The MetroWest Daily News (Mass.), Aug. 23: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says that the Supreme Court is “not the Supreme Being,” and that if elected president, he would unilaterally act to ban abortion notwithstanding the court’s decision in Roe vs. Wade. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a onetime Supreme Court law clerk, has accused […]
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Romancing the summer stranger
The word of the week is “surge.” In the latest Des Moines Register poll, Bernie Sanders “surges” to 30 percent of Iowa Democrats, just 7 points behind Hillary Clinton. In a Public Policy Polling survey, Donald Trump “surges” to 29 percent of Republican voters nationally, almost double the score of his closest rival, Ben Carson. […]
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The Telegraph (N.H.), Aug. 24: America has seen this before. This anti-immigrant sentiment being churned up by Donald Trump and others? It’s not new. Trump wants to build a wall to keep out Mexicans and deport those who are in this country illegally back to whence they came. He wants to send their kids back, […]
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In GOP scramble, voters want leadership before policy
Conservatives who oppose comprehensive immigration reform are delighted Donald Trump has brought the issue to the fore in the GOP presidential race. They want to believe it’s Trump’s stand on immigration that is driving his popularity. But talks with people who came to a recent Republican event in South Carolina are a reminder that voters, […]
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The Providence Journal (R.I.), Aug. 23: President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, even in the outline initially revealed to the American people, seemed to substitute appeasement for firmness against an enemy that supports terrorism while vowing to annihilate Israel and attack the United States. It is not surprising that polls show a majority of Americans oppose […]
