Clear Perspectives

As the results came in, thousands of the president's supporters converged at the Ankara headquarters of the AKP, which Ergodan founded.Waving flags they shouted, "Tell us to kill, we will kill. Tell us to die, we will die. Erdogan, Erdogan, Erdogan."

New Jersey Transit announced a systemwide shutdown last night, taking effect at midnight, or several hours before the first flakes. Storm totals so far are under six inches. Those are amounts which don’t warrant anything more than expected delays. Yet that statewide transit system, covering both buses and train lines, is totally down. So that’s a state of nine million people essentially frozen in place! (The governor? Chris Christie.)

The government is currently inverted. The top of the government pyramid should be the individual followed by the family, community, city, county, state, and finally the federal government. It’s imperative that we make Washington DC remember that they work for us, not the other way around. New Federalism is the key to turning this dream into a reality once again.

Granted, it is true that Nguyen that was told that she couldn't criticize Hayden's record on the floor of the state senate, but shouldn't Democrats who rallied behind Warren under the auspices of free speech do the same thing for Nguyen in this case?

We are called to make disciples. If we fail in that, we fail in all.

If movies like this or La La Land continue to come out of Hollywood instead of the social justice garbage that seems to be forced upon us, perhaps we can all keep our entertainment where it belongs: as a diversion.

The left-wing advocacy organization ThinkProgress was also caught spreading the “fake news.”

The Senate should respect the result of the election and treat this newly elected president’s nominee in the same way the nominees of other newly elected presidents have been treated—and that is with careful consideration followed by an up-or-down vote.

Clearly, Schultz is animated by partisan bias here to damage Trump. But that doesn’t mean her conclusion is wrong too.

"There's a lot required of the city of Baltimore and the Baltimore Police Department that's going to be a lengthy and expensive change for the department," said University of South Carolina criminologist Geoffrey Alpert, adding that the Baltimore decree is particularly thorough in its supervision and oversight requirements. "It certainly looks like they've hit all the buttons."

No one wants self-dealing or genuine corruption. But why muddy that issue with a lot of unrelated nonsense? In lots of cases, asset ownership and government service aren't in conflict; they complement each other. And the best check on all this isn't a lot of long and complicated disclosure forms to be filled out by lawyers and accountants; it's the ability of the voters to throw out the politicians if they turn out to be so crooked they do a bad job for the public.

The point is not that all territorial gains through conquest are legal or legitimate. The point is that there must exist some standard by which territory gained through conquest is legitimate, or else every state is an occupier, and every piece of territory is an illegal occupation, which is absurd. Given the circumstances of the Six-Day War, the idea that Israel's gain of those territories is illegal or illegitimate is ridiculous.

Trump believes he has authorization to build the wall because of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, whose purpose was to build a fence 700 miles long on the U.S. Mexico border. The problem is that most of those 700 miles have already been builta.

“The United Nations (U.N.) is using President Obama’s betrayal of Israel – allowing a dangerous anti-Israel resolution – to unleash a new round of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in an effort to further delegitimize the State of Israel,” argues the American Center for Law and Justice.

The REINS Act brings transparency, accountability, and constitutional balance to the branches of government regardless of which party controls those branches, and it returns power to the electorate by making sure that their votes have a voice in major federal rulemaking.

The next administration may or may not succeed in speeding up economic growth or restoring jobs in old industries. But it can't succeed in both. To pretend otherwise is to write a check that can't be cashed.

“(I’m going to) take a step forward and keep moving on and try to find another job,” Burkinshaw-Stanley said.