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California ranks No. 1 in poverty once again. Take one guess why.
California was given a first-place title this week that it surely doesn’t want.<p>It has the highest rate of poverty of any state in the country, …
OpinionBrett Kavanaugh misled the Senate under oath. I cannot support his nomination.
<i>Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate.</i><p>Last week I uncovered new evidence that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh misled the Senate during his earlier hearings for the D.C. Circuit Court by minimizing and even denying his involvement in Bush-era controversies. I gave …
OpinionThe question Bob Woodward's book doesn't answer
<b>(CNN) —</b> Bob Woodward's "Fear: Trump in the White House" is a runaway hit. The book has captured many of the Washington headlines since parts of it leaked out last week, and on Tuesday, its first day on sale, it sold more than 750,000 copies.<p>The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter offers juicy nuggets …
OpinionWhy Is Trump’s State Department Stealing Ideas from Old Spice Commercials?
Mike Pompeo’s #Swagger hashtag diplomacy is an international embarrassment.<p>On Monday, coupled with the launch of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Instagram account, the State Department launched a campaign rebranding itself the “Department of Swagger.”<p>Replete with a composite photo of William …
OpinionTrump really hates apologizing for misogyny and racism. New reporting explains why.
President Trump does not believe that people — that white men like himself — should have to apologize for their public displays of misogyny or racism. But this isn’t simply because he doesn’t want to give ground to critics out of stubbornness or a fear of displaying weakness.<p>Rather, the refusal to …
OpinionBob Woodward review: ‘Fear’ and Quoting in Trump’s White House
<b>Fear</b><i><br>Trump in the White House</i><br>by Bob Woodward<br>Simon & Schuster, 420 pp., $30<p>Want to understand how President Donald Trump and his White House operate? …
OpinionTrump lied about Puerto Rico's death toll after Hurricane Maria. But island officials enabled that behavior.
Hot Take<p>President Trump is finally feeling the pressure for never formally acknowledging the fact — yes, despite his tweets, the fact — that the number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria and its aftereffects was never just the 16 lives, a number about which he so proudly bragged …
OpinionColleges should stop trying to 'protect' students from free speech in violation of the Constitution
Earlier this year, my colleagues and I won a case for John McAdams, a tenured political science professor at Marquette University, who the university attempted to fire for writing an accurate and civil blogpost – even though academic freedom was guaranteed in his contract.<p>And now we’re back in …
OpinionThe Guardian view on Xinjiang: China’s secret camps are at last in the spotlight | Editorial
It is unthinkable. Yet week by week, the evidence mounts that in north-western China’s Xinjiang region, as many as a million people are being held in extralegal indoctrination camps where inmates are forced to write self-criticisms, sing patriotic songs and chant slogans praising the Communist …
OpinionHow Trump’s Mideast Moves Are a Game Changer
Back in the early ’70s, as a young staff officer in the Israeli military government of the West Bank, I served as a liaison the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). I even had an office in the organization’s headquarters in east Jerusalem.<p>Things seemed simpler then. UNRWA ran refugee …
Opinion‘Three thousand people did not die’
<i>“3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000……..This was done by</i> …
OpinionMichael Avenatti: The Case for Indicting the President
Sol Wachtler, a former chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, once famously remarked that grand juries were so easily swayed that they would “indict a ham sandwich” if a prosecutor requested it. Many times, there is truth to this. But an indictment does not end the process of …
OpinionIt’s time to declare the White House a disaster area
President Trump’s pathological inability to admit error, his insatiable appetite for praise, his complete absence of empathy and his debilitating weakness for conspiracy theories have now combined to create a grotesque, if predictable, spectacle. He is doubling down on his absurd and offensive …
OpinionPolice officers do not need guns
What would happen if American police officers carried whistles instead of guns and dressed in old-fashioned blue uniforms instead of outfits that …
OpinionRepublicans Want to Change the Rules. They Know It’s a Bad Idea.
