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Sep 12 2019
Opinion
Wall Street is freaking out at the thought of President Liz Warren
The 2020 election is still a long way off, but the nation’s big banks are already pricing in the possibility of an Elizabeth Warren presidency, their senior executives tell me. The picture ain’t pretty — for the banks or average Americans.
True, Warren isn’t the Democrats’ frontrunner, and a lot could happen in coming months. Because it’s early, financial stocks haven’t officially
Guest Writer - Right
Jun 13 2012
News
Analysis: Arizona win 'an oasis in the desert' for Democrats
t's been a tough couple of weeks for the Democratic Party, especially the results in last week's Wisconsin governor recall vote. So Tuesday night's victory in the special election in Arizona's 8th Congressional District couldn't have come at a better time.
CNN Digital
Jan 05 2014
News
NSA REFUSES TO SAY IF AGENCY SPIES ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
The National Security Administration won’t say whether or not they spy on members of Congress, only noting that the elected representatives enjoy the “same privacy protections as all U.S. persons.”
The response came after a “deeply concerned” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent a letter to the agency’s director on Friday demanding answers.
The Blaze
Dec 27 2020
Opinion
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The doomsday machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connected to a computer, which is in turn hooked up to sensors in cities and towns across the United States.
The sensors are designed to sniff out
The Atlantic
Jan 07 2015
News
Obama, Congressional Leaders to Meet Next Week
President Barack Obama will play host to congressional leaders next week, the White House said Tuesday, in the first face-to-face meeting between the president and Republican leaders who gained control of both chambers of the new Congress.
The meeting, scheduled for Jan. 13, will be an opportunity to discuss the 2015 legislative agenda as well as foreign policy issues, White House
Wall Street Journal (News)
Aug 11 2014
News
President Who Pulled U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Says Idea He Pulled Troops Out of Iraq is "Bogus"
In 2008 then Senator Obama campaigned on the promise of ending the war in Iraq and bringing combat troops home. In 2012, Obama touted that promise as complete (one of the only campaign promises he actually kept) and critics warned leaving Iraq without a residual U.S. force would result in a power vacuum and vulnerable state. Now as the country falls apart and the radical Islamic State army
Townhall
Aug 20 2016
News
Trump predicts he can win 95 percent of the black vote
Donald Trump promised Friday night that if elected president, he will win 95 percent of the African-American vote in his reelection bid. Renewing his effort to reach out to black voters at a rally Friday evening, Trump suggested that Democratic politicians that overwhelmingly govern in America’s inner cities have failed African-Americans. Trump told the Dimondale, Michigan, crowd that “we can
Politico
Nov 13 2016
News
Trump Isn’t Excited About Living in the White House Full-Time
Living in the White House may only be a week-night affair for the president-elect.
Donald Trump has been in talks with his aides over the possibility of staying at the White House only part time - spending weekends back at his beloved penthouse in New York City. The inclinations for Trump to go back to his home are not all that surprising. He would spend lots of manpower to return to
Townhall
Nov 13 2016
News
SHOCKED BY LOSS, HILLARY CLINTON PUTS THE BLAME ON COMEY
The week before this year’s election, Hillary Clinton seemed poised to win the presidency: up in all the polls, favored by all the prediction algorithms. Then F.B.I. director James Comey published his letter stating that he’d found more e-mails on Anthony Weiner’s server that could possibly be pertinent to the formerly closed investigation. Days later, these e-mails were found to contain
Vanity Fair
Feb 06 2017
Opinion
The war on Betsy DeVos is all about the teachers unions
Get past all the noise, and the opposition to Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s pick for the Education Department, is all about the teachers unions — which consider it their right to have a friendly face running federal policy even in Republican administrations.
Yes, two Senate Republicans have come out against DeVos — the only two who routinely get A’s on the National Education
New York Post (News)