Get ready for Moore bad news on Election Day

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's ruling Monday temporarily blocking a White House ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military prompted right-wing Republican candidate Roy Moore to provide fresh evidence why sensible Alabamians should not allow him to set foot in the U.S. Senate. Moore, a rabid homophobe and champion of the anti-Obama " birther" movement , has called for Kollar-Kotelly's impeachment by the House of Representatives because, in making her ruling, she has "placed herself above the Constitution" with a display of "judicial activism."

Liberal Columnists Attack Sarah Sanders For Her Weight, Southern Accent

Los Angeles Times columnist David Horsey mocked Sanders' appearance, saying she "looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kids' games." "Rather than the fake eyelashes and formal dresses she puts on for news briefings, Sanders seems as if she'd be more comfortable in sweats and running shoes," Horsey wrote on Wednesday.

Jules Witcover: Trumpa s strategy no match to Muellera s

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 12-point indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump campaign official Rick Gates is the first significant development in the case in the investigation of alleged collusion with Russia as that country's government meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In the process, Mueller has also disclosed that a former Trump campaign figure, George Papadopoulos, has already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the matter, suggesting a plausible leak in the Trump dike of deniability.

Mueller is unraveling Russian manipulation. Let him finish his job.

Has there ever been a covert action that backfired as disastrously as Russia's attempt to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign? Granted, we know all the reasons Moscow is gloating: Donald Trump is president; America is divided and confused; Russia's propagandization of "fake news" is now repeated by people around the world as evidence that nothing is believable and all information is manipulated and mendacious. But against this cynical strategy there now stands a process embodied by special counsel Robert Mueller, which we will call, as a shorthand: "The Truth."

FBI to Trump: Happy Halloween

Virtually unheard of before Monday, when the FBI indicted two of President Trump's campaign staffers, George Papadopoulos is either the key to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election - or a lying "low level volunteer," as the president tweeted early Tuesday morning. But contrary to Trump's dismissive, never-heard-of-him shrug, Papadopoulos was also known within the campaign as Trump's foreign affairs adviser.

Describing Ben Walsh: ‘education mayor,’ good leader, no progressive hero

There has not been a truly education mayor in the last few decades. Yes, the last few mayors have allocated funds for the Syracuse School District and gone to first school day activities, taken pictures with our students from time to time, but none has taken the schools in our city to heart and advocated continuously using their "bully pulpit" as only mayors can do.

Drill, baby, drill in the eastern Gulf? Don’t even think about it

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board members talk about a ruling to revisit the idea of drilling for oil in the Everglades. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board members talk about a ruling to revisit the idea of drilling for oil in the Everglades.

Goodman: Gov. Rick Scott, friend of the environment, LOL.

The Florida governor whose mantra is jobs, jobs, jobs? Who rode to office on a wave of tea party support and has pushed for limiting government and gutting regulations, including those that protect the environment, in the name of giving business a freer rein? Yet here he was this week, proposing to boost spending on Florida's natural resources and environmental programs by $220 million.

A drug on Asean

Ever since Rodrigo Duterte became the 16th President of the Republic of Philippines, the world has watched and read about his unorthodox way of handling situations, at times going above and beyond what one might expect from a head of state. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to hear President Duterte while I was on a business trip to Manila and lucky I had the opportunity to hear him twice in a matter of two days.

CALmatters Commentary: California economy humming, but high poverty persists

When, for example, he unveiled a revised state budget last May, he included what has become boilerplate, warning that "by the time the budget is enacted in June, the economy will have finished its eighth year of expansion - only two years shorter than the longest recovery since World War II. A recession at some point is inevitable."