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Nov 09 2022
Analysis
Democrats Spent Millions Boosting Far-Right Republicans. How Did It Pan Out?
Throughout the 2022 primary season, groups affiliated with the Democratic Party funded ads to boost immoderate Republican candidates. The goal was to boost the least moderate candidates in the hopes that they would be easier to beat in a general election. Now that Americans have voted, it looks like the gamble worked. Democrats exercised their free speech, but did they set a good precedent?
Reason
Sep 18 2022
News
Nancy Pelosi condemns Azerbaijan's attacks on Armenia
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday strongly condemned what she said were "illegal" border attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenia, using a visit to the Russian ally to pledge American support for its sovereignty.
Pelosi cast her trip to Armenia, a sliver of land the size of U.S. state of Maryland that is wedged between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Iran, as an
Reuters
Sep 18 2022
News
Pelosi condemns Azerbaijan over Armenia attack
The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said Sunday that the United States deplores recent attacks by Azerbaijan and called for a negotiated solution to the countries’ conflict.
Pelsoi’s visit to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, with a congressional delegation came just a few days days after two days of shelling by both sides that killed more than 200 troops. It
Associated Press
Jul 11 2022
Opinion
New York Times: It Is Now Okay to Talk About Biden’s Age and Mental State
The once-taboo topic of Biden’s age, mental state, and capacities is now front and center — less than year after bringing up the obvious was denounced as the “gross, lowest-common-denominator politics that drive people away from public life.”
Peter Baker in the New York Times, this weekend:
The reality is that managing the schedule of the oldest president in American history
National Review (News)
Sep 11 2022
News
Democratic lawmakers ask for IG investigation into how airlines used COVID relief funding
Democratic lawmakers are asking the U.S. Treasury Department to launch a federal investigation into how airlines used federal COVID funding from 2020.
In a letter to the deputy inspector general of the department, Reps. Carolyn Maloney and James Clyburn requested a review, including whether any of the money was used for buyouts or staff reductions.
"We are concerned that some
Fox Business
Feb 15 2020
News
Klobuchar, 5’4”, claims to be same height as Jefferson in Maher interview confusion
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a surging Democratic White House hopeful, mistakenly said she’s just as tall as the towering Thomas Jefferson in a botched history reference on “The Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Klobuchar is 5 feet 4 inches tall. Jefferson was among the tallest U.S. presidents standing at 6 feet 2 inches.
The blunder happened when Klobuchar, D-Minn., weighed into the dustup
Fox News Digital
Jun 15 2022
Opinion
Joe Biden is right to go to Saudi Arabia
Tariffs are wrong. The US should continue its role as security guarantor of the free world. Truth is objective and not relative or “constructed”.
That is a far from exhaustive list of the epiphanies that some progressives waited until the Donald Trump years to have. The former US president’s underrated gift to politics was, at least on some issues, a better, harder-headed left.
Financial Times
Apr 27 2021
News
2020 Census Results
“The overall U.S. population stood at 331,449,281, the Census Bureau said on Monday, a 7.4% increase over 2010 representing the second-slowest growth of any decade in history… Texas will receive two more congressional seats next year, and five states - Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Montana and Oregon - will gain one congressional seat each, the census bureau said. New York, California,
The Flip Side
Jul 01 2022
News
What's ahead for travelers during July 4 "airmageddon"
As the U.S. prepares for what some in the industry are calling "airmageddon," travelers are bracing for a possible meltdown at airlines, airports and security and customs checkpoints, not to mention hotels and hotel services.
AAA predicts roughly 42 million Americans will take a road trip by car of 50 miles or more.
But the real crunch: 3.5 million people are expected to fly this
CBS News (Online)
Apr 29 2022
Data
Deep partisan divide on whether greater acceptance of transgender people is good for society
At a time when a rising share of U.S. adults say they know someone who is transgender, there is no public consensus on whether greater social acceptance of transgender people is good or bad for society, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted last July.
The question was asked as part of a broader survey that asked about the public’s views on a wide range of social and
Pew Research Center