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In one of its most controversial decisions, the Supreme Court in 2012 upheld the constitutionality of a provision in the Affordable Care Act mandating individuals purchase qualifying health insurance or else pay a fine, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the deciding vote in favor of the law. However, nearly , a provision included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed mostly along party lines in December 2017, may soon force Roberts to reevaluate his decision, potentially ending the health care law without a single vote being cast in Congress.
If any timeworn phrase perfectly describes liberals and their ridiculous policy positions, it's the fact that they're constantly "hoisting" themselves with their "own petards." Well, according to Wikipedia, "'Hoist with his own petard' is a Shakespearean idiom from Hamlet meaning 'to cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb.'
A worker hangs a road sign directing to the US embassy, in the area of the US consulate in Jerusalem, May 7, 2018. . When US President Donald Trump vowed during his election campaign to put 'America First,' many commentators mocked him for what was a very reasonable policy.
In the imaginations of his hopeful defenders, President Trump was supposed to transcend left and right. He'd break the Republican Party from the shibboleths of the Reagan Era and create a new ideology mindful of the interests of the party's working-class supporters.
President Donald Trump believes in the art of disruption, of deliberately creating crises to get his way. That's how he operated in business; it's how he ran his presidential campaign.
In the final days before the West Virginia primary, breathless media coverage suggested that businessman Don Blankenship was gaining ground rapidly and had a real shot at winning the Republican Senate nomination. ABC News quoted a But Blankenship didn't win or even come close.
Three years ago, on the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights, I sat in an Alabama church pew with then-Sen. Jeff Sessions. He wore the flushed, impatient face of someone who had to be there.
Dan McCready certainly hopes so. Like Lamb, who won a special House election in Pennsylvania two months ago, McCready is a Democratic congressional candidate competing on steadfastly Republican, Donald Trump-friendly turf.
Serious warnings and conspiracy theories abound, telling of election fraud involving illegal immigrants, Russians, the homeless and the dead. Thankfully, Colorado voters can rest easy.
With three months to go before Tennessee's Republican primary for governor, none of the big four candidates seems ready to throw in the towel. If the well-financed quartet of U.S. Rep. Diane Black, businessman Randy Boyd, state House Speaker Beth Harwell and businessman Bill Lee hang in until Aug. 2 in the hopes of replacing term-limited Republican Gov. Bill Haslam, the eventual winner may have as little as 25 percent of the vote before taking on the Democrat primary winner - who will have had to spend considerably less time and money - in November.
President Trump's nominee for CIA chief, Gina Haspel, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. When Gina Haspel, President Trump's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, appeared for her confirmation hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, she faced one crucial challenge - and it wasn't to convince the committee that she possesses the necessary experience and aptitude for the position.
To illustrate one of his arguments, he invented a story about two criminals who had been arrested for a crime they had committed jointly. In the story, the police interrogate the two prisoners separately.
That will be the upshot of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions's plan to immediately detain and prosecute everyone - including asylum-seekers and parents with children - caught trying to cross illegally into the U.S. Illegal immigration is wrong, and the government is right to seek to curb it.
Former Rep. George Miller eloquently urges us to work together to protect our state from the effects of global warming. But carbon emissions from the United States have accumulated for decades and will ravage the entire world.
Months after being honored as the Rookie Teacher of the Year at Umatilla High School, Christopher Barnhart has been told his contract is not being renewed next school year, and he believes the decision is political.
It was one of the Clinton administration's biggest counterterrorism successes. Just weeks after al-Qaida terrorists trained by Iran blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, Gina Haspel's phone rang in the middle of the night.
Trump must craft a treaty that keeps Iran's nuclear weapons program dormant, clamps down on its support of terrorism and ends its ballistic weapons tests. President Donald Trump holds up a national security presidential memorandum on Iran after announcing plans to pull out of Iran nuclear deal.
Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday that he'll veto a House Republican's primary season attempt to chip away at abortion rights, calling it a "dangerous and unconscionable attack on women's healthcare." The legislation sponsored by Rep. Rick Saccone, of Allegheny County, would ban abortion at as early as six weeks, which is before most women even know they're pregnant.
The difficulty in getting voters to show up for a runoff election is a big problem in Texas. There are hot spots around the state that might engage more voters, but generally speaking, it's hard enough to get voters to the table once - and harder still to get them to come back for seconds.