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Pasquale Paoli, the Corsican resistance leader who had won independence for his island in the Mediterranean in 1755. "The greatest in the United States Constitution is its first three beautiful words," President Donald Trump declared in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017.
If we have the means to choose our future, why are we on the path to a disastrous one? Some ideas hit us in a way that is hard to shake. Last year that happened to me.
Demonstrators hold a rally in the Little village neighborhood calling for the elimination of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and an end to family detentions on June 29, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Protests have erupted around the country recently as people voice outrage over the separation and detention of undocumented children and their parents.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio, is being accused by former wrestlers he coached more than two decades ago at Ohio State University of failing to stop the team doctor from molesting them and other students.
Jokes that the "Red hats" were easier to defeat because they only provided medical treatment to those who could afford it or that making all bathrooms gender neutral has brought the enemy to a halt.
The tar sands oil tanker, Serene Sea , has now pulled away from Kinder Morgan's Westridge Marine Terminal and is sitting at anchor as the 12-person blockade launched by Greenpeace Canada yesterday reaches its 30-hour mark. It's now been 30 hours since the climbers began their ascent yesterday and almost 25 hours since seven of them rappelled down into mid-air to prevent the Serene Sea from leaving the terminal.
"We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Since those eloquent words adopted 242 years ago today as the bedrock foundation of America's Declaration of Independence, the United States has remained steadfastly true to its nation-defining goals.
President elect of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the celebration event, at the end of the Mexico 2018 Presidential Election on July 1, 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico. The months leading up to the July 1st victory of Mexican president-elect AndrA s Manuel LA3pez Obrador were fraught with uncertainty: would entrenched economic and political interests ever allow him to win? The attempt to prevent him from ever becoming president succeeded twice, in 2006 and 2012, through a combination of outright electoral fraud, vote-buying, terror, murder, judicial harassment, and McCarthyite scare tactics.
My friends, this is a dark hour. Intolerance, cruelty, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and environmental destruction have been let loose across the land.
Deck is stained , missed a few spots, and will need another coat in August. A couple more perennials to plant, need to continue the mulch down the left side of the fence, and need to round out the bed where it makes that weird angle.
If you haven't already heard about Kristin Mink, she's the lady who approached Scott Pruitt while he was eating lunch and called him a piece of shit . That is enough to make her awesome in my book, but then I saw this and I think I am in love: She's whip smart, funny, engaged, and beautiful, and one of the many women out there who are PISSED AS HELL and might save us all : There is a massive gender gap showing up in polling for the midterm elections, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll: Almost 60 percent of women said they were leaning toward the Democratic candidate in their district, compared to 42 percent of men.
It's been clear for a while now that the Trump administration's midterm strategy is to divide Americans by race. Weaponizing white resentment was the key to Trump's 2016 EC victory .
On July 4, 1897, former Congressman Robert M. La Follette launched the progressive crusade that would eventually make him the governor of Wisconsin, a U.S. senator from the state, and a transformational presidential candidate in 1924. Speaking in Mineral Point, he addressed the subject of "The Danger Threatening Representative Government."
One of the most widely stated and often unquestioned pearls of wisdom from the Beltway pundits is the earnest complaint that our politics has become ever more partisan. A strident populism manifested in President Trump opposes the left extremism of Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren.
Trump promised to be America's dealmaker in chief, touting his "extraordinary" ability to negotiate. But so far -- whether he's dealing with foreign governments or with Congress -- Trump has shown that he can't make a deal.
For two months, Nicaragua has been through a major political crisis, fueled by clashes between law enforcement and an insurgency. Humanitarian organizations report a terrifying record of nearly 200 deaths.
A judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees, saying ending the program could cause irreparable harm. Saturday night's decision came shortly after civil rights group LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a lawsuit seeking relief for the Puerto Ricans, whose federal housing assistance vouchers were set to expire at midnight Sunday, meaning the evacuees could have been evicted from the hotels.
There isn't much more vomit-inducing than the slavishly starry-eyed devotional that passes for an interview of Donald Trump by Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures . I don't think Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin could expect a better propaganda push for their most excellent leadership.