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Mar 21 2017
News
A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Education Every Student Really Needs
‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” These words come from an 1816 letter written by Thomas Jefferson — one of our most influential Founding Fathers, but not the father of the United States Constitution. That title belongs to James Madison — and less than a third of American college graduates know this.
National Review (News)Jan 04 2021
News
Trump Pressured Georgia Secretary of State to ‘Find’ Votes
‘There is nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you recalculated,’ the president told Brad Raffensperger
President Trump in a Saturday telephone call urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the November election results that delivered the state to President-elect Joe Biden.
At one point in the roughly hourlong call, Mr. Trump told Mr. Raffensperger
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 04 2021
News
Election fight tears at GOP
An effort by President Trump and his allies in Congress to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is tearing apart the Republican Party in a messy fight a few days before two critical special elections in Georgia that will determine the Senate majority in 2021.
Adding to the spectacle, The Washington Post on Sunday published a recording of an extraordinary hour-long
The HillNov 18 2020
News
Half of Republicans say Biden won because of a 'rigged' election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
About half of all Republicans believe President Donald Trump “rightfully won” the U.S. election but that it was stolen from him by widespread voter fraud that favored Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
The Nov. 13-17 opinion poll showed that Trump’s open defiance of Biden’s victory in both the popular vote and Electoral College appears
ReutersDec 06 2014
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Rand Paul on smoking marijuana: ‘I made mistakes’
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul hinted in an interview Friday that he smoked marijuana in his youth, adding that voters should not confuse his push for reduced criminal penalties for drug offenses as an endorsement of drug use.
Paul, who announced plans this week to seek re-election to the Senate in 2016 and is actively exploring whether to run for president, said he “wasn’t a choir boy” when
Washington TimesFeb 09 2020
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National firestorm on horizon as states consider criminalizing transgender treatments for youths
A polarizing debate is happening around the nation as lawmakers in eight states have introduced bills in recent weeks seeking to restrict transition-related treatment for transgender youth.
Proponents say the measures protect minors from medical changes they may regret as adults, while opponents say the bills prevent doctors from following health care guidelines approved by
USA TODAYMar 24 2019
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Democratic Socialists of America endorses Bernie Sanders despite some members' reservations
The Democratic Socialists of America, whose membership ballooned after the 2016 candidacy of allied Sen. Bernie Sanders, announced its endorsement this week of the Vermont lawmaker in his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. “Sanders is the only Democratic Socialist running for president in 2020, and the only socialist in American history with a serious chance of winning the
Fox News (Online News)Oct 28 2019
Opinion
Kanye West’s New Album Is Intermittently Divine
Artists going back and forth with their own faith—between the temptations of worldly fame and the shelter, and strictures, of the church—is a persistent motif in American popular music and in black American music above all. In declaring himself born again and renouncing secular music, as he’s done in the lead-up to his new album Jesus Is King, Kanye West is reenacting the story of Little
SlateNov 12 2017
News
OPINION: A fake news campaign blames an innocent American for a coup attempt in Turkey
On July 15, 2016, an American college professor named Henri Barkey convened an academic workshop about Iran at a hotel on an island near Istanbul. That night, elements of the Turkish military attempted a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that quickly failed but triggered a massive campaign of repression which continues to this day. Barkey went through with his conference, spent a
Guest Writer - LeftMar 19 2019
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Trump Administration Proposes Borrowing Limits for Some Student Loans
Support for caps reflects criticism that unlimited borrowing by graduate students and parents of undergrads allows schools to charge higher prices
The White House is calling on Congress to cap how much graduate students and parents of undergraduates can borrow in federal student loans, a proposal it said is aimed at curbing rising college costs.
White House officials publicized
Wall Street Journal (News)