Comment on Obama’s Breathtaking Expansion of a President’s Power To Make War

And so The Gilded Rage begins. And the thing to take away from all the executive orders and unforgivable pardons is that convicted felon and career criminal The Orange ? meant what he said. He never kids around, he has no sense of humor. Hair Füror’s most consistent campaign promise was to govern as a dictator on his first day of office and he showed everyone that he intends to keep that promise. If anyone was surprised by what happened yesterday, they need to check their credulity by the door.

Standing behind a lectern in the Colorado State Capitol building, State Rep. Naquetta Ricks reflected on the harrowing conflict that forced her to leave West Africa for Aurora. Her family escaped the civil war in Liberia after her mother’s fiance was murdered by a firing squad. “Behind every undocumented person is a human story: a parent striving to provide for their children, a person trying to flee violence,” Ricks, an Aurora Democrat, said Wednesday.

"Border czar" Tom Homan vowed to snatch undocumented immigrants from schools if he deemed them a threat to national security. During a Tuesday interview on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney noted that the Department of Homeland Security "issued a memo to repeal limits on ICE agents." "Am I right in saying that this frees up ICE agents to go into schools, hospitals, and other institutions to arrest illegals?" Varney asked Homan. "Well, again, the officers have a great deal of discretion depending on the location," Homan confirmed.

As President Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the White House thanks in part to a tsunami of campaign cash from oligarchs and corporate interests, democracy defenders on Tuesday marked the 15th anniversary of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling that unleashed such spending by urging action to overturn the decision. In a nation where corporations and moneyed interests already wielded disproportionate power and influence over elections, Citizens United v.

Denver city officials will strive to put 2,000 people in permanent housing this year as the city moves more people out of temporary shelters — a figure that’s double their original goal for 2025. The decision to boost the target came after internal conversations within the city government over the last month, said Cole Chandler, the deputy director of Mayor Mike Johnston’s city’s homeless initiative. “The reality is, we’ve always set big, audacious goals — not necessarily about what we think we can do, but what our community needs,” Chandler said in an interview.

Pity us conservatives in Oregon, who have a lot to think about as our leaders prepare to ‘Trump-proof’ the state.