Legalizing marijuana will only further undermine poor communities and foster addiction. It is time for progressives to choose between social justice and legalizing marijuana.
I urge my Senate colleagues who are planning to vote for Speaker Pelosi’s rebuke of President Trump’s Emergency Declaration to reconsider and reject her cynical and political resolution. I strongly urge the president to use his constitutional authority to veto the Pelosi legislation should it be passed out of the Senate.
Let me impart some potentially campaign-saving advice to any Democrat running for president: You are not Barack Obama. Do yourself a favor and don’t try to be.
Nicholas Sandmann and his parents have followed up their defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post with one filed yesterday against CNN. Sandmann, you’ll recall, is one of the Covington High School students savaged by the left after attending this year’s March for Life in Washington.
For two years, Democrats and their leadership have been haranguing the people of the United States with hysteria claiming that President Trump was an agent of the Russians, stole the election, is mentally disturbed or unfit and obstructed justice -- among other bizarre and crazed accusations. Yet Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the Democratically-led House, has announced that impeaching Trump is “not worth it.”
Vaccinations in the United States have saved millions of lives, increased life expectancy and saved trillions of dollars in societal costs. The science is clear –vaccines are safe, effective and the best protection we have against serious preventable diseases like measles.
This week, the United States Senate will take a historic vote known as a negation, a statutory procedure whereby Congress nullifies an act of the president. The negation vote is authorized by the National Emergencies Act of 1976, which was written to permit the president to streamline government during an unforeseen crisis.
The South by Southwest Festival has become a gathering point for left of center politics. Heavily attended by millennials. And guess who emerged as the shining star -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- she drew the biggest crowd. It was bigger than the crowd for some presidential candidates!