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Oct 25 2012
News
Homestretch Fact-Stretchers
In the homestretch to Election Day, both sides stretch the facts in their TV spots. President Obama greatly exaggerates his differences with Mitt Romney over troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, while Romney repeats a false claim that the president plans a $4,000 tax increase on “the middle class.
FactCheck.org
Oct 30 2014
News
Maine gov.: Negotiations with nurse in Ebola quarantine have failed, will use legal authority
Maine Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday he is ready to use the “full extent of his authority” to rein in a 33-year-old nurse who worked with Ebola patients in West Africa but balked at a deal that would prevent her from entering public spaces.
The Republican, who is up for re-election Tuesday, said state attorneys tried to work with Kaci Hickox, of Fort Kent, but those negotiations “have
Washington Times
Oct 25 2012
News
Obama says Latino vote is key to victory, vows immigration reform in 2013
The Obama campaigns reliance on Hispanic voters in the upcoming election was on full display Wednesday as President Obama dangled the prospect of immigration reform next year, and a top aide predicted that the countrys fast-growing number of minority voters will propel the president to a second term over rival Mitt Romney next month.
Washington Times
Jan 31 2013
News
Cabinet Picks Show A Shift In How U.S. Wages War
Chuck Hagel, who spent more than a decade in the Senate asking witnesses questions at hearings, will be the one answering them Thursday as his confirmation hearing to be secretary of defense begins.
His hearing follows that of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who was confirmed this week to be secretary of state.
Kerry and Hagel have a prominent biographical detail in common: service in
NPR (Online News)
Oct 23 2012
Opinion
Post Debate: Reaction from the Spin Room Floor
The spin room is buzzing as surrogates from both campaigns continue to make the case for their candidate after the third and final presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle. Team Romney thought their candidate showed poise and looked presidential. Team Obama thought their candidate showed experience and credibility on the topic of foreign policy.
Townhall
May 31 2019
News
FactChecking Trump’s Response to Mueller
In an impromptu press conference and on Twitter, President Donald Trump responded to special counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks about the Russia investigation with several false and questionable claims:
Trump suggested that he could not be impeached because he hasn’t been charged with a crime. “I can’t imagine the courts allowing it,” he added. But constitutional scholars tell us a
FactCheck.org
Jul 18 2015
News
Rand Paul to mount fight to defund Planned Parenthood
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is planning a push next week to fully ban federal funding for Planned Parenthood, with his office saying the 2016 GOP presidential contender will use “all legislative vehicles at his disposal” to ensure immediate action.
“I am more appalled than ever by Planned Parenthood’s complete disregard for the sanctity of human life,” Mr. Paul said. “The recent
Washington Times
Jul 18 2015
News
Bernie Sanders Presses Hillary Clinton on Her Views on Banks
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont edged closer on Friday to directly attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton, pointedly asking whether the Democratic presidential front-runner would support measures to break up the country’s largest financial institutions and reinstate a firewall between commercial and investment banking.
Mr. Sanders, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination
New York Times (News)
Dec 20 2019
Opinion
Understanding Democrats' March Toward Electoral Defeat
After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. Democrats started promising to do this before the president was elected. Still, it feels kind of weird, surprising, surreal even, that it actually happened. Why? Because impeachment is a terrible idea
Tucker Carlson
Jan 05 2015
News
Which Republicans have come out against Boehner for speaker? Here’s a list.
A growing group of rogue conservative House Republicans has come out against reelecting John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) for another term as speaker.
So far, the list of defectors is up to nine. At least two of them have offered themselves as alternatives.
To be elected speaker, Boehner must win a majority of all members -- Democrat, Republican or otherwise -- who cast votes. When the
Washington Post