Why not try anything else before simply greenlighting rich investment managers from essentially bribing government officials to hire them to manage government investments and enrich themselves further? Instead of hiring whomever seems best-qualified, government officials will be strongly incentivized to hire whoever writes them the biggest check at election time.
If the American people do not understand or value having a military that is loyal to the Constitution instead of the current president and of having top military officials who are not afraid to tell the president why what he wants to do may fail, then we do not deserve to have them.
Ostensibly, Trump renamed the lake because of its importance to America and because America takes care of it. In reality, it is a combination of spite toward Canada and low-brow patriotism.
Because most of us are too young to have experienced firsthand the scourges of diseases nearly eradicated in the 20th century, many of us seem hellbent on gaining some firsthand experience in order to understand the virtues of vaccines, even if it ends up in the death of some our children.
As usual, it seems that Trump and his top staff imagined themselves as the smartest and most qualified people for the job. They alone could see the simple solutions to solving whatever problems they perceived, and they alone possessed the iron will and fortitude to make it happen.
Unfortunately, many Democratic Socialists have shown themselves to be flawed, unserious people more focused on quixotic cultural and non-economic issues than on the economic concerns weighing on many Americans. And if Democratic Socialists keep it up, the Democratic Party will not win many consequential elections.
On Monday, Darline Graham Nordone announced she would run to replace her recently deceased brother Lindsey Graham as a US Senator representing South Carolina. Should we be troubled that blood relation to a prominent legislator seems to be her primary qualification for the job?
Those of us not inexplicably under Trump's spell have to watch a sleezy, transparent conman degrade the office of the presidency and make decisions based not on what helps the country and its people but on what fattens his and his immoral family's wallets.
A president, who is the head of a party that is ostensibly in favor of capitalism, free markets, and small government, is enacting, with no apparent opposition, socialist policies that would be opposed at all costs coming from Bernie Sanders or the socialist Mayor of New York.
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The House essentially voted to sternly disapprove of the President's continuation of the war with Iran, refusing to do something substantive to reel in the President, reassert Congress's war authority, and maintain the separation of powers between the branches of government.
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