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I agree with the April 17 letter to the editor suggesting that term limits for judges are counterproductive. Her letter struck me as a blueprint for why term limits should be approached very cautiously.
This combination of undated file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Jack Jones, left, and Marcel Williams. The two Arkansas inmates scheduled to be put to death Monday, April 24, 2017, in what could be the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years have asked an appeals court to halt their lethal injections because of poor health.
I remember the scenario clearly. It was early in the school year and my teacher asked me and my 8-year-old classmates what we wished to be in the future.
I was shocked and disappointed to read that District Attorney Jeff Rosen has endorsed Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky . This endorsement contradicts what Rosen has stood for in the past with regard to the victims of sexual assault.
Republican House Majority Leader Lance Harris, R-Alexandria, center, and House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, right, listen Appropriations Chairman Cameron Henry Jr., R-Metairie, left, during a legislative recess on the House floor while awaiting legislation from the Senate which addresses the state budget deficit Monday Feb. 20, 2017, in Baton Rouge. Gov. John Bel Edwards smiled a lot but wasn't happy Thursday morning as he schmoozed his way around the lobby outside the public dining room - the town square of the State Capitol.
It's the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raiders, a group of U.S. Airmen who bravely flew over Japan four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Two years ago, the four remaining survivors decided they would drink a last toast together.
With Illinois in near financial ruin, as businesses and economic refugees flee the state in search of opportunity, there is at least one industry prepared to invest $200 million or more in Illinois' strangled economy: Political expenditures in the 2018 gubernatorial elections could reach that $200 million sum, perhaps exceed it, as Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner seeks re-election, and Illinois Democratic boss House Speaker Michael Madigan welcomes big-bucks Democrats into the race. Boss Madigan, thin, wizened and in his mid-70s, still runs things.
"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it," observed George Orwell in his prescient novel "1984." However, until Donald Trump came along most U.S. presidents were at least subtle about their eagerness to retain power - especially during the first 100 days.
We are in the midst of an unprecedented assault on science and evidence-based policy which will have profound impacts in Oregon and beyond. The White House has proposed a massive 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency budget, which could reduce Oregonians' access to clean air and water.
Rep. Chris Stewart, your past and present statements on Syria are hard to reconcile without concluding that a disdain for the former president overcame your compassion for the over 1,400 Syrians gassed by Bashar al-Assad in 2013. On Sept.
"President Donald Trump lashed out Sunday at the protesters who took part in marches across the country Saturday to demand that he release his tax returns, declaring on Twitter that 'The election is over!' "Trump's comments followed a nationwide Tax March that drew thousands of people in dozens of cities on the country's traditionally recognized deadline to file taxes, April 15." He bizarrely argued: "I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican - easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?" The one has nothing to do with the other, of course. Voters didn't put him there to act as an autocrat, responsible to no one.
Small-business growth and job creation positively impacts the U.S. economy, but a gap exists in small businesses' access to cost-effective credit, hurting their ability to subsist, much less thrive. When faced with unexpected expenses, limited credit options for a small business puts its survival in question.
As President Donald Trump's first 100 days draws to a close, here's the good news: Fears of a rising Trump autocracy under the president who boasted "I alone can fix it," now look way overblown. Team Trump looks way too incompetent to pull that off.
One political truism has become all too apparent in recent years: Those among us who most loudly claim to cherish and respect the U.S. Constitution often happen to be the most eager to gut and redraft key passages of it. Latest evidence: Republican state Sen. Brian Birdwell, who has pushed hard this legislative session for an Article V Convention of States to rewrite offending parts of the Constitution - a dangerous idea for all real patriots who love this republic and understand its intricate framework for governance.
President Donald Trump took to Fox News on Tuesday morning to defend his flip-flop on labeling China a currency manipulator. And what we got was a perfect little illustration of a president who believes his campaign-trail promises mean basically nothing.
Shortly after the 2008 election, President Obama's soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, infamously declared, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste." He elaborated: "What I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Press secretary Sean Spicer publicly apologized several times for this comment about Bashar Assad, the murderous dictator of Syria: "You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." Spicer got hammered for supposedly minimizing the horror of the Holocaust.
There is hope! I am speaking of the envisioned memorial of Dwight D. Eisenhower here in Washington, D.C. Admittedly, its design by the crank architect, Frank Gehry, has been pretty much accepted by the memorial commission, and the chairman of the House committee that has control of the funding, Ken Calvert, seems to be going along. What's more, the Congressionally approved waiver calling for the memorial to have all of its funding in place before groundbreaking has been approved.
Whatever happens in the special runoff election in Georgia's 6th congressional district, Republicans better be paying attention. Democrats are motivated; Republicans are not.
This week, the national media and national Democrats claimed a premature victory in the Georgia sixth congressional district special election, which they saw as a referendum on President Trump. When all the votes were counted, Democrat Jon Ossoff found himself in a runoff against Republican Karen Handel rather than the outright win he and his funders had hoped for.