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As the saying goes, you don't miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of Donald Trump's harshest critics may realize. From 1988-1992, I was The Washington Post's correspondent in Buenos Aires, covering all of South America.
The three main Republican rivals looking to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren actually believe they have a chance to pull off the seemingly impossible in this impossibly blue state. Several factors give Winchester businessman John Kingston, state Rep. Geoff Diehl of Whitman and Groton's Beth Lindstrom, a longtime Massachusetts Republican Party operative, reason for hope.
Gov. Mark Dayton and Ag Commissioner David Frederickson on Tuesday introduce their new plan to lower the nitrate levels in Minnesota's groundwater. The plan calls for farmers to We can hear the local farmers in the area, who oppose the idea of the state telling them how to farm, getting ready to say, Back in December the Brown County Board of Commissioners let a motion to accept free well testing from the state die without a second.
Former City Councilman Bill Green announced that he'd be running for Congress against incumbent Congressman Brendon Boyle, a major LGBT ally. I wish I had a way to describe how this makes me feel.
Flanked by cameras, Gov. Jay Inslee boldly stood before President Donald Trump on Monday and told our commander in chief to listen to the people. Inslee needs to follow his own advice.
There's been no call to arms from President Trump, who could galvanize the federal bureaucracy and Congress to counter the threat if he chose. Instead, the president still reacts to warnings about Russian interference as if they were attacks on his legitimacy.
I'm increasingly more surprised about what President Donald Trump and his family haven't done to make money than what they have. A White House staff member adjusts the presidential seal before an event on the South Lawn in December.
House members listen as Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks at a press conference after the legislature adjourned sine die to end the special session to address the state's fiscal crisis Monday March 5, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. First the old news out of the collapsed special legislative session: There's still no plan to account for the coming loss of nearly $1 billion in tax revenue once that revenue drops off the books this summer.
The Daily State-Times of Baton Rouge bannered the news in 1909: "Five Million Dollar Company to Build Two Million Dollar Plant Here." The front page hangs in The Advocate's Baton Rouge office today.
A book, “Confrontational Politics” by H. L. Richardson, a former State Senator and founder of Gun Owners of America, has provided insights into numerous political developments over the years. He wrote it to expose the tactics and strategy of the progressive left so that the conservative right could see how the left's machine movement works to get results and marginalize us, and to help inform us in effectively resisting them and advancing our goals.
The gun lobby has long stoked its constituents with the nightmare scenario of a president who'd swipe their God-given right to own weapons. The NRA frequently warned that Barack Obama was “coming for our guns,” and that Hillary Clinton would “come for your guns.” The group cringed at the prospect of a president saying something like this: “I like taking the guns early ... Take the guns first, go through due process second.” Since we're stuck with a regime that's historically incompetent, malevolent, corrupt, and security-challenged, we've got to get our laughs whenever we can.
As the saying goes, you don't miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of Donald Trump's harshest critics may realize. From 1988-1992, I was The Washington Post's correspondent in Buenos Aires, covering all of South America.
We didn't fully realize just how hard it is to be president until we had one with no idea of what it takes to do the job. We didn't appreciate having a government that was relatively honest and free of venality until we had one riddled with corruption.
Trump is arguably the most thin-skinned president in modern times, and the slightest provocation will set him off on a tirade of insults, counterattacks, distractions and self-pity. He has called former FBI Director James Comey a leaker and falsely claimed the FBI was in tatters under his management.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments a week ago today for a case with big repercussions for public-sector unions and their political influence across the country. The case at hand is Janus v.
Tom van Overbeek made a point that even if Donald Trump is a narcissist, perhaps nearly all our presidents have been narcissists. While perhaps not as knowledgeable about our presidents as van Overbeek, who thinks Gerald Ford and Harry Truman were probably the only exceptions, perhaps James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama and others were also exceptions.
This comes on the heels of her nine-hour testimony during a House Intelligence Committee meeting. At one point during the meeting the question was put forth if she was ever asked to lie for the president.
Rep. Duncan Hunter speaks at a September news conference in San Diego with Attorney General Jeff Sessions . Despite continued reports about investigations and titillating details of his behavior, nobody yet is counting the East County Republican out for re-election.