Trump has power to build wall
Our nation seems to be treading uncertain days. We have a president who campaigned and won promising to address the illegal immigrant issue on our southern border, yet Congress is defying him.
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Get rid of Buck Act now
While Republicans promote themselves as the party of no taxes, the Democrats try to sell themselves as the party of the helping hand. Both parties are thieves of hard-working taxpayers. Neither party has ever met a tax it didn't love.
How one of Al Capone's 'boy wonders' lived and died
From the Prohibition era to the mid-1970s, Johnny Rosselli traveled first class through the nexus of Hollywood movies, Las Vegas gambling, shady business deals, secret government assassination plots and organized crime.
Liberals tear down Confederate statues, but they favor a new brand of slavery in illegal immigration
After watching with disgust liberal 'useful idiots' tearing down Confederate memorials and with them American history, I realized early this morning, when the ideas tend to come, that while these Bolsheviks are acting this way, at the same time they are embracing the policies of the Confederate South's 'cause."
America's Big Tech destiny with supreme surveillance
America's on a crash course to become a supreme surveillance nation, and it's all being done in the name of convenience.
'What constitutes a real national emergency'?
It turns out that national emergencies, at least in law, aren't terribly rare. More than 50 national emergencies have been declared by presidents since the National Emergencies Act became law in 1976. Of those, 31 remain active, ongoing "emergencies" today.
Diapers for dummies -- or technology that shouldn't be
Here's a thought: If you're a parent and can't tell when your baby's bottom is wet or soiled -- you might not be what's called "a good parent." You might want to stick with being a pet owner.
Technology in your toothbrush, telling you how to brush
If CES 2019 tells anything, it's a story of how technology is moving into every aspect of human life, from driving to securing home and possessions to parenting to -- brushing teeth. Some of the artificial intelligence serves as an apt demonstration of overkill.
The graveyard ghouls and a lather of speculation
Not all ghouls live in the graveyard. Some of them are busy in the capital sunshine, making book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's chances of returning to the U.S. Supreme Court and staying there to assist in the rendering of Donald Trump and his administration as dead as one of those graveyard ghouls.
Protecting America's national home
Immigration has been ingrained in the American consciousness from our earliest days, as many people left foreign lands to make a new life here. While President Trump did not invent the concept of making America great, his call for protecting that greatness stands in sharp contrast to those who see nothing special in our nation at all. But when you consider that so many have come together to make this place their home, a wall with a door that opens to those we want in not only makes sense, its purpose is clear.
Where bipartisan progress is possible
As the Democratic takeover of the House and divided government becomes official, Washington, D.C. seems as polarized as ever.
Herb Kelleher's 'customer-centric' company
An idea scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin is part of the lore of several of the greatest ideas of mid-20th century America: the Laffer Curve, the automatic fire-hose nozzle, the Space Needle in Seattle. Important concepts, simply presented.
The president and the wall
Two years into his presidency, Donald Trump is still trying to convince Congress to cough up billions of hard-earned tax dollars to build his wall on the southern border with Mexico.
Reefer madness
Everyone enjoys his bad habits, else they wouldn't be habits, but fortunately most of us have the sense to swear off the ones that cause lasting harm. The obvious danger of tobacco to health has pushed cigarette smoking to a record low. Sad to say, the use of marijuana is growing now that ambiguity over its legality is well advanced. Potheads are sometimes thought to be mellow folk, whose only bad habit is wearing out the sofa while lost in lethargic reveries about what they can't remember. Surprising to some, pothead behavior occasionally ranges into violence. Potheads should learn the underside of the drug before joining the high life.
A mystery and the precision of miracles
In my mind, the setting of Samantha Harvey's fourth novel, "The Western Wind" -- the village of Oakham, 1491 -- is rendered entirely in cinematic muted blues and grays. It is like those films of limited color, in which inescapability becomes the very palette of the universe.
Say bye-bye to BDS
Leave it to Sen. Chuck Schumer to try and improve his street creds with progressives by threatening Israel ("Senate Democrats back BDS anti-Israel movement with filibuster of Mideast partnership bill," Web, Jan. 8). American-Israeli interests should not be made into a partisan issue. Mr. Schumer is sending the wrong message to the new Congress.
Carlson wrong on 'market forces'
Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently used his platform to rail against market capitalism, claiming that "families are being crushed by market forces." While poverty certainly exists among American families, it is absurd to attribute it to markets.
Winding down U.S. interventions in the Middle East
President Trump announced American forces will finally be pulled out of Syria. But Defense Secretary James Mattis disagreed with that decision enough to resign and the rest of the political elite -- people from Nancy Pelosi, to Hillary Clinton adviser Victoria Nuland, to Mitt Romney -- joined in to lambast the decision.
LOVERRO: Doby never played for Senators, but impact still felt in D.C.
If his fate had been a little different, Doby would have made history right here in the District of Columbia, as the first black man to play for the Washington Senators.
Why the bad guys think they can outwait Trump
If the Chinese can appease President Trump and his able trade negotiators for a couple of years, temporizing until his wrath is a thing of history, then they will do so.
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