bitter war with Congress over his long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
If you think we have problems here in the U.S., just take a look across the pond.
That Maryland team we saw in the second half on Tuesday is a second-weekend tournament team. Those players who dominated the floor in the final 20 minutes against the Boilermakers could -- and should -- find their way to at least the Sweet 16 in March.
The date of the first round of Ukraine's presidential election, March 31, is rapidly approaching. Perhaps even more important to the outcome than the fluctuating opinion polls showing abysmal levels of popularity of all 44 contenders is another question: Who is Washington's preferred choice?
No Republican ought to support this gun control measure. Those who do are only doing the Democrats' bidding.
Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under Barack Obama, announced his mulling of a presidential campaign. Run, Eric, run. Americans are still waiting for answers to certain Justice Department issues from the Obama years -- and what better way to get them finally answered than during a presidential campaign vetting?
