Pope to Jeff Landry: Death penalty is always wrong. Period | Opinion

Pope Francis, left, on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018 declared the death penalty wrong in all cases, a change in church teaching at odds with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry's push for speeding executions in the state. with something akin to divine intervention, when Pope Francis declared the death penalty wrong in all cases.

Will the ‘Trump economy’ save the GOP? Here’s the Democratic…

Registration will allow you to post comments on StamfordAdvocate.com and create a StamfordAdvocate.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. It has become an article of faith among Republicans and some pundits: If only President Donald Trump would stop with the racism and cruelty , the authoritarian assaults on the press and on the Mueller probe, and the panting embraces of Vladimir Putin, Republicans could bask in the glorious "Trump economy" and stave off big losses this fall.

Trump vs. Koch is good for Republicans

President Trump's itchy Twitter finger made waves yet again this week on a wide range of topics, and one of them hit particularly close to home here in Wichita. Trump's two-Tweet tirade early Tuesday morning lambasting the "globalist Koch Brothers" has generated plenty of press, with leftist pundits looking to fan the flames.

Corey Stewart and his race-baiting friends

Registration will allow you to post comments on StamfordAdvocate.com and create a StamfordAdvocate.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia, is mortified - simply aghast - that anyone could imagine he shares the racist, white-supremacist views of a lengthy and growing list of his political allies, backers and advisers.

Abolishing ICE isna t radical a ” ita s rational

As someone who was born and raised in the border state of New Mexico, I'm very familiar with political speak about immigrants and the border, especially when it comes to talking about safety. After 9/11, concerns about safety led to the passing of the Homeland Security Act, which created a new cabinet department as well as a new law enforcement agency: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

E.J. Dionne Jr.: Why Trump isn’t fighting the bots

Here is the issue raised by Facebook's revelations this week about disinformation that we need to face squarely: The political interests of the president of the United States coincide with the purposes of foreign forces using social media to divide us along the lines of race and culture. President Trump's refusal to make combating Russian interference a high priority, despite warnings from inside his own administration about the dangers, is obviously a scandal.

Journal Junction for Aug. 1

Joe Manchin has the capability to influence the rejection of Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court but it's a good bet he will not do so. He will indicate that he is comfortable with Kavanaugh doing This is how disgusting it's getting: U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., who is campaigning for Govenor, is his children- one a baby the other a toddler- about the ways of Trump.

Trump’s latest rage-tweets about Mueller and border wall…

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump escalated his rage-tweets about special counsel Robert Mueller, threatened a government shutdown to get his great wall on the southern border, and blasted the news media for selling out the country while basically shrugging at the idea that egging on his supporters' hatred of the press might be placing independent journalists in greater danger. It's a reminder that Trump's authoritarianism and bigotry will be front and center in this fall's midterm elections.