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From populism's left wing, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders drawing cheers during a campaign stop in Derry, N.H., last winter. is a senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester and an adjunct professor of economics at Villanova University The 2016 election season officially came to a close with the inauguration of Donald Trump as our 45th president.
On the strong chance state legislators don't know it, here's a definition of the word "precipitous": an action done suddenly and without careful consideration. Use in a sentence: "State leaders are acting precipitously in pressing the issue of school choice when they haven't yet fixed the state's nightmare of a school finance system."
The phrase "America First" comes from the isolationist, pro-Hitler movement in the U.S that arose in the 1930s. The slogan should have been avoided at all costs.
A Syrian woman gestures through her tent window at an informal refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj on Jan. 28, the day after President Trump temporarily banned entry of refugees from Syria and six other predominantly Muslim countries. Daoud Kuttab, an award-winning Palestinian journalist, is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, a columnist for Al-Monitor and the director of the Community Media Network in Amman, Jordan.
Those who supported and support Hillary Clinton are a bit tardy. In an effort, apparently, to support her claim that half of Donald Trump supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic irredeemables, now we see action.
As President Donald Trump prepares to name a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia, the conventional wisdom is that the choice will not change the liberal-conservative balance on the court. After all, this argument goes, if Trump chooses any of the names on his previously published list, the court and the country will simply be swapping one conservative justice for another.
Several of President Donald Trump's key nominees have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Even a few about whom partisan bickering was strident have been approved.
A question for those who voted for Donald Trump and Elise Stefanik. Did you expect them to take away the Affordable Care Act, condemning 6,796 people just in Warren County to no health care insurance? Or destroying Social Security and Medicare ? That is exactly what congressional extremists led by Speaker Paul Ryan intend.
BEST OF ROSSIE: A Rather corny election night at CBS Readers who watched election returns Tuesday on CBS were treated to the verbal equivalent of a Perseid meteor shower. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2kaUXyU Rossie leaves behind a huge legacy: columns that are etched into the memories of generations of newspaper readers and a contingent of reporters, writers and editors.
BUILDING walls, waterboarding and "black sites". Welcome to President Donald Trump's security and foreign policy world barely a week after his inauguration.
Tony Kwok says Beijing's plan to set up a super agency to combat the scourge is a big step in the right direction, and shows it is adopting best practices from elsewhere Over the past 50 years, many countries have become notorious for corruption on a grand scale. Very few have succeeded in eradicating this evil.
She taught fifth grade at West Elementary School in Ashtabula, Ohio. In the fall of 1967, my mother dropped me off in her classroom like a failed adoption.
So, President Donald Trump is now in the White House and has already begun his work to Make America Great Again. As he said in his inaugural address he will do this by putting America first.
P resident Trump appears to be taking steps to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; the White House confirmed this past weekend that it is in the early stages of preparing for relocation. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat seemed confident enough to announce assurances that "the embassy move is done seamlessly and efficiently."
One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes. For those unfamiliar with the term "snowflakes," it is increasingly being used to characterize college students easily traumatized by criticism and politically incorrect phrases.
Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, probably survived the grilling she got from angry Democrats last week. When Sen. Patty Murray demanded she promise not "to privatize public schools," DeVos replied, "Not all schools are working for the students."
In the months following the 9-11 terror attacks, as America's intelligence agencies struggled to explain how they missed connecting the dots leading to the attacks, there began a major push both inside and outside government to ensure such a lapse never occurred again. The focal point of this push was the intelligence community's ability to access what it determined to be critical information -- emails, text messages, phone calls, and any other digital communication -- necessary for collecting and analyzing to find "suspicious" activity.
Even though it's only the third week of January, one of the most important meetings of the year is about to take place in Philadelphia. Think of the upcoming Republican Policy Retreat as the huddle at the start of the first game of the season, when everybody is listening for the new quarterback to call the play.
There will always be those who feel the current election is the most important of all time. Rhetoric promoting the presidential election as "life or death" is common every cycle.