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Of all the issues that aroused the enthusiasm of Donald Trump voters during the campaign, none carried greater emotional weight than immigration. Demonizing immigrants and references to a border wall and mass deportation never failed to elicit a full-throated roar of approval from his supporters.
The most amusing part of the Trump transition has been watching its effortless confounding of the media, often in fewer than 140 characters. One morning, after a Fox News report on lefty nuttiness at some obscure New England college -- a flag burning that led a more-contemptible-than-usual campus administration to take down the school's own American flag -- Donald Trump tweets that flag burners should go to jail or lose their citizenship.
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News-Miner opinion: It appeared earlier this year that Congress was on track to pass the nation's first comprehensive energy legislation since 2007, something of high interest to Alaska.
All of society pays a price for the political powerlessness of millennials. Much as we worship youth, our political system is designed to ignore their interests.
To understand what kind of president Donald Trump will be, do not listen to what he says, watch what he does. In a series of campaign-style events, he has repeated all the favorite lines that convinced millions of voters that he was on the side of Americans who feel abused by the establishments on Wall Street, K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
If I were a senior citizen, the government taking away Medicare or Social Security would be far scarier than taking away guns. God has a sense of humor.
It has to be benchmarked to Donald Trump, although changes on both sides of the Atlantic had been incubating for a good length of time to hit the road with a bang! A new milestone around our neck? The widely read British columnist Rod Riddle had relied on quotes from The Guardian to explain the Trump factor as it impacted the US presidential election. Joan Cook, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale attributed it to 'traumatic bonding,' like the Stockholm syndrome-an emotional dependency forged through abuse.
Donald Trump just may be jettisoning one of the cruelest pledges of his campaign, which also happened to be one of his signature promises. Tempting though it may be to attack the shape-shifting President-elect for standing on a foundation of Jell-O, he deserves praise, not scorn, for seeming to shimmy away from plans to expel hundreds of thousands of young people who came to the United States as children, the so-called Dreamers.
Thirty days after winning the election, 43 days before taking the oath of office, Donald Trump engineers his transition to power from the 26th floor of the tower that bears his name on Fifth Ave. at 56th St., in the center of the nation's most congested city. That is his home and office, and building his administration there is his prerogative as the duly elected 45th President of the United States.
In the week of an unlikely meeting between Al Gore and US president-elect Donald Trump, Jane Anson talks to Spain's Miguel Torres Snr about the influence of Gore on his own battle against climate change in wine. 'We don't know what is going to happen in politics over the next few years, but we do know that the pattern of global warming is not going away.
But his inconsistencies and contradictions render this nearly impossible. Given that this is perennially the most volatile area of the world, the goal is modest: to minimize problems and avoid disasters.
President-elect Donald Trump is likely to shake up U.S. foreign policy on a number of fronts, and may take action on areas such as Russia, Cuba and the Korean Peninsula, according to experts. Trump shocked the world last month when he pulled off a surprise victory against rival Hillary Clinton and clinched the White House, proving wrong the vast majority of polls and experts who predicted that Clinton would be the next president.
Who knows, but there's at least a chance that President-elect Donald Trump could help save the world from global warming and, on top of that, from global warming alarmists with other means of doing harm. He is against President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which has the following faults: 1) It would cost consumers a fortune and save relatively little.
U.S. foreign-policy sage Henry Kissinger used to tell Harvard students that the test of a good statesman was his ability to sense the evolution of an event before it happened. What President Richard Nixon's secretary of state meant was that a successful diplomat had to be able to read the character of his foreign counterpart as well as have the ability to take the pulse of the country he was dealing with.
Tom Plate says Beijing is right not to lose its cool over the unexpected talks between the US President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen Even within the sombre cloister of Zhongnanhai, not often depicted as a rollicking laugh factory, a wan smile must have crossed the faces of a few Chinese government officials with a healthy sense of humour. Let's face it, ZhongA nanhaites : She pulled off a good one.
The nation's Founding Fathers expressed concern about whether the citizens were knowledgeable enough to maintain the republic. The primary objective of the Constitution was to establish and protect individual liberty so the principles developed were to limit, rather than expand, government.