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Callista Gingrich, wife of the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, on Friday became U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, which is at odds with Washington over immigration, climate change and Jerusalem. Callista Gingrich, 51, an author, documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide, presented her credentials to Pope Francis at the Vatican to officially assume her role.
Al Franken is the Senate's dead man walking, still doing his day job despite his soon-to-be-gone status. The two-term Minnesota lawmaker told a somber Senate last Thursday he would resign amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and in the face of vanishing support from fellow Democrats.
Recently a good friend in Tasmania sent a message urging me to read Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich. Yesterday the book arrived and as she said it is hard to put down.
Left-leaning Americans who are rightfully repulsed by Roy Moore , and who were similarly steamed in 2016 about President Donald Trump's gropey braggadocio, need to acknowledge that President Bill Clinton also rates a place in that Hall of Infamy. Lest we forget, feminists and Democratic activists in the late 1990s mostly stayed mute, defended, or excused Clinton's notorious workplace behavior .
There are at least two problems with this analysis. One, although suburbanites who live around large cities have added to the Republican vote in the past, one has to qualify this generalization by noting the obvious .
Houston Texans players kneel during the singing of the national anthem before an National Football League game on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. "You're wearing thousand-dollar cuff links; don't give me the victim card!" host Tucker Carlson told Bolden, who is black and a partner in an international law firm.
Each week, USA TODAY's OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media from the left and the right reacted to a political news story, giving liberals and conservatives a peek into the other's media bubble. This week, Hillary Clinton was back in the spotlight.
The most recent cover of Time Magazine - or I should say what's left of it, given its parent company's recent decision "reducing circulation and frequency" of the formerly iconic publication - calls President Donald Trump's cabinet "The Wrecking Crew" on a mission of "dismantling government as we know it." Separate reports singled out EPA Director Scott Pruitt, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and HUD Secretary Ben Carson for scrutiny.
We expect hypocrisy in our government and our leaders. All too often, those who decry something they claim is bad or illegal is also what they do themselves.
Callista Gingrich was sworn in Tuesday as the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican during a low-key ceremony at the White House. Mrs. Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, took the oath in an Oval Office ceremony attended by President Trump and others, including her husband.
The Conservative foreign affairs critic says former prime minister Stephen Harper's appearance in Washington today could help keep pressure on the Trump White House to preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement. Erin O'Toole says Harper's is an ardent free trader whose voice will help convince congressional and business leaders to preserve and update NAFTA, rather than tear it up, as Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened.
Among the many signals that Donald Trump sent in his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, one was especially clear: former chief strategist Steve Bannon's White House departure has not muted the president's "America First" foreign policy instincts. Trump's eight months in office have been characterized by a sometimes dramatic tug-of-war between "globalists" and "nationalist" advisers who have sought to move the president in myriad ways on issues both domestic and international.
With a deadline looming, President Donald Trump remains torn over the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children - a decision that will draw fury no matter what he decides. Trump railed against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program during his campaign, slamming it as illegal "amnesty."
"The elite media" loves its approval ratings stories that detail how President Donald Trump's presidency is going to hell, but it's all "nonsense," Newt Gingrich wrote in a column for Fox News . For one, the media fails to mention that President Ronald Reagan had similarly low approval ratings at the same point in his presidency, Gingrich noted.
The media has become for the Right what the Soviet Union was during the Cold War - a common, unifying adversary of overwhelming importance. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, religious conservatives and libertarians could agree that, whatever their other differences, godless communism had to be resisted.
Yes, last week's violent demonstration by white supremacists in Char-lottesville, Virginia, culminating in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, made for a carnival of obscenity as sickening as it was riveting. But the thing is, it did not spring from nowhere.
Trump's presidency is 'OVER' says Steve Bannon as he declares war on his enemies by going back to Breitbart hours after being fired and warns: 'I've got my hands on my old weapons' White nationalist Richard Spencer says he 'could smell foul stench of Charlottesville Antifa' protesters who 'don't wash' during tense meeting with activist who can barely conceal her contempt Walmart reveals the most BIZARRE top selling item in each state across the nation - with dumbbells taking top slot in New Jersey 'CEO of Purple Drank' is sentenced to 30 years in prison for armed drug trafficking as he ADMITS to selling 'large amount of narcotics' to Lil Wayne and getting a $15,000 payment from Chris Brown A tale of two healthcare systems: Mother who gave birth in America AND England compares her experiences of everything - from free-flowing US drugs to comforting British food Judge DENIES Roman Polanski ... (more)
It's a slightly-comical transportation system in the bowels of the U.S. Capitol that few Americans know exist: the Senate subway system. Not subway like Metro - but two sets of tracks that carry underground trams ferrying lawmakers from Senate chambers to their office buildings, less than a third of a mile away.
I wish Al Franken would give a seminar to the entire Democratic Party apparatus about how to actually communicate with voters. In this short video conversation with Chris Van Hollen, Franken sidesteps the Democratic slogan "A Better Deal" to point out in just a few words what that actually means: raising the minimum wage, and lowering costs, particularly on prescription drugs.