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If you think the nation's internal debate over the Confederate battle flag's place in the United States was over, you're wrong. This morning , the U.S. House of Representatives voted for a bill that would bar the Confederate flag from being displayed at cemeteries run by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
After weeks of delays, House Republicans are moving ahead with legislation to help Puerto Rico manage $70 billion in debt. A revised bill introduced late Wednesday would create a control board to help manage the U.S. territory's financial obligations and oversee some debt restructuring.
Donald Trump has cleared the field of competitors for the Republican nomination but has still not won over one particular, and significant, constituency. Legislators have been curiously resistant to his charms, far more so than those with executive branch experience.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill ahead of a meeting with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and GOP House leadership May 12, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
House Speaker Paul Ryan did it again Friday - he spoke about the choices in this year's elections without uttering the words, "Donald Trump." Four days after privately telling House Republicans that he would no longer defend or campaign for his party's presidential nominee, Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, tore into Democrat Hillary Clinton and liberals for pursuing a government-heavy agenda for elites.
Mostly it's been depicted as a crop grown far from the mainstream in the fields of far-right crackpots, at least that's how the government-approved media see it. They conveniently fail to mention that Ronald Reagan campaigned on the idea and was elected President - twice.
The Editorial Board of the NY Times is in a snot over Trump's constant comments about the election being rigged, which is being aped by his most ardent supporters, and use this as a means to attack all Republicans It may be too late for the Republican Party to save itself from the rolling disaster of Donald Trump, but the party's top leaders still have the duty to speak out and help save the country from his reckless rhetoric. The most frightening example is Mr. Trump's frenzied claim that the presidential election is being "rigged" against him - a claim he has ramped up as his chances of winning the presidency have gone down.
Shortly after the distribution of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine began writing the series of "American Crisis" essays that inspired Americans to maintain their arduous rebellion against colonialism. "We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in," argued Paine in a series of pamphlets that concluded: "Our citizenship in the United States is our national character.