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Some of the people we have memorialized did not represent the best of who we are or the promise of a bright future for all Americans. Black Army captain: I lived in Robert E. Lee barracks.
With no clear front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, several prospective candidates are beginning to stir. The process of touching donors and activists has begun, and a Democratic Party message that is beyond simply being anti-Trump is becoming increasingly clear.
After the horrific attacks in Barcelona, the city's chief rabbi said that there was no future for the Jews there. The next day, the leader of the Jewish community in that same city rebuked the rabbi and asserted that Jewish life in Barcelona was thriving, that Jews were not afraid and would not be driven from their homes by fear stoked by Islamic fanatics.
"We are going to show great heart," President Donald Trump said at a news conference in February when asked about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. "We are going to deal with DACA with heart."
An E-4 advanced airborne command post is tested on a electromagnetic pulse simulator. U.S. Air Force photo North Korea has threatened to launch an electromagnetic pulse attack that could shut down the United States' power grid - causing months of blackouts that could bring society to a halt, with rampant crime and social chaos.
Will Bunch has worked at the Daily News for 20-plus years and is now senior writer. Since 2005, he's written the uber-opinionated, fair-but-dangerously unbalanced opinion blog "Attytood," covering a range of topics ; it's been named best blog in the state by the Associated Press Managing Editors and best blog in the city by Philadelphia Magazine.
I'm just back from visiting all of our key air bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and along the Persian Gulf, and I find myself wrestling with two stark contrasts: the contrast between what is happening there in the air and what is happening on the ground, and the contrast between the decency of the U.S. military personnel fighting this war and how unworthy Donald Trump - who has become our divider in chief - is to be their commander in chief. The first contrast was summed up in two wall-size digital maps at our Kuwait-based command center for the war on ISIS.
Jerry Brown, who has twice in my lifetime been the two-term governor of California , once said something that I love. He said he learned more from James Taylor's song "Fire and Rain," than he learned in Yale Law School.
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Americans eventually tire of the presidents they elect. The political skills that fuel the rise of Roosevelts, Reagans and Obamas always seem to lose their allure over time as the promise of "Morning in America" and "Hope and Change" devolves into the cynicism of "Been There, Done That."
President Donald Trump's order reviving a Pentagon program making certain military equipment available to local-level police departments is controversial. However, for the most part, police having access to such powerful gear wasn't a matter of contention - indeed, most Americans weren't even aware of the availability - until President Barack Obama curtailed the offerings in 2015 after several police killings of black men in Missouri and other states.
Hurricane Harvey may have wreaked havoc among thousands of Texans, but it has thrown a political lifeline to Donald Trump, handing him a much-needed opportunity to demonstrate he can play president in a time of national emergency. The last Republican in the Oval Office, George W. Bush, initially settled for an antiseptic presidential flyover of Hurricane Katrina's assault on New Orleans 12 years ago, and was roundly criticized for it.
Hurricane Harvey has devastated Texas. Now board your windows, evacuate the low ground and watch the damage it is poised to unleash on the nation's finances.
President Trump has issued an executive pardon to former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. President Trump has issued an executive pardon to former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona.
The Aug. 12 Charlottesville riot and its aftermath constitute a dereliction of duty by Virginia authorities and the corporate media. Gov. Terry McAuliffe , Mayor Michael Singer and Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy erred in issuing the demonstration permit to Jason Kessler.
Floodwaters are receding from the Gulf Coast, giving up their dead and laying bare the full scope of destruction. "This is going to be a multiyear project for Texas to be able to dig out of this catastrophe," Governor Greg Abbott said Friday.
This Labor Day, millions of Americans will celebrate their day off with backyard barbecues and a family trip to the beach. But we shouldn't lose sight of the holiday's deeper meaning.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain had some choice words for President Donald Trump in a blistering op-ed published just as Congress is getting ready to come back from vacation and face a host of important deadlines. The Washington Post op-ed is titled "It's time Congress returns to regular order," but it is McCain's knocks on Trump that are getting passed around on social media Friday.
Democrats have a clear vision for how they'd lead the country if in power, and the Republican president has been in office for less than eight months. A Better Deal - the Democrat's new economic development and job creation manifesto - was presented to us Wednesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in a meeting at The Denver Post.