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His rightward slide during his run for president and his centrist slide in the past weeks have been well documented. The Salt Lake Tribune) Mitt Romney speaks at the Tech Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Friday, January 19, 2018.
Republicans called it the "Schumer shutdown," citing the Senate Democratic leader's role in blocking the bill to prevent a government shutdown. The Democrats labeled it the "Trump shutdown," blaming lack of Republican urgency and the president's shifting positions on the key immigration issue.
Wait, back up a minute. We just zoomed past a story that would have been a five-alarm scandal for any other administration, with weeks of screaming front-page headlines: “The President and the Porn Star.” The Wall Street Journal had the scoop on Jan. 12: “A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.” The porn star in question is a woman named Stormy Daniels.
The day your editor had another meltdown in his latest anti-Sheriff Robert Spoden rant, people in a local diner took notice. What started as a discussion amongst a table of regulars soon spread to other tables.
Here in Amerika, things are getting worse - not better - as the nation inches ever closer towards totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and "we the people" have none. On Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, immigration agents boarded a Greyhound bus heading to downtown Miami from Orlando and demanded that all passengers provide proof of residence or citizenship.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin endorsed the dollar's decline as a benefit to the American economy and it has had a mixed response from the crowd at Davos. (Source: Bloomberg)
AMID the Twitter boasts of us President Donald J. Trump and the defiant posturings and stance of Democrats, the world's perceived most powerful country has indeed technically shut down its operations on Saturday midnight, January 20, 2018. Meaning, funding for its civil service, national security and federal agencies ran out and all activities were stopped, including the more than 850,000 workers who were told to stay home and remain unpaid.
If you are groping for markers by which to measure how profoundly we have been changed since Inauguration Day, here's one you might want to consider: In January of 1998, reports surfaced of a sexual affair between President Bill Clinton and a 24-year-old White House intern. It would mushroom into the biggest story of the year.
Take Trump's assault on the FBI's integrity and conspiracy-mongering about a plot to ignore Hillary Clinton's misdeeds and focus instead on his. This, it turns out, is reportedly part and parcel of a strategy to smear the FBI and bend it to Trump's will.
Amazon has begun briefing officials in Chicago and 19 other cities in the running for the company's HQ2 second headquarters on the next phase of the process, after announcing the 20 contenders last week. Amazon has begun briefing officials in Chicago and 19 other cities in the running for the company's HQ2 second headquarters on the next phase of the process, after announcing the 20 contenders last week.
Question: I was recently told that I could not keep the trailer ball mount attached to the receiver of the vehicle when it is not actually hooked up to a trailer. Is this in fact true? Answer: There is not a law in Minnesota that prohibits leaving a ball hitch in the receiver when not pulling a trailer.
Time is of the essence, because of unconstitutional action taken by former President Barack Obama. He established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to protect nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants, brought here has children, from being deported.
Back in 2013, when the idea of a Donald Trump presidency still made everyone laugh, a group of eight U.S. senators met for months in private to put together a sweeping bipartisan compromise on immigration reform that would have provided a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in exchange for tougher border security - but not a wall. The so-called Gang of Eight senators included four Republicans who would all end up on the losing side of clashes with Mr. Trump.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions touts the achievements made in reducing crime nationwide during the first year of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump says he's imposing new tariffs to "protect American jobs" and workers.
Sen. Susan Collins explained her vote to pass the recent tax bill citing the expert advice she received from Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, and Douglass Holtz-Eakin, a Republican policy adviser and president of the American Action Forum. "Even the joint committee on taxation has projected that the tax bill would stimulate the economy to produce hundreds of billions of additional revenue.
The USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans note that when it comes to eating grains in our diet, half our intake should come from whole grains. To be classified as a grain, the food product must contain all three components of the grain; namely the bran, the germ and the endosperm.
Eating out the other day, a waitress unfortunately, dropped a couple of plates, silverware, etc. The clatter, of course, caused everyone to look, but fortunately nothing was broken.
It didn't take long for Democrats and Republicans in the Senate to work out a deal get the federal government back up and running on Monday. Democrats agreed to support the short-term spending bill that will fund government through Feb. 8 in exchange for a promise from Republicans to start debate on an immigration reform bill that will offer protection for the We don't know why this couldn't have been figured out on Friday, before the government's funding ran out, forcing the shutdown.
Emails, calendars and text messages of the Washington state Legislature are public records subject to disclosure. Following last week's ruling by a Thurston County judge affirming that requirement, lawmakers need to move quickly to ensure disclosure is the practice.
John Baer has written about politics and government for the Daily News since 1987. Neither subject ever fails to provide him with stories of policies and politicians walking on or skirting by paths to perdition.