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Apr 11 2019
News
Brexit: What will six-month extension mean? Short and long story
It is a longer delay than UK Prime Minister Theresa May asked for, but shorter than most EU leaders wanted.
By extending the Brexit deadline to 31 October, they have prompted headlines of "Halloween Brexit" and fuelled controversy over UK participation in next month's European elections.
So what will happen next? I've boiled it down to a short summary - and a longer analysis.
BBC NewsAug 22 2019
Opinion
Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our Constitutional Order
Democrats who want to change Senate rules for temporary political gain will rue the day, as they have before.
“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”
That was my warning to Senate Democrats in November 2013. Their leader, Harry Reid, had just persuaded them to trample longstanding Senate rules and precedents. Now that some Democrats are
Mitch McConnellAug 22 2019
News
McConnell offers fresh defense of Senate filibuster, warns Democrats could pass ‘socialist policies’ if they take control
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) offered a fresh defense of the filibuster on Thursday, writing in an op-ed that Democrats could pass a “laundry list of socialist policies” if they took control of the chamber and the long-standing tradition was dropped.
“Our country doesn’t need a second House of Representatives with fewer members and longer terms,” McConnell wrote in a
Washington PostMay 01 2016
Opinion
The power of false victimization
The left embraces victim stories that are mostly fantasy.
Putting a human face on an abstract cause is a time-honored tactic. But it doesn’t work unless a receptive media spins the desired narrative.
A case in point was this past week’s media outburst over a 107-year-old Washington, D.C. woman’s difficulty in obtaining a photo ID. The Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News
Washington TimesSep 19 2015
News
House Approves Bill To Cease Funding Planned Parenthood
By a 241-187 vote, the House of Representatives has approved a bill that would cut off federal money for Planned Parenthood. The bill isn't expected to pass in the Senate — and President Obama has said he would veto any bill that defunds the group.
Last year, Planned Parenthood received around $528 million in government funds that came to it through two federal programs that are aimed
NPR (Online News)May 08 2015
News
Senate approves bill on reviewing a proposed nuclear deal with Iran
The Senate gave overwhelming approval Thursday to legislation that would establish a congressional review for a proposed nuclear deal with Iran, as Republican leaders set aside efforts from their own rank and file to amend the carefully crafted bipartisan compromise.
On a 98-to-1 vote, the Senate lent a bipartisan boost to the measure — which the House is likely to approve next week —
Washington PostMay 07 2015
News
UK voters choose lawmakers in election seen as dead heat
British voters streamed to schools, churches and pubs Thursday for a say in their country's future, voting for lawmakers in an election expected to produce no clear victor and lead to days of frantic haggling for power.
Polls put Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives and Ed Miliband's Labour Party in a dead heat. Neither looks able to win a majority of Parliament's 650 seats.
KSLApr 17 2013
Opinion
U.S. Senate Shoots Down Background Check Amendment
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 54-46 against the Manchin-Toomey background check amendment one of nine proposed changes to a gun control bill currently being debated by U.S. lawmakers. The proposal named forSens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) would have expanded existing background checks on...
The BlazeFeb 21 2021
Opinion
Joe Biden Offers Bold Talk, Timid Action on Immigration
During the final presidential debate last fall, Donald Trump touted what he considered his biggest immigration accomplishment. "We got rid of catch and release," he boasted. Joe Biden could have easily let the wonky phrase slide past him, focusing on poll-tested attacks of Trump's policy of punitively separating immigrant families at the border. But in a move that undoubtedly stunned the
ReasonFeb 18 2018
News
Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity
In June, 2006, Donald Trump taped an episode of his reality-television show, “The Apprentice,” at the Playboy Mansion, in Los Angeles. Hugh Hefner, Playboy’s publisher, threw a pool party for the show’s contestants with dozens of current and former Playmates, including Karen McDougal, a slim brunette who had been named Playmate of the Year, eight years earlier. In 2001, the magazine’s readers
The New Yorker