Editorial: After Comeya s firing, bring in special counsel
There may be a case for firing James Comey, the now-former director of the FBI. But President Donald Trump did not make the case Tuesday when he abruptly fired him.
Category Archives: Opinion
Americans should know who has access
Anyone who has the president's ear has direct access to the most powerful single person in the world. That's why it's important that the American people know who's talking to their president, regardless of who happens to occupy the Oval Office.
Bret Stephens: The Comey canninga s easy tells
When the president says, “I'm, like, a smart person,” you know he nurses deep insecurities about his intelligence. When he says, “I'm 'really' rich,” you know that he knows that you know that, really, he probably isn't.
Venezuela is in crisis, the U.S. should help
Venezuela is in crisis, the U.S. should help Readers react to Venezuela's crisis: Your Say Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2qh83gv With the ongoing violence in Venezuela, it's extremely important to see the value in the U.S. providing aid. U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson of Florida introduced a bill to provide Venezuela with $10 million for food and medicine.
Trump’s dangerous credibility gap
When Donald Trump was merely a real estate mogul, he exaggerated flamboyantly and reporters considered it charming: He promoted Trump Tower as a 68-story building, even though it has only 58 floors. When Trump was a presidential candidate, he lied enthusiastically, but that didn't prevent him from winning: He insisted falsely that he opposed the Iraq war from the start, to cite only one of many instances.
Printed Letters: May 14, 2017
The American Health Care Act does not eliminate the pre-existing conditions the liberals so strongly want us to believe. To quote the AHCA: "Nothing in this act shall be construed as permitting health insurance insurers to limit access to health coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions."
Scott Kent: Education bill earns an F for transparency
If there's a monument to the 2017 session of the Florida Legislature, it's House Bill 7069, and not just because it's got the heft of a granite slab. This 278-page, $419 million omnibus education legislation was assembled and negotiated behind closed doors by a select few lawmakers in the waning days of the session, and released for public consumption the evening of May 5 - catching even many legislators by surprise.
Thomas: Obama has been profile in calculation
Awards once meant something. There was a time not that long ago when they were given in recognition of important accomplishments.
Orioles star Jones sees Negro Leagues museum, urges dialogue
Sessions directs federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects, a reversal of Obama-era policies. Sessions directs federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of suspects, a reversal of Obama-era policies.
Thanks to this one little number, Donald Trump is still riding high above scandals
Donald Trump's unorthodox candidacy blossomed into an unorthodox presidency. In the White House, Trump carries with him all of the complex, tricky and fraught behaviors and tendencies that powered him through the 2016 campaign.
Letter: Lawmakers should prioritize a compromise on Medicaid expansion
The threat of an iconic Topeka hospital's closure has reignited Kansas' Medicaid debate. Medicaid expansion is one way lawmakers can help employers and critical health care providers like Topeka's St. Francis Health Center.
Statehouse Reeder: Some losing politicians blame everyone but themselves
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy SPRINGFIELD - I couldn't help but think of these Kennedy remarks when I heard Hillary Clinton kvetching about why she lost the election.
ROBERTS: Thanks God for the nuns
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently stressed many nuns are strong supporters of Obamacare, and are "speaking out" against Republican attempts to gut the measure. In this week's column, Cokie and Steven V. Roberts wrote it would be suicidal for Democrats to ostracize voters like nuns, who back the party's core principles of economic and social justice, but disagree on abortion rights.
Here’s how the EPA can help states with their smog problems
Richard L. Revesz and Jack Lienke are co-authors of "Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the 'War on Coal.' a <" For many in the Northeast, May is a hopeful time, promising longer, warmer, brighter days ahead.
Saturday, May 13, 2017: Re-do health care act, businesses benefitting …
Maybe economic benefits look different in Augusta, but in Patten, we're already seeing improvements since the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was established. Our family business, Richardson's Hardware, is doubling its retail space on Main Street.
If youa re not appalled by Comeya s firing, youa re not paying attention
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday defended President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer questioned the president's decision and called for a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation. And Republican Sen. Marco Rubio essentially shrugged.
What Others Say
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester recently made good on his promise to introduce legislation aimed at halting future mining on the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park. Many Park County residents applauded Tester for introducing the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act, which would permanently remove federal mineral rights on some 30,000 acres of public land in the Custer Gallatin National Forest near Yellowstone National Park and the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness.
May 12 Letters: Comey shows quality of character lacking in Trump
To my mind it speaks truth. More significantly, it demonstrates a quality of character to which the man who fired him, Donald Trump , can never aspire.
President Trumpa s ‘Animal House’ governance
Southey, a pacifist, wrote his anti-war poem long after the 1704 battle for which the Duke of Marlborough was awarded Blenheim Palace, where his great-great-great-great-great-great grandson Winston Churchill would be born. We, however, do not need to wait 94 years to doubt whether the Trump administration's action against "sanctuary cities" is much ado about not much.
Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre’
Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then director of the FBI, walked into a room. At the Friday morning round-table briefings in the attorney general's massive conference room, when Webster addressed the group, everyone leaned in.