Happen to miss The Larry O’Connor Show today? Recap today’s program by checking out topics from the program below:
Something to remember this #TaxDay: Immigrants pay billions in taxes every year, yet many will never receive the Social Security or Medicare they pay into. pic.twitter.com/qWyXCURRs7
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 15, 2019
GUSA Constitutional Council to Hear Suit Against 272 Referendum (The Hoya)
The Georgetown University Student Association’s Constitutional Council will address a suit filed by two students that seeks to overturn the results of last week’s referendum to establish a semesterly fee that would go toward a fund benefiting the descendants of the GU272.
Rowan Saydlowski (COL ’21) and Chris Castaldi-Moller (SFS ’21) submitted the suit claiming the referendum, which passed with 66.1% of students voting to approve, violated GUSA’s constitution and bylaws. (Full Disclosure: Saydlowski currently serves on The Hoya’s Editorial Board). The Constitutional Council is collecting documents from Saydlowski and Castaldi-Moller, GUSA and the Ethics and Oversight Committee, and the general public before hearing oral arguments at its hearing Wednesday. [Read More]
‘Mary, dry our tears’: French priests respond to Notre-Dame blaze (Catholic News Agency)
.- Father Pierre Amar was praying in Notre-Dame de Paris at 5 p.m. Monday evening to prepare spiritually for the Easter Triduum; hours later he was ringing the “funeral bells” at his parish to mourn the flames consuming the “mother of all the cathedrals in France.”
Hearing the bells, Amar’s parishioners came to their church in Versailles, to pray the rosary together as Notre-Dame burned.
“The Cathedral of Notre-Dame has a particular place in our hearts and in our history,” Father Amar told CNA April 16. “It is hard to find my words because the emotion is so great.” [Read More]
TWO ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING MAN WEARING MAGA HAT IN GERMANTOWN (My MC Media)
Germantown district police officers have arrested two men for their involvement in an assault and robbery that occurred in Germantown over the weekend.
According to police, the two men arrested for their involvement in this incident are Jovan Crawford of Germantown, 27, and Scott Duncan Roberson of Washington D.C., 25.
Police say that a man, who was wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, was walking near Cottage Garden Drive in Germantown on Saturday. As he was walking, police say that he was approached by Crawford and Roberson. [Read More]
Northam decides against speaking at VMI commencement (Roanoke)
Gov. Ralph Northam has decided not to speak at Virginia Military Institute’s commencement ceremony next month.
The change to the lineup of speakers comes as the embattled Democratic governor continues to navigate the blackface scandal and weighs when to make public appearances. [Read More]
No, Joe Scarborough, Spying On Trump Wasn’t Done ‘By The Book’ (The Federalist)
When Attorney General William Barr acknowledged the Donald Trump campaign was spied on in 2016 by agencies investigating a dramatic conspiracy theory about alleged collusion with Russia, and said he’d like to review the matter, those who pushed the theory began to panic.
Some media figures attempted to deny that spying had occurred, even though it had been revealed in various and sundry ways. They conceded that overseas intelligence assets had been placed against the campaign, that wiretaps had been secured, and that national security letters had been drafted, but they claimed these examples of spying were not spying. That they’d regularly and repeatedly referred to them as spying in non-Trump contexts slowed them down not at all. [Read More]
Maya MacGuineas, the president of independent and bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, warned on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning that Bernie Sanders’ proposed policies could cost $20,000 per taxpayer.
“If you look at healthcare, free tuition, family leave, child care – those proposals will all have a price tag of over $20,000 per taxpayer,” MacGuineas said.
“I don’t know whether they plan to finance all of that or add that to the very large national debt, but the costs are certainly high. I know trillion is kind of hard to get your arms around. But when you bring it down per taxpayer, we are talking more than $20,000 increase in taxes.” [Read More]
