The second-ranking House Democrat charged that President Trump’s unproven accusation former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign shows that the president is divorced from reality. The allegations outlined in a Trump tweet on Saturday “paint a picture of someone obsessed with conspiracy theories and detached from reality,” said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the House Minority Whip, in a statement Sunday.
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Today in History: March 4, 2017
On March 4, 1917, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the same day President Woodrow Wilson took his oath of office for a second term . In 1789, the Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York.
Whose news is fake? Here’s the latest in Trump’s war with the press
Reporters stand in the press briefing room of the White House after being excluded from the meeting on Friday. That year, President Reagan missed out.
A Pleasant Day Protesting All Things Trump
It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. That’s unusual for Presidents’ Day in Chicago, where the weather is typically a mournful dirge for Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, with blowing snow and biting wind.
PHOTOS: Virginia-connected Oscar winners
A number of actors and behind-the-scenes talent have won the coveted statuette presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Here are Commonwealth-connected Oscar winners we found.
In Newark, a Presidents Day rally against a president
Elston, a 45-year-old truck driver who lives in Newark, is a fan of the nation’s 45th president, Donald Trump . He had just shouted the same argument at a group of about 50 protestors staging a Presidents Day rally against the sitting president, at the seated statue Abraham Lincoln in front of the old courthouse at Springfield Avenue and Market Street.
What today’s leaders could learn from those we honor on Presidents’ Day
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events PRESIDENTS’ DAY may seem somewhat contrived, an attempt to work a three-day weekend into the month when our two greatest national leaders were born, with the goal of making February a little more tolerable. But somewhere under the annual glut of ads for improbable bargains, there’s real meaning to the day, especially in this year of rancor, division and shameless deceit.
What today’s leaders could learn from those we honor on Presidents’ Day
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events PRESIDENTS’ DAY may seem somewhat contrived, an attempt to work a three-day weekend into the month when our two greatest national leaders were born, with the goal of making February a little more tolerable. But somewhere under the annual glut of ads for improbable bargains, there’s real meaning to the day, especially in this year of rancor, division and shameless deceit.
You’re not going to believe where historians ranked Obama in presidents survey
Span conducted a survey of 91 presidential historians to determine the ranking of the nation’s 44 chief executives. It’s the third such survey conducted by the public affairs network, the previous two being taken in 2000 and 2009.
Thinkin’ about “Lincoln” again
Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln seems to have dropped from our cultural consciousness. Perhaps the cognitive dissonance it induces on the left suppresses memory of it.
2/04/2017
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves. – James Baldwin, from The Fire Next Time Last month, we celebrated the life of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., whose incredible example is unique in American history.
John Hurt, RIP
John Hurt has long been among my favorite actors. The last movie I watched was actually a movie I re -watched: V for Vendetta I enjoyed Hurt in The Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express, and the Harry Potter movies.
Rep. Franks: If Trump Holds Pro-life Course, He’ll Be – An Abraham Lincoln for the Unborn’
Rep. Trent Franks told CNSNews.com at the March for Life on Friday that President Donald Trump was “knocking it out of the stadium” as far as pro-life issues go, and that he hopes Trump “keeps marching on and doing what’s right, because if he does, history will see him as kind of an Abraham Lincoln for the unborn.” “Right now the man is knocking it out of the stadium and I am so proud of him,” Franks said, adding that he prays Trump “doesn’t fall prey to the relentless attacks of the left and the pro-abortion groups.
Tancredo: ‘Fruitcake’ Ashley Judd’s Anti-Trump Missives ‘Incredibly Vile’
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo says Ashley Judd’s foul-mouthed rant at the Women’s March on Washington was raving of a “fruitcake.” “For all those children in that audience, I’m so glad they were able to see American democracy in action,” Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, said sarcastically to Steve Malzberg on Tuesday’s “America Talks Live” on Newsmax TV.
Paul LePage: John Lewis should thank Republican presidents for ending slavery, fighting Jim Crow
Paul LePage, the Republican governor of Maine, said Tuesday that civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis should “look at history” and say “thank you” to 19th century Republican presidents for fighting for the rights of African-Americans. LePage’s comments come after Lewis said on NBC News that Donald Trump was not a “legitimate” president.
Letters: Evaluating Obama’s legacy
Re: “How do you assess Obama’s legacy?” [Opinion, Jan. 3]: It’s become clear that President Obama is very concerned about his place in history, and his actions in office will define that legacy. His administration has given us inedible school lunches, unaffordable insurance and made police lives unimportant.
a Message to President-Elect Trump
I do not propose to attack you, nor do I propose to support everything that you say and do. In truth, I cannot say that I voted for you, because I imagined myself standing in front of the pearly gates of heaven and found myself at a loss to defend selecting either you or Mrs. Clinton for president, so I made an alternative choice.