鈥淚 like taking guns away early,鈥� the president of the United States said. 鈥淭ake guns first, go through due process later.鈥漃resident Barack Obama had a way of stating things that often went to the heart of the matter. But a call to upend the basic tenants of the American justice system - ...
The plot thickens.It can鈥檛 get much thicker, but President Trump is a plot-thickening machine.He鈥檚 not only admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to do his dirty political work for him, but he鈥檚 also asked China to perform the same skullduggery.But at the same time, he鈥檚 denying ...
In November 1832, a convention of South Carolina political activists approved a measure whereby the state might reject any law passed by the Congress in Washington.The activists鈥� immediate concern was the high protection tariff Congress had imposed four years earlier. The tariff, which ...
Last Tuesday, a native New Yorker, who鈥檚 also the head of state of a world power, was handed a big setback.I鈥檓 talking about Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, better known as just Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who was nearly defanged politically by the British ...
If Democrats want to nominate someone for president who knows the ins and outs of government and is adept at political maneuver, they might very well choose, not former vice president Joe Biden, the Mr. Put-It-Together of the Obama administration, but Elizabeth Warren, the liberal fire-brand ...
Much of the country stopped last week, with the news that venerable journalist Cokie Roberts had died at the age of 75.She鈥檇 been a highly respected veteran at National Public Radio, PBS and ABC News, as well as a best-selling author.It wasn鈥檛 surprising that even former presidents Obama ...