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I was a guest in a house divided last weekend-a house riven by the politics before a set of midterm elections. My hosts live in Bethesda, Md., in a lovely, roomy house in a leafy Washington suburb that they built to raise their four amazingly bright children.
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart as Deputy Chief of detectives Robert Oswald, left, and James Skopek 1st Deputy, right, holds a press conference on June 29. Photo Credit: John Roca Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart brought in a trusted colleague from her days as a Justice Department prosecutor in making James Skopek her first deputy commissioner last June. Now, Hart has won approval from the state Civil Service Commission for a waiver making the former Nassau detective sergeant Suffolk's latest double dipper with salary and pension totaling $309,460 a year.
The shadow of a man falls on a door of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 11. The allegations that a Saudi Arabian journalist was killed and dismembered by agents of his own government earlier this month are both grotesque and chilling. They obviously require a thorough investigation and, if true, must be followed by punishment or sanctions for those responsible.
Kanye West hugs Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 11, 2018. When Kanye West condemned a Republican president after Hurricane Katrina smashed New Orleans, Democrats and their media biscuit eaters weren't all that upset.
For months, the Iranian people have sustained wave after wave of unprecedented anti-regime protests, with one uprising following another. The economy is on the verge of collapse, poverty and inflation are out of control, the national currency is in freefall, and entrenched unemployment frustrates the hopes and dreams of millions of young Iranians.
As a sexual assault survivor, I was disgusted with both sides throughout the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. But I've been hesitant to write a word about it because; I worried I had nothing to offer to the conversation but my confusion.
On behalf of your party and your countrymen to whom you have given so much, I ask one further service. As a group you are clearly reluctant, if not unable, to address the challenges we currently face, much less those ahead.
As the partisan brawl continues to rage over Brett Kavanaugh 's Supreme Court appointment, Californians begin voting this week and continue right on through Nov. 6. Granted, the bulk of absentee and early voting probably will happen in two or three weeks, but, at the very least, voters are starting to focus more on the election. How the raw battle over Kavanaugh's confirmation and accusations that he engaged in sexual assault and misconduct will affect the eventual outcome is uncertain.
Rep. Duncan Hunter arriving at the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego on Sept. 5. Two candidates are running to represent the 50th Congressional District.
Florida remains divided on many political issues, but there seems to be strong bipartisan agreement about the issue of restoring voting rights for convicted felons, formally known as Amendment 4. As Florida Politics reported, a recent poll showed 74 percent support for the constitutional amendment on the ballot in November that would strike down voting prohibitions for felons who have completed their sentences and parole or probation requirements. Those convicted of murder or sexual offenses would continue to be banned.
The ugly, brutal battle to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh - now Justice Kavanaugh - to the U.S. Supreme Court will leave exposed wounds in our political system that won't soon heal.
How did we get here? The Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination circus didn't happen by accident. The emergence of incredible - and by "incredible," I mean the literal Merriam-Webster definition of "too extraordinary and improbable to be believed" - accusers in the 11th hour was no mistake.
Last week, West Virginia's Republican Leadership announced a $100 million funding commitment that significantly stabilizes and strengthens Public Employees Insurance Agency , as well as a proposed 5 percent pay raise for teachers and state employees.
Because of the hateful and despicable actions by the democrats during the Kavanaugh hearings, the republican participation rate has gone up by 20 percent from 60-80 percent. The blue wave has turned into a tiny trickle and the red wave has turned into a tsunami.
The ultimately successful, if extremely messy, Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is the unlikely and intriguing outcome of two disparate men invisibly working together, though they could hardly be more different - President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell was born in Alabama, raised in Kentucky and thanks to the demanding therapy of his mother, overcame the crippling physical restrictions of childhood polio so well he became a formidable baseball player.
He was standing right there, to one side of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and slightly behind the left shoulder of President Donald Trump. Anthony Kennedy was right in the thick of it.