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Eric Hoffer , a San Francisco longshoreman and philosopher who died in 1983, the year President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom , could have been analyzing contemporary American politics when he wrote, some 66 years ago, that "mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil." Campaigns are easy.
House Speaker Paul Ryan disagrees with President Donald Trump's decision Friday to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio, his spokesman said Saturday. "The Speaker does not agree with this decision," spokesman Doug Andres said in a statement.
Congressman Fred Upton is hoping to see the situation in the White House stabilize with recent changes in staff. He tells us he's optimistic about the job new Chief of Staff John Kelly can do.
"The Speaker does not agree with this decision," spokesman Doug Andres said in a statement. "Law enforcement officials have a special responsibility to respect the rights of everyone in the United States.
Yet Cuban, an outspoken Texas billionaire who describes himself as "fiercely independent" politically, sees an opportunity for someone to take down the Republican president, who is increasingly viewed as divisive and incompetent even within his own party. "His base won't turn on him, but if there is someone they can connect to and feel confident in, they might turn away from him," Cuban told The Associated Press.
The sculpted clay was dry and the bronze would soon be cast, but artist Martin Dawe still found himself waking with a start before dawn, worried that he didn't get the details of the famous man's face exactly right. On Monday, Dawe will find out if he succeeded when officials unveil his statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the Georgia state Capitol's grounds for the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington.
Dianne Feinstein Trump's Democratic tax dilemma Feinstein: Trump immigration policies 'cruel and arbitrary' The Memo: Could Trump's hard line work on North Korea? MORE on Saturday ripped President Trump's decision to pardon controversial former sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying the pardon represents a "disregard for the rule of law." "Sheriff Joe Arpaio should not have been pardoned.
It would be tough for any of her challengers for Charlotte mayor to understand city government as thoroughly as Vi Lyles. But can Lyles be as bold as she is knowledgeable? Lyles, a Democrat who has been an at-large City Council member for four years, worked for the city for 29 years before that, mostly in the budget office.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will speak at the Kentucky Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday evening, presenting an opportunity for him to weigh in on drama unfolding in Washington. While there is ample controversy to discuss - from Trump's pardoning Friday of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to his directive banning transgender military recruits, to his continued attacks on members of McConnell's Senate majority, including the majority leader himself - the Kentucky Republican has been sticking to the GOP agenda in remarks in his home state during the August congressional recess.
In just nine days, President Donald Trump might have badly hobbled Arizona Republicans headed into a competitive Senate race and hurt his own re-election prospects in the state. Trump's efforts to unseat Sen. Jeff Flake in the state's 2018 Republican primary have left Trump's allies confused and divided over which of several possible anti-Flake candidates should get their support.
A Democratic lawmaker praised Sebastian Gorka 's exit from the White House on Saturday on the heels of Steve Bannon's ouster earlier this month, declaring, "2 down and 1 to go." Rep. Steve Cohen offered a cryptic warning on Twitter for the Trump aide seen as one of the last members of the nationalist wing of Trump's White House.
President Donald Trump's end-of-the-week pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, a campaign supporter who shares Trump's hard-line views on immigration, touched off a political outcry that did not abate Saturday even as much of the nation was focused on a hurricane that pummeled Texas. Democrats condemned the president's decision, which was made public by the White House on Friday night as Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, churned toward the Texas coast.
Tony Schwartz, the co-author of "The Art of the Deal," President Trump's 1987 memoir that helped make him famous, caught people's attention last week when he predicted the president would resign by the end of this year. Schwartz, who has predicted this before, has been a frequently vocal critic of Trump since his political rise and told the New Yorker magazine last year during the presidential campaign that he "put lipstick on a pig" and that, "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is."
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is calling for a ban on menthol cigarettes, arguing that tobacco companies disproportionately target African-Americans when they market and promote the cigarettes. The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a group of fellow senators in calling on the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the cigarettes, noting that African-Americans suffer the greatest burden of tobacco-related mortality of any ethnic or racial group in the U.S. The letter to the FDA sent earlier this week was also signed by fellow Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, and Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut.
The sculpted clay was dry and the bronze would soon be cast, but artist Martin Dawe still found himself waking with a start before dawn, worried that he didn't get the details of the famous man's face exactly right.
President Donald Trump's decision - announced late Friday night - to pardon controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the Platonic ideal of Trumpism. "Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," read a statement released by the White House.
Sen. Chris Murphy is working on a bill that would help give U.S. manufacturers a shot at government contracts. Sen. Chris Murphy is working on a bill that would help give U.S. manufacturers a shot at government contracts.
It's fitting that President Trump pardoned ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio , because they're two of a kind. They are arrogant fools who act as though they're on a mission to discredit conservative ideas - to make themselves poster children for the left.
"Regarding the Arpaio pardon, I would have preferred that the President honor the judicial process and let it take its course," tweeted Flake. Regarding the Arpaio pardon, I would have preferred that the President honor the judicial process and let it take its course.