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Dec 01 2012
Opinion
The Crisis of American Self-Government
'We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency."
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Mar 02 2020
News
Bloomberg’s big bet: Can money beat Biden's momentum?
In his brief three-month campaign for president, Michael Bloomberg poured nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars into building an advertising and data-mining juggernaut unlike anything the political world had ever seen.
But a big part of the strategy hinged on a wildcard named Joe Biden.
Biden’s resurgence after a dominant victory on Saturday in South Carolina has upset that
ReutersJun 20 2018
News
Trump blesses House Republicans' new compromise immigration bill
President Trump blessed House Republicans’ compromise immigration bill “1,000 percent” Tuesday, giving political cover to conservatives looking to back the bill and creating momentum ahead of a showdown vote expected this week.
Washington TimesSep 10 2019
News
Illegal ballot harvesting caused a do-over House election in North Carolina. What are the pros and cons?
A U.S. House special election in North Carolina’s 9th congressional district on Tuesday is essentially a do-over after a candidate’s 2018 victory was negated by allegations of illegal ballot harvesting. The election could flip a longtime Republican district, and has shifted national attention to the issue of ballot harvesting, the arguments in favor of and against it, and how different states
Henry A. BrechterNov 17 2022
Headline Roundup
Should the 'Respect for Marriage Act' be Passed into Law?
The Senate voted 62 to 37 on Wednesday to advance a bill codifying both same-sex marriage and interracial marriage into law. Twelve Republican Senators voted in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, overcoming the threshold to filibuster legislation.
In Favor: In a statement from the White House on Wednesday, President Joe Biden urged Congress “to quickly send this bill to my desk
Washington Post NewsNation The Daily SignalJun 05 2012
News
County-By-County Battle In Wisconsin
Wisconsin votes on recalling its governor Tuesday, and much has already been made of that vote's potential implications beyond the state.
But for now, this historic moment belongs to the 3 million-plus Wisconsinites registered to vote. Most of them are expected to turn out, and those who do will be thinking about the implications for Wisconsin more than the prospects for fallout
NPR (Online News)Jul 01 2015
News
God is not on our side: The religious right’s big lie about the founding of America
One of the more popular and enduring accounts of America’s past is that of its religious founding. Belief that the British-American colonies were settled largely by religiously devout people in search of spiritual freedom, that the United States government was founded in part on religious principles, that the Founders intended to create a “Christian nation,” and that America is a specially
SalonJun 17 2018
News
Rep. Michael McCaul touts conservative immigration bill ahead of Trump meeting
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul touted a conservative immigration bill Sunday ahead of Congress’s vote this week on legislation that would shield children brought to the country illegally from deportation.
Washington TimesAug 21 2016
Opinion
Hillary Clinton and the Ghosts of MTV
I experienced eight years of weird celebrity life in the ’90s as a political reporter for MTV News. Yes, MTV once had a Peabody Award-winning news department. An argument has been made that MTV got Bill Clinton elected president and sent Hillary Clinton to the White House in 1992 by coaxing young people to vote — as their vote tilted that first election his way.
New York Times (News)Sep 07 2019
Opinion
Sin of commission: What the state’s new campaign finance panel has gotten wrong already
Typically for Albany, legislators who lack the courage to make reforms themselves jammed into the state budget the creation of an unelected panel to recommend whether to set up a statewide public financing system. And typically for Albany, that panel has now gummed up decisions that should be made on the merits.
The nine-member commission staffed by appointees of Gov. Cuomo and
New York Daily News