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This week, the Commonwealth of Kentucky eclipses a milestone, reaching 225 years of age. Our treasure of a state is known for a variety of things, including our vast and diverse landscape, the numerous figures who shaped our heritage, and a history like no other.
With his backward policies and his tiresome antics, President Trump seems to be trying his best to do something that ought to be impossible: Make the U.S. presidency irrelevant to world progress. Climate change offers one example.
'A withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement is short-sighted and a dangerous nod to the National Flat Earth Agency and others who refuse to accept the science that has been embraced by every nation on the planet except war-torn Syria and dictator-driven Nicaragua. Staying in the Paris Climate Agreement is an opportunity for the U.S. to reaffirm its global leadership and the best way to hold India, China, and other nations accountable on taking real actions to combat pollution.
So what if, in his speech last week to NATO, Donald Trump didn't explicitly reaffirm the provision that an attack on one is an attack on all? What's the big deal? Didn't he affirm a general commitment to NATO during his visit? Hadn't he earlier sent his vice president and secretaries of state and defense to pledge allegiance to Article 5? And anyway, who believes that the United States would really go to war with Russia - and risk nuclear annihilation - over Estonia? Ah, but that's precisely the point. It is because deterrence is so delicate, so problematic, so literally unbelievable that it is not to be trifled with.
The City Hall of Paris, France, is illuminated in green following the announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord and try to negotiate a new global deal on climate change. The City Hall of Paris, France, is illuminated in green following the announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord and try to negotiate a new global deal on climate change.
The New York Times is apparently surprised to discover that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is not behaving like the bigoted, unfeeling, unthinking monster that the nation's newspaper of record and other liberals think she is. "Since her confirmation as the education secretary, Betsy DeVos has been the Trump cabinet member liberals love to hate, denouncing her as an out-of-touch, evangelical billionaire without the desire or capacity to protect vulnerable poor, black, immigrant, gay or transgender students."
Sen. John McCain, in a speech to Australia's United States Study Centre on Tuesday, stated that, "The United States remains the most important country on Earth." We must assume he was asserting his own view, rather than another of those "self-evident truths" that our Americans neighbours like to invoke.
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With apologies to Ella Fitzgerald, I love Pittsburgh in the springtime. And with apologies to a 1932 Broadway musical, a mere five weeks ago I was humming "April in Pittsburgh, chestnuts in blossom."
In this March 8, 2017 photo, Ashley Gardner, 34, takes a dose of methadone at Counseling Solutions of Chatsworth, Ga. Gardner, a 34-year-old woman, said her addiction started in the seventh grade when she wanted to numb the pain after she was sexually assaulted.
So what if, in his speech last week to NATO, Donald Trump didn't explicitly reaffirm the provision that an attack on one is an attack on all? What's the big deal? Didn't he affirm a general commitment to NATO during his visit? Hadn't he earlier sent his vice president and secretaries of state and defense to pledge allegiance to Article 5? And anyway, who believes that the United States would really go to war with Russia - and risk nuclear annihilation - over Estonia? Ah, but that's precisely the point. It is because deterrence is so delicate, so problematic, so literally unbelievable that it is not to be trifled with.
The May 10 editorial criticizing the state for overreach of local authority by streamlining the local permitting process for 5G wireless infrastructure was short on facts and common sense.
During a cruise to Norway last week, I met several Dutch people and they all had the same question: what in the world is going on in America? It's a legitimate question.
Sen. Jeff Sessions is sworn in to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to become U.S. attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2017. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Kevin Lamarque Today in Chicago, The Tribune blistered the former U.S. senator from Alabama with an editorial in which the editors said, "We share Sessions' low tolerance for drug traffickers and his concern for the violence they inflame.
Proponents of legislative reforms to improve South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act didn't get everything they had hoped for in the bill that passed on the last day of the session. But the bill came close, and it should be regarded as a victory for open government and citizens' ability to gain access to public information.
Building a big, "beautiful" wall across thousands of miles of river and desert might be the dumbest mainstream political idea in a generation, and won't solve the problems its supporters think exist. On April 4, 1980, GOP presidential candidates George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan debated in Houston.
In two ways that have the power to shock, even in this almost shockproof era, lies are getting plenty of help. InfoWars, that cesspool of destructive conspiracy theories, received a temporary credential Monday to attend White House press briefings.
Greg Walcher's recent column condemns the National Park Service for not issuing a research permit to Andrew Snelling. He attempts to convince us that the NPS denied the permit because of Snelling's religious beliefs.
Returning power to the people has been a recurring theme of the Trump administration since the president delivered his inaugural address back in January. When Congress rolled back the Bureau of Land Management's new resource management planning rule in March, lawmakers cited diminished opportunities for state and local government input as a big reason.
Ever wondered what it's like to be pursued, badgered and threatened legally by a special counsel, like the one appointed last week to investigate the Trump campaign's ties to Russia? I can tell you firsthand. In 2003, the George W. Bush administration leaked the name of a CIA operations officer, Valerie Plame, to syndicated columnist Robert Novak.