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It seems to me that Tom McClintock cares more about billionaires getting richer than he does about our grandchildren having a habitable planet. Responding to my e-mail criticizing his support of Trump's intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, McClintock made the following statement: "President Obama bound America to the Paris Accord by executive fiat."
President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va. during a Presidential Address to the Nation about his Afghanistan strategy on Aug. 21. President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va.
President Donald Trump stands with Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. in Lynchburg, Va. on May 13. The statistics tell one story: 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump .
President Donald Trump heads to Air Force One in Morristown, N.J. on Aug. 20. You hear it constantly these days: "This can't go on," "Something's got to give." The hope that impeachment is around the corner is an unspoken assumption in much media coverage.
WASHINGTON a How unstable and divorced from reality is President Trump? We've reached the point where the nation has the right and the need to know. We're not accustomed to asking such questions about our presidents.
Nine years ago this month, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., picked Sarah Palin as his running mate for his presidential campaign. Conservatives immediately fell for the popular Alaska governor, proclaiming her the new star of the right for years to come.
Republican Rep. Knute Buehler, who is running for governor, defends his pro-choice stand, saying he believes in making abortion "rare," as well as safe and legal. "Remarkably," he writes, "that's no longer an acceptable position among the professional pro-abortion lobby."
Editorial: Christie gets it right on off-shore drilling Governor Christie pushes back against the Trump administration on offshore drilling. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2xfodY1 The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay in Seattle in this 2015 file photo.
President Donald Trump had a news conference on Tuesday because he had something to say. Unfortunately, what he wanted to say and what the staff had prepared for him to say were two wildly different things.
Yes, last week's violent demonstration by white supremacists in Char-lottesville, Virginia, culminating in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, made for a carnival of obscenity as sickening as it was riveting. But the thing is, it did not spring from nowhere.
Words, the stock in trade of politics and public policy, express value with as much volatility and meaning as any commodity, stock or bond. Words can be used subtly in ways that let us find meanings in the deeds and thoughts of people across time from many cultures and environments.
Alabama's special election for U.S. Senate will cost $15 million. That's a small price for a vibrant representative democracy, but a waste of money if people don't bother to vote.
President Donald Trump walks off after a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, Aug. 15, 2017. FILE - President Donald Trump walks off after a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, Aug. 15, 2017.
From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan during a meeting with House and Senate leadership at the White House in Washington on March 1. British politicians are familiar with the term "reshuffle," when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they're also very familiar with "coalition governments," when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties.
Twenty years ago July 31, former Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe died at age 72. A Portsmouth-area Democrat, he was speaker from 1975 through 1994, longer than anyone before him - spanning two governorships, and half of a third. And now, thanks to General Assembly term-limits, no one can beat that Ohio record, or even come close.
A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so. But achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is easier said than done, and there is a risk that some attempts to do so could prove self-defeating.
In a news conference at Trump Tower, President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017 on both sides of the conflict, equating the white supremacists on one side with the "alt-left" on the other side. President Donald Trump turned hard on a fellow Republican, boosting the primary opponent of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and calling the incumbent "toxic."
The most shocking thing about what happened in Charlottesville and the - I force myself to use the word - President's immoral non-condemnation is that anyone is shocked. Sadness and outrage over the murder of Heather Heyer and the injury to so many people by a hateful maniac, yes, that I understand.