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Apr 16 2021
Perspectives Blog
When — and Where — Profits and Principles Collide
There are about 4 million people in the state of Georgia. The population of China is approximately 1.5 billion. For a growing portion of the American business community, the dividing line between principle and profit might be somewhere in between.
Ever since Georgia’s Republican-controlled state legislature passed a bill last month that rewrote the state’s voting access laws, they have
Dan SchnurApr 09 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Both Parties Rely On Fear-Mongering
Democrats issue dire warnings of the threat of voter suppression. Republicans sound the alarm about the menace of voter fraud. But both parties are dramatically overstating an exaggerated problem to whip their most devoted supporters into a frenzy. The result is that confidence in the foundation of our democratic process is at an all-time low, driven down by unyielding partisan attacks from
Dan SchnurJun 18 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Joe Manchin Starts To Think About Switching Parties
From the CenterThis view is from an author rated as Center.
A Senate that’s split evenly between 50 members of each party can be a recipe for either compromise or chaos. It’s inevitable that a moderate Senator who doesn’t always vote with his colleagues is going to attract an immense amount of anger and criticism from party loyalists. And tensions run especially high in the
Dan SchnurAug 03 2020
Top Argument
School Shootings Reignite Debate over Violent Video Games
In the aftermath of the May 18, 2018, school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, the debate over whether or not violent video games contribute to youth violence has reignited.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick singled out violent video games as one of the causes for the school shooting in Santa Fe that killed 10 people. During an interview on ABC’s This Week, he argued
ProCon.orgAug 07 2021
Analysis
Protecting the Right to Vote
Fifty-six years ago, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act. It is rightly remembered as a landmark in the struggle for equal rights, but the labor of protecting the vote continues even now. This week, senators are reportedly working furiously behind the scenes to ready revisions of S. 1, the “For the People Act,” for adoption before next week’s
The BulwarkJun 11 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Everyone is Mad at Kamala Harris
From the CenterThis view is from an author rated as Center.
Kamala Harris has always understood the power of a good sound bite.
During a Democratic primary debate last year, she captured headlines by putting Joe Biden on the defensive during an exchange over mandatory school busing, when she personalized her argument by saying “And that little girl was me.”
Within no
Dan SchnurNov 24 2021
Opinion
Tearing Down Thomas Jefferson Over Slavery Is Moral Idiocy
You can always count on woke progressives to live up to the worst caricatures of their ideas. Democrats on the New York City Council have now removed a statue of the founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, from the City Council chamber in New York City Hall. The statue has been in City Hall since 1834 (eight years after Jefferson’s death), when it was erected to celebrate his
Dan McLaughlinFeb 17 2021
News
Texas Blackouts
“A historic winter storm has killed at least 21 people, left millions of Texans without power and spun killer tornadoes into the U.S. Southeast on Tuesday.” (Reuters)
“While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the
The Flip SideSep 02 2019
News
Explosives found near Labor Day parade New Jersey governor was participating in
A man is in custody after several pipe bomb-like devices were discovered along a Labor Day parade route in New Jersey that Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and first lady Tammy Murphy were scheduled to attend, NJ.com reported,
A suspect was reportedly detained on Monday after police found “over half a dozen” devices on his property that was near the town of South Plainfield’s parade route, leading
The HillSep 01 2021
News
Absent Democrats give Republicans new opening on Afghanistan
House Republicans are seizing on the absence of their Democratic colleagues in Washington by launching a full-scale political attack on President Biden and his top aides after the deadly withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
While congressional Democrats have been largely silent after Monday’s official end to the war, with many back in their congressional districts for the final
The Hill