COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – The ball clubs have departed their springtime nests, pennant hopes are flowering like daffodils, the ancient game is springing to life again. For even the lowliest teams – maybe including your favorite – the future seems improbably bright at this juncture of the season.
The words “The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America,” is from J. Michael Luttig, a widely respected former conservative federal judge. His alarm, on MSNBC, is no exaggeration.
Normally a column such as this or an editorial is just one person’s opinion – the big honking word at the top of this page indicates it as just so. The good thing is there are 13 other individuals featured within this edition of the Clinton Daily News who can back up this same sentiment: we are all lucky to live in Clinton.
Tom Homan, the White House “border czar,” told Fox News that the Trump administration would defy any federal judge who tries to block the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members. “We’re not stopping,” Homan said. “I don’t care what the judges think.”
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
There are a lot of questions these days about poll numbers, both President Donald Trump’s and those of his Democratic opponents. First, job approval. The president’s rating has tipped slightly underwater, by 0.4%, in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. But what is striking about Trump polls is the wide variation in approval between the different polls. The current Real-ClearPolitics average contains a Quinnipiac poll, from March 10, that showed Trump 11 points underwater. It also contains an RMG Research poll, from March 13, that showed Trump 10 points above the water. A 21-point spread is a pretty broad range. Better to look at the average.
WASHINGTON – “Good morning. I’m Kathryn, what’s your name?” It was a natural enough question – at that awkward part of a meeting where we knew the vaguest things about one another.
Donald Trump is a singular figure in United States political history – an elitist at war with the country’s elite, a beneficiary of the American commercial system who is resentful of the institutions that created the nation’s economic power, a president who is reshaping American history despite his vast ignorance of it.
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
Polls have repeatedly shown that majorities of voters support the work President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is doing to cut waste and fraud in federal spending. A recent poll by CBS News found that 51% of those surveyed believe there is a lot of wasteful spending in federal government agencies, while an additional 36% believe there is some wasteful spending, for a total of 87% who believe there is waste in government.