Back in September I wrote about our “ethically challenged” democratic system. I said, “We are caught in a downward, self-destructive [debt] spiral.” If you doubted me then, those doubts should have been exploded last week. Congressional leaders agreed to increase federal spending by nearly $300 billion above the already-rising limits stipulated by the Budget Control Act of […]
Washington awoke Wednesday to a political earthquake after Democrat Doug Jones won an upset victory for a Senate seat in Alabama, the first time in a quarter century Republicans have lost a Senate election in the deeply conservative southern state. It was a major rebuke for U.S. President Donald Trump, who had called for the […]
WASHINGTON — Alabama Republican candidate Roy Moore is rebuffing a growing number of calls for him to abandon his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in the wake of allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl four decades ago when he was a local prosecutor in his early 30s. Moore told political supporters Sunday […]
Nearly two-thirds of American voters believe President Donald Trump is doing more to divide the country than he is to unite it, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The Quinnipiac University Poll reported 62 percent of the voters it surveyed felt that Trump is increasing divisions in the country; 31 percent said they felt […]