Jonah Goldberg: Ita s time for Pence to take a stand
Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, the president's first national security adviser, was reportedly fired for misleading you about his conversations with the Russians.
Category Archives: Opinion
May 20: Times Square crash, Donald Trump and parking placards
Brooklyn: "Madness" only tells part of the story . The other half is mental illness and I hope the Legislature was paying attention.
More ships, and make it fast
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: It has been a portentous week for ships and shipbuilding for the two military services with bases in southeastern Connecticut. Both the Navy and the Coast Guard are telling Congress and their new commander-in-chief that new vessels need to be built and commissioned at a much faster rate.
The guardrails cana t contain Trump
The pleasant surprise of the First 100 Days is over. The action was hectic, heated, often confused, but well within the bounds of normalcy.
Donald Trump and America’s new civil war
Barack Obama's presidency was supposed to mark a great leap forward for the United States. But, as Omar El Akkad discovered as he travelled across America this year, the election of Donald J. Trump has turned the country against itself.
Editorial: While GOP, Democrats applaud Mueller, Trump tweets
Editorial: While GOP, Democrats applaud Mueller, Trump tweets Record Editorial on the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia involvement in 2016 election. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2rwlyHH Thursday morning should have been a good one in the West Wing.
Rod Rosenstein saves the Republican Party from itself16 minutes | Columnists
Rod Rosenstein saves the Republican Party from itself Appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel could save the Republican Party. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2qXeKFZ With the stroke of a pen, Rod Rosenstein redeemed his reputation, preserved the justice system, pulled American politics back from the brink - and, just possibly, saved the Republican Party and President Trump from themselves.
Any infrastructure plan must include airports
Earlier this year, the American Society of Civil Engineers graded America's infrastructure a D-plus. Our roads are riddled with potholes, our trains and buses are overcrowded, and many of our ports are not deep enough to accept larger cargo ships.
Appointment of a special prosecutor was essential: Erwin Chemerinsky
President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey created an urgent need for a special prosecutor, independent of the White House and the Justice Department, to investigate whether members of the Trump campaign team and administration violated federal law. The Justice Department's appointment Wednesday of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special prosecutor was the right thing to do.
An offensive, belligerent and vindictive display in the halls of government
The last week has featured some of the most offensive, belligerent, and vindictive behavior by elected officials in generations - and that is not a reference to President Donald Trump and his associates in Washington, though the characterization fits there too. No, this startling episode came in the middle of the night last week in Raleigh when furious Republican leaders of the state Senate interrupted a debate on the state budget with a recess to meet with legislative staff.
Falling For The Lies
Since Adam's fall in Eden, we humans find it easy to fall for lies. Especially in the absence of a moral filter, which helps us differentiate between and navigate around what is right and wrong.
Are there still public servants who will say NO to the president?
Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until this March.
On further reviewA a oeMorning Editiona report last week offered 13…
A "Morning Edition" report last week offered 13 million NPR listeners results from Indiana's largest-in-the-nation school voucher program: Per-pupil education spending, adjusted for inflation, less than 2009 as the state picks up tuition bills for more families who always intended to send their children to religious schools Early research finding ... (more)
Trump’s Tanking Approval Numbers
President Trump is in trouble not only inside the Beltway but with his core supporters, who express doubt about his agenda and fitness for office. Last week the NBC/Wall Street Journal survey found that 39% of Americans approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing, while 54% disapprove.
GOP could see full cycle of what goes around…
RALEIGH It was unclear if the dismissive remark was aimed at me or at my column of the day before. "Nave," the new Senate president pro tem, the late Sen. Henson Barnes, D-Wayne, said at the Senate chamber's press table in January 1989.
Animus of white working class deeper than politics
Years later, I no longer recall who first shared that bit of wisdom with me, but I've always found it striking. Not, of course, that it is literally true.
John Micek: Lawmakers launch free-speech crackdown
Back in the 1930s, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously referred to states as “laboratories of democracy.” Enraged by the hundreds of thousands of women who peacefully took to the street in Washington in January, and the activists who camped out to block the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, lawmakers in 20 states are debating or voting on more than 30 bills aimed at criminalizing or otherwise cracking down on the protest movements spawned by President Donald Trump's administration. But critics say that, in their haste, these lawmakers are shredding the Constitution and stomping on free speech rights as they shovel the proposals into the legislative maw.
Don Polson: Reject media, political betters
Last week's column left out some observations on the “100 days” of the press, the Democrats, Obama and Hillary due to space. I don't see how the national mainstream news media, the MSN or the so-called “Fourth Estate,” recovers from their collectively biased performance covering the first months of Donald Trump's presidency.
Joshua treesa survival threatened by warming climate: Thomas Elias
Only four units of the entire 417-part system of national parks, monuments, seashores and historical sites carry the names of remarkable plants and trees. California hosts three of these - Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua Tree national parks.
Feared by conservatives, used by liberals, can American Muslims find a political home?
American Muslims face a choice: Vote Democratic, or vote themselves off the island. That's how Haroon Moghul, the author of the coming memoir How to Be a Muslim , put it to me this month - and how many of my fellow American Muslim voters feel.