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Aug 21 2014
News
Billionaires silent after big splash
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Citigroup exec Carlos Gutierrez gave immigration reform firepower last year, when they lent their money or names to the cause. But roughly two months before Election Day, the three groups the business titans helped launch are all but silent on the campaign trail. None of the three have purchased airtime for ads on immigration
PoliticoSep 02 2019
News
Tribal leaders say 2020 should be about 'life or death' issues, not Warren's DNA
Tribal leaders say it's a grave disappointment that the political focus on Native Americans these days can seem limited to their reaction to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's DNA test results or President Donald Trump calling her "Pocahontas" to disparage her fraught history of claiming Native American ancestry.
Attention, instead, should be paid to issues such as health care and suicide that for
ABC News (Online)Oct 15 2019
Opinion
Whistleblowers, Yesterday and Today
The media’s false narrative about unbiased truth-tellers.
I cannot wait to learn more about the identity and motives of the secret whistleblower who figures so prominently in stories of Trump’s phone call with the newly elected Ukrainian president. The narrative that began a month ago, as an insider’s accusation of Trump’s threat to cut off U.S. military aid unless investigations were
The American SpectatorSep 28 2012
Opinion
Why President Obama's Job Creation Plan Edges Out Mitt Romney's
Novembers election is right around the bend and at this writing it appears as though the outcome wont make much difference to the economy. Thats because neither candidate appears poised to be able to implement policies that would make a noticeable difference in the rate of economic growth. And without higher economic growth
ForbesJun 07 2015
News
NY Times: Hillary Embraces Obama's Strategy Over Bill's
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is using President Barack Obama's campaign strategy rather than the one that got her husband, Bill Clinton, twice elected to the White House, The New York Times reports.
That's because the electorate has changed, former Clinton strategist James Carville told the Times.
"The highest-premium voter in '92 was a voter who would vote
Newsmax (News)Jun 03 2013
News
Deficit Deal Even Less Likely
Shrinking near-term federal deficits, slowing health-care cost increases and partisan gridlock have all but wiped out the likelihood for a deal this year to reduce long-term U.S. deficits, perhaps delaying a compromise until after the 2014 midterm elections, White House officials and congressional lawmakers said.
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 11 2019
Opinion
OPINION: California Has Become America’s Cannibal State
The state’s tax collectors are the most obsessive bureaucrats in the nation.
For over six years, California has had a top marginal income-tax rate of 13.3 percent, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40 million people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax.
The state legislature sold that confiscatory tax rate on the idea that it
Victor HansonMay 24 2016
News
Facebook is tweaking Trending Topics to counter charges of bias
Facebook has declared — again — that its Trending Topics section is free of any political bias or manipulation. However, the company says it is still changing the way it finds articles for the news section.
First, the declaration: Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch wrote in a blog post that the company met with Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, last week to
CNBCFeb 07 2013
News
Even In Blue Minnesota, Gun Control Seems A Tough Sell
Minnesota has a Democratic governor, two Democratic senators, and Democrats control both houses of its Legislature. So it may have come as no surprise when President Obama went there earlier this week to rally support for his proposals to reduce gun violence.
But even in the politically blue state, there's considerable resistance to placing further restrictions on gun ownership.
NPR (Online News)Aug 02 2014
News
House Passes Dead-On-Arrival Bill To Address Border Crisis
The House approved a funding bill Friday evening to address a crisis of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border illegally, sending the legislation to a Senate that is out of town and wouldn't consider it anyway -- and a president who has already promised a veto.
The bill passed 223 to 189. One Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, joined Republicans voting for the bill, while
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