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Dec 08 2014
Opinion
OPINION: Defense Nominee: Ashton Carter terrific choice but will Obama listen to him?
The most important appointment President Obama will make for the rest of his time in office is the next secretary of defense. For the next two years, every major foreign policy problem he faces will be contentious, and largely a military issue: Can we defeat ISIS? How do we cope with the expansion of radical jihad in the Middle East? Will U.S.-Israeli relations continue to fray? How does the
Fox News (Online News)Dec 22 2019
Opinion
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news.
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 percent when I was born. Global inequality has been plunging
The American SpectatorJan 08 2014
News
Fox's Chief Poverty-Shamer Ignores Success Of War On Poverty
Fox Business host Stuart Varney, who has repeatedly mocked low-income Americans, dismissed the War on Poverty as ineffective on its 50th anniversary, ignoring evidence that government anti-poverty programs have been vital in decreasing the poverty rate.
On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union address to enumerate proposals and policy prescriptions
Media MattersAug 23 2015
News
GOP Consultant Lays Out New Genius Plan to Take Down Trump: 'How Brutus Killed Caesar,' Get Close Then 'Shiv Him in the Ribs'
The geniuses in the Washington, D.C.- centered GOP establishment have a new plan to take down 2016 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump: Infiltrate his inner circle posing as an ally, then use their fabricated support of him to secretly plot to take him down.
But now they all admit: They were wrong, Trump is real, and he has a serious shot at winning this thing.
“Just like
Breitbart NewsDec 03 2014
News
Huckabee on Ferguson: Gov. Was 'Derelict in Duty' to Stop Looting
Gov. Jay Nixon was the most "most derelict governor I've ever seen" in exercising his "duty" during the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury opted not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen who attacked him, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Wednesday on "America’s Forum."
"His use of the National Guard was disgusting and
Newsmax (News)Dec 03 2014
News
Dreamers Divided: Obama's Executive Actions Leave Some Young Immigrants Out
In June of 2012, Ramon Garibaldo got a text message from a friend telling him to turn on his television. President Barack Obama was giving a speech announcing his new policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, to allow undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay. Garibaldo was overjoyed at first -- he is undocumented, and moved from Mexico to Charlotte, North Carolina
HuffPostMar 05 2019
News
The Democratic debate over filibuster reform, explained
Nobody runs on Senate procedure, but without changing it, nothing is going to happen.
Lurking behind the bold progressive proposals shaping the Democratic presidential primary is the question of how to make them reality. One answer is Senate procedure, which has become one of the hottest issues on the trail today.
Candidates are debating whether to get rid of the filibuster, a
VoxMar 05 2019
News
Ilhan Omar Under Fire
“Leading House Democrats will offer a resolution Wednesday condemning anti-Semitism in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s latest remarks on Israel.” Omar was criticized after “remarks suggesting American supporters of Israel are pushing people to have ‘allegiance to a foreign country.’” AP News
The left is divided, with many accusing her of spreading anti-semitic tropes, while some contend
The Flip SideMar 04 2019
News
CPAC Battles Socialism
What an extraordinary few days. With conservatives at CPAC set to take on socialism.
Thousands of conservatives filled the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at the National Harbor in Maryland for the annual gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference. There were over a hundred events crowding the calendar, the focus the deadly serious issues of our day, with
The American SpectatorDec 20 2019
Opinion
Understanding Democrats' March Toward Electoral Defeat
After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. Democrats started promising to do this before the president was elected. Still, it feels kind of weird, surprising, surreal even, that it actually happened. Why? Because impeachment is a terrible idea
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