Paul Krugman: No right turn
All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent's bounce a week earlier.
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Baton Rouge I-10 traffic relief party becomes a political fight
Louisiana politicians are squabbling over who gets credit for a federal grant designed to alleviate Baton Rouge traffic on Interstate 10 over the Mississippi River Bridge by moving the Washington Street exit. , at old McKinley High School with U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond by his side, telling the world Louisiana will be getting between $20 million and $25 million in FASTLANE grant money to move the dreaded Washington Street exit.
I lost my seat in Congress because I stood up to Washington elites
Rep. Tim Huelskamp answers questions from the media after his primary election watch party held at the Atrium Hotel and Conference Center on Aug. 2. After a hard-fought race, I was disappointed on Tuesday to lose the primary to represent Kansas's "Big First'"congressional district. Representing the citizens of Kansas has been a great honor.
Donald Trump and the fitness threshold
Donald Trump, the man who defied every political rule and prevailed to win his party's nomination, last week took on perhaps the most sacred political rule of all: Never attack a Gold Star family. Not just because it alienates a vital constituency but because it reveals a shocking absence of elementary decency and of natural empathy for the most profound of human sorrows - parental grief.
Guest Editorial: Stop stalling on Zika virus
This 2006 file photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is behind the large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Wrath of Khan
Khizr Khan, the Muslim "Gold Star Father" who harangued Americans at the Democratic National Convention, with a mute, hijab-wearing wife at his side, is just another in a long string of human shields liberals send out to defend their heinous policies. The "Jersey Girls" were the classic example, first described in that magnificent book Godless: The Church of Liberalism .
Clinton, Reagan and Capt. Khan: Letter writers mince no words
I believe in our two-party system and respect Republican contributions to our country's greatness. I am a liberal Democrat who listens to MSNBC, FOX News and conservative talk radio.
Trump’s shallowness runs deep
In the 1870s, when Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall controlled New York City, and in the 1950s and 1960s, when Chicago's Democratic machine was especially rampant, there was a phenomenon that can be called immunity through profusion: Fresh scandals arrived with metronomic regularity, so there was no time to concentrate on any of them. The public, bewildered by blitzkriegs of bad behavior, was enervated.
Trump shows who’s the adult in the race – Hillary
In her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, she presented herself less in her historic role as the first woman presidential candidate of a major party and more on her merits as the best candidate for the job. She was positive, extolling the greatest ideals of the nation and making a persuasive case that all Americans will benefit from bolstering our democratic principles.
EDITORIAL: For many, it’s hard to imagine more confounding choices than Trump, Clinton
Some of us are old enough to remember when Labor Day weekend traditionally marked the real start of the presidential campaign season, when everyday voters finally took a closer look at the nominees and their platforms. Now the end-of-summer holiday serves only to remind us that we're entering the final stretch of what has been a bewildering, frustrating and exhausting presidential campaign unlike any in U.S. history.
Why GOP politicians are fleeing from Donald Trump’s ‘loop of doom’
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., is among the Republicans not only distancing themselves from Donald Trump, they're making a point of not campaigning with him. When Trump was in Pennsylvania last week, Toomey was nowhere to be found.
Kathleen Parker: Wea re all Democrats now
No apologies necessary. But thanks surely go to Donald Trump and his spineless Republican enablers.
Democrats, stay out of Trump’s gutter
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 1. Donald Trump poses a serious threat to our democracy. Hellbent on whipping up fear and resentment, Trump is running for president on a platform of visceral contempt - for immigrants, Muslims and facts - trafficking in insults rather than ideas.
Dante Ramos Partisans: Sharing wishful-thinking clickbait doesn’t help
But according to the new breed of clickbait headlines that proliferate on Facebook, an oration that's rousing enough, or a tweet that's snarky enough, can singlehandedly vaporize the Republican nominee. "Obama Just Annihilated Donald Trump with the Whole World Watching at DNC," the website PoliticusUSA declared during last week's Democratic National Convention.
Michael Barone: Democratsa mission partly accomplished
It was a variant on a traditional convention for a party seeking a third straight term in the White House, attempting to overcome an apparent post-convention bounce for the opposition's candidate: shades of 1988 or 2000 or 2008. Usually it starts with a valedictory speech by the incumbent president, followed by celebration of the new nominee and ending with a rousing acceptance speech.
Mark Shields: Another Iwo Jima memorial
In 1945, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, the first Jewish chaplain in the history of the United States Marine Corps, was asked by his senior protestant colleague to deliver the sermon at a single, interdenominational service dedicated to the fallen after the historically bloody Battle of Iwo Jima - which cost the lives of nearly 7,000 Marines, including 150 Jewish Marines. But there was opposition from other religious quarters, both to the ecumenical nature of the service and to a rabbi's giving the sermon over overwhelmingly Christian graves.
The truth about the Huelskamps and the ‘Kathy Hanks incident’
Actually, there have been two incidents that the Huelskamp team has looked to and used as evidence that The News is out to get them - not just politically, but personally - with the implication that we mean them actual, physical harm.
Why should taxpayers foot the bill for closed primaries? Thomas Elias
California's June presidential primary election is now just a memory, long ago subsumed in the news by vice presidential derbies, political conventions, politicians' gaffes and violence at home and abroad. But one question lingers on: Why did taxpayers have to cover the primary election costs for those political parties that did not let any voter who liked cast a ballot in their contests? In June, Democrats and Greens allowed anyone registered as either a Democrat or without party preference to vote in their primaries, although there were a few hoops for non-Democrats to jump through.
Many negatives label candidates
Congressman Vela simply stated what most people of Latino/Mexican decent feel. I too believe he should put the wall where the sun never shines.
Trump Feels The Wrath of Khan*
Just when Trump seemed to be invincible-immune from the consequences of his many gaffs, misstatements and his unique kind of unkindness that would have sunk normal candidates-we have found Trump's Kryptonite: The Wrath Khizr Khan. Referencing Donald Trump's "black soul," Khizr Khan challenged Republican leadership, in the persons of Senators Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, by saying they have a "moral, ethical obligation to not worry about the votes but repudiate him; withdraw their support.