Venezuela is on the edge. Tuesday’s uprising is a make-or-break moment for the opposition’s protracted effort to oust disputed President Nicolas Maduro. The odds are against its success.
We saw a rare and welcome display of bipartisanship Tuesday when the top Democrats in Congress emerged from a meeting with President Trump to announce the president had agreed on the need to invest $2 trillion to repair and upgrade the nation’s roads, bridges, railroads and broadband.
While “Avengers Endgame” was already setting box office records last weekend, a promising and unexpected trend has developed recently in Hollywood. High-profile actors are emerging in movies with powerful messages of faith — a faith which is often shunned in Hollywood circles.
Back in 1969, with the first man landing on the moon, the first TV show on a future doctor’s mind was “Star Trek,” not the “Brady Bunch.” In fact, as a child I was in awe of Doctor McCoy and his tricorder, and even now, I see the latest advances in artificial intelligence and robotics and I think of McCoy operating on the brain without an incision or instruments. We are getting there. The "Brady Bunch," by contrast, was a laughable comedy promoting good cheer, if it taught a lesson at all it was about what we called then the nuclear family, certainly nothing about health or medicine.
There was always one elusive target on every tour. One guy we hunted and chased but somehow kept slipping away. Every team had its archnemesis. Mine during the summer of 2010 was a man we called Abu Dua.
“The dignity of work is my measure of success,” Joe Biden proclaimed Monday, to cheers from much of the media. Strangely, he set that mark at the first rally in his campaign to replace a president with an astonishing record of boosting workers.
In the spirit of opposing everything Trump – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the House will not take up legislative approval of the recently revised NAFTA – the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement – until Mexico first changes its trade laws to comply with the deal. This flies in the face of Mexican pride – an issue not to be trifled – and jeopardizes many gains organized labor and critics of free trade on the left have long sought.
As President Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi meet this week to discuss a potential infrastructure deal, there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic that a bipartisan deal can be made which would renew America's crumbling infrastructure base and to some extent, help keep America's 3 percent growth expansion on track.