The FBI’s search Monday of former President Donald Trump’s home is being construed as confirming two opposing views. For those opposed to Trump, the FBI’s historic action marks the beginning of a long-awaited reckoning for a man who has long escaped consequences for his actions.
From Day One, President Joe Biden’s immigration policy has been largely incoherent. It’s now verging on a crisis.
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Thad Kousser Los Angeles Times The wave of Kansans who turned out last Tuesday to protect abortion rights in the state has given the U.S. its first glimpse of post-Dobbs politics.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in 2017 and eliminated some itemized deductions, and capped others on personal income tax returns. The standard deduction nearly doubled and with indexing has increased this year to $12,950 for a taxpayer filing single and $25,900 for married filing jointly.
It’s good to see the city of Independence moving ahead with a commission to suggest possible changes to the City Charter. It’s been too long and it might be that the charter needs more updates and other changes than can reasonably be addressed at one time, but let’s get started.
Private citizen Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were absolutely right way back when they kept demanding an investigation of what we’d just learned: Russia had interfered big-time in America’s 2016 elections — running video ads and doing lots more that helped Donald Trump win the presidency.
How should I describe this? Try to imagine, if you can, the way it might feel to wake up one morning and realize that, during the night while you slept curled up in your bed, you somehow got hit by an 18-wheeler pulling a double-wide mobile home.
Imagine waking up one day to discover that a handful of judges had decided that the government could invalidate your marriage. Suddenly, the legal structure that holds your family together could be unraveled, creating uncertainty in some of life’s most intimate domains — child custody, estate planning, medical decisions.
My laptop has a little spot at the bottom of the screen that tells me it’s 100 degrees outside. Or about to rain.