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Mar 12 2020
Analysis
A Compromise Bill on Domestic Surveillance Reform Aims to Do Just Enough to Shut Trump Up
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
A lackluster compromise bill to reauthorize and reform federal surveillance powers has been released, and privacy rights activists on both the left and the right are speaking out against it.
At the end of the week, the USA Freedom Act will sunset if it's not renewed. Passed
ReasonJan 06 2020
News
Trump doubles down on threat to Iranian cultural sites, demands Iraq pay for U.S. base
Asked about fears Iran might retaliate, the president told reporters: "If it happens it happens. If they do anything there will be major retaliation."
President Donald Trump dug in Sunday night on his threat to attack Iranian cultural sites if Tehran retaliates for the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, one of Iran's top military and intelligence officials.
Speaking aboard Air
NBC News DigitalJun 23 2020
Opinion
The Triumph of the Country Mouse
Cities lose their charms when they’re engulfed in chaos, crime, and mobs — and run by virtue-signaling appeasers.
In Aesop’s Fables and Horace’s Satires a common classical allegory is variously retold about the country mouse and his sophisticated urban cousin.
The city-slicker mouse first visits his rustic cousin’s simple rural hole and is quickly bored and unimpressed by both
Victor HansonDec 16 2021
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Was the 2020 Election Stolen?
The claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump has underscored most political discourse in the U.S. for over a year. There is no evidence that voter fraud led to Trump’s defeat. But some on the right and elsewhere hold a broader definition of “stolen” in this case.
What Left-Rated Media Does Frame claims of stolen election as baseless Henry A. BrechterMay 31 2012
News
Sex-Selection Abortion Ban Vote: GOP Measure Fails In House
The House on Thursday fell short in an effort to ban abortions based on the sex of the fetus as Republicans and Democrats made an election-year appeal for women's votes.
The legislation would have made it a federal crime to perform or force a woman to undergo a sex-based abortion, a practice most common in some Asian countries where families wanting sons abort female fetuses.
HuffPostJun 15 2020
Opinion
Why choosing Kamala Harris for vice president would be a mistake
As presidential candidate Joe Biden’s list of vice president potentials shrinks, California Sen. Kamala Harris’s name keeps moving to the top, according to multiple reports.
Given the current political climate, it makes sense that Biden would want to bring a black woman on board his campaign. But Harris isn’t the right person for the job. One of the reasons her presidential campaign
Washington ExaminerMay 02 2019
News
Minus Barr, House committee convenes Mueller hearing
A U.S. House committee convened on Thursday without Attorney General William Barr in attendance to discuss his handling of the Mueller report at a time of rising tensions between the Trump administration and Congress.
A day after Barr appeared at a Senate hearing to defend his handling of the report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, the House of Representatives Judiciary
ReutersSep 27 2021
Headline Roundup
FBI Report Shows US Murder Rate Increased Nearly 30 Percent In 2020
The U.S. experienced a 29.4 percent increase in murders in 2020 compared to the previous year, marking the largest spike since national records were instituted in 1960. According to new figures released Monday by the FBI, there were an estimated 21,570 homicides in the United States last year — 4,901 more than recorded in 2019. Preliminary data also suggests that the murder rate has continued
NPR (Online News) New York Times (News) Washington ExaminerSep 29 2020
Opinion
New York Times’ Trump Tax Return ‘Bombshell’ Is A Joke
The New York Times published an article Sunday evening analyzing several years of tax returns filed by President Donald Trump. This illegal leak of the president’s tax returns revealed nothing we didn’t already know about the Trump business hydra: It is complicated, has a lot of expenses that generate tax deductions, and hires very smart tax advisers to make the whole thing work with as low a
The FederalistJul 03 2013
News
Violence Rages in Baltimore Despite O'Malley's New Gun Control Laws
Back in May, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (who has presidential aspirations) signed into law some of the country's strictest gun control laws after they were shoved through the legislature in the name of Sandy Hook. Thousands who opposed to the bill were ignored. O'Malley was vocal in his support for the laws and made it a point to stress that the new laws would reduce crime and keep
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