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Dec 01 2020
News
Bipartisan group of senators prepares $908 billion stimulus plan, aiming to break partisan logjam
A bipartisan group of senators unveiled an approximately $908 billion stimulus proposal on Tuesday, aiming to break a months-long partisan impasse over providing emergency federal relief to the U.S. economy.
Congress has faced increasing pressure to approve additional economic relief since talks between the White House and House Democrats collapsed, first over the summer and then again
Washington PostAug 16 2015
News
Why College Tuition is Out of Sight: The Federal Government
Our health care system and our system of higher education have a lot more in common than you might think. As I explained in a previous column at Forbes, in both systems a third-party payer pays a good portion of the bill, leaving consumers and producers with perverse incentives to take advantage of it. The financing of both systems is dysfunctional. There is much waste and inefficiency. And
TownhallMay 02 2023
Headline Roundup
US Tracking New Balloon Near Hawaii
The U.S. is tracking another mysterious balloon.
The Details: The government reportedly spotted the balloon late last week roughly 36,000 feet above Hawaii. It's reportedly moving slowly toward Mexico, but doesn't appear to be maneuverable.
Key Quotes: The balloon doesn't appear to be from "a foreign or adversarial actor," didn't "transit directly over defense critical
Townhall HuffPost NewsNationJun 03 2020
Opinion
Riots Are Violence
And will the burning ‘forests’ grow back?
t’s weird that this needs to be said, but here we are.
Then again, the pundit who reprehensibly claims that destroying property “is not violence” risks nothing. She agitates for revolution from the safety of her apartment. Much the same, I suspect, most of those excusing the destruction of our cities — either contending that businesses “
David HarsanyiJun 02 2020
News
Unrest in wake of Floyd death puts pressure on Biden as he mulls running mate
As former Vice President Joe Biden considers one of the most consequential decisions of his White House bid – whom he’ll choose as running mate – the wave of unrest sweeping across America’s cities the past week is impacting his decision-making as it elevates the combustible issue of racial injustice.
The volume’s been turned up on the already-existing calls for Biden to name a black
Fox News DigitalMay 15 2020
News
WTF is "Obamagate"? That's easy: It's Donald Trump's reboot of "but her emails"
Even Donald Trump can't tell us what "Obamagate" is — other than his newest obsession, designed to distract from his total failure to handle the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic catastrophe. But with a news media still and always eager to prove it's equally tough on "both sides," it's conceivable that Trump can make Obamagate a thing.
Eager to pretend that the rising
SalonMay 23 2015
News
McCain: Obama remarks on ISIS 'mind-boggling'
Arizona Sen. John McCain called President Barack Obama's declaration that the U.S. isn't losing the fight against ISIS "mind-boggling" in an interview on CNN on Friday.
In reality, McCain said on CNN's "New Day," "the President's strategy is certainly not succeeding — it's an abject failure," one that will eventually bring Americans around to the prospect of deploying boots on the
CNN DigitalJun 03 2019
News
Why conservatives are winning the internet
A new book explains why digital activism helps conservatives more than liberals.
A lot of people thought the internet would help democratize the world.
More people and groups would have access to information, and the ability to mobilize from the ground-up would gradually undermine concentrations of power — that was the idea, at least.
But the reality has been quite
VoxApr 01 2020
Fact Check
Fact-checking Trump's attempt to erase his previous coronavirus response
President Donald Trump tried Tuesday to cast himself as the wise leader who rejected the advice of a "group" of people who had portrayed the coronavirus as a mere flu and had argued that life should go on as normal.
He did not mention that he had been the most powerful member of that group.
Trump's marathon coronavirus press conference included the usual barrage of specific false
CNN DigitalNov 22 2015
News
House Intelligence Committee Chair Says Intelligence On ISIS Too Optimistic
The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Sunday he was concerned that Penagon intelligence reports on the fight against Islamic State did not reflect a grimmer reality on the ground.
Devin Nunes was asked on CNN about a New York Times report on whether intelligence assessments from U.S. Central Command painted an overly optimistic picture of
HuffPost