Too often in my own life, I attempt to overcome temptation by focusing on the struggle itself. I think that if I try hard enough to stop being enticed, then the longings will suddenly disappear; however, the reality is that to overcome temptation, I need to have something bigger and more powerful that pulls me beyond that temptation.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been described as a public servant carrying out his final assignment for the United States by investigating allegations of “collusion” between Russia and the Trump Campaign.
For those on the left who are still confused as to why tens of millions of Americans voted for Donald J. Trump, look no further than the Jussie Smollett case.
For advocates of the Deal, the absence of policy details is a feature, not a bug, because it makes generating a cost estimate for the plan, shall we say, challenging.
It makes perfect sense for America to be a good steward of the environment today, tomorrow and in the future. But when common sense and reality is trumped by radical ideology and fiction, there is a huge problem that can change our political, economic, social environment to our detriment.
Call it a sad sign of party unity: Not a single Democrat voted Tuesday to advance Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution in the Senate.
After last week’s novel two-game series in Japan that featured the retirement of Seattle Mariners ironman Ichiro Suzuki, Major League Baseball opens Thursday with a 15-game slate, an occasion marking the start of its sesquicentennial season.
As the reality sinks in that the Trump campaign didn’t collude with Russia during the 2016 election – and that no obstruction of justice charges levied against President Trump are forthcoming – Americans are going to start asking why we have been lied to for two years.
In the aftermath of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, many people are missing that the report does include an indictment -- of those who fabricated a horrendous crime to be blamed on the duly elected president of the United States.
Jussie Smollett got a great deal when prosecutors dismissed charges against him.Sadly, if a hate crime hoaxer gets away with it, then there will be more.
To paraphrase the French poet Charles Baudelaire, the greatest trick the deep state ever pulled off was convincing Americans that it didn’t exist. While Baudelaire was, of course, speaking of the devil, it seems an appropriate phrase. It expresses perhaps the most significant aspect of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. There is a deep state, and it just got caught using a lie to try to reverse a presidential election.