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The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated city showed the true cost of Obama's abdication.
A DRESSING DOWN: What is someone from Burlington doing as a student at An Wang School? How come she didn't have a phone number for her mother? And isn't it time that we stopped sending our children to school in their pajamas? There was a time when girls had to wear a dress, or skirt and blouse, in the classroom. Now they are taught to be lazy in their school attire.
With the 2016 election over and the jockeying well underway for position and power, we are being treated to various Kansas politicians - from the governor on down - determined to dampen our holiday spirits. In an effort to maintain some happiness and good humor in this season, it seems appropriate to send Santa a last minute wish list for the good people of Kansas.
On Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will stand with President Barack Obama in honouring the more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers killed in his country's Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, a date that lives in infamy, if not controversy. As the first Japanese leader to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, the resting place of many of the U.S. Marines killed in the attack, Mr. Abe is taking a giant step forward that none of his postwar predecessors felt his country was ready or secure enough to watch its prime minister make.
Now that the long, ridiculous campaign for "Hamilton Electors" to flip the presidential election has ended, so has the debate about why the Electoral College exists. For our collective sanity, this is a good thing - rarely are debates less edifying and more circular than this one.
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign protest during the Democratic National Convention in July 26, infuriated by reports that 60,000 emails were stolen by Russian hackers from the email account of John Podesta, campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton. A reader says U.S. intelligence officials must investigate the hacking.
The party that has had a decadeslong soft spot toward Moscow and been reluctant to believe that the Kremlin might have aggressive intentions or, say, cheat on an arms-control agreement, is in a frenzy over Russian hacking that supposedly denied Hillary the victory that was rightfully hers. John Podesta , the chairman of a Hillary campaign that considered accepting the results of an election part of American writ as of about two months ago, refused several times on "Meet the Press" last week to say the presidential election was "free and fair."
Republicans at an election night watch party in San Antonio celebrate as Florida is declared for Donald Trump. Despite that upset victory, the GOP in Bexar County suffered some disappointing losses.
"There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is no other nation in the history of mankind that has done what His nation has done."
Anyone thinking about putting out feed for deer this winter should be aware that many leading authorities strongly recommend against putting out corn. Their digestive systems cannot process it in winter and it can be harmful or even fatal to them.
And to top it all off, the Dow is up 9 percent since the election, while economic-sensitive small-caps have jumped nearly 16 percent. These are signs of Trump confidence.
Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon -- An aerial view of the offices and death row area of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, shot in 2011. Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon -- An aerial view of the offices and death row area of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, shot in 2011.
Trump has said he will instead "negotiate fair bilateral trade deals" that bring jobs and industry onto American shores. Photo / AP It would be short-sighted, and naive, to use the "H" word when looking at the composition of Donald Trump's intended Cabinet.
As we celebrate joyfully with friends and family this holiday season, American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, reminds pet owners to take safety steps to ensure that the holidays are just as merry for their furry friends. When you deck the halls, keep in mind that many holiday decorations can be dangerous for your pet.
Anne Devlin, from Plano cries Monday in the gallery of the House of Representatives after the Electoral College voted at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. The ballots of three dozen Texas presidential electors Monday put Donald Trump over the 270 electoral votes needed to formally win the White House.
Cities and public universities are exercising their constitutional authority when they declare themselves " sanctuaries " in response to Donald Trump's vow to deport 2 million to 3 million immigrants upon taking office next month. Trump has threatened to force state and local governments to implement his deportation policies, including by taking away federal funds, but such actions would be unconstitutional and likely halted by the courts.
As a combat veteran of the Marine Corps and a longtime admirer of Gen. James N. Mattis , I was sad to annouce this month that I could not in good conscience support granting him a waiver to serve as our 26th secretary of defense.
Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the "wrong" kinds of people - that is, people unlike themselves. Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss, particularly in traditionally blue strongholds, has led to lots of rumination about what the Democrats must do to reclaim their political territory.
The words "never again" ring hollow as the city of Aleppo, Syria, has fallen to regime forces of Bashar al-Assad . A brutal siege that has ground on for years was finally brought to a bloody end by a surge of Russian airpower, Iranian shock troops and assorted regional militia fighters.