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The Washington Post reported that a former top FBI official, Peter Strzok, who had been assigned to and then removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, had "exchanged politically charged texts disparaging [President Donald Trump and supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton" and that Strzok was "also a key player in the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server." This is a blockbuster revelation, carrying the possibility of shattering public confidence in a number of long-held assumptions about the criminal-justice system generally and the FBI and the Justice Department specifically.
To the Editor: Now that the Senate rammed through their tax bill, everyone is wondering how it will affect our own pockets. Out the window went the GOP's concern about our country's deficit.
You're not alone in the Garden State if you count your nickels and dimes to pay the tax bills. Many of our relatives and neighbors have said "Aloha!" and bid farewell to this state whose motto is "Liberty and Prosperity" .
Republicans have for years complained about Democrats raising the national debt, now more than $20 trillion. Additionally, last year they promised that if they controlled Congress and the Executive Branch, they would reform the tax code while giving substantial tax cuts to the middle and working classes.
Regarding two letters on the Sunday, Nov. 12, Opinion page ["Silence deafening after students take a knee"] and ["Spotsy football players' behavior should be addressed"]: Letter writers should be aware that the Spotsylvania County Public Schools' student code of conduct does not address students standing for the pledge or the anthem for good reason. In West Virginia State Board of Education v.
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.
Count Gov. Cuomo among the Democratic leaders who are responding to the truculent mood sweeping the party's base by serving up tough, pointed critiques of the Republican leadership in Congress and the White House. "In my opinion, the federal government should be ashamed of itself," Cuomo thundered from a podium at Kennedy Airport, condemning the Trump administration's response to the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria.
Court documents filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday reveal former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was ghost-writing an editorial alongside a Russian colleague that was meant to sway public opinion in his favor. Manafort, who was indicted by Mueller's team on conspiracy and money laundering charges on October 30 , had worked on the editorial as recently as November 30. The documents, filed in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., indicate that Manafort was effectively attempting to try his own case in the press, something for which U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson had already admonished him, after Manafort's lawyers spoke to the media following his initial October 30 hearing.
President Donald Trump reportedly told confidants that a government shutdown would be advantageous politically and good for his message, according to The Washington Post. We will soon find out.
When a city that's seen more than its share of depressing headlines concerning violent crime over the last several years gets an encouraging word on the same subject, it is worth noting. Last week, the front page of The Record and Herald News carried the headline: " Paterson seizures of guns on rise: Doubled since 2011, report says.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan , President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are shown in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Sept. 5. Dec. 1, 2017, will be remembered as the day when the vast majority of Americans fully grasped the consequences of the 2016 elections.
Why would Christian conservatives in good conscience go to the polls Dec. 12 and vote for Judge Roy Moore, despite the charges of sexual misconduct with teenagers leveled against him? Answer: That Alabama Senate race could determine whether Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Even though an estimated 115 million Americans rushed to malls and big box stores for Black Friday sales, others were reporting that the annual spend-a-thon has lost its bang.Gone is the thrill of the stampede, the fist-fights over a big screen, the trample to grab the last Soggy Doggy. In a Washington Post story, one Alabama veteran of weeklong parking lot campouts lamented that his Best Buy store had closed owing to Americans' changing spending habits.
Republican presidents since World War II have selected secretaries of state who carry out White House priorities in foreign policy and don't aspire to make policy.
Nancy Pelosi had a chance to take a stand, but she led the Democratic Party off the moral high ground and took up residence on a moral molehill. Few issues have the opportunity to unify people of both parties more than the belief that men shouldn't abuse their power to sexually abuse women and children.
The centipede has dropped its heaviest shoe yet. Michael Flynn's plea deal makes explicit that he is cooperating with the special counsel in the Russia investigation.
This story says, "The House easily approved a bi-partisan measure Wednesday requiring annual anti-harassment training for lawmakers and aides." Really? Is this a joke? Did these men have a mother, sister, grandmother? Who is going to pay for this? Guess who.
The Democratic "shero" is, and always has been, a sham. But after Pelosi's incoherent babblefest on "Meet the Press" defending accused groper John Conyers and clown-cad Al Franken, the progressive left can no longer mask her partisan perv apologism.