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Wichita trial attorney Alan Rupe isn't persuaded by the strategic spin of some Republicans irritated by the latest Kansas Supreme Court order to address constitutional flaws in state financing of public schools. A prominent GOP talking point entering the 2018 legislative session centers on potential of an 18 percent across-the-board spending cut if lawmakers are compelled to secure the $600 million some believe necessary to bring state education aid into compliance with the Kansas Constitution.
"Everyone I spoke to was shocked and had never heard of anything like this," said Amy Robertson, who works for the Shelbyville Public Defender's office. "Everyone I spoke to was shocked and had never heard of anything like this," said Amy Robertson, who works for the Shelbyville Public Defender's office.
DECEMBER 21: John Wertman, a coin collector, with his Trump "challenge coin" on December, 21, 2017 in Burke, VA. The flip side of President Donald Trump's "challenge coin", bottom, along with those of, from left, Vice President Mike Pence, Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Man who left manure at Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's house comes forward, speaks out - A man who appears to be the person who left a gift-wrapped box of horse manure outside the home of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Saturday spoke with AL.com via phone late Sunday evening, calling the incident an "act of political theater." 'A gift-wrapped package of poo': Why a man left a box of manure for Steven Mnuchin - It was one of those gag cards you can buy in a drugstore.
President Donald Trump personally paid for hundreds of Christmas dinner meals to be served Monday to law enforcement officers charged with protecting him throughout the day at his residence in Mar-A-Lago, CNN reports. President Trump is spending Christmas day w/ family at Mar A Lago, while providing feast for military & law enforcement, a source tells me Hundreds of meals being served throughout the day for members of Secret Service, WH Military Office, & Palm Beach Sheriff working the trip https://t.co/4l9Gy3JU6W Meals offered from 1p-7p so all shifts working the trip can be served.
State officials are expressing hope that a trade dispute over Canadian aircraft won't affect hundreds of people working at the company's service center in West Virginia.
United Airlines has apologized and given a $500 travel voucher to a passenger who accused the airline of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat. An airline spokeswoman said Monday that its internal systems show the passenger, Jean-Marie Simon, canceled her Dec. 18 seat from Houston to Washington, D.C. after a weather delay.
George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. If you live in the Northeast or Midwest, you're not dreaming: It's probably going to be a white Christmas.
George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. George Washington and his troops will be making their annual Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said someone left him a Christmas gift at his front door - a coffee mug with the words: "Decency Wins!" printed on. Earlier in the month, Flake had tweeted: "Decency wins" after Alabama Republican Roy Moore lost to Democrat Doug Jones in the Dec. 12 Senate race.
If I could have anything I want for Christmas, this is what would be on my list for Santa Claus. First of all, I don't ever want to hear the left and complicit left-leaning media whine again about how much they hate President Trump.
My local library is a rickety old place, one that seems dark inside even when it isn't. The classic fiction section, which I most like to raid, is in a corner.
John Sidney McCain GOP strategist donates to Alabama Democrat Meghan McCain knocks Bannon: 'Who the hell are you' to criticize Romney? Dems demand Tillerson end State hiring freeze, consult with Congress MORE in a Christmas-themed op-ed this week, citing McCain's military service and his close relationship with the veteran senator. "The sacrifices John McCain has made for our country, and especially the men and women he served with in the military, are incredible," Fitzgerald wrote in a Sports Illustrated op-ed on Saturday.
Key trade and ag senators like Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer this week to get an update on that. Grassley says there are concerns within Washington that the White House will pull out of the trade deal, "So, they're talking about prices dropping then, and what would the government do to support prices.
When a group of baby elephants needed warmth during a cold front in Southeast Asia last week, they bundled up in donated crochet and knitted blankets. Save Elephant Foundation was in need of provisions after an unusual bout of cold weather rolled into the area, threatening the youngest of its herd.
Right-wing radio host Chuck Morse has been preoccupied with portraying President Obama as a Hitler-like figure. While writing a column and serving as a source for WorldNetDaily, Morse regularly pushed this meme.
A member of a radical feminist group attempted to steal a statue of the baby Jesus from the Vatican's nativity scene on Christmas day but was intercepted by police as she grabbed it. A Reuters photographer happened to witness the incident as the topless woman, shouting "God is woman," climbed over a guard rail and scrambled up to the scene in a brazen attempt to take the statue of Jesus from its crib.
If there is a blue wave next year, expect impeachment proceedings, or endless investigations into the Trump White House, from Democrats. They're already laying the groundwork for that course of action with their latest pick to fill the top minority spot on the House Judiciary Committee.