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Rep. Speier calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A California congresswoman is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from the presidency under a never-before-used constitutional provision.
Rep. Jackie Speier, a San Francisco-area Democrat,...Read more
Armageddon postponed
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un appears to have blinked and President Trump can claim a foreign policy victory and justification for his strategy.
Reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan's "peace through strength" ...Read more
Will there ever be a breaking point for Trump?
WASHINGTON -- We are past the time when mournful comments about President Trump's disgraceful behavior are sufficient. It is no longer defensible for his lieutenants or Republicans in Congress to tell themselves that they'...Read more
College isn't the only way to achieve the American dream
CHICAGO -- The tide is turning on the "college-for-all" movement. Policymakers are finally starting to understand that while in a perfect world every student would emerge from 12 years of public education excited and ...Read more
Republicans deeply anxious that Trump is ruining GOP brand
WASHINGTON -- If Donald Trump's campaign stomped all over the Republican Party's 2012 plans to build a more diverse movement, his refusal now to squarely blame white supremacists and neo-Nazis for Charlottesville violence ...Read more
Black Republicans aren't ready to quit Trump
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump sure doesn't make it easy to be a black Republican these days.
Despite the president's decision to blame both sides for this weekend's deadly clash at a rally organized by white supremacists, ...Read more
Does Trump know this isn't a TV show?
Like a lot of television watchers, I was shocked and bemused by the way President Donald Trump dug a new hole for himself in the wake of the Charlottesville, Va., tragedy, only 24 hours after digging his way out of an ...Read more
8/17 Cal Thomas column revised
Column revised. Fifth graf, last sentence has been cleaned up to eliminate some extraneous wording. Use updated version.
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Republicans have a new reason to support Obamacare
The following editorial appeared in The Baltimore Sun on Thursday, Aug. 17:
President Donald Trump's threat to "let Obamacare implode" took on a whole new meaning this week with a report released by the Congressional ...Read more
Doyle McManus: The trio that pulled US back from the nuclear brink
After threatening fire and fury, how does a superpower deescalate? By scrambling its secretary of State, secretary of Defense and military chief to reassure foreign leaders that President Trump should be taken seriously, ...Read more
The president who can't speak about hate
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, Aug. 17:
President Donald Trump can read from a teleprompter about love and tolerance, but he can't speak from the heart on the subject of ...Read more
Rocket science: Ukraine firm may have helped N. Korean missiles
The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday, Aug. 16:
Ukraine is virtually an "anything goes" zone for American entrepreneurs -- as well as for people like the North Koreans. That idea has...Read more
A president who can't put aside ego and personal gain has no business being president
The following editorial appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, Aug. 17:
America neither deserves nor can it afford a president who does not care to understand that one of his most important duties, if not the ...Read more
Ann McFeatters: If nothing else, Trump's helping lawyers
WASHINGTON -- It turns out that the man who was involved in well over 3,500 lawsuits during his bizarre business career has become even more interesting for lawyers of all stripes since entering the White House.
The rest ...Read more
White supremacists arm up, but Justice Dept. pursues anti-Trump protesters
The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, Aug. 17:
The Justice Department is treading into dangerous waters by obtaining a warrant to search the computer IDs of all 1.3 million people ...Read more
Trump's Charlottesville uproar overshadows GOP tax plan roadshow
WASHINGTON -- Top Republican tax writers went to a national shrine for tax cutters -- former President Ronald Reagan's California ranch -- hoping to make a sales pitch for a historic overhaul of the U.S. tax code.
But ...Read more
Trump aides agonize over future in White House reeling on race
WASHINGTON -- As Treasury Department aides filtered in for a routine meeting on Wednesday, there was one main issue to be discussed: Secretary Steven Mnuchin does not stand with Donald Trump on the topic of neo-Nazis.
...Read more
10 major Army bases honor Confederate generals, and there are no plans to change that
WASHINGTON -- All around the country, officials are discussing whether to remove memorials and rename public spaces dedicated to Confederate leaders. But not at the Pentagon.
Three of the largest military bases in the ...Read more
Martin Schram: Trump presidency bullied by Trump's pulpit
Standing in the glittery gold and pink marbled lobby of his Manhattan Trump Tower late Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump spoke to America in unplanned remarks that may have been as historic as any formal address ...Read more
Trump's defense of neo-Nazi rally crossed line for many in GOP; what will they do about it?
WASHINGTON -- It took President Donald Trump's defense of a neo-Nazi rally for many Republicans in Congress to publicly distance themselves from the White House, after months of brushing off his impolitic behavior and ...Read more
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