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Mar 17 2015
News
Open Carry Passed By Texas Senate
Texas is one step closer to becoming the latest state to permit the open carry of handguns. The Texas Senate earlier today voted 20-11 along party lines to allow residents of the Lone Star State to carry a weapon unconcealed without a permit.
More than half of U.S. states permit people to carry firearms without a permit. Texas was one of just six states (plus the District of Columbia)
TownhallMar 14 2015
News
VA program to provide private care stumbling out of the gate
A year after explosive accusations that patients had died waiting for appointments at the VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, the administration’s path to making health care more accessible for America’s veterans remains on shaky ground.
Critics say a program rolled out to give certain veterans the option of government-funded private care is experiencing serious bumps: according to
Fox News (Online News)Aug 07 2020
News
Why Black Workers Will Hurt the Most if Congress Doesn’t Extend Jobless Benefits
When Congress expanded unemployment insurance this year to meet the staggering economic toll of the pandemic, it had one less-noticed effect: It made America’s fractured jobless benefits system more fair.
Starting in April, the federal government provided $600 weekly payments to unemployed workers in addition to state jobless benefits, smoothing sharp differences between more and less
New York Times (News)Oct 20 2020
News
Endorsements of Joe Biden & Donald Trump
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd. With less than two weeks before voting ends, both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have been endorsed by a variety of politicians and media figures Abridge NewsJan 15 2016
Opinion
Ted Cruz, Once Dismissed, Emerges as a Slashing Debater
For much of his career in Washington, Ted Cruz has been dismissed as a cartoonish sideshow — an ostrich-boot-wearing ideologue who once delivered a sleep-inducing 21-hour monologue on the floor of the Senate reading from the children’s story “Green Eggs and Ham.”
A “wacko bird,” in the words of a Republican colleague, Senator John McCain of Arizona.
On Thursday night that
New York Times (News)Dec 22 2014
News
Arpaio kicks off legal campaign against Obama immigration order, in court hearing
A longtime thorn in the side of the Obama administration's immigration policy got the first chance to stick it to the president Monday, arguing in court that his sweeping immigration order -- designed to spare nearly 5 million people from deportation -- is unconstitutional.
Arizona county Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his attorney Larry Klayman argued before U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell
Fox News (Online News)Dec 05 2015
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Obama meets with ex-Rep. Giffords on gun control
Continuing his push for gun control Friday, President Obama met with former Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband at the White House to discuss executive actions to restrict gun ownership.
The White House said Mr. Obama, Ms. Giffords and husband Mark Kelly “discussed what more can be done to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them, including ongoing efforts by the
Washington TimesApr 15 2020
Analysis
Pandemics are not wars
There are better metaphors to describe what’s happening right now.
In a tense moment near the climax of the 2016 sci-fi film Arrival, Louise Banks (Amy Adams) tries to explain to a military commander why it’s not just the words they teach to their alien visitors that matter, but also the framing and grammar they use to teach those words.
“Let’s say that I taught them chess
VoxAug 01 2013
News
Senate Votes 86-13 to Block Measure to Cut Off Aid to Egypt
The Senate voted overwhelmingly to block a vote on cutting off aid to Egypt, a move aimed at tamping down growing frustration with the military takeover in Egypt.
The 86-13 vote to table the measure comes as President Barack Obama is dispatching two senior Republican senators, Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to the country in an effort to calm tensions
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 02 2014
News
Campaigns craft attention grabbing, personalized emails to woo voters, raise cash
With emails that appear more like pleas from a penniless buddy or an ex-girlfriend, political campaigns are resorting to more personal- and desperate-sounding messages to make final fundraising pleas.
“Need to reach you,” reads the subject line of one recent email.
How could anybody delete an email that could be from their mom stranded on the highway with a flat tire, right?
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