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Feb 10 2020
Analysis
Trump's budget previews his 2020 economic pitch: Tax cuts and more wall money
President Trump’s budget previews the economic pitch he will be making to voters: more deficit spending to compensate for extended tax cuts and pay for everything from his border wall to boosted NASA funding. All while avoiding painful cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits.
The document, out today, abandons Trump’s 2016 campaign pledge to eliminate the national debt by the end
Washington PostNov 13 2014
News
New GOP Push to Block Immigration Action by Obama
A bloc of Republican lawmakers is seeking to use must-pass spending legislation in the final weeks of the year to place limits on President Barack Obama ’s ability to loosen immigration rules, threatening to split the party in Congress.
Mr. Obama has said that he would act unilaterally by year’s end to change immigration policy, likely by giving many illegal immigrants new protections
Wall Street Journal (News)May 02 2019
News
Facebook has two big problems. Solving one might make the other worse.
It's almost a cliché in Silicon Valley now. "The pivot" — turning a company around to focus on a new goal or message — is something every young firm seems to go through. But when the company in question is Facebook, a pivot is no joke. With what is possibly history's largest customer base, changes at Facebook affect people across the globe.
So it seems worth poking at what happened this
The Week - NewsApr 30 2015
News
NSA snooping program on last legs after anti-Patriot Act vote
The NSA’s phone-snooping program is likely on its last legs after a key House committee voted overwhelmingly Thursday to end the Patriot Act’s bulk-collection powers that the government was relying on to keep the phone program up and running.
The Judiciary Committee approved the USA Freedom Act on a 25-2 vote, signaling a broad bipartisan consensus to expand civil liberties protections
Washington TimesAug 06 2019
News
Obama implicitly rebukes Trump with call to reject normalisation of racism
Ex-president urges Americans to reject language that ‘feeds climate of fear and hatred’ after El Paso and Dayton shootings
Barack Obama has said Americans must “soundly reject language” from any leader who “feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalises racist sentiments” in his first public statement since mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
In the former president’s statement
The GuardianJun 11 2020
Analysis
If You Don’t Support Black Lives Matter, You’re Fired
Black Lives Matter isn’t interested in fighting actual racism. But it is interested in whether you support its agenda—and getting you fired if you don’t.
There will be no opting out of the Black Lives Matter movement. You’re either for BLM or against it—and if you’re against it, you’re a racist. You will either support BLM publicly and enthusiastically, or you will be harassed, shunned
The FederalistSep 27 2015
News
Pope vows to hold clergy accountable for sex abuse
Pope Francis met privately Sunday with a group of clergy sex abuse victims and vowed that the Catholic Church would provide "careful oversight" to protect young believers in the future.
In unscripted remarks at the beginning of an address to bishops from around the globe, Francis said "great harm" has been caused by the clergy sex abuse scandal that has marred the church for more than a
USA TODAYDec 03 2019
Opinion
No, Trump Isn’t Threatening Our Constitutional System
Recently, Tom Nichols, a leading anti-Trump voice (and a former colleague), informed me that “Trump has already changed our constitutional system in ways that will outlast us both. You think it’s worth it. I don’t.”
I hear this claim all the time. Trump’s antagonists keep telling me that conservatives, unable to win through democratic institutions, have adopted extreme policies that are
National Review (News)Apr 19 2015
News
At Republican Gathering, All Talk Is of Hillary Clinton (None of It Is Good)
They attacked her judgment on resetting American relations with Russia and protecting American diplomats in Libya. They slammed her as secretive for using a personal email account at the State Department and deleting messages in the face of scrutiny. They mocked her recent campaign events in Iowa as inauthentic and her unannounced lunch at Chipotle as antisocial. They even reached back to her
New York Times (News)Mar 28 2023
Headline Roundup
Fire Kills at Least 39 at Migrant Facility in Northern Mexico
Mexico's president said migrants at a detention center in northern Mexico set a fire that killed at least 39 people and injured dozens more on Monday.
The Details: Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) said 39 foreign migrants died in a fire that started around 10 p.m. local time on Monday, at a facility in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. At least 29 more were
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