In the United States, there are currently more than 400,000 children who are wards of the state. Due to abuse or neglect at home, they are placed in the custody of the government of the state in which they reside.
One night when my daughter was in kindergarten I was putting her down to sleep, and as I was leaving the room, she said, “Daddy, a girl at school called me a mean name.”
House Democrats had an opportunity to emphasize their condemnation of anti-Semitism. Instead, they chose to obscure the bigotry of one of their own by issuing a blasé statement that weakly disapproves of hate for almost everyone.
President Trump wasted no time Friday in attacking Democrats for their refusal to condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for her anti-Semitic comments when the House passed a resolution condemning a broad range of bigotry.
According to polls, more than 75 percent of American Jewish voters cast ballots for Democratic candidates in the November midterm elections. But sadly, Democrats who control the U.S. House betrayed that loyal support Thursday when they failed to condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar for repeatedly engaging in hate-filled attacks on Jews and the Jewish state of Israel.
We can all do better. Omar needs to respect the gravity of the office she now holds and the impact of the words she uses. Republicans should stop looking for every little “gotcha” moment in an effort to distract from their own challenges.
Americans love a good political brawl, and that’s terrible news for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her Democratic Party has commenced a full throw-down – with itself.
Pretend you’re a freshman lawmaker who perpetually rails against dark money -- but your chief of staff has funneled $1 million-plus in political donations to two of his own companies, Brand New Congress LLC and Brand New Campaign LLC.
Forbes magazine recently featured Kylie Jenner on their cover with the headline “At 21, Kylie Jenner Becomes The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever.” And it didn’t take long for the haters to come out, in force, to rag on both Forbes and Kylie.
In some sense, Donald Trump was replaying the role of the unpopular tenure of loudmouth Democrat Harry Truman (president, 1945–53). “Give ’em Hell” Harry came into office following the death of Franklin Roosevelt. He miraculously won the 1948 election against all expert opinion and polls. Truman left office in January 1953 widely hated. Indeed, his final approval ratings (32 percent) were the lowest of any departing president, except for those of Richard Nixon.
The Senate has several choices to make with regard to the way they handle legislatively the President’s Emergency Declaration on funding for border security.
In a rare moment of bipartisanship during President Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this year, Democrat female lawmakers rose to their feet to join the president in celebrating the fact that more women are in the workforce today than ever before. “No one has benefitted more from our thriving economy than women, who have filled 58 percent of the new jobs created in the last year,” he said.
