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Feb 18 2015
News
Obama picks Joe Clancy as Secret Service director
President Obama Wednesday tapped the acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, to lead the embattled agency on a permanent basis, ignoring calls for an outsider to take over.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Clancy has “a lot of important work ahead of him.” He said the president believes Mr. Clancy is “the right person for the job,” has shown a willingness
Washington TimesMay 13 2019
News
Tlaib Addresses the 'Lies' Being Spread About Her Holocaust Comment
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) gained the wrath of her colleagues for yet another controversial remark about the Jewish people over the weekend. In an interview with Yahoo's SkullDuggery Podcast, Tlaib said she gets a "calming feeling" when she thinks about how her ancestors helped give asylum to Jews whose lives had been upended by the Holocaust.
Her full comments were as follows:
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TownhallSep 23 2019
News
U.S. Voters Support Expanding Medicare but Not Eliminating Private Health Insurance
Democratic presidential candidates are presenting policy ideas that are broadly popular with Americans, including tuition-free state colleges, but other proposals—such as Medicare for All—could complicate the party’s prospects next year, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.
Two-thirds of registered voters support letting anyone buy into Medicare, similar to an idea that
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Nov 15 2018
Opinion
OPINION: 5 Dumb GOP Mistakes We Better Fix Before 2020
The good thing about screwing up is that you can learn from your mistakes and do better next time. That, of course, assumes you are not a Republican Party official, because the GOP Establishment seems largely incapable of learning from its mistakes.
Guest Writer - RightSep 30 2014
News
Debate Simmers Over Disclosing Warrantless Spying
Obama administration lawyers have been debating whether the Treasury Department must inform the people or groups it lists as foreign terrorists when it relies on warrantless surveillance as the basis for the designation, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.
Intelligence officials are said to oppose being more forthcoming about who has been subjected to surveillance,
New York Times (News)Oct 03 2015
News
Media Zeroes in On Two Words Jeb Bush Said in Response to Oregon Shooting, but Here’s the Context
Jeb Bush was skewered Friday by critics who zeroed in on two words he said during an off-the-cuff response to Thursday’s deadly shooting at an Oregon Community College.
“We’re in a difficult time in our country, and I don’t think more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else,” Bush said, according to BuzzFeed. “It’s just
The BlazeJun 30 2022
Headline Roundup
Ketanji Brown Jackson Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in on Thursday afternoon, replacing Justice Stephen Breyer, who retired the same day.
Jackson will likely not change the court’s 6-3 conservative majority. Jackson’s arrival on the court came shortly after a series of controversial rulings, including overturning Roe v. Wade; Breyer had joined the other two liberal justices in a
New York Times (News) Washington Examiner CNBCApr 14 2013
News
Poll: 63 Percent Say More Tax Hikes Are not Necessary
The well-established perception that the United States of America is a center-right nation was obviously challenged during the last election cycle. Many Republicans -- including myself -- believed Governor Mitt Romney would win the presidency for obvious reasons. But that much-hoped-for outcome never materialized. As it turned out, American voters narrowly endorsed the status quo, and now were
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