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Jan 03 2020
News
Trump's tough line on Iran put to the test in election year
President Trump has successfully hardened U.S. policy toward Iran since pulling out of the Obama-era nuclear deal 17 months ago, engineering a dramatic shift in policy that has rankled America’s allies in Europe but won deep praise from Israel and several key Arab powers.
But that policy is likely to be strongly tested this year, national security insiders say, with the world watching
Washington TimesOct 08 2012
Opinion
Are We Better Off Privatizing Water?
More and more communities have shifted control of public water utilities to private companies in recent decades. A combination of forces is at work: shrinking public revenue, looming costs for long-overdue capital improvements, and a widening perception that private operators run systems more efficiently.
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Nov 26 2020
Analysis
Trump Is Leaving the White House. Meanwhile, He’s Escalating His Execution Spree.
Last week, as President Donald Trump was mounting more meritless court challenges to the election he had clearly lost, Orlando Hall was executed at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The day after his execution, which was the first carried out by a lame duck president in more than a century, the administration announced that it would be doubling down on its killing spree: Another
Mother JonesFeb 28 2015
News
At CPAC, a Bustling Marketplace for the Republican Party’s Brand Names
Newt Gingrich put in a word for his wife’s line of children’s history books featuring an inquisitive pachyderm named Ellis the Elephant.
As Sarah Palin was thrashing President Obama’s foreign policy, a copy of her best seller on the secularization of Christmas was being peddled at a kiosk downstairs.
A Trump logo stenciled in gold, in the same capital letters emblazon
New York Times (News)May 01 2014
News
Tom Coburn: Botched executions rare
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn said Thursday that he still supports the death penalty even in light of the botched execution in his home state. ldquoI think it has a deterrent capabilityrdquo Coburn said on ldquoMorning Joerdquo while also acknowledging that he still doesnrsquot ldquolikerdquo capital punishment. Coburn a physician said...
PoliticoFeb 24 2021
News
The Words That Are In and Out With the Biden Administration
“The president has been clear to all of us — words matter, tone matters and civility matters,” said Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary.
Days after President Biden took office, the Bureau of Land Management put a scenic landscape of a winding river at the top of its website, which during the previous administration had featured a photograph of a huge wall of coal.
At the
New York Times (News)Aug 03 2021
News
This Democrat wants to fix potholes with Republicans, not steamroll them
Kyrsten Sinema, a once-strident liberal who now charts a pragmatic path, is spearheading Congress’ most significant infrastructure bill in years. Some Democrats see the bipartisan effort as capitulation.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema knows a thing or two about crusading for justice. As an activist back in the early 2000s, she protested the Iraq War in a pink tutu. And as a first-term Arizona
Christian Science MonitorSep 15 2014
News
Proponents look to expand marijuana legalization in November
Even more states could vote to legalize marijuana this year, as pro-pot advocates look to capitalize on changing voter attitudes to replicate their recent successes in Colorado and Washington state.
The legalization question is coming before voters in very different areas of the country, both politically and geographically -- Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia.
Fox News DigitalAug 02 2021
News
Afghanistan
“The first flight evacuating Afghans who worked alongside Americans in Afghanistan brought more than 200 people, including scores of children and babies in arms, to new lives in the United States on Friday… Congress on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would allow an additional 8,000 visas and $500 million in funding for the Afghan visa program.” AP News
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The Flip SideOct 06 2013
News
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
Shortly after President Obama started his second term, a loose-knit coalition of conservative activists led by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III gathered in the capital to plot strategy. Their push to repeal Mr. Obama’s health care law was going nowhere, and they desperately needed a new plan.
New York Times (News)