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Real federal taxes per capita have more than doubled since John F. Kennedy served as president — and argued for lower taxes.
"It balances in the 10th year." That is what White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters about President Donald Trump's budget proposal in a briefing Monday.
Three days after the 9/11 attacks both houses of Congress voted correctly — and without objectors — to authorize the president to use force against those who perpetrated the attacks and those who aided them.
The Obamacare repeal bill the Republican-controlled House passed last week — the American Health Care Act — does not repeal the section in the Obamacare law that created the statutory authority for the Executive Branch to issue a regulation requiring most health insurance plans to cover contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs and devices.
The 1,665-page spending bill the Republican-controlled Congress is planning to pass this week includes multiple measures that seemingly demonstrate a commitment to securing the border — in Libya, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
When Donald Trump stood in the lobby of Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 and announced he was running for president, he told all who listened to "mark" his words.
My father, who was born in 1922 and lived his teens and early twenties during the unfortunate reign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whimsically embraced a tax reform plan that he sardonically explained to me once or twice during his hard-working life.
When President George W. Bush decided he wanted to remove and replace Saddam Hussein, he made a bad decision to go to war in Iraq but a good one to seek congressional authorization first.
The chairman told the witness to stand. "Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" The witness said: "I do so swear."
In 1947, two years after the United States won World War II, 96.4 percent of the babies in this country were born to a married mother and father.
St. Augustine, who has not been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, made a straightforward argument against a right to suicide. Neil Gorsuch, who has been nominated, makes a subtler argument against such a right. But Gorsuch's argument is not subtle enough for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who fears the principle at its foundation may also form the foundation of an argument against abortion. Feinstein is right to be fearful.
Suppose the federal government confiscated 90 percent of the income of every private sector worker who earned more than the poverty level. Then suppose the government used some of that confiscated money to pay government workers and the rest to provide benefits to people who do not work or earn less than the poverty level. Would that be a transfer of wealth?
The Affordable Care Act was based on government coercion of individuals and redistribution of wealth. So, too, is the Republican plan to "replace" it.
If the chance is there, if there is a realistic opportunity to actually do it, don't let that moment pass you by: Get three tickets, and go see Sinatra.
"America wasn't founded on one homogeneous moral view. We have competing moral views."
FBI Director James Comey and then-CIA Director John Brennan — both appointed by President Barack Obama — issued public warnings over the past two years about a terrorist threat to the United States that demanded a rational response from the president. Donald Trump has now provided one.
"This is a religious test pure and simple," Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said Monday. The senator, who as the Democratic vice presidential nominee defended Hillary Clinton's support for legalized partial-birth abortion, seemed to be taking a morally righteous stand against President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at protecting U.S. territory from entry by foreign terrorists.
"My goal," said candidate Donald Trump, "is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations." He spoke these words last April in a prepared address delivered not at a massive rally in a basketball arena, but before a few Washington insiders at the Mayflower Hotel.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest and Secretary of State John Kerry finished President Barack Obama's final term with fitting acts of propaganda.
Richard Allen, President Ronald Reagan's first national security adviser, once wrote an essay for Human Events describing a visit he made to Reagan's California home in 1977. Allen went there, he wrote, to ask Reagan to support his campaign for governor of New Jersey. He and the future president ended up talking about foreign policy.
