Opinion · 114th Congress
Thanks, GOP. XOXO, Hillary
CLEVELAND — Right about now, Rob Russo, the guy who handles Hillary Clinton’s correspondence, should be putting the finishing touches on dozens of thank-you notes.
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CLEVELAND — Right about now, Rob Russo, the guy who handles Hillary Clinton’s correspondence, should be putting the finishing touches on dozens of thank-you notes.
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He was the first, but hardly the last Trump surrogate to lie about the episode without an ounce of shame.
They should have simply echoed Comey’s staggering indictment of Clinton’s judgment and truthfulness.
Cab drivers can’t go two blocks without the guy in the backseat opening Waze and disclosing the fastest way to get across town, even though the cab driver knows that some of the “fastest routes”
If that were the criteria, we should be singing “The Battle of New Orleans.”
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Just before her speech, the 59-year-old lawyer said she hoped she’d get through the thing without crying, and she did.
Our civil liberties are the hallmark of our free and democratic society, but they should not be absolute.
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Abandoning one party upon seeing a chance to win the presidency through the other is less common, but not without precedent.
What happened is ominous because it reminded us that we should not believe ourselves immune to such an attack, even in the United States.
Henry Johnson of Albany, New York, was a decorated war hero (serving in France with the Black 369th Infantry Regiment called the Harlem Hellfighters), and should have received the Medal of Honor, as originally
That money should be going toward public infrastructure projects — not into tolling companies’ pockets.
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Republicans argued that the White House was padding its Zika request, they pointed out that the $622 million would just be a cash-infusion to get the government through September, and that the president should
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, without the downside of a potential Trump blowout. The problem is there’s no way to know which side is which until Election Day.
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