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Have you heard the news that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote? Unless you live under a rock you likely have stumbled across a barista or aspiring novelist mumbling something about how the Electoral College is unfair and undemocratic and how electors should follow "the will of the people" and vote for Hillary on Dec. 19. Because "democracy!" or something. What too many of these uneducated and unshowered drum circlers don't know, or don't care to know, is the popular vote is a meaningless unit of measure.
Housing of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may well be patting herself on the back this past week. In the process, she should be looking over her shoulder.
Lowry: 'Xenophobia' and other troublesome words In the new America, fear of 'the other' has once again taken hold Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2gzSBri The Rev. Annie Steinberg-Behrman, right, provisional pastor with Metropolitan Community Church in San Francisco, at a meeting at City Hall.
If you've been following the uproar over Congressman Keith Ellison and his run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, you might recall hearing about a 36-second audio clip containing a snippet of an Ellison speech that, according to his critics, proves he's anti-Israel and shouldn't get the job. You may even have listened to the clip and been left wondering exactly what it means.
Donald Trump won the Electoral College on the strength of overwhelming support from working-class whites, who feel left behind by a changing economy and society. And they're about to get their reward - the same reward that, throughout Mr. Trump's career, has come to everyone who trusted his good intentions.
Twenty-five years ago - December 1991 - communism died, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. It was the largest breakup of an empire in modern history and not a shot was fired.
"Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag," President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday. "If they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" "If I were king," the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once said in an interview, "I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag.
What bugs me about Donald Trump as president-elect? The same thing that ought to bother you, too, no matter how you voted last month. Put his companies in a blind trust, like President Carter, for instance, and many Cabinet members have? Not going to bother.
The last time the Republican Party had a win like the surprise pulled off by President-elect Donald Trump, it came in California and it quickly turned the nation's largest state from a consistent toss-up political battleground to a solid Democratic bastion. That "victory" came when then-Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election - on Nov. 8, also the date of Trump's triumph - by a large margin in 1994 on the strength of a campaign directed largely against Latino illegal immigrants.
Now that reality has semi-set in, that is my only cogent polling analysis, I told a trio of local professors who each brilliantly dissected the results at a Thursday lunch event I emceed, themed “What the heck happened on election day?” That was no doubt the theme used dozens of times in political science department gatherings and on Rotary Club daises across the nation this week. At our meeting, sponsored by the San Gabriel Valley Public Affairs Network, professors Zachary Courser of Claremont McKenna, Fernando Guerra of Loyola Marymount and Raphe Sonenshein refused to moan and handwring and instead just nailed the numbers about the nationwide results.
I was disheartened by the Nov. 28 editorial cartoon by Dave Granlund depicting two wrecking balls labeled "Trump" and "GOP Congress" about to figuratively demolish the Obama White House legacy. But on further reflection, I realized that much of President Obama's legacy is irrefutable and indestructible.
Modern American capitalism is not working for many Americans. That's why, no matter what your political leanings, fixing an economy that can no longer be counted on to create steady, well-paying jobs for all has to be our top priority.
Coloradans already know, intuitively, what a big role the outdoor recreation industry plays in driving the economy. Less appreciated in Washington, however, is how consumer spending in that sector of the economy supports, or could support, the conservation of public lands and wild animals.
Although not as ubiquitous as other law enforcement technologies, drones will be a routine part of police officers' toolkits in the coming years. This poses a wide range of serious privacy worries, not least because police have not disguised their enthusiasm for invasive surveillance.
One of the great challenges experienced by both the press and at least some of the public in understanding Donald Trump is caught up in what his defenders often cite: The press during the long campaign made the mistake of taking Trump literally but not seriously, while Trump's many followers took him seriously but not literally. So how does all that work out regarding the president-elect's stand on Medicare? During the campaign, Trump made a point of vowing that he would keep his hands off both Medicare and Social Security.
Regrets? Delaware Sen. Chris Coons has a few-and not too few to mention. At the top of his list is his party's decision in 2013 to blow up the filibuster for most presidential nominees.
AMES, Iowa - I remember watching my older brother, Danny, dribbling down the court and me wiggling uncomfortably in the bleachers, staring at my blue Keds and asking: "How do we know who wins?" I guess that was a good enough explanation for a 4-year-old, and that's usually the way things worked out. You see, in basketball, a basket can count as one, two or three points.
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Every new president begins his tenure by trying to manage the press. And even though the press is a far different institution than it was when most of our chief executives took office, that hasn't stopped the current president-elect from doing the same.