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May 11 2013
News
Minnesota House Speaker Paul Thissen talks gay marriage
The Democratic leader says gay marriage is not just an "East Coast/West Coast phenomenon." Minnesota state is set to become the 12th state to legalize gay marriage.
Washington Post
May 11 2013
News
GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond
Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016.
Townhall
Apr 23 2020
Opinion
Trump is throwing Georgia under the bus
President Trump's leadership has always been inconsistent and erratic. He takes a position one day, only to reverse himself the next. This has been frustrating since the beginning of his tenure, but now, it is positively dangerous to Americans trying to survive during a global pandemic — and it is a threat to the futures of local politicians trying to follow his lead.
Trump's tendency
The Week - Opinion
May 28 2015
News
Cool Mitch McConnell gets passionate — and pays
Mitch McConnell rarely goes out on a limb on issues that divide Senate Republicans. He’s more prone to sit back and listen, let his conference work out their differences — and only then assert his own views. But the majority leader ditched that dispassionate approach when it came time to renew the country’s anti-terrorism surveillance laws — he spoke out early and vociferously against
Politico
Sep 17 2019
News
Why the debate over the legality of Andrew Yang’s $120,000 UBI pilot doesn’t really matter
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang promised to spice up September’s primary debate by doing “something no presidential candidate has ever done before in history” live on television.
He kept that promise by announcing in his opening statement that he would give away $1,000 a month — $120,000 a year — to 10 randomly selected people as part of a pilot program for his universal
Vox
Oct 12 2013
News
Collapse: Shutdown talks break down on Capitol Hill
Talks between House Republicans and President Obama to end the government shutdown and avoid hitting the debt limit have collapsed, lawmakers said Saturday morning, leaving few paths out of a catastrophic budget crunch. “That’s over with. It’s done. They’re not talking anymore,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said as he opened his chamber.
Washington Times
Aug 20 2016
News
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards: Donald Trump welcome, ‘but not for a photo-op’
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is more than welcome in the state if he plans on helping flood victims, but not if it’s just for a photo-op to gain voters. “Donald Trump hasn’t called the governor to inform him of his visit,” the Democrat’s office said in a statement. “We welcome him to LA, but not for a photo-op.”
Washington Times
Jan 14 2020
Opinion
The New Post-Trump Constitution
The new normal: Impeachment as a routine partisan tool, endless investigations, lying under oath with impunity, surveillance of political enemies, zero accountability …
The Left sees Donald Trump’s comportment, rallies, and tweets as a new low in presidential comportment that justifies extraordinary countermeasures. But Trump personal characteristics are idiosyncratic and may or may not
Victor Hanson
Sep 30 2013
News
Lawmakers dig in as shutdown approaches
Republicans and Democrats returned to Capitol Hill on Monday and dug in for a last-ditch battle in a budget fight that has brought the nation within hours of the first partial government shutdown in almost two decades.
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 24 2015
News
Hillary Clinton: 'No role whatsoever for American soldiers on the ground' in Iraq
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that she sees "no role whatsoever for American soldiers on the ground to go back" to Iraq as the Islamic State terrorist group makes gains.
The remarks by Clinton - who has disavowed her own 2003 vote for the Iraq war as a senator - come amid growing fervor among Republicans to send ground forces back to Iraq in some capacity to assist the Baghdad
Washington Post