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Feb 05 2013
News
Obama, stop trying to appease unfair critics
When then Sen. Obama was running for president, many of his critics accused him of being a Muslim -- as if being a Muslim in a country that prides itself for its freedom of religion is a bad thing. In fact a Pew Research Center poll taken October 2008 found 16% of voters who identified as conservative Republicans thought he was, despite numerous photos of him and his family attending a
CNN (Online News)Oct 07 2019
News
The Supreme Court March To The Right: Fast And Furious, Or Incremental?
The Supreme Court may be anxious to portray itself as an apolitical institution. But this term, political questions writ large are knocking at the high court door.
The upcoming term will almost surely be a march to the right on almost every issue that is a flash point in American society. Among them: abortion, guns, gay rights, the separation of church and state, immigration and
NPR (Online News)Jun 01 2020
Opinion
Trump wants armed conflict. Don’t give it to him
America is in peril tonight. The days and hours ahead could define our nation, in the same way that the turmoil of 1968 did.
Today, President Trump took another page from the authoritarian playbook, threatening to deploy active-duty troops to quell the unrest that has roiled dozens of American cities. Even by the depraved standards he has set, this is a new low. It risks exacerbating
Los Angeles TimesJan 13 2015
News
Louisiana’s Common Core Debacle
John White may be the silver-tongued boy wonder of the school reform movement, lauded for his political acumen and often mentioned as a future U.S. secretary of education. But last fall, Louisiana’s whip-smart and occasionally cantankerous education superintendent found himself on a lonely mission: driving his state-issued Prius along the Bayou State’s two-lane highways, stopping at churches,
PoliticoMay 26 2020
Fact Check
Did Nikki Haley Say the Confederate Flag Represented ‘Service, Sacrifice, and Heritage’?
On Sunday, journalist Soledad O'Brien claimed former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley described the Confederate flag as representing “service, sacrifice and heritage.”
The quote in question comes from a 2019 interview Haley did with Glenn Beck. And Haley did say those words. While discussing the 2015 shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
The DispatchJul 30 2020
Opinion
My Eulogy for Congressman John Lewis
James wrote to the believers, “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.” It is a great honor to be back in Ebenezer Baptist Church, in the pulpit of its greatest pastor, Dr. Martin Luther
Barack ObamaMay 23 2020
Opinion
Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?
The white supremacist who murdered nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., five years ago dispensed with the fiction that the Confederate battle flag was an innocuous symbol of “Southern pride.” A murderer’s manifesto describing the killings as the start of a race war — combined with photos of the killer brandishing a pistol and a rebel flag — made it impossible to ignore the connection
New York Times (Opinion)Jan 15 2021
Analysis
The Trump Era Held Up A Mirror To Our Shattering Culture
“The madness of Trump, as bad as it was, it really needed to happen. We really needed a reflection of our world’s greatest problem, which is not climate change, but sociopathy and narcissism. Especially in America. It’s going to kill the world. It’s not capitalism, it’s narcissism.” So said songstress Lana Del Rey, reflecting on the Trump administration this week.
She’s right to dig
The FederalistDec 09 2020
Analysis
How Biden Should Investigate Trump
The misdeeds and destructive acts are legion. The new president should focus on these three.
As he prepares to occupy the White House, President-elect Joe Biden faces a decision rare in American history: what to do about the man who has just left office, whose personal corruption, disdain for the Constitution, and destructive mismanagement of the federal government are without precedent
The AtlanticMay 06 2020
News
Senate Republicans Return to Judicial Nominees Amid Coronavirus
Hearing for key appeals court vacancy is part of McConnell’s continued push to fill judiciary with conservatives.
Senate Republicans, with their return to the Capitol this week, are turning some of their attention back to a top pre-coronavirus priority: placing as many conservatives as possible on the nation’s federal courts.
A featured player in the current push is Judge Justin
Wall Street Journal (News)