Some senators are urging Collins to fight the federal hiring freeze Trump declared Monday, saying it will sap the Department of Veterans Affairs’ ability to provide medical care or even run veteran cemeteries.
“would be detrimental to the interests of the united states.” the plaintiffs include the international refugee assistance project on behalf of church world service, the jewish refugee resettlement agency hias, lutheran community services northwest, and individual refugees and family members. they said...
a Democratic House will probably go ahead and do just that, but for it to be successful, it must either force Trump’s resignation or result in a successful prosecution in the Senate. Trump doesn’t have many friends in the Senate–and senators don’t serve in safe hyper-Republican distric...
Even Congress was not spared from the viciousness associated with Bleeding Kansas. After giving a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” that called out proslavery senators, including Andrew Butler of South Carolina, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachussetss wassavagely canedby Butler's nephew on...
To my mind, this theory offers an explanation of the overt hostility to traditional Western, Christian culture that is evident in the actions of so many Jewish leftists and neo-cons - even when such actions (like supporting unlimited immigration of Muslims and other incompatibles) could very ...
And in the titanic struggles over slavery, Muslims were front and center: remember the Muslim abolitionist Senators who faced down the South in the antebellum Senate, the Senate chamber ringing with their oratory about how the Qur'an says to free slaves and so the U.S. government should, ...
Senate Democrats are roughly split over the possibility of an Israeli ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where many displaced Palestinians have taken refuge,Jewish Insider’s Marc Rod reports. Background:President Joe Biden over the weekend called a potential Israeli invasion of Ra...
While it’s unknown what it cost to build the Colosseum in antiquity, many scholars believe the Colosseum was partly financed with the booty taken by Roman soldiers during the empire’s raid of the Jerusalem Temple during the First Roman-Jewish War that ended in 70 A.D. An inscription at ...
Joe Lieberman, the 2000 VP nominee, was the first Jewish American to appear on a major party presidential ticket. They won the popular vote each time. The one time they lost the popular vote, in 2004, was when they had two white, Christian men. It’s still not very many observations,...
s definition of antisemitismto bana local pro-Palestinian bike ride seeking to raise money for sports equipment for Gazan children from traveling through its parks. “This wasn’t a direct action, it wasn’t anything to do with Jewish people, it wasn’t discrimination, it was pure solidarity...