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That is, the religiously motivated laws creeping into public policymaking aren't based on the Quran, and they aren't coming from mythical hard-line Islamists in, say, Dearborn, Mich. They're coming from the White House, which wants to make it easier for hard-line Christians to impose their beliefs and practices on the rest of us.
Representatives of the undersigned community, religious, and labor organizations want to see Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson do the following: - Drop the proposal to send prisoners from the Bristol County House of Corrections to build President Trump's wall at the Mexican border. - Rescind his agreement with Immigration Customs and Enforcement that will enable him to enforce federal immigration law to the detriment of residents here under the Department of Homeland Security's 287 program.
It was just a couple of declarations made during a welcome, but we are heartened by statements Gov. Greg Abbott made last week that our U.S. trade relationship with Mexico is just as important as border security. Abbott made the statements while greeting Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on his first visit to Texas and the Rio Grande Valley since he took over the agency last month.
For the last eight years, Kentuckians have been subject to an unprecedented and destructive level of overregulation. From the coal industry to the family farm, the federal government's regulatory burden has weighed heavy on our Commonwealth.
Each school day when I was a little boy began with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed immediately by all the students bowing their heads and reciting the Lord's Prayer. There came a bit of stumbling between the children taught to forgive "trespasses" and those who were forgiving "debts" - which I saw as the big gap separating Methodists from Presbyterians - but everybody eventually rounded up to a fine unison "amen," good American children saluting their God and their country.
President Trump speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in the Oval Office. week, telling him a refugee agreement between the two countries was the "worst deal ever," calling their conversation the "worst call" and hanging up 25 minutes into what was supposed to be an hour-long talk.
It would have been a much clearer path to glory for a couple of Massachusetts Democrats had Hillary Clinton been elected president. If she had she done so she might have rewarded Sen. Elizabeth Warren with a cabinet position, or talked Sen. Eddie Markey into an ambassadorship.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Neil Gorsuch, his nominee for the Supreme Court, Tuesday at the White House. Senate Democrats should use any and all means, including the filibuster, to block confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
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The last couple weeks have saddened those of us who love the freedoms this country offers and who have tried over the last few decades to make those freedoms inclusive - but there is a silver lining. Masses of people are taking up this cause of resistance and are willing to go out and show their support to stop any incursions to democracy.
President Donald Trump could scarcely have done better, from a conservative viewpoint, than nominating federal appellate judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Liberals too, if not driven by mindless opposition, can also find much to admire in his character and approach to the law.
The fatal accident on Monday, January 23, 2017, on New York Route 60 in the Town of Gerry, south of Sinclairville, was an appalling and horrific event.
Former New Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte will lead a team of political veterans chosen by the White House to help shepherd President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court through the U.S. The Boston Bruins came out of the All-Star break with a key road victory, trailing early but taking control for a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on ... (more)
A lot has been said about how the proposed actions of the new US president will affect the world. Little attention, though, may have been given to the significance of one of outgoing President Barack Obama's final acts as supreme leader of the most powerful country.
Only days before Donald Trump's inauguration, Vice President of the USA, Joe Biden, speaking in Davos, accused Vladimir Putin of "whittling away at the European Order" and undermining "western democracies". But that is exactly what the European Union and the Obama administration have done to sovereign states.