Good catch by Casey Burgat, who flags a House Republican proposal to shift more influence within the chamber from individual members to the party leadership by means of a rule change that would threaten committee assignments and chairmanships of those Republicans who vote against their party or …
OpinionWill Bob Woodward help upend another presidency?
“Where have you gone, Bob Woodward? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”<p>I asked that question in January, repurposing a Paul Simon lyric to …
OpinionTammy Bruce: Trump's election STILL has liberals reeling – But even Woodward won't knock out 2016's winner
Poor Bob Woodward. Poor us. His new book on the Trump White House, “Fear,” was released this week, and its author has been making the rounds. But we’ve seen this movie before: Internationally known author writes book about President Donald Trump that will make all liberal dreams come true. The …
OpinionDallas finally sues Valley View Center over the mess it is
The first story I wrote about the big plan from Jeff Beck and sons Scott and Jarrod Beck to redo Valley View Center ran on April 23, 2012. Crews had …
OpinionThe world's emotional temperature may be starting to boil
Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday? It might seem like a simple question, but if you answer “yes,” you are better off than a …
OpinionCommentary: Was there another target in the Skripal poisoning?
The poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia has taken yet another dramatic turn. After UK authorities named two Russians – both said to be from the GRU military intelligence service – as suspects in the attack, Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the pair were …
OpinionThe next financial crisis is a matter of when, not if
10 years after the Great Recession hit, Wall Street and Washington have done little and financial markets remain vulnerable to collapse: Our view<p>Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Bros., and it would be nice to report that Wall Street and Washington had learned the …
OpinionTucker Carlson: When will Pelosi, Democratic leaders have the guts to speak up about political violence?
In the State of California, a man screaming obscenities about the president attacked Republican Congressional candidate Rudy Peters over the weekend. He tried to stab him with a switchblade.<p>Meanwhile, here in Washington, police are investigating an angry progressive who apparently threatened to …
OpinionNot even Republicans trust Trump on Russia
Illustrating the truism that once you’ve lost credibility it’s hard to get it back, Republicans joined with Democrats in dismissing President Trump’s executive order on Russia as too little, too late.<p>The Post reported:<p>The order would allow Trump to sanction foreigners who interfere in the midterm …
OpinionA Late Hit on Kavanaugh
The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination next week, so get ready for the late hits and last-ditch smears. The latest came Thursday when ranking committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein announced that she has “information” . . .<p>Of course she does. …
OpinionJudge Andrew Napolitano: Donald Trump and the rule of law
Last week, The New York Times published a scathing critique of Donald Trump -- the man and the president. The Times said the critique was written by a senior Trump administration official who insisted on remaining unnamed. This bitter and harsh editorial, which portrays the president as dangerous …
OpinionWhat's behind NRA TV's grotesque take on 'Thomas & Friends'
<b>(CNN) —</b> NRA TV host Dana Loesch seems to thrive on dog whistle controversy. Case in point: in a recent segment of her internet show "Relentless," she castigated the British cartoon series "Thomas & Friends," featuring Thomas the Tank Engine, for seeking to bring "gender balance" and "ethnic …
OpinionA new authoritarian axis demands an international progressive front | Bernie Sanders
Demagogues who exploit people’s fears are rising around the world. For an effective opposition, we can’t rely on the status quo<p>There is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence. Nothing less than the future of the planet – economically, socially and environmentally – is at</i> …
OpinionChina’s Look Beneath Toyota’s Hood Sets Uneasy Precedent
Watch out car companies, here comes the long arm of the Chinese state.<p>Toyota Motor Corp. is preparing to hand Beijing the technology behind the Prius, its almost-eponymous hybrid car, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. The move comes as Chinese officials push for bluer skies and cleaner vehicles, …
OpinionWhy do people stay put during storms?
September 14, 2018 5:00 AM<br>When Hurricane Florence finally arrives, thousands of residents will find themselves unprepared. Many will find their homes …
OpinionIs California a Good Role Model?
Conservatives argue that California’s liberal politics have failed. They point out that by one key measure the state now has the highest poverty rate in the nation and they argue that its liberal minimum wage and restrictive housing codes have more than a hundred thousand people homeless, more than …
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