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Oct 11 2019
Opinion
Democratic Candidates Promise LGBT Voters They'll Punish All the Right People
"This is going to be one forum where you're going to hear very little disagreement between the candidates," former Vice President Joe Biden observed. He was absolutely correct.
The event was a CNN town hall in Los Angeles Thursday night, where nine Democratic candidates were interviewed about their stances on LGBT issues. Those who tuned in for the four-and-a-half-hour show were treated
ReasonJul 06 2020
News
Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims
As Yasmin Miller drove home from a laundromat in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood last weekend, a gunman in another car peppered her red Hyundai sedan with bullets, grazing her head and striking her son, Sincere Gaston, in the chest. Sincere died in his car seat. He was 20 months old.
On June 20, a man fired gunshots through the back of a dark blue SUV, wounding the 27-year-old man
New York Times (News)Aug 11 2020
Opinion
The Revolt of the Republican Strategists
What the Trump era has revealed about the people who used to run Republican campaigns.
Last week I found myself reading “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump,” the new book by Stuart Stevens, the longtime Republican operative and chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s losing 2012 campaign for the presidency. Stevens belongs to one of the notable sects in the church
New York Post (Opinion)Jun 25 2020
Analysis
Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaves
Jamelle Bouie mounts a dishonest effort to rewrite history.
According to New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, “Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves.” Instead, “the slaves freed the slaves.” Emancipation “was something they took for themselves.” The most that can be said of Lincoln and the nation’s political leadership is that they “helped set freedom in
National Review (News)Feb 26 2020
News
Cracks in Biden’s ‘firewall’? Black voters split in S. Carolina.
In recent primaries, black South Carolinians swung heavily for the eventual nominee. This time around, though, it’s apparent that the largest racial group in the state’s Democratic electorate is hardly a monolithic voting bloc.
Sitting on a cluster of chairs next to an abandoned softball field, Deacon James Morrison and his after-church buddies are busy sorting out the next president of
Christian Science MonitorDec 31 2020
Opinion
The family gap
n a speech to the Federalist Society in November, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reiterated his concern that ‘in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right’. Small wonder that the subject was on his mind. A week earlier, the Court had heard oral arguments in the latest religious-liberty case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In it, Catholic Social Services — one
The American SpectatorDec 11 2019
News
Bloomberg Woos Minority Voters in 2020 Bid
‘Stop-and-frisk’ continues to pop up in the former mayor’s meetings with black leaders.
In his first few events as a Democratic presidential candidate, billionaire Michael Bloomberg has huddled with black elected officials and activists in Mississippi, addressed a diverse gathering of party leaders in Texas and toured an African-American history museum in Georgia.
The early
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 18 2020
News
Boy Scouts Of America Files For Bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy, a sign of the century-old organization's financial instability as it faces some 300 lawsuits from men who say they were sexually abused as Scouts.
The Boy Scouts had been exploring the possibility of bankruptcy since at least December 2018, when the group hired a law firm for a possible Chapter 11 filing.
Amid high-profile
NPR (Online News)Jun 09 2020
Fact Check
The Continuing ‘Tear Gas’ Debate
The national semantics exercise over “pepper balls” and “tear gas” has continued.
On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Attorney General William Barr was asked if it was appropriate for the U.S. Park Police “to use smoke bombs, tear gas, pepper balls, projectiles at what appeared to be peaceful protesters” outside the White House on June 1. Barr objected to the description of “pepper spray” as a “
FactCheck.orgApr 26 2019
News
Morality in an Age of Materialism
Notre-Dame and Sri Lanka — why such a disparity in our reactions?
On April 15, 2019, just before 18:20 CEST, a structure fire broke out beneath the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. By the time it was extinguished, some 15 hours later, the building’s spire and most of its roof had been destroyed. Though its upper walls were severely damaged, extensive damage to the interior was
The American Spectator