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Natural disasters know no political boundaries. And that's why international humanitarian relief flows so quickly, and in such great and humbling quantities, when hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis strike.
Traffic ticket quotas just might be New York city's worst-kept secret. NYPD whistleblowers, from Adrian Schoolcraft to Adhyl Polanco, have caught police supervisors on tape setting targets.
Repetition is the enemy of maintaining proper distinctions. It is a short road from being serially outraged to being slightly bored to being completely inured.
The leftwing J Street's Director of Communications has written a breathtakingly inaccurate and careless screed against ZOA , falsely claiming we are an "ultra partisan" group advocating for Trump which refuses to criticize him. Yet, your own newspaper's Nathan Guttman verified this as a phony allegation by writing on May 15 an article entitled " Is Trump Losing Morton Klein " stating that Klein criticized Trump by saying "Trump will have to explain all these hostile statements toward Israel."
I see that yet another college campus has yielded to the pressure of the extreme left and has deemed that the flag of the United States of America is too controversial to fly. Personally, I believe that in a case of hatred of our country such as this, all federal funding, subsidies, and grants to that indoctrination center need to cease.
When, right out of the starting block, President Donald Trump reneged on a key campaign vow, he inadvertently laid the foundation for a swamp of his own making just months later.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accused Texas Republicans of being "hypocrites" for seeking Hurricane Harvey federal aid after opposing similar measures in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. While many believe Texas should receive all the funding it needs, others are hesitant to write a blank check to a state that refused to do the same when other states were in need.
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2017. . With Congress coming back from its summer recess after Labor Day, look for President Donald Trump's simmering feud with his party's leaders on Capitol Hill to heat up.
FORT MCNAIR, one of the oldest U.S. military posts in the country, is nestled on an outcropping of land where the Anacostia and Potomac rivers meet in Washington, D.C. There, within the National Defense University, is the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, where hundreds of Hondurans took courses over the years. In mid-July 2009, Honduran military officials sought the center's help to solve a problem that had recently arisen.
On August 30, 1997, Americans received word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.
If there is one indisputable observation to make about the state's Republican legislative majority it is this: They are relentless in their efforts to protect their disproportional power. When the courts told them they had illegally gerrymandered the 2011 Congressional districts, they reworked the districts maps and brazenly announced that they did so to retain their 10-3 majority.
As the sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., Joe Arpaio was an authoritarian and incompetent disgrace to public service. He bragged of confining inmates in conditions so harsh that they amounted to a " concentration camp ," and in his zeal to find illegal immigrants he engaged in naked racial profiling - even after a federal court ordered him to stop.
It may be an impolitic point to make at this meteorological moment, but sometimes bluntness helps clear the conceptual clouds. So here goes: The rhetoric around the Texas disaster relief effort is inspiring, but shouldn't political leaders' professed concern about their fellow citizens transcend national emergencies? Or to put it another way, why don't President Trump and the leading politicians of Texas practice what they preach? This week, Greg Abbott, Texas's governor, spoke movingly about the spirit of generosity and community on display in the Houston area's Dunkirk-like response to this natural disaster.
California is home to amazing natural resources, a diverse economy and a hard-working population eager to flourish. However, we don't have sufficient water to meet the needs of all who call California home.
The Republican Party's leaders in the United States House of Representatives have been hard at work for more than a year designing a major reform of personal and corporate taxes. With an election looming in 2018, the House Republicans are determined to deliver a reform package and send it to the Senate for enactment.
Scranton Mayor Bill Court-right has repeatedly said the sale of the city sewer system shifted $140 million in long-term, mandated upgrade costs from the Scranton Sewer Authority to the buyer, Pennsylvania American Water. Calling the Scranton School District's finances an "urgent crisis," area lawmakers asked the state for additional funding for the fiscally troubled school system.
At various times during our history, American troops abroad have been targeted with special ferocity by enemies aware that the more U.S. troops they killed, the more likely our government would be to accelerate already declared timetables for withdrawal. That ends now, President Donald Trump declared last week in an important speech about policy toward the war in Afghanistan.