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Donald Trump is a different thing to different people. And exactly what he is depends entirely upon one's general liking or disliking of him.
If a campaign worker slips you a 10 or a 50 as you head into a polling place or promises you a week at the beach, that is a crime — election fraud. Another way, a legal way, of encouraging folks to vote the right way is through campaign promises to deliver free stuff to people through government programs if that candidate wins the election.
Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. brought forth a truly important topic recently. "Permit me a question to every truly fair-minded person in our country," the piece began.
Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation, submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr, and spoken publicly about the report, that more than two-year, $35 million investigation is over and done.
The only people who seem not to notice the crisis we have in America with people who sneak across our borders, who falsely claim asylum, or who fake family status with a rented, borrowed, or kidnapped child are the people who are responsible for addressing the problem: congressional Democrats.
The bad news for higher education keeps piling up. Recent scandals involving parents bribing people to help get their otherwise unqualified kids into elite schools and the new story of sexual impropriety at Ohio State University add to the list.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, thinks we have entered into a constitutional crisis because Attorney General William Barr has refused to turn over a completely unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"The Swamp." That is how Donald Trump identifies the Washington bureaucratic morass. The Swamp, or however one identifies it, is the stuff of legend.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in his video declaring his candidacy for the Democrat nomination for president, actually identified a very real problem. In his breathy, half-whispering plea for support, he noted that the soul of America is up for grabs.
That President Donald Trump has many critics is no surprise. That he has created much of the negative feelings people have for him is also no surprise. One interesting question is, "How much of the anti-Trump fervor is legitimate opposition to his agenda or a true belief that he is unsuited for the job, and how much is just an emotional reaction to his personal behavior?"
Attorney General William Barr testified recently before the House Appropriations Committee's Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee. The purpose of the hearing was to discuss the Department of Justice budgetary request, but he was asked question after question after question about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russian-collusion investigation and the conclusions from that report Barr released.
Magatte Wade was born in the West African nation of Senegal, was educated in Germany and France, and then came to the U.S. She is a frequent speaker at business conferences and college campuses, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, and Wharton. She has started businesses and is working with her husband to create schools in Senegal.
The number of illegal aliens captured at the southern border has overloaded the facilities that hold them, and thousands have been released into the country.
What do people do when they can't win by being better, but cannot stand to lose? The answer often is to fudge a little, or a lot, rather than to gracefully accept defeat and try to improve.
Since Democrats reclaimed the majority in the House of Representatives last November, they have wasted no time in putting their agenda into action.
The results of a new peer-reviewed Organization Studies survey are out.
No doubt that the Founders and the Framers are spinning in their graves at the degree of sympathy and affection that exists in America today for socialism.
As President Donald Trump is inclined to do, he frequently comments and tweets about "fake news." This most often upsets the news media, which maintains they do not indulge in fake news.
Now that President Donald Trump has declared the situation on the southern border a national emergency, his opponents have predictably offered criticisms. It is unconstitutional, illegal, unnecessary, or whatever else they can come up with.
