Three different lives that one day, perhaps soon, may be forever linked in the righting of one of America’s greatest wrongs – our courts’ de facto categorization of preborn people as sub-human, a wrong embedded in Roe v. Wade .
Day: February 24, 2017
Correction: Trump-Manufacturing story
From left are, Archer Daniels Midland CEO Juan Luciano, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, Tr… . President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with manufacturing executives at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017.
Sound Off for February 25, 2017
Hey all you developers and contractors! I saw some green in North Columbus yesterday! Better get your concrete mixers busy and do something about it before it spreads! Donald Drumpf opens his mouth and shoots out a tweet. Clean up on Aisle 7! Then he blames the media for his own ignorance.
Can the Democrats mount an enduring Challenge to Trump and the GOP?
We are publishing today my interview with master organizer Marshall Ganz. It’s on the eve of the meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Atlanta at which a new chair will be chosen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Holding On For As Long As Possible
The 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice told the BBC “at my age, you have to take it year by year,” but has no plans of retiring early. “My most senior colleague, the one who most recently retired, Justice John Paul Stevens, stepped down at age 90. So I have a way to go,” she said.
Rocker pleads guilty: Carried pistol on plane, in airport
Rock guitarist Rick Derringer has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine after stepping off a Delta Air Lines flight from Mexico with a loaded handgun in Atlanta’s airport. Derringer told a federal air marshal he kept his gun with him on commercial airline flights 30 to 50 times a year, and never before had a problem carrying it through airport checkpoints, prosecutors said.
New Jersey Oks gas pipeline through protected Pinelands
New Jersey environmental regulators on Friday approved a hotly contested plan to run a natural gas pipeline through a federally protected forest preserve amid raucous protests that included drums, tambourines and choruses of “This Land Is Your Land.” The 15-member New Jersey Pinelands Commission voted to approve a plan by South Jersey Gas to run the pipeline through the federally protected Pinelands preserve, where development is drastically restricted.
AmeriCorps program seeking service site locations
The Vermont Environmental Careers and Opportunities AmeriCorps program is seeking partners interested in hosting a talented AmeriCorps member this coming 2017-2018 service year. Towns and organizations with identified environmental project and outreach needs are encouraged to apply.
Crowd erupts in anger when GOP senator shows up late to town hall…
Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy faced an angry crowd at a town hall meeting in Metairie on Wednesday when he showed up late and then tried to have the crowd participate in a group prayer. “Wow, they booed the name of Jesus,” said Cassidy after the prayer – led by Louisiana State Chaplain Michael Sprague – got drowned out by protests.
Melania’s YUGE Event This Sunday GUARANTEED to COMPETE With Left-Wing OSCARS
The Oscars are the crown jewel of awards season, which this year has been filled with liberal preachiness. Celebrities attending these awards shows have been taking every opportunity to blast Donald Trump, and so it was only natural that Trump wouldn’t be watching the Oscars on Sunday night.
Meet 5 people who think President Trump is off to a great start
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump was greeted by hundreds of enthusiastic fans at his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, a reminder of the passion he inspired throughout the 2016 campaign. Yet Trump’s election was also driven by many who supported him with reservations, a bloc of voters he needs to buoy sagging approval ratings and ensure his party’s success going forward.
Rep. Walz mulling Democratic bid for Minnesota governor
The six-term congressman told Minnesota Public Radio News Thursday that he plans to make a decision by April. Walz says representing southwestern Minnesota gives him critical experience to boost Democrats’ standing outside in rural Minnesota.
French voters want Obama?
Tens of thousands of French voters were hoping former President Barack Obama was ready to get back to work. They’ve signed a petition urging him to run for president again, but this time, in France, British newspaper the Independent reported Friday.
‘He’s a liar, you do admit that’: The View hosts confront Trump-boosting Breitbart editor
On Friday, The View hosts hammered Joel Pollak, editor-at-large for the far-right website Breitbart News, with co-host Joy Behar at one point pressing him to admit that Donald Trump consistently and unapologetically lies. Throughout the wide-ranging interview, Pollak threw out the moniker “fake news” to dispute the premise of the hosts’ questions, including when Behar-using former Breitbart chairman and current chief White House strategist Steven Bannon’s own words-reminded the editor that the site is frequently described as a “platform for the alt-right.”
File photo taken in 2012 shows the logo of Capital
Capital One eyed in anti-money-laundering probe Bank update says fed and state investigators focus on former check casher clients and related issues Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: http://usat.ly/2lDmYNN Here’s what’s in Capital One Financial’s wallet: Federal and state investigators’ requests for information about the U.S. banking giant’s anti-money-laundering program. Investigations by the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in New York focus on “certain former check-casher clients” of Capital One’s commercial banking business, the company said Thursday in its annual report .
Tommy Chong on potential pot crackdown: Stay high
After White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday that the Department of Justice “will be further looking into” recreational pot use, Chong tweeted, “Of course Trump is going after legal marijuana but like the failed Muslim ban it will be defeated in court.
Trump speech to conservatives evokes campaign
President Donald Trump’s speech Friday to a leading conservative group was like a series of greatest hits from his campaign rallies. He reminisced about his victory in the Republican primaries.
Resist Day #36: What You Can Do Today
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Officials: Trump adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports
WASHINGTON >> White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked top FBI officials to dispute media reports that Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, according to three White House officials who confirmed the unusual contact with law enforcement involved in a pending investigation. The officials said that Priebus’ Feb. 15 request to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about calls between Russian intelligence officials and people involved with Trump’s presidential run.
Official: Trump adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said. The official said that Priebus’ request came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about the contacts last week.
