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Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the preeminent symbol of who we are and what we represent as a nation and a people.
Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the preeminent symbol of who we are and what we represent as a nation and a people.
Like other Washington-based journalists, I'm often asked by civilians and by that, I mean non-political junkies some variation of this question: Will Donald J. Trump get impeached? The short answer is that no one knows the future, but I covered the White House in the not-so-distant past and will attest to this lesson: If a president wants to get himself impeached badly enough, he certainly can pull it off. To be more precise about the most recent case in point: William Jefferson Clinton essentially dared House Republicans to impeach him.
He has also been the subject of many condemnations. But on the compliment front, has Lincoln ever been paid a higher one than the compliment President Trump just paid him? "With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln," said Trump, "I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office."
Even as the progressive list of everything wrong in our society that the 99 percent suffers at the hands of the one percent was enumerated at least three times, the mood at the Civic Center was upbeat today in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sen. Bernie Sanders was coming to speak, to introduce and endorse Maryland progressive gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous, the popular former national president of the NAACP.
America's sweetheart, Kate Hudson is known not only for her success on the big screen, but for her wildly popular activewear line as well. The actress is one of few stars who has used her celeb status to promote a healthy lifestyle as opposed to one of drugs and partying.
During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa asked Donald Trump if he could be a "unifier" like Abraham Lincoln who expressed "'Malice toward none, charity for all.' " Trump's answer was surprising, but the fact that he was asked the question is not.
Mega-wealthy, left-wing actor John Cusack will speak at Socialism 2017 , a four-day conference in Chicago where some 1,500 "socialists and radical activists from around the country" will assemble to "learn about Marxist theory," discuss "working-class history" and share organizing strategies. The socialist conference will take place July 6 through July 9 at Chicago's sleek and modern Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.
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On the same day that the White House demanded Johnny Depp apologize for his comments joking about the assassination of Donald Trump, the president hosted a former campaign adviser who called for Hillary Clinton to be "shot for treason." "was sitting in one of the first two rows in the audience" in the East Room on Friday during a signing ceremony for a law promoting accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a White House pool report.
A powerful car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed 11 people and wounded 20, officials said. The explosion near the police chief's office in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, was powerful enough that it was heard across the city, shattering windows of nearby buildings, said police spokesman Shahzada Farhat.
His family and friends remembered him as someone with the " biggest heart of anyone ." The travel company that took Warmbier to North Korea will no longer take Americans into the country.
In November 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio - at the time, three months into filming "Wolf of Wall Street," which would later further his legacy of almost-Oscars for a fourth time - received Marlon Brando's best actor statuette for 1954's "On the Waterfront" as a 38th birthday gift. The gift-givers were DiCaprio's business associates at Red Granite Pictures, the production house behind "Wolf of Wall Street."
This 1969 photo provided by James McCloughan shows him with the former Army medic, right, with a platoon interpreter in Nui Yon Hill in Vietnam. An Army spokeswoman said Tuesday that McCloughan, who saved the lives of 10 soldiers during the Battle of Nui Yon Hill in May 1969 in Vietnam, will become the first person to be awarded the nation's highest military honor by President Donald Trump.
It seems that, finally, liberal journalists are challenging the credulous, dictator-coddling filmmaking of lefty Oliver Stone. But maybe that's because the communist-friendly director avoided tough questions when talking to Vladimir Putin about the 2016 presidential election.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include actor Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar , in 1895; Broadway composer Frederick Loewe in 1901; Nobel literature laureate Saul Bellow in 1915; Britain's Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1921 ; Hollywood icon Judy Garland in 1922; children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak in 1928; attorney F. Lee Bailey in 1933 ; football Hall of Fame member Dan Fouts in 1951 ; actor Andrew Stevens in 1955 ; model/actor Elizabeth Hurley in 1965 ; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal in 1971 ; Olympic figure skater Tara Lipinski in 1982 ; actor Leelee Sobieski in 1983 .
Former NFL star Peyton Manning and Republican Sen. Bob Corker were spotted at the White House on Sunday, joining President Donald Trump in his motorcade on a trip to Trump National Golf Club. The White House did not comment on what Trump was doing at his property, but reporters saw golf clubs being unloaded from the motorcade after the President's arrival back to the White House.
Volusia County recently crossed a political line that's worth dissecting. The county - probably for the first time ever - now has more voters registered as Republicans than Democrats.
Megan Leavey Bleecker Street Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite Written by: Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo, Tim Lovestedt Cast: Kate Mara, RamA3n RodrA guez, Tom Felton, Bradley Whitford, Will Patton, Sam Keeley, Common, Edie Falco Screened at: Critics' link, NYC, Opens: June 9, 2017 When I was a kid I thought that Norman Ferguson and Tee He's "Pinocchio" was not only the best movie I had seen but probably the best movie that will ever be made. Seventy-six years later, when I sit in on some allegedly more mature pictures, I am likely to think back to my judgement on that cartoon with fondness for its accuracy.
"He is the single most influential director of his generation," Peter Bogdanovich said, during an event at , in 2012, honoring the director, by which time it was customary to add the phrase "for better or worse." To talk of Tarantino's influence now is to do so with a wince or small cluck of nostalgia for that period, somewhere between the launch of the Hubble telescope and the impeachment of Bill Clinton, when you could barely find a coffee shop in Southern California that didn't clatter with the sound of aspiring young screenwriters bashing out talky, violent, blackly comic shoot-'em-ups on their typewriters.