Section: US & Canada
Finland gets world’s youngest prime minister, a woman age 34
HELSINKI (AP) — Finland became the country with the world’s youngest sitting head of government Tuesday when the Nordic country’s parliament chose a 34-year-old woman with liberal views and a down-to-earth style as prime minister. Lawmakers in the 200-seat Eduskunta voted 99-70 to make Sanna Marin, a Social Democrat who served as...
Impeachment and the Spending Power Revisited
Earlier today, House Democrats released two draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In September, I wrote two posts explaining why, if Trump withheld congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure the Ukrainian president into investigating supposed...
‘It’s been hysterical to see the media screaming’: Ted Cruz says MSM ‘panicking’ over Democrats’ failing impeachment in exclusive interview with Glenn Beck
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Tuesday to discuss the two articles of impeachment House Democrats announced today accusing President Donald Trump of “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.”Cruz described the articles of impeachment as “an admission of failure on the part of the...
Trump, Pompeo Meet with Russia’s Lavrov
U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are meeting Tuesday in Washington with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with the two nuclear powers discussing the possibility of extending their last remaining major arms control deal.The officials, meeting as Democrats unveiled impeachment charges against Trump, also plan to...
Top Ukraine official denies quid pro quo conversation, refuting key impeachment witness testimony
A top aide to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky refuted a key claim made during last month’s impeachment inquiry hearing by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, according to Time.The aide, Andriy Yermak, denied that he and Sondland were ever in conversation alone and said Sondland never told him that military aid...
House Democrats Propose to Impeach Trump for Abuse of Power, Obstructing Congress
After a two-month investigation, House Democrats announced Tuesday that they have drafted articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on broad charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vague “abuse of power” charge follows comes after hours of hearings in which House Democrats used criminal terms such as “bribery” and...
Trump’s Trial Should Put the GOP on the Spot
As the House of Representatives nears a vote on two articles of impeachment, very few people think President Donald Trump’s conduct was “perfect,” as he claims. The partisan divide revolves around whether his wrongdoing rises to the level of an impeachable offense. Democrats believe it does, but Republicans overwhelmingly think it does not....
Barr: ‘I haven’t looked into’ whether Ukraine meddled in 2016 election
Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday distanced himself from a growing narrative among Republicans that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, saying he hadn’t personally delved into the matter.”I am confide… …read more Source:: The...
Speeding Toward Impeachment in the Absence of Facts
The Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump boils down to this: the accusation that he solicited, demanded, perhaps even coerced a foreign government to help him get reelected. Such behavior, they contend, constitutes an impeachable offense. The most important task for the Senate when it conducts a trial on that article of...
What the Democrats Left Out
Today the House Judiciary Committee announced two articles of impeachment. The first article alleges that President Donald Trump abused his power by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly announce investigations into one of his political opponents, Joe Biden, and into a “discredited theory” that Ukraine, not Russia, had...