02/23/2017 BOSTON, MA High school trans student Elijah Cohen-Gordon…
A diverse crowd of more than 200 people rallied in downtown Boston Thursday night to protest President Trump’s decision to roll back federal guidelines allowing transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender identity. The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition organized the 6 p.m. gathering in Post Office Square less than 24 hours after Trump reversed a signature policy of his predecessor, former president Barack Obama.
Supreme Court could decide transgender case. Or not.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. WASHINGTON – Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boys’ bathroom and the Virginia school board that won’t let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ongoing dispute, even after the Trump administration retreated from an Obama-era policy on bathroom use.
Indian man killed in possibly racial shooting at Kansas bar
A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized. Local police are working with the FBI to investigate the shooting Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas, but have declined to describe the attack as a hate crime.
J.C. Penney to close up to 140 stores
J.C. Penney on Friday said it plans to close between 130 and 140 stores in the next several months, a move that makes it the latest retail stalwart to pull back from the mall amid the rise of online shopping. The department store giant’s latest quarterly results, also released Friday, illustrate its struggle to connect with shoppers: Sales were down 0.7 percent at stores open more than a year.
Republican governors on Obamacare repeal: Not so fast
State executives are descending on Washington this weekend for the annual National Governors Association meeting and the Affordable Care Act is at the top of the discussion list. Governors will debate repealing and replacing the health reform law on Saturday, and then they will meet with President Trump and Congressional lawmakers to talk health care on Monday.
Has my pilot had too much to drink? It depends where you fly
There are no standardized international rules on pilot alcohol consumption and testing. Instead, the International Civil Aviation Organization issues guidance and then countries set their own regulations, limits, testing regimes and punishments.
America’s sacred fire must not be doused
“Well, I preach the Church without Christ,” says a vivid Flannery O’Connor character named Hazel Motes. “I’m member and preacher to that church where the blind don’t see and the lame don’t walk and what’s dead stays that way.”
“La perreta”: Are the tantrums working or turning off the adults who vote?
I’d love to see my mom greet some of these anti-Trump supporters screaming about this and that. My mother would say: “are you done yeta well stop being silly and act like an adult so you can make a real difference”.
CPAC once considered Trump a joke
Six years ago, as the “money, money, money, money” chorus of his reality TV show’s theme song blasted, Donald Trump stepped out before the nation’s largest gathering of conservative activists for the first time. The crowd was less than adoring, occasionally laughing at and booing the longtime former Democrat.
Donald Trump: Tyrant, terrorist and traitor
Donald J. Trump ignores the Constitution, threatens those who disagree with him, taunts nervous allies and misuses the power of the Presidency to slam doors that used to be open as a welcome to immigrants, packs his administration with racists, homophobes and bigots and openly loots the treasury of the United States with blatant conflicts of interest and open violation of the laws of our land. His First Lady, a Slovenian-born nude model with a serious questions about her claimed citizenship, bragged to the nation about college degrees she never earned and plagiarized a speech from a former First Lady without apologized.
Democrats facing re-election are skipping out on town halls
Only a few of the ten Democratic senators who are on the ballot in 2018 are hosting such town halls, which in other election cycles were routine, the Associated Press reported . “Seems to me that all these members of Congress are afraid to face their constituents,” Hillary Shields, a member of Kansas City Indivisible, said after Sen. Claire McCaskill declined the group’s invitation to attend a town hall.
Democratic senators criticize Trump on Chinese trademarks
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India lobbies Trump administration to avert visa threat
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India attends the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 19, 2017. India has stepped up its lobbying effort against moves in the U. S. Congress to impose curbs on visas for skilled workers that threaten the South Asian nation’s tech sector, which employs more than 3.5 million people.
UW professors talk about how corruption in government is shaping politics
Some of the most influential government corruption happening at state and federal levels might actually be legal, University of Wisconsin professors pointed out at a Wisconsin Union Directorate panel Thursday. The Global Connections Committee hosted UW political science professors to discuss government corruption amid growing public distrust of public officials.
A.M. Roundup: Medical marijuana program set to grow
Good morning! Yesterday’s temps broke records , and proved me useless as a daffodil whisperer: My bulbs sent up shoots despite my words of warning. In another sign of spring, the Yankees play their first spring training game today , and so do the Mets .
N.J. school board member under fire for offensive Facebook posts
MOUNT EPHRAIM — A member of the borough’s Board of Education said he regrets lewd and offensive posts he made on some Facebook pages, saying he did not realize they were viewable by the public. Lewis Greenwood Sr., 52, was elected to the board in 2015, the same year he retired as a lieutenant in the Camden County Sheriff’s Department.
White House adviser asked top FBI official to dispute Russia reports
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said. The official said that Priebus’ request came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about the contacts last week.
RBS posts 6.96bn loss
Royal Bank of Scotland reported a sharp rise in losses on Friday as higher misconduct charges and restructuring costs underscored the challenges facing the lender nine years after it was bailed out in the world’s biggest bank rescue. RBS, which has not made an annual profit since 2007, booked 6.96 billion pounds of losses for 2016, against a 1.98 billion pound loss in the same period a year earlier.
In video: Caitlyn Jenner attacks Donald Trump over transgender toilets
Caitlyn Jenner has attacked US president Donald Trump over his administration’s reversal of guidelines on transgender access to public school toilets. The former Olympic gold-medal winning decathlete, then known as Bruce Jenner, who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, addressed Mr Trump in a video posted on Twitter, saying: “From one Republican to another, this is a disaster.”
Trump puts moderate GOP governors in awkward spot
These should be heady times for Republicans as the nation’s governors prepare for their winter meeting in Washington, D.C. They criticize President Donald Trump gently, picking their spots to appease the Democratic and independent voters they need to remain in office. At the same time, they don’t want to alienate Trump supporters.