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Aug 24 2020
News
'Gratefully & humbly': Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, who served as President Trump's final campaign manager during the 2016 election that carried him to victory, announced Sunday evening that she'll be leaving her White House post at the end of this month.
Her conservative lawyer husband, George Conway, who is a frequent critic of the president, simultaneously announced on social media that he will
Washington ExaminerMar 19 2020
News
Three questions as Biden effectively locks down nomination
Coronavirus has upended the 2020 campaign. One question is whether the election will even happen at all. Liberals and conservatives agree on the answer.
Dear reader:
Joe Biden’s sweep of Tuesday’s primaries effectively seals the Democratic presidential nomination for the former vice president. As I write, his only opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, is “assessing” his campaign
Christian Science MonitorApr 20 2015
News
Marco Rubio's secret weapon
Marco Rubio’s campaign is premised on the idea that he’s the candidate best suited to bridge the divide between conservatives and the GOP establishment — if he can stay in the race long enough to make that case against better-funded opponents like Jeb Bush. Enter Norman Braman , an 82-year-old self-made billionaire with a fondness for Rubio and an equally intense distaste
PoliticoAug 19 2019
Perspectives Blog
The War on Empathy
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Better Angels.
Take a look at the meaning of the word empathy. Ruminate on its definition—"the ability to understand and share the feelings of another." It is the light by which we may call forth the best qualities of our fellow Americans, and in so doing, call forth the best in ourselves. One would not think this could be controversial
John R. Wood Jr.Jan 22 2013
News
For GOP, Obama's 'Very Ideological' Speech Not Wearing Well
If President Obama's second inaugural speech did anything for conservatives, it was to reaffirm their suspicion of the president as an unreconstructed liberal with whom they won't find much, if any, common ground during his just-started second term. A day after the president's speech, that view appeared to be hardening.
NPR (Online News)Nov 21 2019
News
Trump ex-Russia adviser Hill tells U.S. lawmakers to stop promoting 'falsehoods'
President Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser Fiona Hill urged lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry on Thursday not to promote “politically driven falsehoods” that cast doubt on Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
In her prepared testimony, Hill said some members of the House Intelligence Committee, based on their questions and statements, appear
ReutersMay 01 2014
News
When Common Core becomes a punch line
If you’ve lost Louis C.K. and Chuck Norris, have you lost America? Both the acerbic comedian and the action-star-turned-activist have come down hard on the Common Core academic standards, which were once widely hailed as a bipartisan success story but are now drawing fire from liberals and conservatives alike. PoliticoJan 16 2016
News
Republican Presidential Field Tilts Rightward on Climate Change
Shortly after a conservative website on Wednesday posted 2008 footage of Sen. Marco Rubio backing a cap-and-trade program to combat climate change, his campaign roared back with a counterattack that included an entire web page aimed at debunking the video.
Mr. Rubio’s muscular response revealed how toxic the issue of climate change has become in the Republican Party under President
Wall Street Journal (News)Jan 03 2020
Opinion
Historians Roast the 1619 Project
The dissenting historians are performing an important public service by making the dishonesty of The New York Times Magazine’s feature a matter of record. The reviews of the 1619 Project are in.
It is “a very unbalanced, one-sided account.” It is “wrong in so many ways.” It is “not only ahistorical,” but “actually anti-historical.” It is “a tendentious and partial reading of American
Rich LowryMay 18 2020
News
Trump Wants A Fight With Obama. Here's Why He Might 'Be Careful' What He Wishes For
With Joe Biden on the ballot, so is the legacy of Barack Obama, and it appears we're about to see a throwdown between the last president and the current one — and their polar opposite worldviews.
Amid criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump has been falsely laying blame on Obama for leaving the "cupboard bare" when it comes to the national stockpile of
NPR (Online News)