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After a lifetime in Caribbean and international politics, I thought the time had long since passed when I could be outraged by any event. But I was outraged last week and I continue to seethe over the fact that Pamela Ramsey Taylor , the director of a Clay County, West Virginia, non-profit who was removed from her post after she called Michelle Obama an " ape in heels " in a November Facebook post, will be re-instated in her job on December 23. What signal does this re-instatement send to Americans, black and white? Indeed, what statement does it make to the rest of the world? This is not only blatant racism getting a pass; it is a most disturbing endorsement of it.
Get Boston Globe's Political Happy Hour newsletter , your afternoon shot of politics, sent straight from the desk of Joshua Miller. After being passed over for President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state pick, Mitt Romney wrote a two-paragraph letter to the editor Saturday in his hometown newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune , reflecting on the experience.
A national groundswell of protests and other activities aimed at getting the Electoral College not to vote for Republican Donald Trump for president isn't expected to have any impact in Vermont. The state's three electors are required by law to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton because she won the popular vote in the state.
Defeated Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte says U.S. politicians needs to remember that Russian President Vladimir Putin "is not our friend." Ayotte commented on current events and the tenure in the Senate during a Sunday interview with WMUR-TV, one of her first major interviews since losing the election.
As Official Washington's latest "group think" solidifies into certainty -- that Russia used hacked Democratic emails to help elect Donald Trump -- something entirely different may be afoot: a months-long effort by elements of the U.S. intelligence community to determine who becomes the next president. I was told by a well-placed intelligence source some months ago that senior leaders of the Obama administration's intelligence agencies -- from the CIA to the FBI -- were deeply concerned about either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump ascending to the presidency.
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, second from right, attends a meeting with former White House Chiefs of Staff in the office of current White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. From left are, Andrew Card, Bill Daley, Samuel Skinner, Priebus and Rahm Emanuel.
President-elect Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of over 11,000 people during his Thank You Tour stop in Orlando on Friday night, where he said that many of his supporters were "violent" during the campaign season. "You people were vicious, violent, screaming, 'Where's the wall? We want the wall!' Screaming, 'Prison! Prison! Lock her up!' I mean, you are going crazy," he said.
Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend to reprise his role as Donald Trump, taking jabs at the president-elect's relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, his cabinet picks, his misspelled tweets, and the refusal by some musicians to perform at his inauguration. But also notable about the episode is the return of cast member Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton in a sketch later in the show, inspired by the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually .
Left-wing malcontents and their Democratic enablers have been going all-out to steal the presidency from its rightful recipient, Donald J. Trump, by attacking a fundamental element of our republic: The Electoral College. Suddenly, liberals who normally have nothing but contempt for the Constitution and our nation's founding principles and institutions have become constitutional experts , shouting from the rooftops that there is no provision in our bedrock governing document that requires electors to the Electoral College to actually cast a ballot for the candidate who won their state.
The US last elected a political outsider to the presidency in the 1950s, in a landslide election . By common consent, Dwight David Eisenhower worked out extremely well.
A survey conducted by the research company Qualtrics showed that 52% of Republican voters think that Donald Trump won the popular vote in November's general election, despite nationwide totals giving Hillary Clinton almost a 3 million-vote edge. The survey, published Sunday and first reported on by the Washington Post , found that in total, 29% of people surveyed thought Trump won the popular vote.
Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump sit at the head of the table during their father's meeting with tech giants. Remember how the "news" media was going on and on about the Clinton Foundation - at least when they weren't going on and on abut Hillary Clinton's emails, or airing entire Trump rallies for free? Media "coverage" of the 2016 campaign was almost entirely devoid of discussion of the important issues.
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff continued to cast doubt on the American intelligence community's finding that Russia was responsible for hacks into Democratic emails in an effort to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. "It sure would be nice to hear from everybody.
More than many other election in recent history, this heated contest included a number of bizarre game-changing moments that seemed to swing the race in dramatic new directions. And weeks after the election's surprising outcome, people are still debating what produced the result.
The mainstream media is soooo dishonest , it's almost unbelievable. President-elect Donald Trump made a stop on his 'Thank You Tour' in Orlando, Florida on Friday.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Sunday again decried Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential race and called for a select Senate committee to investigate the country's cyber activities during the election. On CNN's "State of the Union," McCain told host Jake Tapper that there was "no doubt" Russia interfered with the election.
Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz., on Sunday again decried Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential race and called for a select Senate committee to investigate the country's cyber activities during the election. On CNN's "State of the Union," McCain told host Jake Tapper that there was "no doubt" Russia interfered with the election.
In this image from video, Electoral College voter Jim Skaggs is interviewed by The Associated Press in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. As the Electoral College prepares formally to choose Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, some Republican electors say they are defending rural and small-town America against big-state liberalism and its support for national popular vote leader Hillary Clinton.
President-elect Donald Trump said first lady Michelle Obama "must have been talking about the past" when she said there's no sense of hope after his election. Trump, speaking Saturday at the final rally of his postelection "thank you" tour, then resisted escalating the spat further, suggesting "she made that statement not meaning it the way it came out."
In this Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, Planned Parenthood supporters rally for women's access to reproductive health care on "National Pink Out Day'' at Los Angeles City Hall.