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Category Archives: Opinion
Kenneth Roth: Respect lives immigrants have built in America
Among the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States today, 60 percent have lived here for a decade or more. Many have built deep family and community ties, through U.S.-citizen spouses, children, jobs, homes and mortgages.
Kathleen Parker: Personnel problems plentiful in Trump club
Weyeneth's qualifications for the job, which falls under the executive branch and spends hundreds of millions to fight illegal drugs and manage the opioid crisis, are essentially nil. As reported in The Washington Post , he did lose a relative to a heroin overdose and was very moved, making him uniquely qualified for no job whatsoever.
LETTERS: Reaction to government shutdowns
I am beyond angry and appalled at each member of the U.S. Congress-Democrats and Republicans alike-for their disgusting display of complete incompetence. Their inability to pass a government spending bill prior to the mandated deadline is unconscionable.
This 24-year-old is an emblem of the White House’s recklessness
If the name Taylor Weyeneth rings a tiny bell in your head, then you might be related to him. Otherwise, the 24-year-old was until a week ago an unknown if powerful member of the Trump administration: deputy chief of staff in the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Another Opinion: Trump’s stance gives hope to an Iranian majority that longs for freedom
The contrast couldn't have been sharper: In 2009, as Iranians took to the street, they chanted, “Obama, Obama, either you're with us or against us,” but President Barack Obama remained silent.
An Honest Challenge for the Never Trumpers
During the Republican primaries, I was very nearly a Never Trumper, so I'm quite sympathetic to that mindset. But I have a challenge for all of you who still identify as Never Trumpers: Are you willing to be as honest about the accomplishments of President Trump as you are about his failings? For many of you who could not vote for Trump, it was a matter of conscience.
Protecting 2018 vote in face of inaction
The results of a special counsel's investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election will not be known for some time, but one fact is well established: The regime of Vladimir Putin tried to sway the results of the presidential vote.
E.J. Dionne: Remembering that government can work
Troy, Mich. a Episodes of congressional disarray feed an ideologically loaded narrative that government is hopelessly incompetent and can never be counted on to do much that is useful.
Dana Milbank: What on Earth does President Trump want?
Washington a As the federal government hurtled toward a shutdown this last week, lawmakers played a now-familiar parlor game: What on Earth does President Trump want? On Wednesday, the White House issued an official statement saying it supported a 30-day spending bill to avert a shutdown that included a six-year extension of the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. But Thursday dawned to see Trump declaring the opposite.
Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer sang a different shutdown song in 2013
If you want to known why people hate politics, listen to the rhetoric surrounding the present shutdown of the federal government. This time around, Democrats play the role of the minority insisting on a policy change before they'll agree to end a filibuster and fund most government functions.
Court decisions on corporate rights have endangered American democracy
Today is the eighth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, in which a 5-to-4 majority struck down portions of a bipartisan campaign finance law, the McCain-Feingold Act.
Letter: Trump opposed by media, both parties
Isn't it just amazing that the open bipartisan White House meeting on immigration, which was broadcast for the world to see, President Trump actually received some positive reviews from some of the mainstream media and members of both parties in attendance? However, when he met again with the DACA Group and six of the senators, that consists of Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Cory Gardner, R-Colo.; Michael Bennet, D-Colo.; Bob Menendez, D-N.J, Dick Durbin, D-Ill. and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., presented their immigration plan, that wasn't open to the media, the outcome wasn't the same.
Controlling Schools in W.Va.
Most school districts have built enough space into their calendars that they should have no trouble meeting the state's requirement for 180 days of instruction this year. But what if it continues to snow? What if some counties ask the Legislature to exempt them from the 180-day rule? They'd better be calling the West Virginia Board of Education, too.
LETTERS: On border wall, local congressmen and healthier living
So what happened to the border wall that was going to be built with Mexico's money? Because millions of Donald Trump's believers voted for him on that promise. So now what we get is "I better get the billions of dollars of our tax dollars" and if not I'll shut down the federal government.
James Clapper’s perjury, and why DC made men don’t get charged for lying to Congress
In DC, perjury is not simply tolerated, it is rewarded. In a city of made men and women, nothing says loyalty quite as much as lying under oath.
EDITORIAL: Trump being healthy is bad news for impatient Democrats
Waiting for someone to die, whether to claim an expected inheritance, outlast a rival for the affections of a wife or mistress, or to vacate the White House , requires stamina and patience. From the day Donald Trump shocked the world and appalled the elites, the Democrats and their media allies have been searching for a deux ex machina, a miracle to get him out of the way of decent folk.
Diane Wood: Midterm election a chance to restore our reputation
Our next election is just 10 months away. It is our chance to restore our goodness and our reputation.
Trump: Dangerous because he is effective
US President Donald Trump speaks at the "Conversation with Women of America" meeting event at the White House in Washington, DC on January 16 [Carlos Barria/Reuters] The political establishment in the US has classified him as an aberration, a coincidence of unfortunate circumstances, and a political phenomenon, certainly a nuisance and maybe even a scary, unpredictable man. In fact, he campaigned on the elite's failure to understand the depth of frustration among ordinary people hit by globalisation.
EDITORIAL: Tax reform, designed to create jobs, jobs, jobs, yields its first results
The announcement on Wednesday that Apple Inc. will bring $350 billion in cash parked overseas - that's billion with a B - home to the United States, to invest here and create as many as 20,000 new jobs, is likely to be the economic story of the year. Donald Trump , who made his boast that he would "make America great again" the centerpiece of his campaign for president, couldn't have designed this play better on a blackboard.