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Americans deserve a tax structure that is both simple and fair. The brunt of the burden shouldn't sit on the middle class, especially not here in West Virginia where our citizens work hard every day to make ends meet.
The News & Observer of Raleigh on University of North Carolina Board of Governors criticizing school officials over the recent controversy about a Confederate memorial statue at the Chapel Hill campus: Now 15 members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors have criticized in a letter UNC system President Margaret Spellings, Board of Governors Chair Lou Bissette and by implication UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt over the recent controversy about the Silent Sam Confederate memorial statue on the Chapel Hill campus.
Baby boomers elected Donald Trump. Not all of them, of course. Trump won convincingly among voters 45 and older - the bulk of whom are boomers - and lost convincingly among voters 44 and under, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University.
"The Barbarian cannot make ... he can befog and destroy but ... he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true." Hilaire Belloc's depiction of the barbarian is recalled to mind as the statues honoring the history and heroes of the Republic and of the West continue to be vandalized and smashed.
Wyoming's congressional delegation should work to find a bipartisan solution to the rift over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, using the legislation as a starting point for immigration reform. In its five years DACA has served roughly 800,000 young Latino adults, most of them brought to the U.S. as children by their parents.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., center, speaks to the news media on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
So it goes that a subdued Einstein is a slower Einstein, robbed of original thought, his genius stolen away in the name of decorum. Whether the drug for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder would have transformed the German physicist into a dullard is a subject for researchers and activists to debate.
Illustration by Joan Wong; Obama photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times and Trump photo by Chang W. Lee, via The New York Times The United Nations isn't the venue one would expect for threatening war. Yet that's what President Trump did in his first address to the General Assembly.
The latest polls show Republican Kim Guadagno trailing Democrat Phil Murphy by almost a 2-1 margin in the race for governor Certainly not New Jersey's status as a "blue" state. The reality is that we're mostly red when it comes to gubernatorial elections.
No matter your age or technological sophistication, your world is driven by the convergence of 24-hour news channels, ubiquitous social media and immediate access to any and all information a simple Google search will bring to a device that you have within arm's reach at all times. At the same time, the era of a trusted national news source has ended.
The public line from the supporters of the Iran nuclear deal in the last two years has been clear. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the core agreement is known, is wonderful.
Amid protests in St. Louis, Gov. Eric Greitens is calling for calm and issuing warnings to people in the streets who are looking to do more than voice their opinions. "You can not underestimate the power or the danger of mob mentality.
Most who quoted her did not mention she made the statement in discussing her plan to help those who had relied for generations on mining jobs. Had Clinton proposed government help for miners whose job loss was unavoidable, her statement might not have stung.
I know, it's still more than 13 months before Kansans elect a governor, so why such early analysis? A reasonable question, but given that we have more than 10 announced or probable candidates, it makes sense to think things through. Let's go.
In recent weeks I read more about the high heels that Melania Trump wore on a trip to Texas than I did about the positive developments in a war that was at the center of the foreign-policy debate in last year's presidential election. In that debate, you may recall, Donald Trump went against most of the candidates from his own party in welcoming the Russian military into the war against ISIS as an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Who could have known that one horrendous weather event after another would strike America and cause so much human tragedy and economic loss? Well, those who study the changing environment. They are called climate scientists, who for several decades have been warning that a warming planet causes the sea to rise in temperature.
Republicans in Congress and the White House are committed to passing a powerful reform of our tax code that will create jobs and economic growth, returning money to hard-working Americans. For the last eight years, the American economy has grown at 2 percent per year.