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Mar 05 2020
News
Chris Matthews Retires from MSNBC Following Controversies
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On Monday night Chris Matthews, a longtime political anchor and host of the MSNBC talk show “Hardball,” resigned abruptly. Matthews had been facing mounting criticism recently over several on-air comments, Abridge NewsOct 25 2014
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With Praise, Hillary Clinton Keeps an Adversary Close
The two most prominent women in the Democratic Party, whom liberals have cast as potential future rivals, stood backstage and swapped stories about being grandmothers.
But Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Elizabeth Warren, here Friday to rally voters for Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts, never appeared on stage together.
In fact, relations
New York Times (News)Feb 26 2015
News
Bobby Jindal: Americans Ready for Outsider to Make 'Big Changes'
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he's still a few months away from an announcement about his potential 2016 presidential campaign, but the Republican state leader told Newsmax TV Thursday that he's convinced Americans want an outsider to come in and "make big changes, not incremental changes."
"We need a president who wants to do something, not be somebody," said Jindal, in an interview
Newsmax (News)Oct 19 2014
News
Petitions urge Obama to disclose immigration policy, premium hikes before election
President Obama has pushed a number of key policy decisions until after the Nov. 4 election, and Colin Hanna wants voters to realize that before they hit the ballot box.
Mr. Hanna, president of the Pennsylvania-based conservative group Let Freedom Ring, is gathering signatures for two online petitions calling on Mr. Obama to reveal prior to the election his plans for an executive order
Washington TimesOct 28 2020
Analysis
In shift to green energy, a matter of when, not if
It was a moment of high drama in the final debate of the American presidential campaign: the accusation by President Donald Trump that Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s climate change proposals would “destroy the oil industry” in the United States.
And while Mr. Biden is actually proposing only to cut federal subsidies for oil, and “transition” to cleaner energy sources, President Trump
Christian Science MonitorFeb 23 2015
News
Arab Officials Warn U.S. of Giving ISIS a Propaganda Win
It’s not only important when the Islamic State is pushed out of the Iraqi city of Mosul but by who, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
Planning between the Pentagon, Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to retake Mosul, a million-person city in western Iraq, is intensifying. Some U.S. officials have said a major air and ground offensive on Mosul could begin as early as April
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 11 2019
Opinion
Trump’s Only Real Weakness Is His Style
If the president can become a bit more presidential, his reelection will be all but assured.
This is the time for President Trump to deprive his enemies of the last weapon that could be employed against him that could cause him any harm: the largely false, but still troublesome, issue of his personality and routine behavior. Other lines of attack have come to naught: Collusion with
Guest Writer - RightJun 14 2019
News
FactChecking Trump’s Pitch to Farmers
In his much publicized visit to Iowa, President Donald Trump made a few false and misleading statements about agricultural exports:
Trump touted an agreement with Japan on U.S. beef exports, but he wrongly claimed, “They haven’t bought our beef since the year 2000.” U.S. beef exports to Japan have exceeded $1 billion every year since 2012, and Japan has been the largest export market
FactCheck.orgJul 31 2019
Opinion
Marianne Williamson Is Way Out There, But She Won Tonight's Debate
I’ll say it again, there is not a single candidate currently running that will beat Donald Trump in 2020. Not one. Unless someone steps up his or her game big league, Donald Trump is going to win a second term as president of the United States. Now, that being said, after tonight’s CNN Democratic debate, there had to have been a winner. I thought Sen. Bernie Sanders was one of them. He needed
Guest Writer - RightJan 11 2021
News
Moral imperative or dangerous precedent? House plans to impeach Trump again.
When rioting Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Rep. Gerald Connolly was on the House floor. The Democrat from Virginia could hear pounding getting closer to the chamber, but wasn’t sure at first what it was. As word spread that angry mobs were inside the building, he saw Speaker Nancy Pelosi being escorted away, and members of the sergeant-at-arms securing the chamber doors.
Christian Science Monitor