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Jan 17 2023
Perspectives Blog
When Biden Shoots Himself in the Foot
From the CenterJoe Biden’s new year seemed to be off to such a good start.
The Democrats’ better-than-expected showing in the November elections had quieted talk of a primary challenge to his re-election bid, the brawl among House Republicans to determine their new leader had created a contrast that elevated him in the eyes of voters, and he had begun to stake out centrist turf on
Dan SchnurJan 24 2023
News
Democrats turn on Biden over classified documents controversy
President Joe Biden's support among Democrats is eroding after the Justice Department discovered more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Democrats' exasperation with Biden's response to the controversy coincides with expectations he will announce his 2024 reelection campaign after he delivers his State of the Union address next month.
Democrats, some of
Washington ExaminerMay 16 2022
Analysis
The Supreme Court just made it much easier to bribe a member of Congress
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has been at war with campaign finance laws for more than a dozen years, stretching at least as far back as its decision in Citizens United v. FEC (2010). On Monday, the Court’s six Republican appointees escalated this war.
The Court’s decision in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate is a boon to wealthy candidates. It strikes down an anti-bribery law that
VoxFeb 15 2023
News
Generation X Takes On the Gerontocracy
Generation X is the jaded generation. Maybe that’s what America needs.
‘I’m not decrepit” is the answer, more or less, that Nikki Haley gives as her reason for running for president.
It’s a sentiment that we heard previewed last week by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who contrasted herself — the youngest governor in America — with President Joe Biden, the oldest commander in chief.
National Review (News)Sep 01 2022
News
Gov. Greg Abbott, Beto O’Rourke agree to debate Sept. 30 in Edinburg
Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic opponent, Beto O’Rourke, have agreed to a Sept. 30 debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
Abbott announced last month that he had accepted an invitation to the debate, which will be hosted by Nexstar Media Group at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. O’Rourke responded at the time by saying he would be happy to debate Abbott in the Valley
The Texas TribuneJan 23 2023
News
Early rift over immigration exposes House GOP’s tough path to consensus
House Republicans’ attempt to bring a border security bill to the floor as early as this week was thwarted after backlash from more moderate Republicans, delaying not only a pledge Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made to a handful of lawmakers but also the fulfillment of a key campaign promise to a Republican base eager for tougher immigration laws.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Chip
Washington PostDec 12 2022
Opinion
Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Revelations Are Instructive but Not Surprising
The Twitter Files have exposed how a powerful class of like-minded people control and limit the flow of information to advantage their monolithically progressive agenda.
The Twitter Files tell us nothing new. There’s no shocking revelation in there about government censorship or covert manipulation by political campaigns. They merely bring to the surface the internal deliberations of a
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)May 26 2022
News
Prosecution rests in Sussmann trial as defense mulls putting the defendant on witness stand
Prosecutors with special counsel John Durham’s team rested their case Wednesday against Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann after presenting the jury with the strongest evidence yet that he lied to the FBI.
They showed the jury Mr. Sussmann’s billing records in which he charged Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign for the time he spent at the FBI peddling a false
Washington TimesJul 20 2022
Analysis
Trump’s choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds
Donald Trump had already been told by his campaign manager, his top campaign lawyer and his lead data analyst that he had lost the presidential election when he was visited by his attorney general on Dec. 1, 2020.
William P. Barr was a steadfast Trump ally. But in the Oval Office that afternoon, he had no solace to offer the president. He told Trump that claims of 2020 voter fraud were
Washington PostJun 25 2022
News
As the race heats up, is Mehmet Oz distancing himself from Trump? | Five for the Weekend
It’s Capital-Star Editor-in-Chief John L. Micek once again, sitting in for the vacationing Cassie Miller, who returns next week.
We’ll turn our attention this Saturday morning to Pennsylvania’s nationally watched U.S. Senate campaign. After winning a close fight for the nomination, Republican Mehmet Oz apparently has now decided he can (mostly) live without one of the things that got
Pennsylvania Capital-Star