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Sep 17 2019
News
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Makes Her First House Endorsement Against Democratic Incumbent
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday announced her first endorsement of a 2020 congressional primary challenger over a Democratic incumbent, throwing her high-profile support behind Marie Newman’s bid to unseat Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois.
Newman, who is backed by Justice Democrats, the progressive group that helped elect Ocasio-Cortez in 2018, challenged conservative-
HuffPostSep 09 2019
News
North Carolina House race carries unlikely hangover from fraud scandal
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The closely-watched special U.S. House election being held here Tuesday is taking place in the shadow of a political scandal that, according to the candidates, is having a real impact on the race.
But this time around, the issue is not the illegal ballot harvesting that marred last year's contest, it's the fact the one of the candidates has been effectively running for
NBC News (Online)Jan 31 2023
Headline Roundup
Utah Passes Bill Restricting Some Transgender Procedures For Minors
The Utah State Legislature passed a bill restricting transgender surgeries and hormonal treatments for minors.
Bill Details: The bill prohibits healthcare providers from “performing sex characteristic surgical procedures on a minor for the purpose of effectuating a sex change” and limits the administration of hormonal treatment to minors “only if the health care provider has been
Axios Fox News (Online News) LGBTQ NationNov 16 2020
News
Major GOP names to help Perdue, Loeffler raise big bucks in Georgia Senate runoffs
Some very well-known Republicans are teaming up help raise money for the GOP candidates in Georgia’s twin Senate runoff elections, which will determine whether their party holds on to its majority in the Senate or if the Democrats will control both houses of Congress in addition to the White House.
Fox News has confirmed that Republican strategist Karl Rove will serve as national
Fox News (Online News)Apr 22 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Selective Outrage Takes Over Congress
I’ll admit that I have little use for Marjorie Taylor Greene. Similarly, I’ve never thought that highly of Maxine Waters either. Both represent an ideologically extreme and unnecessarily combative approach to representative governance that I find counterproductive. As a result of their pugilistic personas, they’ve both attracted a cadre of devoted true believers. But Waters has accomplished
Dan SchnurJan 29 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Biden Makes His First No-Win Decision
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
Joe Biden was sworn into office less than two weeks ago and he is already facing the type of seminal decision that could define his presidency. Worse, it’s not clear if either option he is considering is a particularly good one.
Biden’s time in office will almost certainly be defined by the way he handles the
Dan SchnurJun 16 2021
Opinion
The Poor Get Richer
Everywhere, people trash capitalism.
But what they think they know about capitalism is usually wrong.
My new video debunks some myths about capitalism.
"No one ever makes a billion dollars," complains Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "You take a billion dollars." In other words, capitalists get rich by taking money from others.
That's nonsense, and Myth No. 1.
John StosselMar 30 2015
News
Connecticut To Become First State To Boycott Indiana Over LGBT Discrimination Law
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy (D) will sign an executive order on Monday barring state-funded travel to Indiana because of the state's new law that could allow businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers for religious reasons.
Malloy announced his plans on Twitter.
HuffPostMay 26 2020
Perspectives Blog
Are Masks — and Germs — The Newest Political Weapons?
This year, Memorial Day was a metaphor. When Donald Trump and Joe Biden both went to pay their respects to the nation’s war dead on Monday (separate ceremonies, of course), Biden wore a mask and Trump did not. Their respective decisions reflected the growing and increasingly nasty debate as to how we should conduct ourselves during a pandemic, and demonstrated that germs, infection and disease
Dan SchnurMay 19 2013
News
White House Aide Chides GOP for 'Fishing Expeditions'
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the Obama administration wouldn't cooperate in "partisan fishing expeditions" over targeting of tea-party groups by tax officials, raising the prospect of future battles with lawmakers over their investigations.
Wall Street Journal (News)