Times Editorial Board: Let’s Have a Gang War

Remember the good old days when the Left pretended to worry about "eliminationist rhetoric"? Now, they don't even pretend to worry about a Bernie Sanders volunteer trying to murder Republican Congressmen. Yesterday's New York Times editorial on the judiciary illustrates how far around the bend the Democratic Party has gone: With Republicans controlling the Senate and the judicial filibuster dead, the Democrats' odds of denying President Trump a second Supreme Court appointment are slim.

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In this June 16, 2017, file photo, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks in Washington on race in America and his decision to take down Confederate monuments in his city. FILE - In this June 16, 2017, file photo, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks in Washington on race in America and his decision to take down Confederate monuments in his city.

The Democrats’ Socialist Meltdown

The skies over America the Beautiful were filled with fireworks, and the Twittersphere was filled with three Democratic senators blowing themselves up. My U.S. Senator Kamal Harris, Massachusetts's Elizabeth Warren and New York's Kirsten Gillibrand spent their holiday week attacking President Trump in speeches and tweets.

Pentagon Needs to Stop Doing Business With Foreign Fraudsters

Its final results won't be known until later this year, but the first-ever agency-wide audit of the Department of Defense already has raised some eyebrows. It previously had revealed through reports from the Office of the Inspector General that the Army had posted $6.5 trillion in accounting discrepancies in 2015, and from the Defense Logistics Agency the procurement arm of the U.S. military that it can't account for $800 million in spending on construction projects.

Don McKee: American pride runs strong in 242nd year

The words of the Declaration of Independence ring as true today as they did when Thomas Jefferson penned them in 1776: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness a " Now, 242 years ... (more)

Bloomberg Op-Ed: Trust The Facts On GMOs

ED: TRUST THE FACTS ON GMOS Jul. 6, 2018 Bloomberg reports: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has come up with cheerful new labels for genetically modified foods. The bright green and yellow circles depict a happy sun, a winking smiley face or a verdant landscape stamped with the letters "BE," for "bioengineered" - rather than the familiar "genetically modified" or "genetically engineered."

Phillip Tutor: President Trump’s Alabama slammer

Standing before a portrait of George Washington, President Donald Trump announces about $60 billion worth of annual tariffs on Chinese imports, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018. If President Trump loves Alabama, which he says he does, and if Alabamians by and large love him back, why then is he kicking us in the shins? This isn't about immigration.

Falling Fortunes

Rupee breached an important mark of 69, which, coincidently, was its all-time low, on June 28's trading session. The previous all-time intraday low for the rupee was 68.8 against US dollar which was hit on November 24, 2016.

McCain & American Century struggle to survive

In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves a closed-door session on Capitol Hill in Washington. A possible U.S. Senate vacancy in Arizona would be temporarily filled by a Republican appointee in the event of the death of Sen. John McCain, who is battling cancer, but it's unclear whether an election would be held in November or 2020.