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May 29 2019
News
Democrat O'Rourke unveils "community-based" immigration plan
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke proposed a new immigration plan on Wednesday that will allow churches and local communities to sponsor immigrants to the United States in becoming American citizens.
O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman from the Texas border city of El Paso, said the plan would also give citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants living in American
ReutersFeb 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 DigitalJun 09 2020
News
Hawley Writes to Barr over State Discrimination against Religious Groups
In a letter sent this morning, Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) called on U.S. attorney general Bill Barr to investigate the disparities between how states are treating ongoing protests and the regulations they have placed on religious services during the COVID-19 outbreak.
“State officials have violated the free speech and free exercise rights of religious Americans by treating religious
National Review (News)Jun 09 2020
News
George Floyd to be buried Tuesday as global anti-racism protests spread
George Floyd will be buried in Houston on Tuesday two weeks after his death while being held by police in a Minneapolis street, and more anti-racism rallies inspired by his treatment were set to take place in the United States and in Europe.
Thousands of mourners paid their respects on Monday, filing past his open coffin at the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, Texas, where Floyd
ReutersAug 05 2019
News
Right-Wingers Are America’s Deadliest Terrorists
When a white supremacist gunman killed more than 20 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart on Saturday, he claimed a dubious honor for his cause: Right-wing terrorism is once again responsible for more deaths on U.S. soil (107) than jihadi terrorism (104) since 9/11, according to data collected by New America. (In fact, right-wing violence had been responsible for more deaths for most of this
SlateJun 05 2020
Fact Check
The Semantics of ‘Tear Gas’ Versus ‘Pepper Spray’
Democratic politicians have criticized President Donald Trump for the use of “tear gas” to disperse protesters near the White House on June 1 before Trump walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church to pose for photos with a Bible. The president countered, “They didn’t use tear gas.”
U.S. Park Police says officers used “pepper balls,” not “tear gas.” It’s true pepper balls, which contain a
FactCheck.orgJan 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,
PoliticoOct 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 TimesMay 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 Dispatch