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Oct 02 2012
News
Key Part of Voter ID Law in Pennsylvania Is Delayed for Election
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday delayed full implementation of a highly contested state law requiring strict photographic identification to vote in next months election, saying that the authorities had not done enough to ensure that potential voters had access to the new documents.
New York Times (News)
Apr 02 2020
News
Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing commentators turned a pandemic into a battle of us vs. them — the kind of battle President Trump has waged for much of his life.
On Feb. 27, two days after the first reported case of the coronavirus spreading inside a community in the United States, Candace Owens was underwhelmed. “Now we’re all going to die from Coronavirus,” she wrote
New York Times (News)
Jun 21 2012
News
Executive privilege claim opens new questions for lawmakers probing Fast and Furious
President Obama's decision to assert executive privilege over Operation Fast and Furious documents not only failed to delay contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder -- it raised a whole new line of constitutional questions and challenges about the power of the presidency. Republicans already are seeking more than 70,000 additional documents to answer their existing questions
Fox News (Online News)
Feb 10 2020
News
President Donald Trump's budget reflects campaign priorities such as immigration, defense spending
The budget President Donald Trump will deliver to Congress on Monday reads more like a 2020 campaign document than a spending plan that has any realistic chance of becoming law.
Trump’s proposal spells out his spending wish list for the coming fiscal year while at the same time reinforcing campaign priorities as he asks voters to return him to office for another four years. But with
USA TODAY
May 14 2020
Opinion
‘Obamagate’ Isn’t A Conspiracy Theory, It’s The Biggest Political Scandal Of Our Time And the media know it.
When former president Barack Obama told supporters last week that the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case against former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn is a “threat to the rule of law,” he was relying wholly on the fiction, willingly propagated for years by a pliant media, that the Russia-Trump collusion probe launched by his administration was lawful and
The Federalist
Feb 07 2020
News
Report: Treasury Department Hands Over Sensitive Financial Records on Hunter Biden to GOP Senators
The Treasury Department responded to Republican senators’ request for highly sensitive financial records related to Hunter Biden, according to a report, placing “’evidence’ of questionable origin” to the lawmakers.
The records requests came from Sens. Charles Grassley, Ron Johnson, and Lindsey Graham and were sent to a number of federal agencies, including the State Department, Justice
Townhall
Feb 05 2013
Opinion
STAVER: A Christian approach to immigration reform
Americans are ready for just immigration reform that keeps our borders secure, respects the rule of law and creates a pathway to earned legal status for our hardworking neighbors who lack documentation. This earned legal status should include temporary worker visas and citizenship.
Washington Times
Sep 07 2016
Opinion
Just how polarized are our politics
The United States of today is a divided nation, with two sides resting on opposite ends of a political spectrum. James Campbell’s new book Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting exactly how and why the current divide came to be. James Campbell recently answered some questions
Princeton University Press Blog
Mar 05 2019
News
Must Read: Sarah Sanders's Fiery Monday Night Statement for Jerry Nadler
Democrats have not been shy about their priorities in this 116th Congress. The chairmen of some of the most powerful committees on the hill have begun the year by launching investigations into President Trump. They are going after his finances, his business dealings, his election win, and, of course, his relationship to Russia.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent
Townhall
Sep 12 2014
News
U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data
The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over user communications — a request the company believed was unconstitutional — according to court documents unsealed Thursday that illuminate how federal officials forced American tech companies to participate in the National Security Agency’s controversial PRISM program.
Washington Post