Whether you believe the involvement of the federal government in our everyday lives is a good thing or a bad thing, I'm betting we can all agree on one thing: Lawmakers in Washington continue to misspend our money. Big time. There ought to be a law, but there isn't.Pork barrel politics is still ...
The late-night hosts hate President Donald Trump, so the idea that they would make friendly alliances shouldn't be shocking. But as we've come to understand, in today's world anything that reflects negatively on this president becomes "news." So when Stephen Colbert at CBS called up Jimmy ...
Concerned about expansion of executive power? You'd better vote.A president who wields power like few before him has received a stunning — and disconcerting — affirmation from the U.S. Supreme Court of just how expansive his reach is, at least as regards immigration.It is a ruling that ...
Amid President Trump's war on American mainstream journalism as "fake news," an offended reader of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., shot and killed five editorial workers in its newsroom Thursday, with no indication that anything Trump had said had anything to do with the tragedy.The ...
No agency or department of the U.S. government has unlimited power, but enforcing and maintaining the limits on power is often easier said than done.One example of this is the fight between House Republicans and top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice over documents that Congress has ...
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Yes, Utah County is full of blue blood.But in the last 10 years, some of that spirit has transferred as Utah Valley University transformed from a state college to the now-largest university in Utah.The driving force behind this surging growth and school spirit? Matthew Holland.As we approach ...
How nice it would be to believe that President Donald Trump’s plan to reorganize the federal government will result in more efficiency and less bureaucratic stupidity. Most Americans have had enough exposure to federal agencies to believe an improvement has occurred when they see it, ...
If Trump's supporters are truly "a basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" and "irredeemable," as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them?So a growing slice of the American left has ...
This week, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., issued a clarion call to Democrats outraged at the policies of the Trump administration: It's time for mob action. In the wake of mobs targeting Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Waters explained: ...
