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For those lately bereft of leadership, the past few days have provided both a respite and a reason for hope. It's likely that neither would prefer to be singled out as a woman who is brilliant but rather as a brilliant person who happens to be a woman.
Why is it that so many people love to hate Californians? There's no shortage of theories; we're everything from excessively laid-back and compassionate to compulsively high-strung. Let's take a look at some of our common hatred-fueling qualities, compiled by surveying a mix of native Californians , long-time residents and people living in other states.
In the world of political Washington, one of the most foreboding things that can happen to anyone is to have their boss say they're 100 percent behind them. President Donald Trump's peremptory firing of James Comey is a complete homemade mess enabling a long list of the usual congressional suspects of both parties, who dislike this president anyway, to strut, preen and opine on this week's hot topic while avoiding normal duties.
Gov. Larry Hogan talks about the veto of the Democrats' redistricting bill and State Sen. Jim Brochin talks about redistricting reform. Gov. Larry Hogan talks about the veto of the Democrats' redistricting bill and State Sen. Jim Brochin talks about redistricting reform.
Since, many members of the GOP have rallied behind the cry of repeal and replace, but it's becoming unclear what they were doing the last seven years to actually get that job done. In March, an effort led by Paul Ryan, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, fell flat as it was pulled before a vote could fail.
Before the House of Representatives' health care vote on Thursday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to press his case to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That morning, he tweeted "Death spiral!" over a link to news that Aetna would pull out of the Virginia insurance exchange out of fear of potential losses.
That lie, of course, is his attempting to rationalize his very bad and unprecedented decision that wound up costing a highly qualified candidate the presidency and left the country in the hands of a boob. James B. Comey told the U.S. Senate this past week the experience had made him "mildly nauseous."
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Illinois has elected just two wealthy people to major statewide office in the last 20 years: Former U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald and Gov. Bruce Rauner. Both candidates won because they ran as firm, anti-establishment outsiders.
If famous Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein had reported on Democrat Barack Obama the way they did on Republican Richard Nixon, Obama could have ended up the same way. Instead Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate coverup story in 1972 that forced Nixon's resignation two years later, looked the other way during the eight years of scandals that enveloped the Obama administration.
Today, Bethany Gladhill's daughter Beatrix is an active 9-year-old who enjoys dance and school. But right after she was born, Beatrix was diagnosed with a heart valve anomaly.
Actors Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump are like twins separated at birth. Both became rich and famous -- by hook in one case and by whatever in the other -- each to his own mind born to win.
By Joel White Seema Verma, the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, recently praised Medicare's prescription drug benefit for giving seniors access to affordable medicines, saying she was "thankful" for the program. There's a lot to be thankful for.
One very busy St. Louis mother of five adamantly believes that Girl Scouting is incompatible with being a good Catholic. Ann Saladin diligently works to publicize what she believes are links between Girl Scouting and the nefarious forces of abortion and birth control.
Something truly unexpected happened this session in the Alaska Senate. The Republican leadership decided to arbitrarily cut the state's education budget by over $69 million.
On Wednesday, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill by a lopsided margin of 309 to 118. A majority of both Democrats and Republicans supported the measure, which sailed through the Senate.
Leftists described the 2011 Occupy Movement as a breath of fresh air, although movement trash rats deposited their bowel movements on police cars and Zuccotti Park doorsteps. They also left tons of foul rubbish on streets.
This letter is in reply to Sam Candler's response to your editorial of April 19. His arguments for seeking to develop Cumberland Island are based upon the fact that his family has lived on the north end at Highpoint for many years. Now that his Highpoint property is reverting to the Park Service, he seeks to build private houses on the south of the island, on land that he purchased under the shield of Lumar, LLC in 1998.